I HAD THE GREAT PLEASURE OF WITNESSING JJ JACKSON SITTING AT THE PIANO IN THE LIVING ROOM OF HIS APARTMENT (in Reseda California) ALONG WITH MY FRIEND KEVIN (who took me there and introduced me to him) ; WHILE HE PLAYED AND PERFORMED " BUT IT'S ALRIGHT " FOR THE 2 OF US. FROM THAT MEETING, WE BECAME VERY GOOD FRIENDS . HE WAS GENUINE , SOFT SPOKEN AND VERY HUMBLE . RIP MY AWESOME BROTHER .
@@oprin10 Another friend whom was introduced to me by JJ informed me that He ( JJ ) had passed away about 2 years ago. I relocated from Calif several year ago. I guess I just took his word to be factual knowledge. I hope he is still with us . Going to check with some other people that knows him. He was always so full of love. Thanks for this contact. God Bless. First met JJ in his own Apartment.
@@coolsweetgroovy No. JJ Jackson ( the man in above Video ) was my very close friend and neighbor , hung out together , sometimes we played some music . I just moved far away ,lost touch, and someone mentioned that he had passed away . I am not wrong . The last time That I heard from him , He had just landed himself an AT&T tv commercial .
I was a teenager when he appeared on Where The Action Is. It was filmed at my hometown of Rosamond CA. This was in 1966. I will be 70 this year but this seems like yesterday.
"Where the Action Is" was a TV show which aired daily right after school. I always watched it to see and hear the new songs and performers. Dick Clark produced it and he also had this giant bus tour of stars perform concerts at various places. I was 16 years old in 1966 and I had the opportunity to see one of these concerts which showed several different groups and individual artists at one low price. All of them were wonderful. Dick Clark was the original pioneer of advancing rock & roll to the new generation of baby boomers. These were wonderful times for me. Although I didn't get to see JJ Jackson, I do remember watching this episode and I've always loved him performing this song. I still have the record! I wouldn't trade the timing and location of my youth for anything. The young people of today don't know what they are missing, especially the love and positive atmosphere of all the music back then. Today's music is not from the heart like the music of the 50's, 60's and early 70's. Thank you for this video!
Yep, this joint was the jam by October, 67. It was so popular that I connected with a beautiful girl named Monica Rivers. She was seated in a sort of corner of the basement at Barbara Atwell's bday party. I had just finished dancing to "It's Alright" and immediately afterward I spotted Monica Rivers and I was like "wow - who is that"? Monica Rivers I was told. She was 2 years older than me but I didn't care cause I was always looking at older girls. One year later her mom was my 5th grade teacher: Willie B. Rivers. Turned out I would be one of Mrs. Rivers' favorite students too and it's where I first heard the phrase "teacher's pet." Sweet Memories.
I remember when he was the main lead singer of the Cordials, a South Bronx group "Keep an Eye" b/w "Dawn is almost Here" sung by Tito as lead. I sang with Larry and the Standards, "Where is She" We were like rival groups from the same neighborhood.
@@larryhinze2557 At least he could move . I seen people with my own eyes individuals his size embarrassed people who are defined as average or of a slender build on the dance floor . Singer Cheryl Lynn moved gracefully when she performed.
@@t.d.barnwell7270 He was more of a songwriter than a singer, you often see his name (along with Sidney Barnes) on old soul 45s. This song came out on Calla (NY label) but strangely it was said to have been recorded in the UK.
@57dogsbody Thanks for your reply. There are just so many one-hit singers that have vanished and not much is known about them. But thanks for conscientious consumers like you and for UA-cam ...a great resource.
Awesome! The era of the 60's music, styles, and dances. I was a child then but I remembered the music, how excellent these artists were with producing and singing their songs.It was an exciting time to grow up in the 60's. There will never be another time period like the 60's . So many fabulous music hits of that time era. 🙂
This guy used to come to my house on Freeman Street, Bronx, New York. I lived in the Morrisania / Hunts Point section of The Bronx. Many jazz musicians came out of / lived there, including Thelonus Monk, T.S. Monk ( his son), Maxine Sullivan, Jimmy Owens...
I was about 14 when I played bass for him at a show at Howard University. JJ needed a band and my brother (a student at HU and a guitarist) recruited me to play bass, and a fellow student to play drums. He was a really nice guy.
