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Jackson's version did not chart in the United States. In a 2009 interview, Jackson recalled: "Nobody would play it. They barely had accepted Elvis and the other ones, and they weren't too sure about accepting a teenage girl singing this kind of music." Others have suggested that the song's sexually
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Despite the lack of chart success in the United States, the song was a major hit in Japan, reaching No. 1 in 1958. It held the No. 1 spot in Japan for six months and was the first rock and roll song to become a big hit in Japan. An earlier recording was also a hit in Japan in 1955 under the title
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