1986 in British music cover of the disco song "Don't Leave Me This Way". The band included singer Jimmy Somerville who had previously enjoyed success with Bronski Beat, and later started a solo career. The Christmas number one single was something of a surprise, a re-issue of Jackie Wilson's 1957 single "Reet Petite". Wilson had died in 1984, but the song been re-issued after being used in a television advert for Levi's, with a new video made of a Claymation version of Wilson. Having first been released 29 years earlier, it broke the record for the longest time between a single being released and
Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile) the song", which was one of the reasons why the band covered it. It was released as the follow-up single to their number-one hit "Come On Eileen" and reached number five on the UK Singles Chart, as well as sixteen on the Dutch Top 40. The band's record label, Mercury Records, originally wanted "Jackie Wilson Said" to be released as the first single from "Too-Rye-Ay", but "Come On Eileen" was considered a better take. It was originally intended that Van Morrison would contribute to the track, but instead he intoned comments for fans in a monologue as an album coda,