Sunday, December 23, 2012

JACKIE WILSON - HIGHER AND HIGHER ( SOUL CLASSIC )

A little thin sounding here, looks and sounds like the old forty-five.  It's the original version though, always beware on the 'Tube of alternate takes and re-recordings. 

I'm including this to show that Black singers didn't always put a tear into an otherwise happy song.  Jackie, in this case, takes a very positive song and renders it ecstatic.  The whole production seems to float up off of the earth.  The tempo speeds up, I wonder if they planned that or if it just happened spontaneously. 

I try not to make a contest out of anything as important as art, but I honestly think that this is one of the five or ten greatest pop songs in the history of music. 

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