Jackie Wilson - Remastered Hits, Vol. 2 (All Tracks Remastered) '2021

Tracks list

Tracklist:

01. Rock-A-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody (Remastered 2020)
02. In the Blue of Evening (Remastered 2020)
03. Reet Petite (The Finest Girl You Ever Want to Meet) (Remastered 2020)
04. Nothin but the Blues (Remastered 2020)
05. One Kiss (Remastered 2020)
06. The Greatest Hurt (Remastered 2020)
07. Singing a Song (Remastered 2020)
08. Sonny Boy (Remastered 2020)
09. Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin All the Time) (Remastered 2020)
10. Come Back To Me (Remastered 2020)
11. Doggin Around (Remastered 2020)
12. The River (Remastered 2020)
13. I Apologize (Remastered 2020)
14. Each Time (I Love You More) (Remastered 2020)
15. Lonely Life (Remastered 2020)
16. Passin Through (Remastered 2020)
17. Toot, Toot, Tootsie Goodbye (Remastered 2020)
18. For Me and My Gal (Remastered 2020)
19. (So Many) Cute Little Girls (Remastered 2020)
20. You Belong to My Heart (Solamente Un Vez) (Remastered 2020)
21. Sazzle Dazzle (Remastered 2020)
22. Night (Remastered 2020)
23. I Dont Know You Anymore (Remastered 2020)
24. Well Be Together Again (Remastered 2020)
25. Its Too Bad We Had to Say Goodbye (Remastered 2020)


 Read MoreWilson would score his first big R&B (and small pop) hit in late
1956 with the brassy, stuttering Reet Petite, which was co-written by an
emerging Detroit songwriter named Berry Gordy Jr. Gordy would also help write a
few other hits for Jackie in the late 50s, To Be Loved, Lonely Teardrops, Thats
Why (I Love You So), and Ill Be Satisfied; they also crossed over to the pop
charts, Lonely Teardrops making the Top Ten. Most of these were upbeat,
creatively arranged marriages of pop and R&B that, in retrospect, helped set the
stage both for 60s soul and for Gordys own huge pop success at Motown. The early
Gordy-Wilson association has led some historians to speculate how much
differently (and better) Jackies career might have turned out had he been on
Motowns roster instead of the Brunswick label.

Jackie Wilson at the CopaIn the early 60s, Wilson maintained his pop stardom
with regular hit singles that often used horn arrangements and female choruses
that have dated somewhat badly, especially in comparison with the more creative
work by peers such as Charles and Brown from this era. Wilson also sometimes
went into out-and-out operatic pop, as on Danny Boy and one of his biggest hits,
Night (1960). At the same time, he remained capable of unleashing a sweaty,
up-tempo, gospel-soaked number: Baby Workout, which fit that description to a T,
was a number five hit for him in 1963. Its true that you have to be pretty
selective in targeting the worthwhile Wilson records from this era; 1962s At the
Copa, for instance, has Jackie trying to combine soul and all-around
entertainment, and not wholly succeeding with either strategy. Yet some of his
early Brunswick material is also fine uptown soul; not quite as earthy as some
of his fans would have liked him to sound, no doubt, but worth hearing.

Wilson was shot and seriously wounded by a female fan in 1961, though he made a
recovery. His career was more seriously endangered by his inability to keep up
with changing soul and rock trends. Not everything he did in the mid-60s is
totally dismissible; No Pity (In the Naked City), for instance, is something
like West Side Story done uptown soul style. In 1966, his career was briefly
revived when he teamed up with Chicago soul producer Carl Davis, who had been
instrumental in the success of Windy City performers like Gene Chandler, Major
Lance, and Jerry Butler. Davis successfully updated Wilsons sound with
horn-heavy arrangements, getting near the Top Ten with Whispers, and then making
number six in 1967 with Higher and Higher. And that was really the close of
Wilsons career as either a significant artist or commercial force, although he
had some minor chart entries through the early 70s.

While playing a Dick Clark oldies show at the Latin Casino in New Jersey in
September 1975, Wilson suffered an on-stage heart attack while singing Lonely
Teardrops. He lapsed into a coma, suffering major brain damage, and was
hospitalized until his death in early 1984. ~ Richie Unterberger

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