I loved and still love him, great voice, talent and song! Will remember him performing this song on Swinging time show in Detroit the best times of my life in the 60s ! I would give all my tomorrows for a single yesterday in the 50s and 60s. Love the handsome big dude who could really move. One of my favorite all time songs!
How can I be first to like this after 150K views? Great rare footage of a classic soul/R&B hit. Plus, you have real girls dancing in real mini skirts backing up JJ.
Man what a great song. If you ain't moving after this, you ain't movin! Thanks JJ great video, want to do this at Karaoke next time. They don't write them like they used to.
This is sad. This NOT the real JJ Jackson dancing in this video. (The music IS the real JJ's music) This man impersonated JJ Jackson for most of the real JJ Jackson's career. I know because the real JJ Jackson is my grandfather. In those days it was easy to impersonate someone because black artists photos often were not widely distributed. My grandfather knows about this man but footage like this as well as album covers this man made still exist and even on Wikipedia this man's photo is shown - as well as this man's bio. The real JJ is still alive and performing small gigs. Is originally from Columbia Missouri. This song was written about my grandmother, his ex-wife - my mother's mother. On a side note, though now in their 70's he still tries to call her and woo her back LOL.
WHOA!! This guy got on TV pretending to be him?? Where was JJ and what did he do when he found out about it?? I've seen a clip of this in promotions of oldie songs and was truly excited when I typed it in and saw it posted! Now this?? Please respond! It's one of the few songs that makes me happy from that era! Hold up!! He looks like the man on the cover though!!
A.G Alexander, the guy singing and dancing IS THE REAL JJ! Natasha Brown has been duped by the impostor who wears a hat, and calls himself JJ Jackson. I worked with JJ while he served in the military in UK, and I was one of the musicians on " Greatest little Soulband" The guy in the video, JJ, wrote that song!!! JJ was always a big chubby, happy, nice guy!
Ha! That is too funny. Choose to believe what you like. Unfortunately it sounds like this guy was actually the one who got duped by an imposter. I'm not here to argue w/ anyone but to set the record straight about my grandfather's legacy - which is NOT the man dancing in the video. My grandfather was in fact in the military and did serve overseas and was the man who authored and performed this piece of music along with countless other less-known pieces, but he is NOT the man lip syncing in the video. I can't speak anything about the guy in the video as I don't know him. But what I do know is that I have heard my grandfather sing these songs to me with THAT voice live and in person with NO equipment since I was a child and have spoken to countless relatives and classmates from his hometown who will tell you in a heartbeat who he is and how he left his hometown for California to become the singer he was and still is. It's ok if he wants to believe the guy he knew was not the imposter. He's free to believe what he likes as are the rest of you reading. That doesn't change what I know to be fact. Again not here to argue but to set the record straight for those who are interested in the real man behind the music. And that is William June Jackson - aka JJ Jackson. Love.
Natasha, I'm afraid you've been misled. I knew the producer of this classic, the late Lew Futterman. Also interviewed Sidney Barnes, who was a colleague of J.J. Jackson. Both men had verified to me that the performer in the video here is the real deal. I know you'd like to set the record straight but many of the folks "who were there" are still here to verify otherwise. I wish you continued luck. Best, Kevin Goins
As noted above, on this day in 1966 {November 30th} J.J. Jackson performed "But It's Alright" on the Dick Clark produced ABC-TV weekday-afternoon program, 'Where The Action Is'... At the time the song was at #27 on Billboard's Top 100 chart, the following week it would peak at #22 {for 1 week} and it spent thirteen weeks on the Top 100... It reached #4 on Billboard's Top Selling R&B Singles chart... Three years later in 1969 "But It's Alright" re-entered the Top 100, that time around it would peak at #45 and stayed on the Top 100 for ten weeks... Besides "But It's Alright", he had one other Top 100 record, "I Dig Girls", it would reach #83 on the chart in 1967... J.J. Jackson, born Jerome Louis Jackson, will celebrate his 77th birthday come next April 8th {2018}...
SENSATIONAL! The Original Soul Brother! Luv how he does the "Skate" I especially like the ending of his song when he says "You hurt me once, you hurt me twice, ooh little baby that don't cut no ice." Great lyrics! LOL!
I think high school when I hear this, we use to dance like the people in the video at a place called Johnny's in Custer Michigan on Saturday nights where all our school would congregate and dance,I miss the good old days and the nieve innocense we had, but most of all the great music we had.
