Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Wilson Pickett recorded "In the Midnight Hour" at Stax Studios, Memphis, May 12, 1965.The song's co-writer Steve Cropper recalls: "[Atlantic Records president] Jerry Wexler said he was going to bring down this great singer Wilson Pickett" to record at Stax Studio where Cropper was a session guitarist" and I didn’t know what groups he'd been in or whatever.
In the Midnight Hour: 107 3 Atlantic SD-8114 1966 The Exciting Wilson Pickett: 21 3 Atlantic SD-8129 1967 The Wicked Pickett: 42 5 Atlantic SD-8138 The Sound of Wilson Pickett: 54 7 Atlantic SD-8145 1968 I'm in Love: 70 9 Atlantic SD-8175 The Midnight Mover: 91 10 Atlantic SD-8183 1969 Hey Jude: 97 15 Atlantic SD-8215 1970 Right On: 197 36 ...
The Exciting Wilson Pickett launched four crossover hit singles. "In the Midnight Hour" reached No. 1 on the Billboard R&B singles chart and No. 21 on the pop singles chart."Land of a Thousand Dances" reached No. 1 and No. 6 respectively, his biggest pop hit.
The Midnight Hour is a 1985 American made-for-television comedy horror film directed by Jack Bender and starring Shari Belafonte-Harper, LeVar Burton, Peter DeLuise, and Dedee Pfeiffer. Its plot focuses on a small New England town that becomes overrun with zombies, witches, vampires, and all the other demons of hell after a group of teenagers ...
But it was in the Bluff City where Pickett would reel off a string of classic sides — “In the Midnight Hour,” “634-5789” and “Don’t Fight It” — that would really make his reputation.
Wilson Pickett "In the Midnight Hour" May 12, 1965 21 1 12 date is date recorded Wilson Pickett "634-5789 (Soulsville, U.S.A.)" December 20, 1965 13 1 36
Tina Turner recorded a live version of the track in 1986 as part of a segment in her Break Every Rule TV special, in which she interpreted classic soul songs with guitarist and singer Robert Cray, including "634-5789", Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come" and Wilson Pickett's "Land of a Thousand Dances" and "In the Midnight Hour".
Thereafter, the group released a self-titled album on the Atco Records label, featuring a top 40 cover of Wilson Pickett's "In the Midnight Hour". [1] The Cross Country version is altogether different from Pickett's 1965 soul hit.