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Welcome to the Club: The Women of Rockabilly (2001)
Video | 60 min | Documentary, Music

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Welcome to the Club: The Women of Rockabilly (2001)

Video | 60 min | Documentary, Music

Their stage antics were sassy, bordering on aggressive. Their vocal styles featured distinctly "unladylike" growls, hiccups and moans. Their lyrics spoke of parties and hot rods, flirtations and teen angst. To say that women such as Wanda ...See moreTheir stage antics were sassy, bordering on aggressive. Their vocal styles featured distinctly "unladylike" growls, hiccups and moans. Their lyrics spoke of parties and hot rods, flirtations and teen angst. To say that women such as Wanda Jackson, Brenda Lee, Janis Martin and Lorrie Collins were ahead of their time is a gross understatement. Uniquely American artists, yet loved by enclaves of dedicated fans the world over, these were the women of rockabilly music, rock and roll's country cousin. For a few brief moments, they burst onto a predominantly male scene with an unprecedented musical message of female assertiveness. They not only bucked the staid notion of what was appropriate to sing as a country star, but they also rejected the models of post-war femininity that were being marketed in the wider culture, models of suburban wedded bliss and a return to "traditional" motherhood. Some of these women were part of a natural evolution in country music, others were the product of calculating music producers looking for a Rockabilly Queen to Elvis Presley's King. Although their day in the sun was short-lived, many of these women perform today and speak with pride of a time when were genuine trailblazers, personifying an exuberance, sexuality and defiance that was burgeoning in the music of 1950s America. Welcome to the Club - The Women of Rockabilly is their story. Written by Official website, Beth Harrington Productions See less

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15 cast members

Name	Known for
Roy Acuff Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Night Train to Memphis (1946)
Charline Arthur Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
La Vern Baker Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Angel Heart (1987)
Mary Bufwack Self (as Mary A. Bufwack) Self (as Mary A. Bufwack) See fewer	Country Music (2019)
Johnny Burnette Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Pulp Fiction (1994)
Rosanne Cash Narrator Narrator See fewer	The Little Rascals (1994)
Larry Collins Self Self See fewer	Every Which Way But Loose (1978)
Lorrie Collins Self Self See fewer	The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952)
Al Dowling Self (archive footage) (as Big Al Dowling) Self (archive footage) (as Big Al Dowling) See fewer
Rusty Goodman Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Wanda Jackson Self Self See fewer	'71 (2014)
Brenda Lee Self Self See fewer	Joy Ride (2001)
The Maddox Brothers and Rose Themselves (archive footage) Themselves (archive footage) See fewer
Janis Martin Self Self See fewer	Joyful Noise (2012)
Robert K. Oermann Self (as Robert Oermann) Self (as Robert Oermann) See fewer	America's Music: The Roots of Country (1996)