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    Wilson Pickett's Greatest Hits

    "Early one morning I ran out and hollered," Wilson Pickett once recalled. "My voice echoed down through the swamps, and I thought, 'Uh-oh. This is it.' "

    That was it, all right. Although he lacks the majestic pipes of Aretha Franklin or the finesse of Otis Redding, Pickett more than compensates...

    1985 RS: 5of 5 Stars

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Together with Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett was among the most popular and acclaimed soul singers of the 1960s. His gritty rasp and signature scream on classic hits like "Mustang Sally," "Land of 1,000 Dances" and "In the Midnight Hour" helped put the soul meccas of Memphis, Tennessee, and Muscle Shoals, Alabama, on the music map.

Born in Prattville, Alabama, on March 18,...

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