A new book about Jackie Wilson

[heikki]

Hi!

Jackie's daughter, Brenda, has written this book:

https://www.soulexpress.net/jackie_wilson.htm

Best regards
Heikki

[arr&bee]

What is she gonna say that hasn't been covered?

[splanky]

What is she gonna say that hasn't been covered?

Though I feel the same way as you do, Jai, I understand why she would do this and
why it means so much to her. After all, all controversy and darkness aside she is the
biological daughter of a legend. She wants that dot connection. I hope she finds at
least some comfort or compensation. That Tony Douglass book was a powder keg. I
didn't know it was pulled but I know thousands, if not millions of folks already had read
it, it circulated like crazy in New York's Public Library catalog. It's portrayal of Jackie
made Ike Turner look like a boy scout by comparison....

[arr&bee]

Didn't jackie die in [84]? Where has she been? Was she close to her dad? Or is this another-celebrity money grab?

[splanky]

Didn't jackie die in [84]? Where has she been? Was she close to her dad? Or is this another-celebrity money grab?

You know what, Jai? I think you may have hit the nail on the head. I first was thinking
of the kids from his two marriages in a vague sense. But they have all been documented.
How much time could Brenda even have spent with Jackie, what, 5 minutes if he was dropping off a check? O well, I had no plans to read the book anyway...

[NativeNuYorker]

I'd be much more interested in Bobby Brooks Wilson, who did not discover that Jackie was his father until he was an adult. His foster mother [[fostered over 400 children), how he impersonated his father before he discovered he was Jackie's son, how members of the 4 Tops introduced him to the fact that Jackie Wilson was indeed his father, etc. That's a bio I'd be interested in reading. It would also make a good movie.

[StuBass1]

In the late 70's, when I was with The Strides, our new managers from a newly formed company asked me to work with a girl group they had just formed, consisting of Jackie Wilsons two daughters [[Jacqueline and I believe Brenda) and another young girl... They were booked for a gig at a venue [[ I believe might have been Ken Bells Casino Royale) they were obviously not well prepared for, promoting the fact that they were Jackie WIlsons daughters. I did the gig playing an electric organ and leading the musicians [[I was hardly an organ player) and I recall their aunt [[I believe was Jackies sister) there and sort of supporting and trying to direct the girls. I didn't get the impression that Jackie was too much involved with them at the time, and heard years later that Jacqueline [[who was the spittin image of Jackie) had died an unfortunate death at a very young age. They were very nice young girls... I believe the author of this book is one of the daughters I worked with, and obviously has a story to tell...Thats about all I'd have to say about this now....