Myself, I remember all the dances and the songs, hearing the songs and seeing the dances on America Bandstand, HI-Lit, (Swinging Time, The Scene From Michigan) and Soul Train. The good ole days.💃🗣👠
'You don't know how I feel You'll never know how I feel When I needed you to come around You always try to bring me down Oh, but I know, girl, believe me when I say that You are surely, surely gonna pay, girl But it's all right all right girl You can hurt me but it's all right Hey now, one day ah, you will see You'll never find a guy like me Who'll love you right both day and night You'll never have to worry 'cause it's all uptight Oh, but I'm tellin' you girl and I know it's true That I was made to love only you But it's all right, all right girl You can hurt me, but it's all right Go on, yeah Oh, oh, yeah My my my baby, wow, yeah But it's all right all right girl Hey, say it's all right all right girl Now there's one thing I wanna say, hey, yeah You'll meet a guy who'll make you pay He'll treat you bad and make you sad And you will lose the love you had Oh, but I hate to say I told you so, but Baby, you gotta gotta reap what you sow But it's all right all right girl You are payin' now, but it's all right So goodbye, now, goodbye, girl You're payin' now, say bye-bye You hurt me once, you hurt me twice Oh, but-a baby, that don't cut no ice Hey, goodbye, baby' ; 7 ]
The used another Clip of JJ Jackson Singing "Summertime" in a Documentary about Elton John. While he was still making his bones in Bluesology, a lot of American R & B Singers came to perform which included him but Patti Labelle & The Bluebelles after Cindy Birdsong left to join the Supremes in 1967. Elton loved his Voice. He go to work and meet a lot of them.
Back in the day every time I smoked a good Super-Kool, or some good Cucuy Dust, this song played over and over in my head. When I wasn't high I couldn't remember the name of this song for the life of me. I been clean/sober for over 20 years. Today when I hear this song It brings back memories of those crazy days.
Jerry Lynn Stapleton when the one with the ponytail and the ribbon on the top of her head she was my favorite dancer and I wish they'd put it back on television❤❤❤❤
The Spinners were also good at performing in Suits in Hot Weather as well as the Original Five Stairsteps. Him and Billy Stewart (Summertime) were very popular. In fact Billy and The Bluebelles did a Tour in Europe where Elton John was making his Bones in Bluesology.
I HAD THE GREAT PLEASURE OF WITNESSING JJ JACKSON SITTING AT THE PIANO IN THE LIVING ROOM OF HIS APARTMENT (in Reseda California) ALONG WITH MY FRIEND KEVIN (who took me there and introduced me to him) ; WHILE HE PLAYED AND PERFORMED " BUT IT'S ALRIGHT " FOR THE 2 OF US. FROM THAT MEETING, WE BECAME VERY GOOD FRIENDS . HE WAS GENUINE , SOFT SPOKEN AND VERY HUMBLE . RIP MY AWESOME BROTHER .
He's still alive I thought? Or did you mean your friend Kevin?
@@oprin10 Another friend whom was introduced to me by JJ informed me that He ( JJ ) had passed away about 2 years ago. I relocated from Calif several year ago. I guess I just took his word to be factual knowledge. I hope he is still with us . Going to check with some other people that knows him. He was always so full of love. Thanks for this contact. God Bless. First met JJ in his own Apartment.
Wrong JJ you're thinking of the MTV VJ This JJ is still alive
@@coolsweetgroovy No. JJ Jackson ( the man in above Video ) was my very close friend and neighbor , hung out together , sometimes we played some music . I just moved far away ,lost touch, and someone mentioned that he had passed away . I am not wrong . The last time That I heard from him , He had just landed himself an AT&T tv commercial .
@@johnsummers385 No he's still alive & well google him it's the other JJ Jackson that passed away
Still listening to this in 2023. ❤
2025. I had the forty-five and played it until kingdom comes.
Big Man got moves - and it's clear this guy was thoroughly underrated.
mark williams you are so right. Still listening. Some songs never get old.
True
Completely agree
Love this man
Yes he has
Love me some J.J. Jackson
I’ve been listening to this great track for over 50 years and had never seen any footage of him before. A true classic!
Same here! I was shocked to see this!
I was there, one of the kids in the background. Filmed at Tropico Gold Mine in California.
Anyone remember the name of the dance the girls were doing?
Nice to finally be able to put a face to this great song that I've heard a thousand times.
mrstep2me I know right, I forgot the movie that plays this song
Me too. After about what fifty years.
