“In the Midnight Hour” was released by Wilson Pickett in 1965. It was named one of the songs that shaped rock and roll by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and was dubbed one of the greatest songs of all time by Rolling Stone. The song was also selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry and inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. However, the song never reached No. 1 on the charts. It peaked at No. 21.
Steve Cropper, an iconic guitarist, told NPR, “The song is about, I'm going to wait until midnight, that's when everybody is gone to bed. You and I are going to do our thing. We're going to learn each other, learn about each other; we're going to have some fun that nobody is around to witness.”
Tony Fletcher, who wrote a book about Pickett, told Commercial Appeal, “He was someone who couldn’t read music, but in the studio and on stage had a total understanding of what something needed to sound like, and how it should be arranged. People told me he if he heard a wrong note, that he instinctively knew who played it — if it was a trumpet and which trumpet player it was.”
A year after "In the Midnight Hour" was released, Pickett went on to create another classic called “Mustang Sally.” However, it didn’t reach the top of the charts, either. It peaked at No. 23 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 1991, the icon was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Pickett died in 2006 at the age of 64 after suffering from a heart attack in Virginia. As Fletcher stated, “He didn’t die young like Sam Cooke or Otis Redding in tragic circumstances. He didn’t live to such a ripe old age, like Ray Charles or a James Brown. When he died, even the media didn’t really regard his passing in the way it probably should have, and treated him like one of the all-time greats. This person doesn’t have the place [culturally] that he deserves. But when you look at his life and music, and that legacy he left behind, he should be in that conversation.”
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