In 1965 I had a job with DOD teaching soldiers children overseas. Midnight Hour was on jukebox in officers club & I must have spent a fortune playing it😅 was my favorite song! I'm 83 mow & still play it (and other Wilson Pickett songs) on my phone. Love him just as much now as I did 60 years ago. RIP Mr. Pickett!
They don't make it like that anymore, but at least we can stil listen to the golden stuff. Same age as you all the way across the ocean in Bulgaria still playing records like this and Temptations! Cheers!
@@Stefch0o0 im 71 my ex hubby who was in a band he played bass and sang this song-always dedicated this song 2 me we remained close friends rt up until his passing 4yrs ago we always would lol & tell our son who now is 48 that this is the song that brought him into the world(ps our son is a musician as well)
I'm 77 yrs old and still remember seeing him live in Montreal, Quebec at the Esquire Showbar when I was about 18 yrs of age. I wasn't legal but managed to constantly convince the doorman to let me in
My granddaddy Clarence “Butch” Pickett wrote this song! RIP Grandpa Butch. Great job adding the music Wilson, I still listen to this day in honor of my granddaddy.
@@Java8427 lot of tunes has initial owners or came up with atleast a part and the rest history,it all a part of the music biz. I can assume that person was a relative of Wilson and for sure the "Wicked one" didnt know much about copyright until he started sparring with Bobby Womack.
Great memories of this song. I won a dance off in Juarez Mexico dancing to this against a really good opponent but I blew him away. The club was filled with spectators and it was just electric. This was during my stint in the Army at Ft. Bliss, El Paso 1966.
Good question! What happened was that in the 90s, when the new digital sound technologies came out, that enabled people to share "files" of songs on the relatively new internet. This later became illegal. Long story short, that caused the music labels to go broke, which some people thought was a good thing. There were few artists on labels any more, no talent scouts or A&R people. No more recording contracts. But... digital technology made recording much simpler and cheaper and available to the average public. Professional studio time used to be very expensive, like $100/hour in the 70s! You couldn't record anything without a label to back you financially and provide the promotion and distribution of your work. Now, any low talent person can make their own recordings and try to market them via social media to varying degrees of success. Jacob Collier is a shining example of someone who really made that work, but he is a rare genius.
I pull up to a guy listening to a rhymer at full bass and I think WTF? Social commentary and street poetry set to a monotonous backbeat. Music? I don't see it. I have Jackie's CD(yes a CD) in my truck and marvel at his talent among many others of that era.
This song popped in my head and I had to find it That was like i was four or five years old I used to see my cousins and their boyfriends dancing in the basement
my ex-hubby(whom i remained friends with until his passing 2yrs ago) was in a band and he would sing and dedicate this song to me!! We always told r son- that's the song that brought him into this world-as this is where it all started-lol
I always told my son it was "I like big butts"- that's the song that brought him into this world-as his Mom was a big fat hoe who was a freak! I mean she was F$%^&&g EVERYBODY back in the day! Hell, she might be a church going button up lady now but back in the day when that song came on her panties were down and that great big A$$ was bend over ready to go! come to think of it...I better get a DNA test cus I don't even know if you my kid or not! He would laugh because I would say this behind is mammy's back in a whisper... One day I will tell him I wasn't joking.
listened and danced to this song as a teenager in 1965 and 66, when the local garage bands learned this song and played it during the High School dances after the game. wonderful memories.
I'm 33 years old and this is what I grew up listening to! (By choice, I always liked older music). With my dad playing 70's and 80's and all the 90's stuff on the radio at the time..... 40s-60s is my solace
Remembering Wilson Pickett born on March 18, 1941. He was an American singer and songwriter. A major figure in the development of American soul music, Pickett recorded over 50 songs which made the US R&B charts. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Pickett
I was 15 years old then, living south coast of England...... this is one of the tracks that started my love of black soul music. We had nothing like it.
