― gaz (gaz), Monday, 4 October 2004 07:04 (twenty-one years ago)
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 4 October 2004 10:27 (twenty-one years ago)
Jackie seems to have had some kind of really shit lifetime contract with Brunswick. Imagine how great he could have been if he'd been working all those years with his buddy Berry Gordy at Motown.
I have a close friend who saw Jackie Wilson in concert at Baton Rouge, Lousiana in the mid-60s, headlining over Aretha Franklin. She says it was so exciting, with women screaming and passing out, that it scared the bejeezus out of her. She's never attended another pop concert since.
― briania (briania), Monday, 4 October 2004 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 4 October 2004 12:04 (twenty-one years ago)
― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Monday, 4 October 2004 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 4 October 2004 12:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― briania (briania), Monday, 4 October 2004 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 4 October 2004 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 4 October 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)
1. Beach Boys (Brian, Dennis and Carl), if only for Pet Sounds2. Jackie, per this thread3. Gap Band (Uncle Charlie), for hitting it on the one4. Gin Blossoms (Robin), who deserved better5. Wilson Phillips (Carney), just 'cause I can't think of any others.
Wilson Pickett, being of the wrong surname, does not count.
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 4 October 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)
Can't believe this is the only Jackie Wilson thread on here and it's spoiled with Geir trolling.
Got this today, and whichever exec at MCA/ Brunswick who has the bright ideas deserves some kinda something - the Basie group as swinging Rn'B combo.http://www.secondhandlps.de/pix_rb_soul/wilson_jackie_count_basie_too_much.jpg
(think it's called Manufacturers of Soul on the US issue)
― I'm Street but I Know my Roots (sonofstan), Sunday, 3 April 2011 12:16 (fourteen years ago)
Check out Doggin Around
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Sunday, 3 April 2011 16:30 (fourteen years ago)
Fantastic singer. I heard his music from a young age; my parents bought the reissue of "Reet Petite" which became a UK number one in 1986 and I remember dancing to it as a tot while it played on the stereo.
Reading about Wilson's life atm and I'm struck by a) how much of a scumbag he could be, and b) how tragic his personal life was.
Also can't believe he was initially buried in an unmarked grave. Presumably someone was paying for his medical bills during his coma; couldn't they have bought him a headstone?
(Very tempted to seek out that Basie collaboration!)
― president of the people's republic of antarctica (Arctic Mindbath), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 01:30 (twelve years ago)
Same favorite as Joseph McCombs many years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boo_pRQn64E
― clemenza, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 01:35 (twelve years ago)
Jackie Wilson could be destroyed more or less altogether. There have been considerably better music recorded by other people with the same family name.― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, October 4, 2004 7:08 AM (9 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Emphasis mine.
― Maintenance Engineer of Foolhardiness (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 03:46 (twelve years ago)
Let it all hang out
― The Glam Of That All The Way From Memphis Man! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 03:47 (twelve years ago)
Must have been a big Shanice Wilson fan.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 03:54 (twelve years ago)
Good ol' Geir
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 14:52 (twelve years ago)
good comps or lps to get for this guy? i only know lonely teardrops, higher and higher, reet peteet, sweetest feeling which are all various shades of amzing
― peanutbuttereverysingleday, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 05:16 (nine years ago)
A lot of Wilson's records may not have aged all that well, but something like "I Just Can't Help It" from 1962? Listening to that one, you can just see Jackie Wilson. He's down at the edge of the stage, reaching out, his vocals locked in with the rhythm section. Maybe he'll roll off into the audience, so the women can run to help him.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125019270
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 16:28 (nine years ago)
this set is really good
https://www.amazon.com/Nyc-1961-66-Jackie-Wilson/dp/B00TE3P5PY/
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 19:53 (nine years ago)
I've had this for a long time:
http://www.e-profession.com/images/jackie_wilson_greatest_hits.jpg
Not sure if it's on CD--it covers all the basics.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 20:15 (nine years ago)
Also on the Vinyl tip--Epic's "The Jackie Wilson Story" collections from the '80s--iirc there's two of them, Vol.1 a double and a Pt.2 single--are still affordable and worth picking up.
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 20:23 (nine years ago)
There wasa 3 volume series of him that I think was supposed to be good. I only got one volume though. //e.snmc.io/lk/f/l/0036e9626f9add6f3268270aacd3fa68/1795938.jpgbut 2cds and reasonably full discs.
I just chanced on it since the local cd place seemed to get in a lot of remaindered stuff. So may be long gone but I think it's a satisfying set.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 20:35 (nine years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5iR4SlqncE
Love this song so much, proper grown up 70's soul. The whole shtick - worldly playboy secretly longing for love and stability - is a bit cheesy on paper but boy does Jackie sell it. Should be in the canon of the greatest soul songs imo.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 10:37 (two years ago)
Edsel did some good 2cd sets of his back catalogue. I think I have the 3rd volume. Need to find it.
I think this was something I had put on when we had access to youtube in the bike repaor workshophttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LqbXlj812U
― Stevo, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 10:49 (two years ago)