Jackie Wilson - Live Part 1

Higher & Higher / I'll Be Satisfied This is the first part of his performance in his home state of Michigan from the 1975 PBS telecast special, note intro by comedian George Kirby

[@heatherkelly2580]

JACKIE WILSON THE ONE & ONLY LIVE PART 1.

[@yelltyrell]

Entire performance with a lit cigarette in hand, guys like Jackie and sammy are a different breed of man 🙏🙏

[@keithchanner]

You're damn right Tye👍

[@deloreswillis9224]

💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋

[@burrellburton7479]

I watched Jackie rehearse at home in Detroit with his family all the time it was wonderful and exciting he was a Godfather to me I grew up with all of his family his two daughters and two sons and I love to see him rehearse and perform he was the best he always had a smile on his face he always said thank you very much and he loved his family for real in Detroit it's Mom used to cook us chicken wings and french fries she always had us a Coca-Cola on the side are y'all watching Jackie perform and rehearse you make sure you eat all your food and drink all your Coca-Cola make sure you say Your Grace

[@gladysortiz4067]

Luv u jackie wilson?& Bobby wilson!

[@rufusbrown7481]

Jackie Wilson was and is still my favorite entertainer of all time

[@NedEvans1]

Mine too man.

[@deloreswillis9224]

You betcha ❤️

[@allenbrown1859]

Amen bro

[@alfie3d]

Amazing performance of him, the crowd looks like made by stone, if I was there I would be dancing

[@keithchanner]

Yes thanks for your comment Alfie

[@tracyshivers729]

JACKIE WILSON could PERFORM sleeping 💯💯 There's no ENTERTAINER GREATER. REST EASY BEAUTIFUL I LOVE 🖤💜 HIM and WISH THAT he was still here, AMEN!!! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@yvettecleveland2757]

He had such an awesome voice.❤❤❤❤❤

[@lucypalazzolo5366]

No one can ever Replace You Jackie Wilson - you are keeping me Alive - 🥰

[@helenlucas5274]

this man was extremely talented extremely good-looking awesome body extremely good dancer just love him rest in peace Jackie Wilson

[@michaelord988]

the audience would have been dancing in the aisles in Newcastle.

[@lasonya22000]

I agree!!!!

[@keithchanner]

@@michaelord988 l know they sure would I have been to that city

[@vladimirtserademowitz5040]

Even at this later time of life and career he could Sing and Dance his Peers into the Ground!

[@ddlee202257]

Why is the audience so "dead"? If I was that close to Mr. Excitement, I would be clapping and dancing. It's good to see Jackie Wilson perform LIVE.

[@annemoody671]

olloiik.

[@MarcieLuvzMusic]

@Mr. Volunteer, get real.. this is taped for a PBS Special, the folks in the audience are asked to just politely applaud and do exactly what they are doing.. to Showcase the great Talent on Stage, not to go wild like some Teens attending a Rock Concert. Hope this clears things up for you!!

[@sardaracampa1733]

@@MarcieLuvzMusic just because that may have been the plan for this staged audience doesn't mean that the shit is right and that what he said his comment was incorrect, this audience is dead as fuck! They still on contributing much to the show which has to affect the performers enthusiasm and affect the quality of their performance look at the point that Jackie drops on his knees and says help me help me hear he's talking to that dumb fucking artist telling them get into this motherfucker he's actually telling them to get into it

[@ddlee202257]

@@sardaracampa1733 my point exactly !!!

[@rickeykeeton4770]

Is that a cigarette in his hand? Bye, I can see where he might have influenced Elvis and others.

[@r.burtnett6995]

One of the Greatest Entertainers of ALL time. Absolutely amazing and I love the way he and Elvis loved and respected each other ❤RPB

[@burrellburton7479]

The audience seems to be dead but actually that just mesmerized

[@latanyayarbrough5362]

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

[@pamelawest8138]

Jackie Wilson was a great talent!!! Jackie Wilson can shine through anything, through a bad band! His talent spoked for it self! Reguardless what they tried to throw at him or tried to ruin his career, he talent always came out shinning!!! I always will love JACKIE WILSON!!! (RIP)

[@darm.8172]

