I remember seeing him a few times growing up; simply electric!
The last time was a couple of weeks before he died. It was in Denver at a mobbish, black club on Colfax Ave. He was overweight, but he still had the voice and a few of the old dance moves. The band was simply a guitar player, a bass player and a drummer; they were enough!
If he'd been white, Jackie Wilson might have been a most extraordinary opera singer, back there in the fifties.
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