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Jackie Wilson: Lonely Teardrops For A "Footnote"

Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 29 January 1984

LIKE MANY A true fan, I always thought that one day Jackie Wilson would suddenly leap out of the hospital bed where he lay semi-comatose for the last seven years and hit the floor in a full split, screaming "My heart is cryin', cryin'... lonely teardrops."

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