YouTube Today: Jackie Wilson - Mr. Excitement!

Jackie Wilson famously said that while everyone accused Elvis of stealing from black music, it was black perfomers who stole their stage moves from Elvis. Presely was having none of it. On the Million Dollar Quartet tapes he can be heard raving to Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash about Wilson whom he had just seen in Las Vegas. Presely ecstatically tries to recreate Wilson's take on the Presley single "Don't Be Cruel". There was a reason Jackie Wilson was known as Mr. Excitement - there were few who could match the man for phenominal performance energy, while singing with the a voice unsurpassed in r&b and rock. See for yourself in this clip of That's Why from the Ed Sullivan Show.