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Percy Sledge - 100% match to Jackie Wilson Powered by AudioScrobbler

Genres: Country & Bluegrass, R&B / Soul
Decades Active: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
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25 November 1941, Leighton, Alabama, USA. An informal, intimate singer, former hospital nurse Sledge led a popular campus attraction, the Esquires Combo, prior to his recording debut. Recommended to Quin Ivy, owner of the Norala Sound studio, Sledge arrived with a rudimentary.... Arrow Read more


Wilson Pickett - 83% match to Jackie Wilson Powered by AudioScrobbler

Genres: R&B / Soul
Decades Active: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
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18 March 1941, Prattville, Alabama, USA, d. 19 January 2006, Reston, Virginia, USA. The ‘wicked Pickett’ was one of the great southern soul singers to emerge during the 60s. Pickett moved to Detroit, Michigan in his early teens. He joined gospel group the Violinaires.... Arrow Read more


Carla Thomas - 79% match to Jackie Wilson Powered by AudioScrobbler

Genres: Pop / Rock, R&B / Soul
Decades Active: 1960s, 1970s, 1990s, 2000s
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21 December 1942, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. The daughter of Rufus Thomas, Carla first performed with the Teen Town Singers. ‘‘Cause I Love You’, a duet with her father, was released on Satellite (later Stax Records) in 1960, but the following year she established.... Arrow Read more


Sam Cooke - 79% match to Jackie Wilson Powered by AudioScrobbler

Genres: Christian & Gospel, Easy Listening, Pop / Rock, R&B / Soul
Decades Active: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
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Sam Cook, 22 January 1931, Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA, d. 11 December 1964, Los Angeles, California, USA. Reverend Charles Cook and his wife Annie May relocated his family to Chicago during the 30s. The devout young Sam Cook first performed publicly with his brother and two.... Arrow Read more


The Impressions - 79% match to Jackie Wilson Powered by AudioScrobbler

Genres: Holiday & Seasonal, R&B / Soul
Decades Active: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
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Formed in Chicago in 1957 and originally known as the Roosters, this group comprised Jerry Butler (8 December 1939, Sunflower, Mississippi, USA), Curtis Mayfield (b. 3 June 1942, Chicago, Illinois, USA, d. 26 December 1999), Sam Gooden (b. 2 September 1939, Chattanooga,.... Arrow Read more


The Four Tops - 77% match to Jackie Wilson Powered by AudioScrobbler

Genres: Holiday & Seasonal, Music Videos & Concerts, R&B / Soul
Decades Active: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
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Levi Stubbs (6 June 1936, Detroit, Michigan, USA), Renaldo ‘Obie’ Benson (b. 14 June 1936, Detroit, Michigan, USA, d. 1 July 2005, Detroit, Michigan, USA), Lawrence Payton (b. 2 June 1938, Detroit, Michigan, USA, d. 10 June 1997, USA) and Abdul ‘Duke’ Fakir.... Arrow Read more


Eddie Floyd - 76% match to Jackie Wilson Powered by AudioScrobbler

Genres: R&B / Soul
Decades Active: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
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25 June 1935, Montgomery, Alabama, USA. A founder member of the Detroit-based Falcons, Floyd was present on both their major hits, ‘You’re So Fine’ (1959) and ‘I Found A Love’ (1962). He then recorded solo for Lupine in Detroit and Safice in Washington,.... Arrow Read more


Clarence Carter - 75% match to Jackie Wilson Powered by AudioScrobbler

Genres: Blues, Pop / Rock, R&B / Soul
Decades Active: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
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14 January 1936, Montgomery, Alabama, USA. Carter’s earliest releases were as half of the duo Clarence And Calvin. Also known as the C And C Boys, the blind duo made seven singles, the last of which was recorded at Fame’s Muscle Shoals studio. When his partner, Calvin.... Arrow Read more


James Carr - 74% match to Jackie Wilson Powered by AudioScrobbler

Genres: R&B / Soul
Decades Active: 1960s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
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13 June 1942, Coahoma, Mississippi, USA, d. 7 January 2001, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Carr grew up in Memphis where he sang gospel in the Sunset Travellers and the Harmony Echoes and was discovered by Memphis gospel-group mentor Roosevelt Jamison. This budding manager and.... Arrow Read more


