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One of the best ❤

Thank you for posting Fabulous!

He def was the best; the one performer to beat!! But no one ever could!! His son, Bobby, is v talented n keeps this great artist alive!!! Bobby is a natural singer in his own right!! Bless them both! Brought much joy to the world!!!👑👏‼️❤️

Now I see where Elvis got his swag from. ❤

Brilliant singer

In the beginning of the video: Roy Orbison and Del Shannon.

Rest in peace

I love this era with this music.

I remember the energy crisis of '74. I went to work part-time in gas station. The gas was so rationed. 😮 It was something. I think people were more willing to help each other back then. Glad I grew up during great, great, music. Rest in Peace Jackie Wilson 👏👏❤️👏👏💞❤️🌼

Rest in peace

Tribe Of Judah right there fam

TOP TOP TOP!!!!!!!

“Mr. Excitement” himself! So energetic! What a great performer! Many other greats like Elvis Presley, Ben King, Frank Sinatra, David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen are all reportedly to have said they wouldn’t want to go on stage behind him. Such respect and admiration! He was truly one of the great ones! - RIP🕊️Jackie…

He had such an awesome voice.❤❤❤❤❤

Is he smoking???😮

Never forgotten. Love you Jackie Wilson. 🙏❤

WOW! GOD IS GOOD!THANK U GOD FOR JACKIE WILSON& SAM COOK!I wish I could of met them both!

No one like him🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

On the chicklin circuit folk jumped all over that stage …

Back in those days you only jumped and screams on the “chicken circuit “ otherwise it was proper to show restraint (among white folk).

My idol talking about his idol 🥹🥹🥹

It breaks my heart to think of how he died

There will never be another JACKIE WILSON

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Love you Jackie!!

To be a Black audience, they sure aew stiff! "Upper crust", I imagine 😮

Hmm Jackie is beautiful and nicely built❤❤❤❤

Get down Jackie go on

I just Revere culture vultures and how the so-called white supremacist King a rock and roll Elvis Presley totally tried to duplicate this man. It was a racist Million Dollar business then , it is a racist trillion-dollar business now. Rest in peace Jackie no one did it like you not even thirteen-year-olds girls screwing pedophile druggie womanizing the KING OF CULTURE VULTURING Elvis Presley. B1 😎

He gots to go down in history, just as Elvis has

Mr. Excitement,simply one of the all-time greatest singers and performers!!!

Loved the late, great Jackie Wilson - have most of his records. In fact, the B-side to his first song here [The Who Who Song] is the absolutely lovely 'Since You Showed Me How To Be Happy' which I actually prefer to be honest. It was so tragic how he died and the way he just sort of faded away. He was incredibly talented and with such a wide repertoire. Probably the best tribute anyone ever paid him was from Berry Gordy [who Wilson worked with and recorded his first releases - 'Reet Petite' and 'Lonely Teardrops']. 'He was so good, he could sing anything'. Incidentally, George Kirby [the comedian/impressionist who introduces Wilson] recorded the utterly brilliant 'What Can I do' for Cadet records in1965. Check it out!

The Best, should be in R&R Hall of Fame !!!!!

I felt like oldies this day, and I'm so happy I landed on Jackie Wilson!!!!

Mr. Exitement was fantastic A great performer who could dance and sing like no one else. He left us too soon. RIP JW

Did Jackie ever sing Reet Petite live?

He was one cool dude.

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I can’t believe those people are so emotionless while Jackie Wilson is singing. I’d be jumping out of my seat!

The man smashed every Grammy record and goes up there and pays homage to Jackie Wilson. What a humble king MJ

Every once in awhile, I come back to this clip. A legend honoring a legend. 🥲🙏🏾🕊️🕊️

Wait a minute!! Did he do all of that while holding a cigarette?? What a performer! He came on the stage dancing!

JACKIE at his absolute BEST!!!!!!

