My Big Iron Skillet

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"My Big Iron Skillet"
Single by Wanda Jackson
from the album Wanda Jackson Country!
B-side"The Hunter"
ReleasedSeptember 1969
RecordedMarch 29, 1969
Nashville, Tennessee, U.S[1]
GenreCountry
LabelCapitol
Songwriter(s)Bryan Creswell, Wilda Creswell
Producer(s)Ken Nelson
Wanda Jackson singles chronology
"Everything's Leaving"
(1969)
"My Big Iron Skillet"
(1969)
"Two Separate Bar Stools"
(1969)

"My Big Iron Skillet" is a song written by Bryan Creswell and Wilda Creswell. It was recorded and released as a single by American country, rock, and Christian artist, Wanda Jackson.

The song was recorded at the Columbia Recording Studio on March 29, 1969 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.[1] "My Big Iron Skillet" was officially released as a single in September 1969, peaking at number twenty on the Billboard Magazine Hot Country Singles chart. It was her first top-twenty single since 1967. The song was issued on Jackson's 1970 studio album, Wanda Jackson Country!.[2]

Music journalist, Robert K. Oermann and anthropologist, Mary A. Bufwack called this song, "threatening" since Jackson threatens to kill the song's antagonist with a kitchen skillet.[3]

Chart performance[edit]

Chart (1969) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles 20

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Wanda Jackson discography, part one". Praguefrank's Country Discographies. Retrieved 17 December 2013.
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2011). Top Pop Singles 1955–2010. Record Research, Inc. ISBN 978-0-89820-188-8.
  3. ^ Finding Her Voice: Women in Country Music. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press. 2002. pp. 201–04. ISBN 0-8265-1432-4.