Record #0762: You Better Know It / Never Go Away – JACKIE WILSON

Brunswick 55149 (original, Pinckneyville pressing) USA, August 1959
Words & Music by:  Side A – Jackie Wilson, Norm Henry; Side B – Don Wolf, Ben Raleigh
Musicians: Jackie Wilson (vocals), orchestra and chorus conducted by Dick Jacobs. The orchestra possibly included Al Caiola (guitar), Jerome Richardson (tenor sax), Dick Hyman (keyboards) and Don Lamond (drums) with others.
Recording sessions: New York, NY, in 1959
Highest chart positions:  US #37, US R&B #1

Wilson performed “You Better Know It” in “Go Johnny Go”, a 1959 movie, where the cast included also other artists like Chuck Berry, Eddie Cochran, Richie Valens and Jimmy Clanton. The Flamingos and the Cadillacs were also in the movie.

This was Wilson’s second #1 hit in US R&B.

The records made at Decca Records Pressing Plant in Pinckneyville, IL, are marked with a small diamond below the record number on the B-side (see the second photo). The pressings made at the Decca Plant in Gloversville, NY, have a small cross or a four-leaf clover in the same place. Pricewise they are the same.

List price:  Very Good+ is $10, Near Mint is $20