I disagree with the comments about the music.As a person who watched Another World from the beginning in 1964 with my grandmother , to visiting the set on Avenue M in Brooklyn with my daughter and meeting Victoria Wyndham and Charles Keating, (They were both as gracious as they could be.) This mu...
This was the original way "Lonely Teardrops" was supposed to have been recorded but Dick Jacobs, Jackie's arranger for Brunswick, decided instead to give the song a Calypso-Latin feel....The rest as they say was history.
I remember worrying the hell out of my mother so i could send away for that bullshit About six weeks later I received the frogman and went straight upstairs to the bathtub and poured in the baking powder and watched bubbles come out , and that son of a bitch sank like a stone...they got me good!!
When I was a young man, I always wondered why my mother who was also a singer held this song in such reverance.You have to live this song to truly sing this song..Jimmy lived it as did my mother and now in the autumn of my life, I can sing it because I too have lived it.....
For all of you arguing over Jackie Wilson and Elvis, know this....Jackie Wilson was on the set the day Elvis performed tis song,as stated by Priscilla Presley...Elvis admired Jackie for his talent (Listen to him talk about Jackie on the Million Dollar Quartet Album....Its here on Youtube..For th...
I disagree with the comments about the music.As a person who watched Another World from the beginning in 1964 with my grandmother , to visiting the set on Avenue M in Brooklyn with my daughter and meeting Victoria Wyndham and Charles Keating, (They were both as gracious as they could be.) This mu...