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4 unusual facts about Wilson Pickett


Erik Hassle

He grew up listening to soul music and realised his love of music early after listening to Wilson Pickett.

Jol Dantzig

His guitar and vocal work appears on recordings by Freddy Scott, Buddy Guy, Wilson Pickett, Frank Black, Jim Carrol and Shaw-Blades.

My Greatest Songs

# "Two Sides (To Every Story)" (Robert West, Willie Schofield, Wilson Pickett)

Zak Keith

He has held various stage-management positions on assignment for or performed as part of an opening act for, various artists, including Leif Garrett, Wilson Pickett, Isaac Hayes, Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson.


Autauga County, Alabama

Wilson Pickett, (1941-2006), born in Prattville, Alabama, American recording artist best known for singing In the Midnight Hour and Mustang Sally.

Samantha Sang

It peaked at #56 on the Hot 100, and was followed into the charts by her cover of Wilson Pickett's "In the Midnight Hour".

Twenty-Five Miles

The song was considered sufficiently similar to "32 Miles out of Waycross" by Hoagy Lands (also recorded as "Mojo Mama" by both Wilson Pickett and Don Varner), written by Bert Berns and Jerry Ragovoy, that Berns and Ragovoy were eventually given co-writing credits.


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