The music that I grew up to in Swinging sixties in London! I loved Soul music so much….still have the records!! Music has gone slowly downhill since then and now you rarely hear something you can listen to in sixty years and find it really good!
this is the song that started it all for myself and my ex hubby who was in a band and sang tis song to me . We remained great friends over the yrs today being the 6yrs ago today
I'm 39 and love my oldies music. This is the type of music my dad liked to listen to. (His fave was B.B. King.) This song came on in my playlist and I wanted to see a performance from the 60s. 😊👏🏽🎶📻
One of the most prolific iconic performers of the sixties. The. Wicked. Wilson. Pickett wow what great singer he was! My favorite. The. Midnight hour 🎵
Love this song so much, especially seeing the Motown shuffle. Always loved this since I was an Aussie teen in the 90s. He rocks and is damn sexy too! They don't make singers like that anymore.... 🇦🇺
An unusual horn section - 2 trumpets, a tenor sax and a soprano sax. No trombone or baritone sax. Gives it a lighter sound, but it's still heavyweight.
Hell Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!! Takes me way Back!!!!!!!!!! Awesome ERA!!!!!!!!!! Great Memories!!!!!!!!! I'm 71 Still Rock n Roll!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In 1965 I had a job with DOD teaching soldiers children overseas. Midnight Hour was on jukebox in officers club & I must have spent a fortune playing it😅 was my favorite song! I'm 83 mow & still play it (and other Wilson Pickett songs) on my phone. Love him just as much now as I did 60 years ago. RIP Mr. Pickett!
Great Story!! Tank you
Am 77 and still a “ Soul Queen “ - just love that music ( and the juke + box era!
and I am, myFriend, right beside you -- 72. I'll NE-VER hear this song and sit still!!! Have a great evening!!! xoxo
Its 2020 in the middle of a pandemic and I'm a white 35 yr old guy listening in Oregon. Great music doesn't have an expiration date.
They don't make it like that anymore, but at least we can stil listen to the golden stuff. Same age as you all the way across the ocean in Bulgaria still playing records like this and Temptations! Cheers!
So AM i from Brazil! Wilson connectin us
me too
@@Stefch0o0 im 71 my ex hubby who was in a band he played bass and sang this song-always dedicated this song 2 me we remained close friends rt up until his passing 4yrs ago we always would lol & tell our son who now is 48 that this is the song that brought him into the world(ps our son is a musician as well)
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I'm 77 yrs old and still remember seeing him live in Montreal, Quebec at the Esquire Showbar when I was about 18 yrs of age. I wasn't legal but managed to constantly convince the doorman to let me in
Cool!! Great histories!!!!
18 / 5.000
How lucky you were
Ladies and Gentlemen the "Wicked Wilson Pickett"
76 yeas old I remember going to the 3.2 beer clubs and dancing to Wilson Pickett music
My granddaddy Clarence “Butch” Pickett wrote this song! RIP Grandpa Butch. Great job adding the music Wilson, I still listen to this day in honor of my granddaddy.
Wilson Pickett co-wrote this song with Steve Cropper and Booker T and the MGs played on the original recording that is overdubbed onto this video.
@@Java8427 lot of tunes has initial owners or came up with atleast a part and the rest history,it all a part of the music biz. I can assume that person was a relative of Wilson and
for sure the "Wicked one" didnt know much about copyright until he started sparring with Bobby Womack.
So great histories!
Wicked Wilson Pickett and the fabulous Memphis Horns-this song never gets old.
When music was real and had soul.
I'm 76 and still rock to the one and only Wilson Pickett. This was the signature tune at the Last Chance all-nighter in London '65.
@@derekarnold3665 👏👏👏
I'm only 31 but I was brought up listening to this and glad I was. Otis Redding, Archie Bell & the Drells...good music the world needs back.
You know it! And Eddie Floyd!
Facts
Great memories of this song. I won a dance off in Juarez Mexico dancing to this against a really good opponent but I blew him away. The club was filled with spectators and it was just electric. This was during my stint in the Army at Ft. Bliss, El Paso 1966.
Awesome Martinez!!
What an awesome memory to share. Thanks!!!
Hey thanks for your service. I was stationed at Fort Bliss in 1984. I liked going over to Juarez as well.
I've crawled back over that bridge from a night in Juarez many times. You nailed it.
I like that
That was a time of real music...Music is the ultimate form of Poetry.
Wilson Pickett's voice is magic. A real legend.
Love Wilson Pickett. I was 10 when this came out. Can't beat good music! ♥
I was 9. Still AWESOME
My God, what a set of pipes! That horn section is class! Wonder music that will never be replaced!
Tower of Power is the last of the great horn sections.
So sweet memories my Idol among many others
...❤
GOOD STUFF!!! How the Hell did the world get from GOOD music like this to the CRAP out there today??????? UGH. Missing better/simpler days!
