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| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Etcetera | |||
| 2. To Be Loved | |||
| 3. Come Back To Me | |||
| 4. If I Can't Have You | |||
| 5. As Long As I Live | |||
| 6. Reet Petite | |||
| 7. It's Too Bad We Had To Say Goodbye | |||
| 8. Why Can't You Be Mine | |||
| 9. I'm Wanderin' | |||
| 10. Right Now | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. The Rainy Day Blues | |||
| 2. You Can't Keep A Good Man Down | |||
| 3. Until The Real Thing Comes Along | |||
| 4. I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town | |||
| 5. Above Jacob's Ladder | |||
| 6. Love Me Now And Let Me Go | |||
| 7. One Moment With You | |||
| 8. Bobby Sox Baby | |||
| 9. St. Louis Blues | |||
| 10. Tenderly | |||
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Jackie Wilson belongs in the first rank of Soul vocalists. Motown founder Berry Gordy, who had a hand in many of Jackie's early hits, calls him 'the epitome of natural greatness who set the standard I would be looking for in artists forever'. This digitally re-mastered compilation features Wilson's debut album 'He's So Fine' with bonus tracks from his late 1950s singles, as well as his early recordings with Billy Ward and The Dominoes.
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So far reviewers don't seem to have shown much interest in this cheapie. Probably because most compilations follow through to his later hits while this one sticks with the late 50's and even throws in some earlier tracks. Well with no disrespect to cuts like "Higher and Higher" which are excellent, I just tend to be a bit more interested in those artists who were round in the evolving years for soul. A lot of such stuff wasn't issued in the UK for donkey's years just like some of the early rock and swamp pop which has only come out over the last decade - think Bobby Charles and you'll see what I mean.
This comp kicks off with the complete "He's so fine", his first solo album. It then goes on to give us a number of tracks which appeared on singles (that is, those which weren't on the album). It then goes back in time to Jackie's period as lead singer with Billy Ward and his Dominoes (for those who don't know about this aggregation, Billy Ward "owned" the group, he wasn't lead singer, the great Clyde McPhatter occupied this role before Jackie and one gathers it wasn't a very well paid position!).
Jackie's voice was one of the best ever heard in black popular music. Capable of switching from the mindblowing array of vocal calisthenics on the evergreen rocker "Reet Petite" (and to a lesser extent on "Etcetera" the lead-in track on this set) to the relatively straight (though I'm not really sure if Jackie knew what "straight" meant) reading of "To be loved" which has many of the attributes that you'd expect of a slow soul number, Jackie seemed to have everything going for him when he kicked off a solo career. He was a massive influence on fellow performers. Reportedly James Brown picked up much of stage act from Jackie.
And yet somehow our man missed out on chart success in the early to mid/late `60's, the first boom period for soul music and when the likes of Cooke, Charles, Brown, Pickett, Burke, Redding and others became virtually household names. One has to put this down to bad management and bad creative production on behalf of the record label (Brunswick). It's true that he had a later rebirth from the late `60's through to the `70's but his name still doesn't attract the acclaim of a James Brown, say.
But enough of that, while I wouldn't claim this is all absolutely top notch stuff, there is plenty of fascinating material to dig into in this set including the sonorances of the Dominoes vocal group members on the second disc. One of my favourite tracks is "Lonely Teardrops", a song very much of its time but lifted by Jackie's vocal into something else. This was a song which stayed in his repertoire and when he collapsed on stage, twenty years later, reportedly he was singing the line "My heart is crying ..." from just that song.
This comp kicks off with the complete "He's so fine", his first solo album. It then goes on to give us a number of tracks which appeared on singles (that is, those which weren't on the album). It then goes back in time to Jackie's period as lead singer with Billy Ward and his Dominoes (for those who don't know about this aggregation, Billy Ward "owned" the group, he wasn't lead singer, the great Clyde McPhatter occupied this role before Jackie and one gathers it wasn't a very well paid position!).
Jackie's voice was one of the best ever heard in black popular music. Capable of switching from the mindblowing array of vocal calisthenics on the evergreen rocker "Reet Petite" (and to a lesser extent on "Etcetera" the lead-in track on this set) to the relatively straight (though I'm not really sure if Jackie knew what "straight" meant) reading of "To be loved" which has many of the attributes that you'd expect of a slow soul number, Jackie seemed to have everything going for him when he kicked off a solo career. He was a massive influence on fellow performers. Reportedly James Brown picked up much of stage act from Jackie.
And yet somehow our man missed out on chart success in the early to mid/late `60's, the first boom period for soul music and when the likes of Cooke, Charles, Brown, Pickett, Burke, Redding and others became virtually household names. One has to put this down to bad management and bad creative production on behalf of the record label (Brunswick). It's true that he had a later rebirth from the late `60's through to the `70's but his name still doesn't attract the acclaim of a James Brown, say.
But enough of that, while I wouldn't claim this is all absolutely top notch stuff, there is plenty of fascinating material to dig into in this set including the sonorances of the Dominoes vocal group members on the second disc. One of my favourite tracks is "Lonely Teardrops", a song very much of its time but lifted by Jackie's vocal into something else. This was a song which stayed in his repertoire and when he collapsed on stage, twenty years later, reportedly he was singing the line "My heart is crying ..." from just that song.
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