I listened to this song in memory of my big Brother who passed away 3days ago, he loved this song.....R.I.J. my precious Brother I love you Man. ❤
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I was a teenager when he appeared on Where The Action Is. It was filmed at my hometown of Rosamond CA. This was in 1966. I will be 70 this year but this seems like yesterday.
I was there in the background that day. They did other songs too, but haven't been able to find the videos.
"Where the Action Is" was a TV show which aired daily right after school. I always watched it to see and hear the new songs and performers. Dick Clark produced it and he also had this giant bus tour of stars perform concerts at various places. I was 16 years old in 1966 and I had the opportunity to see one of these concerts which showed several different groups and individual artists at one low price. All of them were wonderful.
Dick Clark was the original pioneer of advancing rock & roll to the new generation of baby boomers. These were wonderful times for me.
Although I didn't get to see JJ Jackson, I do remember watching this episode and I've always loved him performing this song. I still have the record!
I wouldn't trade the timing and location of my youth for anything. The young people of today don't know what they are missing, especially the love and positive atmosphere of all the music back then. Today's music is not from the heart like the music of the 50's, 60's and early 70's.
Thank you for this video!
Yep, this joint was the jam by October, 67. It was so popular that I connected with a beautiful girl named Monica Rivers. She was seated in a sort of corner of the basement at Barbara Atwell's bday party. I had just finished dancing to "It's Alright" and immediately afterward I spotted Monica Rivers and I was like "wow - who is that"? Monica Rivers I was told. She was 2 years older than me but I didn't care cause I was always looking at older girls. One year later her mom was my 5th grade teacher: Willie B. Rivers. Turned out I would be one of Mrs. Rivers' favorite students too and it's where I first heard the phrase "teacher's pet." Sweet Memories.
I love this guy's moves. He's having so much fun.
This song holds up so well. You can jump up and dance to it decades later.
JJ starts hard, never let's up and walks it home.
Classic stuff.
WOW... way, way, way... KOOL As a 64 year old youngster in 2020, this brings back memories.. Excellent... Love it...
Love his voice. He's great!
I would give anything to be there
I remember when he was the main lead singer of the Cordials, a South Bronx group "Keep an Eye" b/w "Dawn is almost Here" sung by Tito as lead. I sang with Larry and the Standards, "Where is She" We were like rival groups from the same neighborhood.
JJ was also a great songwriter. If you look you'll see his name (often with Sidney Barnes) on lots of great soul/ R&B records. Top Man.
I've heard this song a thousand times and had absolutely no idea what J.J. Jackson looked like. Thanks for posting...fun to see!
When this song came out, the radio station in DC, WOL AM, was playing a game call "name it and claim it" and I won this record!!❤
I remember that show. I won some music there too. Best times ever🎉
I loved listening to WOL. I used to say I’m a do man. I was white teenager in the suburbs.
Sweet memories. Glad I've lived through the best music in our history🙏❤.
One of the most motivating songs ever written....hard not to rock it
One of my favorite songs to dance to and 50+ years later it still makes me want to dance! 😉👍💖
Cleo. I fill the same way everyone I hear this song makes me want to dance.
Same , gotta get up and dance to JJ’s It’s Allright! I was 14 and we were poor but somehow mom got me the GoGo boots.
Me too. I love to DJ with this in Cambridge and probably will be this evening!
Fantastic clip - didn't know J J could move so well....and in a suit on a hot beach! Cool.
He looks like he is a heart attack away from a heart attack.
I know right
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At least he could move . I seen people with my own eyes individuals his size embarrassed people who are defined as average or of a slender build on the dance floor . Singer Cheryl Lynn moved gracefully when she performed.
@@blacklightning1771 He was a BELTER. Nobody will ever do that song better. Not even Huey did a better job.
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My first time seeing the singer of this song, better late than never. 📻
I wish they showed pictures of the band because my uncle Bobby Mayo was the bassist :(
Really. WOW!. Does he ever talk about this song.
Anyone knows anything about J.J, where he was from etc? Please respond.
@@t.d.barnwell7270 He was more of a songwriter than a singer, you often see his name (along with Sidney Barnes) on old soul 45s. This song came out on Calla (NY label) but strangely it was said to have been recorded in the UK.
