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Video: Sad Story of Jackie Wilson

JazzWax by Marc Myers Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

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Want a sense of just how ugly and predatory the record industry could be in the 1960s, especially the smaller labels? Dig how Jackie Wilson went from being one of the biggest-selling and highly influential soul artists of his generation to penniless and incapacitated in the 1970s. Here's an ABC 20/20 segment on Wilson from the 1990s...

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