Only Thing About That Is...Them Dirty, Greedy Ass Thrives...Did Ruin His Life And Convalescent Care -Too. Hell, I Would Not Be Shocked...If His Health Decline Was Something They Gave Him...Overtime And Unknowingly From Him. Nine Years In A Crappy Ass Nursing Home With Only Meager Funds...And No Money To Pay For A Better Place. So Bad, I Heard Elvis Presley Visited Him And Saw With His Own Eyes...He Was In A Hell Hole. SMDH. RIHP Mr. Jackie Wilson. Gone Too Long... That's For Sure. ✝️🙏🏽💜

[@patriciasmythe7797]

@@darm.8172 then Elvis should have done something about it💝😥

[@petertopley8352]

@@patriciasmythe7797 Elvis died in 1977. Jackie was in and out of a coma from '75 and nursing home until the mid 80s. But Elvis had paid all his medical bills according to both Jackies son and Elvis' camp. Nobody knew until after they both died I believe but any funds he did have were in large part due to generosity and care of his friend EP

[@patriciasmythe7797]

That audience is DEAD ZOMBIES SITTING💝💝😓😁🥰

[@beebeej1]

That cig ain't going no where lol such a beautiful smile!

[@jimmieperryman1032]

Sad. The way our black"national treasures. Have passed away...

[@aldeliver183]

Them pale faces....the Yew know whos......sapped the life force out of all of out most talented over centuries

[@ombreyarenee3826]

My brother's wife said that he was her great uncle. She looks so much like him too. She is 61 years old now.

[@burrellburton7479]

Would that be Kelly's daughter with Joyce V her grandmother?

[@midwestslotdiva]

He was one of the greatest of all time!! Rest in peace

[@maryjohnson5470]

So glad to see Jackie Wilson such energy love all his music till this day 2022

[@susieaiken5064]

Jackie Wilson i Love You So Much You Are Loved And Missed May Your Soul Rest in Peace You Will Always Be The Main Man Your Voice Was 💯 Beautiful Love Susie

[@stephenscott4166]

We went to the presentation, Smokey, Barry Gordy gave a beautiful tribute to Jackie as he was THE inspiration and guiding influence on Motown artist as Barry wrote Jackie’s first hit Reet Petite, and of course Brunswick, mentioning the famous Flame Show Bar and Al Green...

[@sparx180]

Stephen Scott Nat Tarnopol of the Brunswick Label was nothing but a scheister. Ripped him off big time. Barbara Walters did a documentary on these scheisters!

[@proudamerican9438]

He smoked with a vocal range like that?! Ooh whee!!!!

[@bajangalish]

I thought, 'Am I seeing things, is that a cigarette between his fingers?' Was a different time in those days, Dean Martin used to perform on stage with a drink and a ciggie, too. Nonetheless, Mr Wilson was hugely talented!

[@stephenscott4166]

Jackie received a long deserved Star on Hollywood Blvd. We went to the

[@lisawarren7553]

Stephen Scott I attended Hollywood Walk of Fame September 2019 honoring him also. Nate Tarnopal son was there. It was hard to understand that. Sad Jackie will never know he was honored. That’s the sad part.

[@vladimirtserademowitz5040]

JW was so excellent and exciting the audience was Star Struck!

[@thewutitizband]

Gospel soul performer at its best. The holy spirit materialized through this dude no doubt.

[@keithchanner]

Amen sista!

[@johnmaldonado3932]

Jackie was great

[@bobbymarsh1]

had he not had that fatal collapse I'd have love to have seen where he would have went heading into the next decade of Music with new writers and such one of the greatest top 5 singers ever

[@After_thoughtmedia]

Happy Birthday 🎉 Rest In Power

[@peaceful_warrior3479]

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

[@PutOnASweater]

He has been since 1987

[@lissalois1822]

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

[@brendaortiz-vh4fu]

Loved him then, still love him now. So sad we lost this great talent when he was so young. RIP.

[@franchoiseprice7798]

My dad had his own band and he used to imitate Jackie Wilson I was born in the 60s all I heard is Jackie Wilson music and the others James Brown and rest of them

[@keithchanner]

Yes well said he was one of a kind kick ass performer

[@Genghis-Khan121]

had the great pleasure in watching him perform at wigan casino allnighter many years ago simply the best

[@keithchanner]

mepaul49 Wow that must've been such a treat, i met a collector when i was there in the early nineties that saw him there too when he came to the UK in the mid 70's

[@RetroCool73]

+mepaul49 Was that May 1975? Just found out he performed Sweetest Feeling live on Top Of The Pops that month (of course the tape was later wiped by philistine bean-counters)

[@darlenehyman6879]

can we get

[@keithchanner]

@@darlenehyman6879 I would've loved to see that! I gotta tape of a broadcast interview on Radio One London UK when he was on tour there June 1975.

