Shake! Shake! Shake!/The Kickapoo/Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!/You Only Live Once/Say You Will/Baby Workout/Its All My Fault/Love Train/Now That I Want Her/(I Feel Like I’m In) Paradise/(So Many) Cute Little Girls/What Good Am I Without You
High energy R & B vocalist Jackie Wilson had a string of hit singles in both the US and UK. However, he was far less successful in the album stakes. Baby Workout was his highest placed album, the title track single doing rather better, peaking at No. 5 in the US. A collection of Jackie Wilson singles is a must for anyone interested in 1950s or 1960s popular music. (US:36)
"His sound is among the most exuberant we are blessed to hear, and we need to hear more of it."
"When you listen to his records now, you can hear his characteristic vocal trademark in almost all of them, a tendency to make his voice swoop towards his emotions."
"Among the greatest rock & roll singers ever, and maybe the most technically accomplished vocalist of the rock era. His sky-high range, intense emotionalism, and jaw-dropping stage presence have influenced nearly every significant R & B singer."
"Wilson's particular skill was blending an R & B edge with pop accessibility, and his supple, soaring tenor was well suited to ballads, mid-tempo shuffles, and sweaty, high-octane rave-ups alike."
"To rate Jackie Wilson as less than one of the very best of the early R & B vocalists is to do a terrible disservice to this genre of music." "Jackie Wilson, Mr. Excitement, what a great voice. Nobody could sing a ballad like that man."
"Jackie Wilson is another example of a star whose accomplishments have been forgotten or neglected by history. An aspiring opera singer, he was a man whose vocal range was remarkable. He was one of the few artists that charted on both the rhythm and blues and pop charts."
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