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 the audience to come up to the stage and kiss him. Wilson often said "if I get the ugliest girl in the audience to come up and kiss me, they'll all think they can have me and keep coming back and buying my records." Jackie Wilson was a regular on TV, making regular appearances on such shows as "The Ed Sullivan Show", "American Bandstand", "Shindig!", "Shivaree" and "Hullabaloo". His only movie appearance was in the rock and roll film "Go, Johnny, Go!", where he performed his 1959 hit song "You Better Know It". In 1958, Davis and Gordy left Wilson