[@duketwo7737]

Happy Birthday jackie leroy sonny wilson

[@keithchanner]

Happy Birthday Jackie! RIP

[@bernadettparker7655]

RIP. JACKIE

[@davidoverholt251]

Jackie Wilson was my rock star in the early 60's, I had my first High Boy Shirt Collar back in the day! Also had my first leather jacket back in the day! So I had Jackie, I had Elvis, I was living the dream of my young youth!

[@nancywood9531]

Bad band. Dead audience. Dont know how he kept his performance so strong. But he did! 🎶💕🎶

[@thesoultwins72]

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!

[@venusclare2519]

Brilliant...nearly posted this myself but I always check before hand as try not to do duplicates so views or comments goes to the original uploader...Jackie is my favourite solo male singer :-)

[@keithchanner]

Thanks Venus for your compliments, i also like your recent post of Jackie {Live ABC In concert 1973) thats a brilliant rare clip that i've never seen before, i'm sure many of his fans haven't see it either

[@helenlucas5274]

I agree how can you sit down while Jackie Wilson singing

[@helenlucas5274]

sing it Jackie you won't

[@siriussirius9149]

Вечная память прекрасному певцу

[@mikevallen999]

The backup band was there for Della Reese , who came on after Jackie on this PBS " Soundstage " special ....this backup band was not soulful enough for Jackie . The appropriate backup band should have been the Motown Funk Brothers....then the performance would have been something else .

[@intuneorange]

That sounds right thanks

[@Dee530Luvz2BeLoved5555]

Here is Part 1 of the PBS Performance ~ Please enjoy it, thanks to our friend Keith for Posting!

[@keithchanner]

Hey you're welcome Dee

[@Dee530Luvz2BeLoved5555]

keithchanner Good to hear from you Keith, I figured you were on the Road.. Fond regards, Marcie xox This is a fine clip :))

[@PetePeterkin]

Sorry to say the band was pretty bad / Jackie was the greatest who ever lived and deserved musicians up to the task.

[@helenbourn8604]

the band is tacky. Small group...

[@darm.8172]

DIG IT!!! They Sound Horrid!!! SMDH!!!

[@patriciamissie8763]

JACKIE WILSON PROBLEM WAS ELVIS PRESLEY COPING. THIS HELD HIM BACK.

[@j.sanchez2538]

.........Jackie Wilson.......... A one in a million Kick-Ass Perfomer He was right on time. Yes it was before my time. I can only imagine the ephoria of how those days were before the technology we have today.

[@keithchanner]

Thanks for your comment well said

[@wblk]

He's preforming with a cigarette in his hand

[@ruff1draft]

I wonder if there is ever going to be a film done about Mr Jackie Wilson

[@ddlee202257]

Unfortunately, there may never be a "true" biography of Mr. Jackie Wilson because of the mismanagement of his career towards the end of his life. Jackie Wilson's name, image, and personal properties are tightly guarded by his now defuncted record label, Brunswick Records.

[@ruff1draft]

@@ddlee202257 I thought Micheal Jackson bought the rights to that record label during the 1980s

[@ddlee202257]

@@ruff1draft The Brunswick Record label was always owned by the Tarnopol family. It looks like the family will continue to control Jackie's music catalog (sadly!).

[@sparx180]

I am so disappointed with this video. The place is too small, the crowd must be hard of hearing. He was the King|!

[@keithchanner]

I agree Chloe. Are you by any chance related?

[@sparx180]

@@keithchanner Cute. No I am not related.

[@Funksgroove1]

Perfect pitch

[@keithchanner]

Thats a good question Lou.

[@ianstringer8647]

R.I.P Great- Cousin Jackie Wilson

[@keithchanner]

+Ian Stringer Jackie was your cousin?

[@jschuler53]

This is kind of sad, the band doesn't seem to know what to do, but Jackie is trying. the audience is like stone...they lighten up a little later. Still, this is Jackie's last full performance. And the venue is a real downgrade for him. Still love Jackie.

[@keithchanner]

One correction this was not I repeat not his final full performance he went on to tour with Dick Clark's Rock n Roll revue in Vegas and ending in Cherry Hill NJ Latin Quarter Casino where he collapsed onstage.

