Girls Don’t Sell Records. Really?
Three Girls who refused to take No for an answer
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4 min readDec 15, 2022
Charles in San Francisco’s December The Riff’s Album of the Month — ‘Women and the origins of Rock’, was very illuminating. The link to his article is below.
It got me interested enough to look at three other women who, although stuck in a man’s world, finally broke through the barriers put in their way, and made a big impression in popular music in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Wanda Jackson, LaVern Baker, and Cordell Jackson had plenty of rough times and put-downs, but that never deterred them from believing they could make it in the music business. Having been told girls don’t play guitar or make records, they set out to prove the industry moguls wrong.
