Wanda Jackson - Cool Love

Mr. D. includes Wanda Jackson's I Gotta Know on his Artist's Choice CD. I had originally posted a better-quality version of that clip back in 2007, but it's been removed, and the only version of I Gotta Know currently on YouTube has distracting flanging on the audio. So I've substituted Cool Love, also from Tex Ritter's 19 and 58 Ranch Party TV show. As with I Gotta Know, Cool Love shows Wanda with feet firmly in both country and rockabilly, as Our Host notes in the Artist's Choice liner notes. Joe Maphis also provides backing guitar on his double-neck Mosrite in this clip.

"...She was an atomic bomb in lipstick. She was the queen of rockabilly. I like to think of rockabilly as country music with the beat of the big bands. Here Wanda has a foot in both worlds, switching back and forth between straight country and rockabilly, helped out more than a little by Joe Maphis, whose guitar solo sends this song into the stratosphere." - Bob Dylan

Joe and Rose Lee Maphis - Don't Make Love in a Buggy

As Mr. D. says in the "Smoking" episode, there's lots of good video of Joe Maphis working that double-neck Mosrite, happily some of it on YouTube. Here's one with Joe and wife Rose Lee. As a commenter says, a silly song, but worth watching.

Wanda Jackson - I Gotta Know

Another one from the Queen of Rockabilly. The gentleman playing the double-neck Mosrite guitar is Joe Maphis, who backed Rick Nelson and Rose Maddox as well as Jackson and had his own hit with Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (and Loud, Loud Music).