Good question! What happened was that in the 90s, when the new digital sound technologies came out, that enabled people to share "files" of songs on the relatively new internet. This later became illegal. Long story short, that caused the music labels to go broke, which some people thought was a good thing. There were few artists on labels any more, no talent scouts or A&R people. No more recording contracts. But... digital technology made recording much simpler and cheaper and available to the average public. Professional studio time used to be very expensive, like $100/hour in the 70s! You couldn't record anything without a label to back you financially and provide the promotion and distribution of your work. Now, any low talent person can make their own recordings and try to market them via social media to varying degrees of success. Jacob Collier is a shining example of someone who really made that work, but he is a rare genius.
Moneyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy😆😆😆😆😆😆
I pull up to a guy listening to a rhymer at full bass and I think WTF? Social commentary and street poetry set to a monotonous backbeat. Music? I don't see it. I have Jackie's CD(yes a CD) in my truck and marvel at his talent among many others of that era.
....and the creative names, like Snoop Dog.
@@mikiinajijic6763 that is true and the second part is that parents didn't teach the youth about music so the lineage was lost.
REMEMBERING WILSON PICKETT
(AUG 18, 1941 - JAN 19, 2006)
[01/19/2020]
The irreplaceable. Mr. Wilson. Pickett. Thank u sir! For your music during the. Sixties! Mustang. Sally
What a magnificent song and artist -- thank you so very, very much!❤😂🎉😢❤.
Fabulous! This when black artists made great records.
Brilliant! And he was so-o-o handsome❤️❤️❤️
these cats had class!!!
He gave himself a pat on the back when he said " Alright Sonny" A nickname in his youth.
This song popped in my head and I had to find it That was like i was four or five years old I used to see my cousins and their boyfriends dancing in the basement
my ex-hubby(whom i remained friends with until his passing 2yrs ago) was in a band and he would sing and dedicate this song to me!! We always told r son- that's the song that brought him into this world-as this is where it all started-lol
wow it´s a sad and at the same time a great history, gloria peace
RT-Back at you---and thank you for your reply
be welcome Gloria, keep on touch
I always told my son it was "I like big butts"- that's the song that brought him into this world-as his Mom was a big fat hoe who was a freak! I mean she was F$%^&&g EVERYBODY back in the day! Hell, she might be a church going button up lady now but back in the day when that song came on her panties were down and that great big A$$ was bend over ready to go! come to think of it...I better get a DNA test cus I don't even know if you my kid or not! He would laugh because I would say this behind is mammy's back in a whisper... One day I will tell him I wasn't joking.
GLORIA LITTLE game 🥰
Go ahead, Wilson 🎵🎶🇺🇸
listened and danced to this song as a teenager in 1965 and 66, when the local garage bands learned this song and played it during the High School dances after the game. wonderful memories.
Absolutely one of my favorites!!!!
from the great Wilson Pickett lets enyoy
Who thumbs down this epic song?
Fantastic.If they ever make a movie about Wilson’ Pickett, Eddie Murphy is my nomination for lead.
He's not the same person? 😅
Jefferson Airplane played this at the end of their sets at the Fillmore. Great tune Mr. Wilson Pickett.
I was 16 at the time. Musically speaking, thank god I was born back then.
Mr. Pickett, Englewood, NJ resident! The first time I ever saw a Stuz Blackhawk, (he drove my brother home). lol
Absolutely fantastic!
Who the hell gives this a thumbs down!!!!
Some soulles moron who needs a good beating..😆
I'm 33 years old and this is what I grew up listening to! (By choice, I always liked older music).
With my dad playing 70's and 80's and all the 90's stuff on the radio at the time.....
40s-60s is my solace
Great dad! Cause attitude like this good stuff never die👏👏
love this song--horns are great, and lyrics are terrific
Can you imagine what these musicians would have sounded like with today's technologies? But yes I do enjoy the older pure sounds too.🐱
"Wicked" Wilson Pickett was THROWING DOWN!!!!
Remembering Wilson Pickett born on March 18, 1941. He was an American singer and songwriter. A major figure in the development of American soul music, Pickett recorded over 50 songs which made the US R&B charts. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Pickett
This and his version of ' Hey Jude ' are masterpieces.
Saw him live in Portsmouth UK in the early sixties Great.
