Thanks for refreshing this thread.

I just re-read the whole thing, including my last post, two messages above this and just over three years old. At the time, I might have noted another connection between Jackie Wilson and Motown's Berry Gordy: One of Gordy's very first songwriting credits, and his greatest pre-Motown success, was Jackie's "Lonely Teardrops."

"Higher and Higher" came out a few years later; Wilson and Gordy had gone their separate ways, and Gordy's semi-disguntled and underpaid session-band employees earned a little extra pay playing on Wilson's record, resulting in a bit of controversy. Who knows what kind of soap-opera subtext there might have been ~ bad blood betwen Berry Gordy and Jackie Wilson, perhaps?

Great music, anyway, great movie, and great DVD extras as well. Anyone who still hasn't seen this, please take a hint, do yourself a favor, and check it out!