CULTURETECHLENSJackie Wilson
VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)
Combined Graph record U-07246 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-6017.
Jack Leroy Wilson Jr. (June 9, 1934 – January 21, 1984), born in Detroit's Highland Park enclave, was a singer whose athletic, operatic performances helped carry rhythm and blues into soul. He first gained fame as lead singer of Billy Ward and His Dominoes, replacing Clyde McPhatter, and went solo in 1957. Nicknamed 'Mr. Excitement,' he scored more than fifty chart singles across R&B, pop, soul, and doo-wop, including 'Reet Petite,' 'Lonely Teardrops,' 'Baby Workout,' and '(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher,' several early hits co-written by a young Berry Gordy Jr. His spins, splits, and vocal range made him a formative influence on Elvis Presley, James Brown, and Michael Jackson. In September 1975 he suffered a heart attack on stage during a benefit performance and remained in a minimally conscious state until his death in 1984 at age forty-nine. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, and two of his recordings entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.
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Jack Leroy Wilson Jr. (June 9, 1934 – January 21, 1984), born in Detroit's Highland Park enclave, was a singer whose athletic, operatic performances helped carry rhythm and blues into soul. He first gained fame as lead singer of Billy Ward and His Dominoes, replacing Clyde McPhatter, and went solo in 1957. Nicknamed 'Mr.
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- Also known as: Jack Leroy Wilson Jr., Mr. Excitement
Notes
Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Scan Tail Wave 3 — 747 Program, Wave 10; third Scan Tail packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Jackie Wilson entity in the live graph at 3,683 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-6017 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 4 — Scan Tail Wave 2 packet ordered reserve, position 12 of 25 (corpus-gap-candidates-2026-10-15.json ranked clean survivor #1067). The scan supplied the NAME STRING ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — National popular-music record; Detroit origin, with influence lines to the graph's soul and rock-and-roll rosters. Vital status: DECEASED — verified: death January 21, 1984 is given by Wikipedia and corroborated by the Rock Hall's posthumous 1987 induction and 2019 Walk of Fame reporting on his 1984 death. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Chart counts per Wikipedia (accessed 2026-10-16): more than 50 chart singles; 16 top-10 R&B hits, six of them No. 1; 14 top-20 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100, six in the top 10. Single-source (encyclopedia) counts, attributed here rather than independently recounted from Billboard data. MEDIA: photo HELD (Named candidate: 1961 performance photograph of Jackie Wilson (widely reproduced press photograph; source and rights unverified — PHOTO-001 record required, HELD). named as candidate; no file-page verification in this pass); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-6017-jackie-wilson.svg); video HELD (no matching-entity CTL Short or verified-rights archival video staged); audio HELD (no rights-cleared matching-entity audio staged). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Non-place record; no map attaches at the entity layer.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No Short in the Shorts Link Map has Jackie Wilson as its subject. No video attached.) | audio = HELD (No audiobook excerpt or author recording with a CTL rights basis was staged in this pass.)
Sources
- Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Jackie Wilson inductee page — inducted 1987 as a Performer, inducted by Peter Wolf; 'Mr. Excitement' stagecraft and impact — http://rockhall.com/inductees/jackie-wilson/ (primary source · build store)
- Wikipedia, Jackie Wilson — June 9, 1934 – January 21, 1984; Dominoes tenure; solo career from 1957; 1975 on-stage heart attack; Grammy Hall of Fame recordings 1999 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Wilson (build store)
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