[@90skidineffect88]

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

[@KhyRyy]

Thank you for posting this !!

[@keithchanner]

You're welcome

[@pamelawest8138]

Yes! This is so sad to looked at this video of the late JACKIE WILSON performance. The no good band is his manager fault! His manger should make sure he had a good band, they made sure the gangers were there to collected the money! They tried to ruin his spirit! They probably did! But Jackie Wilson gave the audience a great performance reguardless of a bad band!

[@keithchanner]

Hi Pam actually this was not his last performance the last one was with Dick Clarks Good Ole Rock n Roll Revue in Cherry Hill NJ Latin Quarter Casino

[@pamelawest8138]

@@keithchanner I am so sorry, I should say. His whole performance!! Thank You!

[@intuneorange]

@@keithchanner You seem knowledgeable what can you tell us about his backup singers may be on some of his shindig shows are a little bit earlier in his career I appreciate people who keep the Jackie Wilson story alive and these troubled times his genuine delivery is medicine for the soul

[@keithchanner]

carpenter Thanks for watching this video clip I posted, Regarding his backup singers on Shindig i know one of the ladies was Darlene Love.

[@fncz]

The band cannot follow JAckie!!! That plus the dead audience were not things he was used to. Still he could sing the phone book and it would make music!

[@keithchanner1812]

Couldn't have said it any better!

[@SelectiveSocial401]

I've never seen him perform I'll be satisfied before, but why are they playing the music like that.

[@augustuscaesar7846]

The COOL....... Performing with a cigg. If only he would have smoked that cigg, singed & shuffled around, I would have liked that all the more.....Nevertheless, what a great & talented legendary performer.

[@keithchanner]

+Augustus Caesar Yes he was )) Mr Cool and Mr Excitement all in one

[@tinastacey5839]

My Brother played in the band that replaced them. He played trumpet. He was a whole lot better than the guy playing in this video..

[@cecilepovich3861]

He was toned because he worked out four hours a day,training.

[@conectamayor3866]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱

[@conectamayor3866]

Enero 23 Año 2022.🙏❤️🇨🇱

[@jeanpierrevanzandberghe3843]

Where is the public...is there"live"or dead?or alive?pppouhh!

[@wblk]

Is that a cigarette in his hand

[@sparx180]

Waykers 13 Good eyesight. I never saw it until I read yr comment.

[@carlawilliams5-26-27]

That's a sorry dry audience 😩

[@majj51ma]

Was this his last performance? Is there a part 3?

[@keithchanner]

majj51ma Just part one and two

[@Matt571]

Did Jackie ever sing Reet Petite live?

[@keithchanner]

No according to his book

[@PutOnASweater]

I heard him sing Reet Petite twice. He seldom sang it at shows.

[@cecilepovich3861]

Elvis wanted to be him and couldn't.

[@wblk]

I ain't feeling the band

[@keithchanner]

You're not the only one

[@jzzc]

Jackie is great as always, but that backup band sucks!

[@darm.8172]

Why This Band Sound So Damn Raggedy And Amateur? IJS. 🤔🥺

[@kirkmoorer729]

Sad sp8

[@yvettecleveland2757]

Is he smoking???😮

[@keithjames3155]

band is awful

[@ramonasims]

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

[@sardaracampa1733]

Hear Jackie sounds horrible! Im not hating on Jackie Wilsin, I love him and i was there in Jersey wgen he came out onstage and said " My heart is crying, crying!" And fell down due to a stroke, hit his head and went into a coma until his death some 8- 9 years later. When I say Jackie was a hasbeen, I mean it in industry standards, not to us, his diehard fans. I know some of you just want people to write good comments in here and say it was dynamic but by now Jackie was a has-been and this audience was terrible and the band was terrible. This is at the stage of his career that Jackie used to have to piece together musicians to be able to do a gig he didn't travel with them per se he would get to a new town and use some musicians that were there he would get a guitar player from one band a drummer from another band and most of them can the new his songs but they kinda didn't and they would do maybe one rehearsal and I mean basically like 15 minutes to a half-hour rehearsal and go through some of the songs and then they come out and have to do the show. Even the MC that introduced him was fucking horrible he didn't even know what the call Jackie Jackie Wilson wasn't really known for the blues so that should not have been the last thing he said when he introduced them it would have been better off saying mr. Excitement are not adding any of those colorful things at all and just introducing. But what a fucking Pro Jackie Wilson was to remain in character and give a performance that he gave here to a crowd that wasn't giving anything back! If you hadn't seen the audience in this video you would think that he was performing to a crowd that was going completely nuts over him oh, because he carried it that way oh, he gave his on even when the audience didn't give any of themselves.