@57dogsbody Thanks for your reply. There are just so many one-hit singers that have vanished and not much is known about them. But thanks for conscientious consumers like you and for UA-cam ...a great resource.
Salute..Your Uncle was Fonky..🙏
I've always loved this song. What great music back then.
Awesome! The era of the 60's music, styles, and dances. I was a child then but I remembered the music, how excellent these artists were with producing and singing their songs.It was an exciting time to grow up in the 60's. There will never be another time period like the 60's . So many fabulous music hits of that time era. 🙂
thank god and mr jackson for this song--who can grow old listening to this---i have heard iy for 48 years and i still feel happy when i hear. thanks
charles lytle you’ve said exactly what I feel.
Right On
Awesome video. I love JJ Jackson & this song. Still dancing to it today & I'm 61...
This guy used to come to my house on Freeman Street, Bronx, New York. I lived in the Morrisania / Hunts Point section of The Bronx. Many jazz musicians came out of / lived there, including Thelonus Monk, T.S. Monk ( his son), Maxine Sullivan, Jimmy Owens...
Hi Breach!!-- I worked that area, remember the jazz guys house on ridder st opposite the school off prospect ave?-- let me know please
FanTastic clip and song. I grew up on this song.. Damn this makes me feel old and good at the same time. lol Good stuff.
I had to subscribe. I'm sitting in my chair, next thing I know, my feet are tapping, then I'm groovin' in my chair. Thank you.
I love the action kids and where the action program I wish I could put it back on Jerry Lynn Stapleton was my favorite dancer❤
Saw him at the Regal theater in Chicago
One of my favorite songs ever....Thank you for posting.
I love this song! Grew up hearing it played and never knew the artist! 💃🏾 looks like he had such a good time here!
This man defines the phrase 'stage presence'
67 years old,loved this song then and I still love it, thanks 😎🌷
Love those Go-Go Boots dancing in the dirt!
1966 when miniskirts first came into fashion in the United States…. Love it
Sweet upload! Pretty amazing. So cool that this footage is still around. I was told this is Carolinas beach music.
I just love these "Where The Action Is" clips!!!!!! Love your channel!
mosogotam Thankyou so much for that kind comment...love yours also :-)
ILMJXXX Well, thank you a lot!!! Actually, I'm always surprised by the unusual clips and songs you post...I look forward to your posting!
I remember hearing this in The Movie Lackawanna Blues with Terence Howard and S. Epatha Merkeson. If you can watch it. It's a fantastic Movie.
Yes I vaguely remember ‘Where The Action Is’. I believe I remember this was only on during summer months. Dick Clark hosted.
Mosogatam Do you remember the song Where the Action Is which was the theme song of the show and who made it?
J J JACKSON laying it down!!!.getting it done!!...
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Love love love this clip of JJ Jackson performing this classic song. 🙏🏾🤎
I was about 14 when I played bass for him at a show at Howard University. JJ needed a band and my brother (a student at HU and a guitarist) recruited me to play bass, and a fellow student to play drums. He was a really nice guy.
Some people have disputed that this is JJ. Can you confirm? He seems like a gentle man. Thanks
@@jimbradley5926 That looks like him. IIRC he was a bit heavier when I met him though.
He is fabulous. Love this. Timeless
Thanks for posting this. Remember it well.
I loved and still love him, great voice, talent and song! Will remember him performing this song on Swinging time show in Detroit the best times of my life in the 60s ! I would give all my tomorrows for a single yesterday in the 50s and 60s. Love the handsome big dude who could really move. One of my favorite all time songs!
Great, great tune. This video is quite unique, pretty hilarious, and brings back those times with the groovy times a blazin. . .
I could literally sing this song all day lol. Love it, awesome rare footage.
Love this guy and the song he sure got the groove going on
I love this song and I love this video.
Great video and love these and all the 60s supporting dancers for R&B singers and groups in those days.
That is absolutely ICONIC. Total Classic! Love this song.
How can I be first to like this after 150K views? Great rare footage of a classic soul/R&B hit. Plus, you have real girls dancing in real mini skirts backing up JJ.
Love this song. I remember I bought this record on my 18th birthday.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Man what a great song. If you ain't moving after this, you ain't movin! Thanks JJ great video, want to do this at Karaoke next time. They don't write them like they used to.
Fantastic recording artist!
lise-he was great-a time when people had character y meaning
Big Man JJ had some moves….
Used to use all my change for the jukebox and played and danced to this song over and over! What a wonderful memory back in the day!!
