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Tag: Jackie Wilson
2011
Friday, 6/10/11
recipe
Take 1 cup of James Brown’s emphatic funkiness.
Add 1 cup of Fred Astaire’s lighter-than-air elegance.
Stir. Let sit.
Add 2 cups of Jackie Wilson’s liquid grace.
Mix until thoroughly blended.
Michael Jackson, August 29, 1958-June 25, 2009
Michael Jackson does James Brown, live, Los Angeles, 1983
Vodpod videos no longer available.2010
Friday, 9/3/10
Mr. Excitement
Jackie Wilson, “Higher and Higher,” “Lonely Teardrops,” live (TV broadcast), introduced by Roy Orbison and (I think) Del Shannon, 1974
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lagniappe
art beat
While at the Art Institute the other day, I wandered into a small room of paintings by this guy—who, in his early 20s (in the 1950s), moved to New York to study music with Lennie Tristano.
Robert Ryman, from The Elliot Room (Charter Series), 1985-87
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radio
Looking for something different?
How ’bout an hour of NYC traffic reports, uninterrupted?
(I stumbled onto this last night—Kenny G’s Hour of Pain—while waiting for Sinner’s Crossroads.)
2010
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
so much depends
upon
a jacket’s
unbuttoning
—William Carlos Williams (after seeing Jackie Wilson)
Jackie Wilson, “No Pity (In The Naked City),” live (TV broadcast), 1965
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lagniappe
At the 1984 Grammy Awards, Michael Jackson dedicated his Album of the Year award (for Thriller) to Jackie Wilson, telling the audience:
In the entertainment business, there are leaders and there are followers. And I just want to say that I think Jackie Wilson was a wonderful entertainer . . . I love you and thank you so much.
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Michael Jackson studied Jackie Wilson, mimicked him, emulated him, subjected himself to his discipline. He covered ‘Lonely Teardrops’ when he was a teenager, and to some extent sang it the rest of his life.—Tom Junod
2010
Friday, 3/26/10
Last night, drifting off to sleep, I heard (or dreamed) a commercial for a new cable TV channel:
The Jackie Wilson Channel
All Jackie, All the Time
Jackie Wilson, “Baby, Work Out” (AKA “Baby Workout”), live (TV broadcast), 1963
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lagniappe
reading table
I threw a party, wore a very sharp suit. My wife had out all sorts of hors d’oeuvres, some ordered from long off—little briny peppery seafoods you wouldn’t have thought of as something to eat. We waited for the guests. Some of the food went bad. Hardly anybody came. It was the night of the lunar eclipse, I think. Underwood, the pianist, showed up and maybe twelve other people. Three I never invited were there. We’d planned on sixty-five.
I guess this was the signal we weren’t liked anymore in town.
—Barry Hannah (April 23, 1942-March 1, 2010), “Our Secret Home,” in Airships (1978)
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Thanks for linking—very much appreciated!
—Tim
(Tim Lawrence, author of Hold On To Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-92 [2009], in response to Tuesday’s post )
2010
Friday, 2/26/10
something you cannot do
Watch this guy and not feel better about, well, pretty much everything.
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Jackie Wilson, “You Better Know It,” 1959
Take 1: TV broadcast
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Take 2: Movie (Go, Johnny, Go!)
Want more? Here (“Lonely Teardrops” [11/20/09]).
2009
Friday, 11/20/09
Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson: what other artist was a big influence on both?
Jackie Wilson (Mr. Excitement), “Lonely Teardrops,” live (TV broadcast), 1958
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