[@pamelawest8138]

You're JEALOUS!!!

[@sardaracampa1733]

@@pamelawest8138 I am not jealous, did you even read what I said? Anytime someone speaks the truth hear about something being bad quality you always get some nut job like you saying that you're hating on the person or that they're jealous I'm a bigger fan of Jackie Wilson than anybody in the world I am a huge jacket Wilson fan I'm just talkin about it the dynamic of how tame age and circumstances slows us all down and effects things and with him some of his life circumstances were devastated and brought him to this. After that woman shot him his voice was never the same it wasn't as good and everybody knows that. Couple that with his alcohol and drug use and the way he was living in his lifestyle and the mental and emotional and spiritual pressures of dealing with the mafia killing his son and record companies being controlled by the mafia taking his money Jackie was under a lot of pressure I am merely talking about how life took its toll on one of the greatest as it does on all of us. I can't do what I did 20 years ago or at least not as good and I bet it is the same with you he was a hell of an Entertainer but here we are not seeing him at his best that is all I'm saying

[@keithchanner]

I agree the band sucked however in spite of it Jackie's performance was stellar his voice was still there he even kissed the women just like he did back in day lol

[@johnanders6234]

You tripping. The audience is subdued. The band sucks. Jackie Wilson never gave a has been performance no matter what his current position was on the damn charts. So he was never a has been. When you have a voice and discs plus stage presence like he did how could he? Jackie was a legend by this time and I dont know what was up with that audience. That band was a group of talentless performers but Jackie was on point like the king he was. Get you some glasses!

[@johnanders6234]

@@sardaracampa1733 If you never knew anthing about Jackie Wilson never heard his name. You would have thought this was one of the most exciting entertainers you ever seen or heard.Stop trying to say he sounded horrible as compared to his former self AS though he was a has been Jackie at his worse would be consider one of the best whom evwr stepped before a mic.Saying he was aa has beeen implies he's now sucks. Now in all honesty can you say that. The logic ypu are using implies you are just jealous for some unknown reason why half ass praising him. If you are goinfg too throw shade throw shade but don't pretend je has tol live up to your standard to be consider the essence of excitement!

[@daveshondel5108]

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.

[@xplaybwoix]

So interesting to hear.Would love to hear more about their craft and how they worked on the road. Did James brown ever practice his dance moves? He performed so much I always wondered how he did it without drugs but that makes sense. His show was next level energy that Jackie's show did not have. They were very different performers but there is a photo of them on stage together but no video footage ... I wish i could see more of Jackie but there is so little live footage of Jackie in concert. I don't understand why but someone did upload the last concert he did before the heart attack. Were you at the show?

[@PutOnASweater]

I saw James Brown in 1960, I was14 years old. I was a big fan at the time. In 1962, I first saw Jackie live, and Live he was. The most exciting entertainer I had ever seen, and if you go by voice alone, no one can come close. We became very close friends and I saw him perform approximately 150 times over the years. I was with Jackie the night he and Elvis met for the first time in1966 at "The Trip" in Hollywood. James Brown was also in the audience: so were The Rolling Stones, The Animals , and many others celebs. That night, Elvis told Jackie, "There is no reason why you're not the #1 singer in the world today." I was with Jackie August of 1975, in Las Vegas, one month before his "heart attack". Back in 1966, Jackie was performing in LA, he just came off his huge hit, "Whispers", the place was packed. James Brown came down that night. Later, In the dressing room we had a conversation between me, Jackie and James Brown in YI DDISH !!! To me Jackie was the greatest singer/entertainer there ever was and ever could be...a one of kind!

[@PutOnASweater]

@@xplaybwoix From concert in Los Angeles (Santa Monica) 1973. All my friend, who had never seen him perform Live on stage, think this is a fantastic performance. I tell them that I would give it a grade of B, he was a lot more "laid back" here. I had seen him work so hard, his clothes were sopping wet and clinging to him...kzbin.info/www/bejne/bX3Uk4uin51kaLc