This is sad. This NOT the real JJ Jackson dancing in this video. (The music IS the real JJ's music) This man impersonated JJ Jackson for most of the real JJ Jackson's career. I know because the real JJ Jackson is my grandfather. In those days it was easy to impersonate someone because black artists photos often were not widely distributed. My grandfather knows about this man but footage like this as well as album covers this man made still exist and even on Wikipedia this man's photo is shown - as well as this man's bio. The real JJ is still alive and performing small gigs. Is originally from Columbia Missouri. This song was written about my grandmother, his ex-wife - my mother's mother. On a side note, though now in their 70's he still tries to call her and woo her back LOL.
WHOA!! This guy got on TV pretending to be him?? Where was JJ and what did he do when he found out about it?? I've seen a clip of this in promotions of oldie songs and was truly excited when I typed it in and saw it posted! Now this?? Please respond! It's one of the few songs that makes me happy from that era! Hold up!! He looks like the man on the cover though!!
A.G Alexander, the guy singing and dancing IS THE REAL JJ! Natasha Brown has been duped by the impostor who wears a hat, and calls himself JJ Jackson. I worked with JJ while he served in the military in UK, and I was one of the musicians on " Greatest little Soulband" The guy in the video, JJ, wrote that song!!! JJ was always a big chubby, happy, nice guy!
Ha! That is too funny. Choose to believe what you like. Unfortunately it sounds like this guy was actually the one who got duped by an imposter. I'm not here to argue w/ anyone but to set the record straight about my grandfather's legacy - which is NOT the man dancing in the video. My grandfather was in fact in the military and did serve overseas and was the man who authored and performed this piece of music along with countless other less-known pieces, but he is NOT the man lip syncing in the video. I can't speak anything about the guy in the video as I don't know him. But what I do know is that I have heard my grandfather sing these songs to me with THAT voice live and in person with NO equipment since I was a child and have spoken to countless relatives and classmates from his hometown who will tell you in a heartbeat who he is and how he left his hometown for California to become the singer he was and still is. It's ok if he wants to believe the guy he knew was not the imposter. He's free to believe what he likes as are the rest of you reading. That doesn't change what I know to be fact. Again not here to argue but to set the record straight for those who are interested in the real man behind the music. And that is William June Jackson - aka JJ Jackson. Love.
Natasha, I'm afraid you've been misled. I knew the producer of this classic, the late Lew Futterman. Also interviewed Sidney Barnes, who was a colleague of J.J. Jackson. Both men had verified to me that the performer in the video here is the real deal. I know you'd like to set the record straight but many of the folks "who were there" are still here to verify otherwise. I wish you continued luck.
Best,
Kevin Goins
I know the real JJ Jackson. He is now living in Threr Rivers California. He plays at a restaurant called The Gateway.
J J's dance was called the SKATE back in 68.
Cool song sure brings back memories!!!!
FANTASTIC !
As noted above, on this day in 1966 {November 30th} J.J. Jackson performed "But It's Alright" on the Dick Clark produced ABC-TV weekday-afternoon program, 'Where The Action Is'...
At the time the song was at #27 on Billboard's Top 100 chart, the following week it would peak at #22 {for 1 week} and it spent thirteen weeks on the Top 100...
It reached #4 on Billboard's Top Selling R&B Singles chart...
Three years later in 1969 "But It's Alright" re-entered the Top 100, that time around it would peak at #45 and stayed on the Top 100 for ten weeks...
Besides "But It's Alright", he had one other Top 100 record, "I Dig Girls", it would reach #83 on the chart in 1967...
J.J. Jackson, born Jerome Louis Jackson, will celebrate his 77th birthday come next April 8th {2018}...
So glad I finally got to see this vid, after so many years of hearing the song, this is pretty much what I expected, and I am not disappointing.
I can't love this enough
SENSATIONAL! The Original Soul Brother! Luv how he does the "Skate" I especially like the ending of his song when he says "You hurt me once, you hurt me twice, ooh little baby that don't cut no ice." Great lyrics! LOL!
QUALITY TUNE AND VID. LOVE IT. INSTANT SUNSHINE !SHORTY.
+Shorty 1 Thankyou for dropping by and commenting :-)
I think high school when I hear this, we use to dance like the people in the video at a place called Johnny's in Custer Michigan on Saturday nights where all our school would congregate and dance,I miss the good old days and the nieve innocense we had, but most of all the great music we had.
