NORTHERN SOUL - ONLY YOUR LOVE CAN SAVE ME NOW. - JACKIE WILSON

Wham bam and a sincere thank you to Jackie Wilson for this nice little mover.
Faultless vocal performance as always from Mr Excitement. Hope you enjoy.Jackie "Sonny" Wilson was born June 9,1934 in Detroit, Michigan and grew up in Highland Park, Michigan. The only child of Jack and Eliza Mae Wilson from Columbus, Mississippi, Wilson's father was an alcoholic and generally unemployed. Eliza Mae who had lost two earlier children doted on Wilson and was a powerful influence on his life. Wilson began singing at an early age. In his early teens Jackie formed a quartet, the Ever Ready Gospel Singers Group, which became a popular feature of churches in the area. Jackie wasn't religious, he just loved to sing and the cash came in handy for the cheap wine which he drank from the age of nine.Growing up in North End, a rough section of Detroit, Wilson was an habitual truant, belonged to a gang called the Shakers, and was continuously in and out of trouble. Twice he was sent to detention in the Lansing Correctional Institute. It was there that he learned how to box. Wilson dropped out of the school in the ninth grade, in 1950 at 16. At sixteen Wilson became a Golden Gloves boxing champion in Detroit. In February 1951 Wilson married Freda Hood, whom he had known since he was ten, after she had become pregnant. It was the first of her 15 pregnancies. A daughter was born the next month. At this time he was singing in a group that consisted of future Tamla Motown legend and Four Tops lead singer Levi Stubbs, Sonny Woods and Lawson Smith. They only knew a few songs, but were welcome additions at house parties where they split the five dollars they were paid to perform.

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[vespa202]

Class tune...Love it...Great vid :))

[SOULINTEGRITY]

@vespa202

Thanks Vespa

Good to hear from you

[rickyo1963]

great tune Jackie always delivers

[tonypilki3]

Great JW track. Cheers John and have a good weekend

[soulpagan]

Top. top tune....thanks for sharing...KTF...Paul

[casinosquad]

brilliant from the master !!!

[souldiegirl]

Awesome Jackie Wilson...awesome vid...thanks John! ♥

[walkerronnie]

very nice

[teejaysoul]

brill tune !!! .... ;-))

[kiddysoulgirl99]

cool tune mr grity  :-)