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"Reet Petite (The Sweetest Girl in Town)" (originally subtitled "The Finest Girl You Ever Want to Meet") is a song written by Berry Gordy, Billy Davis, and Gwen Gordy Fuqua, and made popular by Jackie Wilson in his 1957 recording for the Brunswick label.
Reet, Petite, and Gone is a 1947 American musical race film produced and released by Astor Pictures. It was the second of three feature films produced and directed by short-subject director William Forest Crouch starring singer and bandleader Louis Jordan .
Wilson's first single was released, "Reet Petite" (from his first album He's So Fine), which became a modest R&B success (many years later, an international smash hit). "Reet Petite" was co-written by future Motown Records founder Berry Gordy Jr. (another former boxer who was a native son of Detroit), [ 16 ] with partner Roquel "Billy" Davis ...
"Reet Petite" Jackie Wilson: Tyran Carlo: 62 - 6 1979: Darts, #51 UK 1986: Jackie Wilson, #1 UK (reissue) 1958 "To Be Loved'" Jackie Wilson Gwen Gordy, Tyran Carlo ...
EP. "Reet Petite" was not released in Australia until November when it appeared as a double A-sided single. [3] [4] B. ^ "Do the Blue Beat" was originally released on Viking Records by Dinah Lee in September 1964. It was released in Australia on HMV, as a double-A-sided single with "Reet Petite" in November.
Both the music and lyrics are inspired by rhythm and blues singer Jackie Wilson and his song "Reet Petite", which is directly quoted in the song. "Jackie Wilson Said" was covered by Dexys Midnight Runners on their album Too-Rye-Ay and reached number five on the UK Singles Chart when released in 1982. It has also been covered by several other ...
The two also wrote "Reet Petite (The Finest Girl You Ever Want to Meet)" for Wilson, which was a top 10 hit for the singer in the UK and later topped the British charts in 1986 when re-released. Another success for the two was Marv Johnson 's major hit in 1959, " You Got What It Takes " (#2 R&B, No. 10 Pop), as the two continued to work together.
William Forest Crouch (January 16, 1904 – March 1968) was an American motion picture producer, director, writer, and film editor of the 1940s. He is best known for his Soundies musicals filmed for coin-operated movie jukeboxes, and for a few musical features with all-African-American casts, such as Reet, Petite, and Gone (1947).