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Overview
Mini Biography:
Jackie "Sonny" Wilson was born in Detroit, Michigan, and grew up in Highland... moreNewsDesk:
(4 articles)
Michael Jackson's Life & Legacy: Wiz Kid (1958-78) (From MTV Music News. 6 July 2009, 4:51 AM, PDT)
What the Party Guests Danced To on Inauguration Night
(From PEOPLE.com. 21 January 2009, 5:30 AM, PST)
US TV Schedule:
| Sat. July 11 | 8:30 AM | TCM | Go, Johnny, Go! |
Filmography
Soundtrack:
- Seuls two (2008) (performer: "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher")
- Norbit (2007) (performer: "(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher")
- Take the Lead (2006) (writer: "Baby Workout") (performer: "Baby Workout")
- Against the Ropes (2004) (performer: "Baby Workout") ("Baby Workout")
... aka Die Promoterin (Germany)
... aka The Promoter (Germany) - Ed Sullivan's Rock 'n' Roll Classics, Vol. 4: Elvis & Other Rock Greats (2003) (V) (performer: "That's Why")
... aka Ed Sullivan's Greatest Hits: Rock 'N' Roll Forever (USA: DVD box title)
... aka Rock 'N' Roll Forever (USA: DVD title) - Death to Smoochy (2002) (performer: "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher")
... aka Tötet Smoochy (Germany) - Blow Dry (2001) (performer: "I Get The Sweetest Feeling")
... aka Über kurz oder lang (Germany) - Sweet November (2001) (writer: "Baby Work Out") (performer: "Baby Work Out")
- The Kid (2000) (performer: "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher")
... aka Disney's The Kid (USA: complete title) - "Jam" (2000) TV series (unknown episodes)
... aka "Jaaaaam" (UK: recut version) - High Fidelity (2000) (performer: "I Get The Sweetest Feeling")
- The Closer You Get (2000) (performer: "I Get The Sweetest Feeling")
... aka American Women (USA: video title) - The Bachelor (1999) (performer: "Your Love Keeps Lifting Me (Higher and Higher)")
- Dance with Me (1998) (writer: "Baby Workout") (performer: "Baby Workout")
- Two Girls and a Guy (1997) (performer: "You Don't Know Me")
- Telling Lies in America (1997) (performer: "Lonely Teardrops")
- Operation Dumbo Drop (1995) (performer: "(YOUR LOVE KEEPS LIFTING ME) HIGHER AND HIGHER")
... aka Dumbo Drop - Corrina, Corrina (1994) (performer: "REET PETITE (THE SWEETEST GIRL IN TOWN)")
- When Pigs Fly (1993) (performer: "DANNY BOY")
... aka Wenn Schweine fliegen (Germany) - The Night We Never Met (1993) (performer: "Your Love Keeps Liftin' Me (Higher and Higher)")
- Born Yesterday (1993) (writer: "BABY WORK OUT") (performer: "BABY WORK OUT")
- That Night (1992) (performer: "DOGGIN' AROUND")
... aka One Hot Summer - Innocent Blood (1992) (producer: "Night")
... aka A French Vampire in America - Mermaids (1990) (writer: "Baby Workout") (performer: "Baby Workout")
- Ghostbusters II (1989) (performer: "Higher And Higher")
... aka Ghostbusters 2 (USA: video box title) - Shag (1989) (performer: "Baby Work Out") ("Baby Work Out")
... aka Shag: The Movie - The Good Mother (1988) (performer: "Up Tight (Everything's Alright)")
... aka The Price of Passion (South Africa: English title: video title) - Coming to America (1988) (performer: "To Be Loved")
... aka Prince in New York (Europe: English title: video title) - "Hippodrome Show" (1 episode, 1966)
... aka "Hippodrome" (USA)
- Episode #1.5 (1966) TV episode (writer: "Squeeze Her - Tease Her (But Love Her)") - Teenage Millionaire (1961) (performer: "The Way I Am", "Lonely Life")
- Go, Johnny, Go! (1959) (performer: "YOU BETTER KNOW IT")
Self:
- The History of Rock 'N' Roll, Vol. 5 (1995) (TV) .... Himself
... aka The Sounds of Soul - "Soul Train" .... Himself (1 episode, 1972)
- The Four Tops/Jackie Wilson/Kool & the Gang (1972) TV episode .... Himself - "The Joey Bishop Show" .... Himself (1 episode, 1968)
- Episode dated 2 January 1968 (1968) TV episode .... Himself - "Where the Action Is" .... Himself (2 episodes, 1965-1966)
- Episode #1.18 (1966) TV episode .... Himself
- Episode #1.37 (1965) TV episode .... Himself - "Shindig!" .... Himself (4 episodes, 1964-1965)
- Episode #2.16 (1965) TV episode .... Himself
- Episode #1.42 (1965) TV episode .... Himself
- Episode #1.12 (1964) TV episode .... Himself
- Episode #1.6 (1964) TV episode .... Himself - "Bandstand" .... Himself / ... (6 episodes, 1957-1965)
... aka "AB" (USA: short title)
... aka "American Bandstand 1966" (USA: ninth season title)
... aka "American Bandstand" (USA: new title)
... aka "New American Bandstand 1965" (USA: new title)
... aka "VH1's Best of American Bandstand" (USA: rerun title)
- Episode #8.29 (1965) TV episode .... Himself (!965)
- Episode #5.106 (1962) TV episode .... Himself
- Episode #1.263 (1958) TV episode .... Himself
- Episode #1.161 (1958) TV episode .... Himself
- Episode #1.148 (1958) TV episode .... Himself
(1 more) - "Toast of the Town" .... Singer (7 episodes, 1960-1963)
... aka "The Ed Sullivan Show" (USA: new title)
- Episode #16.26 (1963) TV episode .... Singer
- Episode #15.37 (1962) TV episode .... Singer
- Episode #15.29 (1962) TV episode .... Singer
- Episode #15.19 (1962) TV episode .... Singer
- Episode #14.33 (1961) TV episode .... Singer
(2 more) - Teenage Millionaire (1961) .... Himself, Performer
- "The Dick Clark Show" .... Himself (10 episodes, 1958-1960)
... aka "The Dick Clark Saturday Night Beechnut Show" (USA)
- Episode #3.50 (1960) TV episode .... Himself
- Episode #3.34 (1960) TV episode .... Himself
- Episode #3.35 (1960) TV episode .... Himself
- Episode #3.27 (1960) TV episode .... Himself
- Episode #3.28 (1960) TV episode .... Himself
(5 more) - Go, Johnny, Go! (1959) .... Himself
Archive Footage:
- Ed Sullivan's Rock 'n' Roll Classics, Vol. 4: Elvis & Other Rock Greats (2003) (V) .... Herself
- Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2002) .... Himself
- Motown 40: The Music Is Forever (1998) (TV) .... Himself
- "Rock & Roll" (1995) .... Himself
- Smokey Robinson: The Quiet Legend (1990) (TV) .... Himself
- Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues (1988) (V) .... Himself
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