I DON’T WANT TO CRY - Wand USA, Top Rank UK, 1962
ANY DAY NOW Wand USA, Stateside UK 1962
Good Things Come To Those Who Wait
TELL HER I'M NOT HOME
Chains Of Love
Hand It Over – 1965
Chuck Jackson released two superb
soul ballads. Today they are highly prized and sought after as collector’s items.
So too is
Something You Got-
a duet with
Maxine Brown.
Any Day Now was a massive number constantly played at the
Twisted Wheel and the
Manchester Blue Note
Club, particularly towards the end of a session. They illustrate well that the
original soul scene in Manchester was not confined to constant wall to wall
dance numbers.
Chuck Jackson a great soul star was born: June 22, 1937,
Latta, SC and was discovered for Manchester soul fans by the Twisted Wheel DJ
Roger Eagle in the sixties.
1957/8 Chuck Jackson was singing with doo wop groups and with the
Dell-Vikings.
1959 sang with the
Jackie Wilson Review and was singed to
Sceptre.
1962 released
Don't Want to Cry,
Any Day
Now, and
Tell Him I'm Not Home.
Bacharach-David were writing for
Dionne Warwick at Sceptre;
they wrote
Any Day Now and
I Keep Forgettin' (1962), was written
and produced by Leiber-Stoller.
1965 he did a string of great duets with Maxine Brown.
1967 he left for
Motown but he had
no chart success there.
1971 left Motown for ABC, where he had a minor hit with
I Only Get This Feeling, in 1973.
1973 All-Platinum in 1975, with
I'm Wanting You, I'm
Needing You .
1980, he joined EMI America, where he sang on two Gary
U.S. Bonds albums.
1989 as an ex-Motown artist he signed to
Ian Levine's Motor
City and did two singles.
1992 recorded an album with
Cissy Houston.