Sam & Dave - 73% match to Jackie Wilson Powered by AudioScrobbler

Genres: R&B / Soul
Decades Active: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
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Samuel David Moore (12 October 1935, Miami, Florida, USA) and David Prater (b. 9 May 1937, Ocilla, Georgia, USA, d. 9 April 1988). Sam And Dave first performed together in 1961 at Miami’s King Of Hearts club. Moore originally sang in his father’s Baptist church before.... Arrow Read more


The Elgins - 69% match to Jackie Wilson Powered by AudioScrobbler

Genres: R&B / Soul
Decades Active: 1960s, 1990s
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US-born Johnny Dawson, Cleo Miller and Robert Fleming, later replaced by Norbert McClean, sang together in three Detroit vocal groups in the late 50s, the Sensations, the Five Emeralds and the Downbeats. Under the last of these names, they recorded two singles for Motown Records.... Arrow Read more


Arthur Conley - 67% match to Jackie Wilson Powered by AudioScrobbler

Genres: R&B / Soul
Decades Active: 1960s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
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4 January 1946, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, d. 17 November 2003, Ruurlo, the Netherlands. Recalled as something of a one-hit-wonder, this Otis Redding protégé remains underrated. Conley first recorded for the Atlanta-based NRC label as Arthur And The Corvets. After.... Arrow Read more


Clyde McPhatter - 67% match to Jackie Wilson Powered by AudioScrobbler

Genres: Jazz, R&B / Soul
Decades Active: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
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Clyde Lensley McPhatter, 15 November 1932, Durham, North Carolina, USA, d. 13 June 1972, New York City, New York, USA. For three years, McPhatter was the lead singer in the seminal R&B vocal group Billy Ward And His Dominoes. He left in 1953 to form the Drifters, whose early.... Arrow Read more


Ike & Tina Turner - 66% match to Jackie Wilson Powered by AudioScrobbler

Genres: Funk, Pop / Rock, R&B / Soul
Decades Active: 1960s
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The Contours - 62% match to Jackie Wilson Powered by AudioScrobbler

Genres: Pop / Rock, R&B / Soul
Decades Active: 1960s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
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The Contours formed as an R&B vocal group in Detroit in 1959, featuring lead vocalist Billy Gordon, Billy Hoggs, Joe Billingslea and Sylvester Potts. Hubert Johnson (14 January 1941, d. 11 July 1981) joined the line-up in 1960, and it was his cousin Jackie Wilson who secured.... Arrow Read more


Jimmy Ruffin - 61% match to Jackie Wilson Powered by AudioScrobbler

Genres: R&B / Soul
Decades Active: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
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7 May 1939, Collinsville, Mississippi, USA. The son of a minister, Ruffin was born into a musical family: his brother, David Ruffin, and cousin, Melvin Franklin, both became mainstays of the Temptations. Ruffin abandoned his gospel background to become a session singer in the.... Arrow Read more


Ben E. King - 60% match to Jackie Wilson Powered by AudioScrobbler

Genres: Doo Wop, Easy Listening, Pop / Rock, R&B / Soul
Decades Active: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
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Benjamin Earl Nelson, 28 September 1938, Henderson, North Carolina, USA. King began his career while still a high-school student singing in a doo-wop group, the Four B’s. He later joined the Five Crowns who, in 1959, assumed the name the Drifters. King was the featured lead.... Arrow Read more


Jerry Butler - 59% match to Jackie Wilson Powered by AudioScrobbler

Genres: R&B / Soul
Decades Active: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
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8 December 1939, Sunflower, Mississippi, USA. Jerry, older brother of Billy Butler, moved to Chicago as a child and was later part of the city’s burgeoning gospel circuit. He subsequently joined several secular groups, including the Roosters, an aspiring trio of Sam Gooden.... Arrow Read more


William Bell - 58% match to Jackie Wilson Powered by AudioScrobbler

Genres: R&B / Soul
Decades Active: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
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William Yarborough, 16 July 1937, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Having recorded in 1957 as part of the Del Rios, Bell emerged on the fledgling Stax Records with ‘You Don’t Miss Your Water’ (1961), a cornerstone in the development of country R&B. Military service.... Arrow Read more


Johnnie Taylor - 57% match to Jackie Wilson Powered by AudioScrobbler

Genres: R&B / Soul
Decades Active: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
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5 May 1938, Crawfordsville, Arkansas, USA, d. 31 May 2000, Dallas, Texas, USA. Having left home at the age of 15, Taylor surfaced as part of several gospel groups, including the Five Echoes and the Highway QCs. In 1956 he joined the Soul Stirrers, replacing Sam Cooke on the.... Arrow Read more



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