Sunday, August 04, 2024

Record #0763: Night / Doggin’ Around – JACKIE WILSON

Brunswick 55166 (original, Gloversville pressing) USA, March 1960
Words & Music by:  Side A – Johnny Lehman, Herb Miller; Side B – Lena Agree
Musicians: Jackie Wilson (vocals), orchestra and chorus conducted by Dick Jacobs. The orchestra possibly included Al Caiola (guitar), Jerome Richardson (tenor sax), Dick Hyman (piano) and Don Lamond (drums) with others.
Recording sessions: New York, NY, in 1960
Highest chart positions:  Side A - US #4, US R&B #3; Side B - US #15, US R&B #1

“Night” was Wilson’s highest entry in the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. It was also included on his 1960 album “A Woman, a Lover, a Friend”, which didn’t hit the album charts. The flip appeared on Wilson’s album “Jackie Sings the Blues” the same year. No chart success with that LP either.

Side A co-writer Herb Miller was Glenn Miller’s brother.

The pressings made at the Decca Plant in Gloversville, NY, have a small cross or a four-leaf clover below the record number on the B-side (see the second photo).

List price:  Very Good + is $7,50, Near Mint is $15; maroon label (first pressing) VG+ $20, NM $40; black label with colour-bar arrow (60’s re-issue) VG+ $5, NM $10; picture sleeve VG+ $25, NM $50



 

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