You Ain't Heard Nothin Yet/Merry Christmas [Import]

Jackie Wilson | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 23, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Diablo Records UK
• ASIN: B00002MIAR
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #233,509 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Toot, Toot Tootsie Goodbye

2. Sonny Boy

3. California, Here I Come

4. Keep Smiling At Trouble (Trouble's A Bubble)

5. You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want To Do It)

6. My Yiddishe Momme

7. Swanee

8. April Showers

9. Anniversary Song

10. Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody

11. For Me And My Girl

12. In Our House

13. Silent Night

14. White Christmas

15. O Holy Night

16. The First Noel

17. Deck The Hall

18. Silver Bells

19. Joy To The World

20. It Came Upon The Midnight Clear

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A GREAT COLLECTION!, February 27, 2000

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Giovanni Marra (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: You Ain't Heard Nothin Yet/Merry Christmas (Audio CD)

Jackie Wilson was one of those rare entertainers that don't come along very often. No one but Jackie could hit you with a rhythm and blues jam like "Baby Workout" and then switch to something like "Danny Boy" and still have you right where he wanted you. This CD was a labor of love from this truly gifted entertainer. The first half of this 2fer is Jackie's tribute to Al Jolson. Swingin' arrangements abound here; from his great reading of "Toot Toot Tootsie" to the romping fun of "For Me And My Gal". And Jackie was always one for belting a ballad. Get an earful of the heartache in the touching version of "Sonny Boy", and the beautiful "In Our House". Perfectly orchestrated and sung all the way around, as is the second half of the disc, which is Jackie's Christmas collection. So what if it's not Christmas yet? The versions of timeless Christmas songs presented by Jackie are wonderful, especially "O Holy Night", "It Came Upon The Midnight Clear" and "Joy To The World". The Edsel/Brunswick label has done a superb job packaging this (as well as several other of Jackie's albums in this "2fer" format) including the original liner notes & album cover art. I also HIGHLY reccomend the TITAN OF SOUL 3CD set to any Jackie Wilson fans out there.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An oddly rare treat, March 1, 2002

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BurtRose (Washington, DC area) - See all my reviews

This review is from: You Ain't Heard Nothin Yet/Merry Christmas (Audio CD)

Wow, this just might be the oddest album in all of the "soul music" era. Here we have the exquisite voice of Jackie Wilson doing all Al "Blackface" Jolson material! Jackie loooooved Jolson, and was inspired by him as a captivating, charismatic performer. (Jackie Wilson told me that himself, when I met him backstage in his dressing room at the Howard Theater in Washington, DC in the 60's. He couldn't have been more gracious.) Jackie was an electrifying performer, but who could have imagined that Jolson was his idol? -- Amazingly, we get Jackie singing "My Yiddishe Mama," here. If you can get past the oddity of that, and are not off-put by the schmaltziness of the song, itself, it's beautiful, yea almost cantorial. (It helps if you had a Jewish mother.) The other songs are sort of pop-oriented (not R&B), and not terribly exceptional, except that Jackie was exceptional, which made even his unexceptional work a certain sort of exceptional. This ain't for everybody, but if you appreciate the great Jackie Wilson, this is an oddly rare treat.