Hi!
Jackie's daughter, Brenda, has written this book:
https://www.soulexpress.net/jackie_wilson.htm
Best regards
Heikki
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Hi!
Jackie's daughter, Brenda, has written this book:
https://www.soulexpress.net/jackie_wilson.htm
Best regards
Heikki
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 andQuote:
Originally Posted by arr&bee
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....
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 thinkingQuote:
Originally Posted by arr&bee
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...
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.
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....