Lonely Teardrops

Infobox Single
Name = Lonely Teardrops
Artist = Jackie Wilson
Format = 7" single
Released = 1958
Recorded = 1958
Genre = Soul
Label = Brunswick
Writer = Berry Gordy
Tyran Carlo
Producer = Carl Davis
Last single = "To Be Loved"
(1957)
This single = "Lonely Teardrops"
(1958)
Next single = "That's Why I Love You So"
(1959)

"Lonely Teardrops" is a 1958 single recorded and released as a single in 1958 by R&B singer Jackie Wilson on the Brunswick label. It is considered his signature song,and is a 1999 Grammy Hall of Fame Inductee.

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Written by Berry Gordy and Billy Davis, going under the pseudonym Tyran Carlo, the single, alongside Wilson's debuting five consecutive singles between 1957-58, turned Wilson into an R&B superstar and influenced the later careers of Davis, who joined the staff of Chess Records while Gordy used the money from the song's success to form Motown Records within a year. The song raced up to number-one on the Billboard R&B chart and became Wilson's first top ten hit on the Billboard Hot 100, eventually peaking at number seven. The hit's success helped land Wilson on "American Bandstand" and "The Ed Sullivan Show" performing to receptive audiences on the respective shows.

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