WOW ZERO LIKES? THIS IS A STRAIGHT UP CLASSIC!!!
Great song! Thanks for uploading.
Wonderful. One of the best! Thank you!
OMG!! ON MY B-DAY IN 1966.....STILL IN 2020👍👍👍🎶🎤🎶🎤🎶
Myself, I remember all the dances and the songs, hearing the songs and seeing the dances on America Bandstand, HI-Lit, (Swinging Time, The Scene From Michigan) and Soul Train. The good ole days.💃🗣👠
Also from Detroit. Swingin’ Time w/Robin Seymour who is 93 and lives in Az. Was 9/10 when this song came out .One of my favorites of all time.
This song always reminds me of going to car shows with my grandpa when i was a kid!
His “let it out” song is just as good. This guy has to be one of the most underrated artists the world has ever seen.
J.J. Jackson is a very big man and has got the moves, awesome dancer as well, this is a super awesome 1966 bad ass song!!
1966, the dance style is called "the skate."
I saw this show.
Absolutely brilliant 10/10
WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER THIS FROM PARTIES I HAD ! EVERYBODY WANTED ME TO PLAY THIS!!! ABSOLUTELY A CL
Amazing song I'm still dancing to it simply a classic from a very talented artist
Great song from 1966.
Brilliant!
'You don't know how I feel
You'll never know how I feel
When I needed you to come around
You always try to bring me down
Oh, but I know, girl, believe me when I say that
You are surely, surely gonna pay, girl
But it's all right all right girl
You can hurt me but it's all right
Hey now, one day ah, you will see
You'll never find a guy like me
Who'll love you right both day and night
You'll never have to worry 'cause it's all uptight
Oh, but I'm tellin' you girl and I know it's true
That I was made to love only you
But it's all right, all right girl
You can hurt me, but it's all right
Go on, yeah
Oh, oh, yeah
My my my baby, wow, yeah
But it's all right all right girl
Hey, say it's all right all right girl
Now there's one thing I wanna say, hey, yeah
You'll meet a guy who'll make you pay
He'll treat you bad and make you sad
And you will lose the love you had
Oh, but I hate to say I told you so, but
Baby, you gotta gotta reap what you sow
But it's all right all right girl
You are payin' now, but it's all right
So goodbye, now, goodbye, girl
You're payin' now, say bye-bye
You hurt me once, you hurt me twice
Oh, but-a baby, that don't cut no ice
Hey, goodbye, baby'
; 7 ]
Thanx, Simon.
Thanks great lyrics
"You hurt me twice...and that don't cut no ice" PERFECT couplet
Love This Song !
The used another Clip of JJ Jackson Singing "Summertime" in a Documentary about Elton John. While he was still making his bones in Bluesology, a lot of American R & B Singers came to perform which included him but Patti Labelle & The Bluebelles after Cindy Birdsong left to join the Supremes in 1967. Elton loved his Voice. He go to work and meet a lot of them.
Was that not Billie Stewart, another round mound?
He's jammin'!
Where the Action Is..watched it all the time. .also Shindig.
JJ Jackson is one of those guys who looks *exactly* how you'd expect from hearing him sing.
great some, just love it.
Back in the day every time I smoked a good Super-Kool, or some good Cucuy Dust, this song played over and over in my head. When I wasn't high I couldn't remember the name of this song for the life of me. I been clean/sober for over 20 years. Today when I hear this song It brings back memories of those crazy days.
LOVE IT 🎙🎼👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🔥🔥🔥
J.J. JACKSON in But It's Alright in The HOT 40 BILLBOARD CHART of 11/5/1966 at No. 22 for 7 Weeks on CALLA RECORDS.
still makes my heart smile
Made me a man all wrap in one song Love you JJ 1967 give him Love
Jerry Lynn Stapleton when the one with the ponytail and the ribbon on the top of her head she was my favorite dancer and I wish they'd put it back on television❤❤❤❤
The Spinners were also good at performing in Suits in Hot Weather as well as the Original Five Stairsteps. Him and Billy Stewart (Summertime) were very popular. In fact Billy and The Bluebelles did a Tour in Europe where Elton John was making his Bones in Bluesology.
So good. Wow.
Love this song
Love this tune
This was recorded in England, but has that Chicago soul sound all over it.
What a backup band!!! Some of the best session men in the UK!