JACKIE WILSON LONELY TEARDROPS EX ORIG’ 59 LP BLACK LBL
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JACKIE WILSON – LONELY TEARDROPS - (JACKIE WILSON'S ULTRA-RARE SECOND ALBUM, FROM 1959) - ORIGINAL BRUNSWICK RECORDS MONO LP BL-54045
ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING
ORIGINAL BLACK BRUNSWICK LABEL WITH SILVER PRINT.
DEEP GROOVE PRESSING
FLAT EDGE PRESSING
THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.
ORIGINAL, THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE)
CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS
THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING
MACHINE-STAMPED MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) OF THE RECORD
This, simply put, is one of top-5 most important, genre-defining albums in Rhythm & Blues and Soul music - and, by far - very, very far - Jackie Wilson's finest, shining, career-defining, moment. Not to mention: one of his rarest, particularly in condition this beautiful!
Jackie Wilson's big beautiful voice outshines Dick Jacobs' bombastic big band sound on his second solo album. His voice-of-plenty makes two hopelessly MOR tunes ("Hush-A-Bye" and "By the Light of the Silvery Moon") tolerable, and contributes two compositions himself ("You Better Know It" and "Singing a Song"). Berry Gordy and Billy Davis, with help from Gwendolyn Gordy-Fuqua, contribute the most commercial songs, including the hit "That's Why I Love You So," "Each Time I Love You More," and "We Have Love." This marked the final time Gordy and Davis worked with Wilson; the hitmaking combo split because Gordy objected to Brunswick's dogmatic refusal to put their songs on the flip side of their hit A-sides. (He resented other writers' songs riding the coattails of their hits and cutting their mechanical income in half; he also wanted a share of the publishing. Regent Music published all the songs Gordy and Davis wrote for Wilson, and still holds the copyrights.)
(EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY ANDREW HAMILTON, ALL MUSIC GUIDE /ALLMUSIC.COM/)
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