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A 1973 recording of the song by Al Wilson reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for one week on January 19, 1974; it sold over two million copies and was named a Cash Box #1 Single of the Year. Billboard ranked it as the #15 song for 1974. [5] Wilson's version also made #10 on the Hot Soul Singles chart.
In 2009 the John Wilson Orchestra played their debut Prom, A Celebration of MGM Film Musicals. John Wilson's restored arrangements and the performance both received critical acclaim. [14] The soloists were Sarah Fox, Sir Thomas Allen, Kim Criswell, Curtis Stigers and Seth MacFarlane. The BBC released a DVD of the concert. This concert was also ...
Wilson disappeared from the music industry until 1973, when he released his major hit, "Show And Tell", written and produced by Jerry Fuller, the man behind the run of hit singles by Gary Puckett & The Union Gap in the late 1960s. Topping the Hot 100, the song on the Rocky Road label, owned by his manager, Marc Gordon, also reached number 10 in ...
Johnson continued to write songs for other artists throughout the 70s including Sparkle star Lonette McKee, Tata Vega and Deniece Williams. In 1978 he recorded his debut solo album, Peaceful which he co-produced, as well as arranging and co-writing, for a small label, Marina, part-owned by former singer, Lloyd Price.
In 2004 Wilson was appointed the music director for the Hollywood feature film Beyond the Sea, a biopic of the life of Bobby Darin starring Kevin Spacey.In 2007 he conducted the BBC Concert Orchestra in a BBC Proms concert of British film music, followed in 2009 by conducting his own John Wilson Orchestra in their Proms debut, a celebration of MGM Musicals, and made a further appearance in the ...
Wilson worked with mostly the same team as her debut, with the album being produced by John Rich, Wilson, and Mark Wright. When it was released, All Jacked Up received positive reviews from music critics but many felt that Wilson was trying "way too hard" to replicate the success of Here for the Party .
Lainey Wilson, The War and Treaty, Kane Brown, Kacey Musgraves, Alanis Morissette, Post Malone, John Legend, and Lana Del Ray will perform, and viewers will be treated to behind-the-scenes access ...
"All Jacked Up" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Gretchen Wilson. The song was released to country radio on August 1, 2005, by Epic Records Nashville as the lead single from Wilson's album All Jacked Up. She wrote the song with John Rich and Vicky McGehee. Wilson, Rich and Mark Wright produced the song.