Frank Wilson

Frank Edward Wilson (December 5, 1940 – September 27, 2012) Wilson attended Southern University in Baton Rouge but only for one year; he had participated in a civil rights protest and lost his scholarship in his sophomore year. Supposedly 250 demo 45s were pressed, but by that time Wilson decided he would rather focus on producing and he had the demos trashed. Somehow at least two known copies survived, one of which fetched over £25,000 in May 2009. Because of the scarcity of the original single and the high quality of the music (it was one of the most popular records in the Northern soul movement), it is one of the rarest and most valuable records in history (along with other extremely rare records by such acts as Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, and the Five Sharps).

Wilson left Motown in 1976 and became a born again Christian. 1994 Motown Comes Home Various artists Motown Record Company

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