Got a cigarette and a mic in his hand that’s dope 🔥

I lived through this era,due to an act of Diety alone. We are still struggling with civil rights and racism in America.All of these enormously talented artists,that our system tried to whiteify.Horrific stuff,right up to the present,it is shameful.I have a deep inner sadness that never goes away.

Look At My Photo here, I was the Manager of the worlds most talented and gifted entertainer, James Brown! But I was friends with the worlds most underrated, exploited, over worked and down right cheated out of 90% of everything he made superstar, Jack LeRoy Wilson, Jr. This man put on a blockbuster of a one man show every time he took the mic! I had the pleasure of traveling with him for three days on a summer in 1967. If you never experienced Beatlemania then you would not understand the way Jackie commanded his audience and kept them spellbound for as long as he was on stage. now I'm not here to drop names but this was my business then I came in contact with many many artists along the way. We were doing a concert at Caesars Palace and I had a chance to run over to the Hilton and meet with Elvis in his dressing room, I did not know him well but I wanted to express my respect and admiration to him on behalf of James Brown . Elvis was the sweetest human being I ever met next to Michael Jackson but I ask him like I ask every entertainer ,who his biggest influence was... "Jackie Wilson" he replied He said "everything you see me do out there I copied from Jackie Wilson the way I roll my eyes the way I lay down on the stage and sing to the ceiling all of these things I copied from my friend Jackie Wilson" I read one time that Jackie took his inspiration from the late Al Jolson! you have to Google Al Jolson he was a vaudeville era blackface crooner. Jackie would call me by my nickname that he gave me "Pal" I do remember that back in those days all of us, either performers musicians or management would take the little black pills called "black betty's" to get the energy to hold on tight and keep running because with James Brown we did as many as 350 contracts a year! This was certified by the Guinness Book of World Records. Sometimes we would do as many as six shows a day at the Apollo starting with an 11:00 AM matinee and ending at 7 PM. I noticed that Jackie like all of us smoked and took these pills so he could give his audience the explosive show that they paid for. I had to take these pills to be able to stay up for two or three days at a time and travel with Mr. Brown in that small jet. Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Were a couple of artist who depended on speed in order to go out on a stage night after night and kill the people! I believe that a compilation of things cause Jackie is hard to stop number one when you live on the road it is the most unhealthy environment because you eat fast food and you never sleep in your own bed, you are always packing and moving going on an airplane getting off an airplane day after day never getting enough sleep in between. So I combination of smoking and we all smoked back then, speed to ruin your heart, lack of rest and good nutrition all combined to bring on this massive heart attack. Another thing was Jackie was deeply indebted to one of the crookedest lying ass snakes who ever lived his name was Nat Turnapol and he controlled Jackie's money as well as every contract in Jackie's life. he embezzled everything Jackie ever made and even had the audacity to put his sons name as writer, on some of the largest hit records Jackie made. Jackie had no choice but to grind it out night after night after night simply to keep his head above water because he could not understand why instead of having several hundred thousand dollars in the bank he was told that he owed Brunswick records $300,000 in the red! I talked to Jackie's estranged wife Harleen just before he died in the plush nursing home the Elvis paid for after he read an article that Jack he was in a county nursing home for the uninsured and indigent. And when a reporter went there to see Jackie he saw the roaches in Jackie's room! Elvis was a lover of everyone and especially appreciated and humbled himself before Black music. When people say that I always was a racist I wish that they had known what I know and that was he especially loved the African-Americans artistic contributions and one friend got in trouble Elvis was the first one there to make it right. Jackie died totally broke in New Jersey I've been never come out of the coma that he went into because when he collapsed on stage at the Latin Casino supper club no one knew how to do CPR so they just sit there and watch them until the paramedics came and by then his brain suffered oxygen deprivation. Jackie was Levi Stubbs first cousin.

I'm so grateful for videos like this so that we could still see and hear him perform he is Amazing... Now he's singing in Heaven 💗💗💗

Wow!

This song from the master keeps me higher and higher…. We will see you in the resurrection my dear Jackie Wilson