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Hey Jude

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Three giants come to mind when you think of R&B and Soul,Sam Cooke,Otis Redding, and the man singing the Beatles standard ,Hey Jude,Wilson Pickett records this and other rough and ready tunes starting with,SAVE ME,HEY JUDE,BACK IN YOUR ARMS,TOE HOLD,NIGHT OWL,A MAN AND A HALF,SEARCH YOUR HEART,and Steppenwolf's,BORN TO BE WILD. Duane Allman takes the lead with a tight back up studio band and the Sweet Inspirations ,all for 'Wicked' Pickett as the gritty singer eases through each song on this short eleven song classic compilation called ,HEY JUDE - minus Mustang Sally and Midnight Hour, Wilson Pickett's,Hey Jude, stands tall on it's own will and power - people make the world,people like Wilson Pickett made the music. Atlantic records,1969,imported from Germany,good audio.

A Fantastic (if not the best) Pickett LP. Great Muscle Shoals musicians and recording. Not a bad song on the whole record. Also includes Duane Allman and Bobby Womack. A first rate late 60's soul lp!!!!!!

Indeed this is Duane Allman on some tracks including Hey Jude and Born to be Wild. When Eric Clapton was asked if he would mind id Allman stopped by the studio he was working at, Clapton responded, you mean the guy that plays the solo on Pickett's Hey Jude? And thus Derek and the Dominoes/Layla was born. Great licks on this album, unfortunately they are very limited and short lived, hence even they can become tedious after a decade or so. But one never gets tired of the emotion in his wailing.

frankly, i can't speak for the quality of this entire record becuase i've never heard it. of the individual songs, "man and a half" is a fine, perfectly serviceable number and "hey jude" is a geat take on the song, but neither of them really matter, not compared to what waits at the end of this album. "people make the world (what it is)" is certainly wilson pickett's most unjustly ignored song - try finding it listed on a standard greatest-hits package - but it's also one of the greatest soul songs ever recorded. the rest of this album could be recordings of cars being crushed into cubes and you would still get your money's worth. you could buy this, tape that single song and just listen to that and it would be worth it. better yet, go find a copy of the 45, which features "man and a half" on the a side. this will save you invaluable time because you can spend the time you would be wasting on the other songs appreciating the greatest soul sound ever set down on wax. and i say this not as a casual listener, but as an enormous fan of wilson pickett's music.

sadly, i only discovered today that wilson picket died january 19th, 2006, and i can only hope that in the future when his entire oeuvre is given the attention that it deserves this song will finally find its way into the lime-light. i can't think of any song so utterly perfect in its craftsmanship, so wrenching in its delivery, or so unshakeably, impossibly catchy as this one, and frankly i doubt we'll ever hear anything like it ever again now that mr. pickett is gone. i only wish i could have heard him sing it live.

Best Wilson Pickett album I've ever heard.
David Allman's guitar playing ain't bad either.
Buy it, you'll like it