Twitter Twatter: Chuck Jackson

Over the weekend I was in (what Elvis would call) the ghetto grocery; a store where they play soul oldies from the '50's through the '70's. Peepaw demographics. Often I hear customers singing along to the muzak. I do it myself since I know my Ruby and the Romantics. Often enough these songs repeat.

I was three-fourth's down one aisle when I passed an elderly man refilling a greetings card display, and he started singing along with the sweetest voice. I had hit the end of the aisle, but I turned around and called back to him, "You're singing Chuck Jackson!" He smiled this huge toothless grin and said, "That right!" then he went right back to his singing. Mister? You made my day.

And as a Cube aside, the song "Any Day Now," (1962) was written by Burt Bacharach and that's Burt doing the flutter keyboard work on the organ. Elvis, Luther Vandross and Ronnie Milsap also did notable versions.