#102: (You Were Made For) All My Love by Jackie Wilson
City: Ottawa, ON
Radio Station: CKOY
Peak Month: September 1960
Peak Position in Ottawa ~ #1
Peak position in Vancouver ~ #29
Peak Position on Billboard Hot 100 ~ #12
Peak Position on Australian Singles chart ~ #30
YouTube: “All My Love”
Lyrics: “All My Love”
Jackie Wilson was born in suburban Detroit in 1934. Wilson began singing as a youth, accompanying his mother, an experienced church-choir singer. In his early teens, Wilson joined the Ever Ready Gospel Singers. Wilson dropped out of high school at age 15, having been sentenced twice to detention in the Lansing Corrections system for juveniles. During his second stint in detention, Wilson learned to box and began competing in the Detroit amateur circuit at age 16. His record in the Golden Gloves was 2–8. After his mother forced him to quit boxing, Wilson got his girlfriend, Freda Hood, pregnant, and her father forced him to marry her. Wilson became a father at age 17.