Greatest Hits

Jackie Wilson | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 11, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Brunswick Records
• ASIN: B00000DI17
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #127,212 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Reet Petite (The Finest Girl You Ever Want to Meet)

2. To Be Loved

3. Lonely Teardrops

4. That's Why (I Love You So)

5. I'll Be Satisfied

6. Talk That Talk

7. Night

8. Doggin' Around

9. A Woman, a Lover, a Friend

10. Am I the Man

11. Baby Workout

12. Danny Boy

13. Whispers (Gettin' Louder)

14. (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher

15. I Get the Sweetest Feeling

16. You Got Me Walking

Editorial Reviews

16 tracks including 'Reet Petite' (The Finest Girl You Ever Want To Meet), 'To Be Loved' and 'Lonely Teardrops'. Standard jewel case. 1999 release.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars JACKIE WILSON A MUSIC TREND SETTER, April 10, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

It's no secret Elvis copied Jackies signature slick black hair, tight Italian pants and sharp shirts when he shed his rockabilly look. He even sampled Jackies hand gestures. One thing he couldn't touch was that voice. Smooth as satin, sexy as silk lingerie. And those smoothly executed splits in those tight pants? PLEASE. This music sends me back. If you want excitement this is the music and the man.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Original Soul Tenor, September 30, 2004

By 

James A. Holland (Las Vegas, NV USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

I am a life-long soul musicologist/singer and alongside the immortal Sam Cooke, I have always been a great fan of Jackie Wilson. This CD offers all of his hits and most moving renditions of his most enduring recordings. I've read many of the reviews about this and other Jackie Wilson compilations and it strikes me as odd that no one has made any mention of the fact that, aside from being a spectacular performer and vocalist, Jackie was perhaps the only soul singer of his time...or any time who had the vocal compass of a classically trained tenor. Had his career not been rooted in the racially repressed 50's & 60's, he may well have enjoyed the success of a Mario Lanza. Granted, Jackie's voice was untrained but with some work he could well have enjoyed success in both the Soul and Classical field, a harbinger of today's "Popera" genre, again not unlike the great Mario Lanza. Jackie Wilson's remains one of the greatest tenor voices ever heard and he will forever be the original Soul Tenor.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great introduction to Jackie Wilson, October 14, 2003

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TJ Zancanaro (BC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

This is a great CD for anyone who is looking to get into Jackie Wilson, who has one of the best Soul/R & B voices of all time. This CD his major hits (Lonely Teardrops, That's Why (I Love You So), Higher and Higher, etc.) and also has enough lesser known songs to help you appreciate Wilson's talents without having to be a diehard fan to enjoy it all. His version of Danny Boy is unique and lets the listener know that his voice can make even the most traditional of songs seem like new.

I would definitely recommend this to those who are looking to further explore Soul/R & B singers or those who just want to get into Jackie Wilson beyond the 3 or 4 major hits.