I believe this song was recorded at Stax records. With the session musicians Booker T. & The MG's doing the instrumentation
Go ahead Wilson🎵🎵🎶😊
I love the moves, and so must have the Italians (who watched this on RAI).
I was 15 years old then, living south coast of England...... this is one of the tracks that started my love of black soul music. We had nothing like it.
Can't wait until midnight hour.
Everytime i hear GREAT Soul songs like i get the urge to go down south to see my family
Great clip. dang, he's just 24 here, used to seem so old to me when I was a kid.
My cousin...shout out to the Pickett family in Alabama!
It didn't take fancy dance steps when you had good music. Sheer black excellence is what that was.
It still rocks even in the 21st century.
Excellent song and best memories brought back to me!
The Greatest a Soul Full Classic will play Forever
Let's be ROCKIN' This Song In the MIDNIGHT HOUR! Let's Be ROCKIN' THIS SONG ALL THE TIME EVERY DAY AND NIGHT YEAH! 🎶🎵👍😆
The music that I grew up to in Swinging sixties in London! I loved Soul music so much….still have the records!! Music has gone slowly downhill since then and now you rarely hear something you can listen to in sixty years and find it really good!
ei do you know I'm also Wilson but not Pickett but darko owurani but the rhyming name I'm very happy with it I couldn't ask for anything better 🙏👍🤔❤✅
still love your music Wilson !!
I was a Junior in High School this was a great song to dance to what fun we had back then
How are you
Sure brings back some fun memories.
Great classic.Motown,those were the days my friend.
I think he was with the "Atlantic" label. At least he was with my copies of his records. You're right.....great classic
@@thesilentmajority5539 Wilson left STAX to go and record in Muscle Shoals. He even cut Land of a 1000 Dances there.
this is the song that started it all for myself and my ex hubby who was in a band and sang tis song to me . We remained great friends over the yrs today being the 6yrs ago today
5 star brought me here....their dad was in this band
Wilson was to Kool for Skool... Love this!
this song always reminds me of the 1985 ABC TV horror flick *The Midnight Hour.*
J'adore !
My best friend and I would sing and dance to this sing walking to high school back in late 60s.
The best R and B song of all time.
I'm 39 and love my oldies music. This is the type of music my dad liked to listen to. (His fave was B.B. King.) This song came on in my playlist and I wanted to see a performance from the 60s. 😊👏🏽🎶📻
WICKED PICKETT! 🌹
One of the most prolific iconic performers of the sixties. The. Wicked. Wilson. Pickett wow what great singer he was! My favorite. The. Midnight hour 🎵
One of the all time greats
wish we had music like this today
Love Wilson Pickett Music.
one of the greats
Wicked Pickett! I LOVE this song, especially the way that Pick does it...
The MASTER
Love this song so much, especially seeing the Motown shuffle. Always loved this since I was an Aussie teen in the 90s. He rocks and is damn sexy too! They don't make singers like that anymore.... 🇦🇺
Great song, great voice and wonderful arrangement! Would love to have gotten to see them live back in the day!!!
So much soul
How are you
Wow that sax blowing fat notes 👍👍
This is what i call best and top soul music ! Wilson Picket was one of the world geatest musicians !
Italian tv LOL....Those Italian people watching must have been wondering what the hell kind of music is this! Black American rock'n'roll! Yeah!
Wilson is one of the best of all time.
Great song we played in my band
An unusual horn section - 2 trumpets, a tenor sax and a soprano sax. No trombone or baritone sax. Gives it a lighter sound, but it's still heavyweight.
The Wicked Mr. Pickett!
Immense.
Notice how there are no microphones or amplifiers with cords to the guitars and a minimal drum set.
Its a playback's tv 👍
love this song, ah those good old days, enjoy
WICKED WILSON!!!!!!!
The brass sound+ soloist+ melody: just great stuff!. Thanks for sharing.....
Really good stuff
This is priceless!!
Beautiful!
absolelutely great song / magnificent !!
An absolute classic, fantastic brass and solid, sharp beat. An all time favourite of mine.
loved it then love still. He was fantastic
The Man!!!!!!!!!!!💜🤩💜🤩💜🤩💜🤩
Yeeessss. He. Was!!!
This is just too soulful...yes please Mr Pickett 🤗🤗
There's a very good French adaptation of this fine song : "Jusqu'à minuit" by Johnny HALLYDAY