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Jackie Wilson - Reet Petite

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Album: Greatest Hits Of Jackie Wilson
Released: 1957

Reet Petite Lyrics

Well, lookabell, lookabell, lookabell, lookabell
Oooooh Weeeeee
Lookabell,lookabell,lookabell
OoooooWeeee

Oh, Ah,Oh,Ah, Oh wee
Well, she's so fine, fine, fine,
She's so fine fa fine
She's so fine,
She's so fine, fine, fine
She's really sweet the finest girl you ever want to meet

Oh,oh,oh,oh
Oh,oh,oh,oh,oh
Rrrrrrrr Reet Petite, the finest girl you ever want to meet

Well, have you ever seen a girl for whom your soul you'd give
For whom you'd fight for, die for, pray to God you'd lie for
She's so fine, she's so fine, she's really sweet the finest girl
You ever want to meet

Well, she really thrills me so
From her head to toe,
I want the world to know,
I love her,love her so
She's alright,she's alright,
She's alrighty.
You know to me it has to be at night

Oh,oh,oh,oh, oh,oh,oh,oh
Rrrr Reet Petite the finest girl you ever want to meet
Oh

Well, she's like honey from a bees
And like bees from a tree,I love her,need her,
She bez' so buzzin'

She's alright, she's got what it takes
She's got what it takes and to me she really rates
Well, Oh now she's my cutey, my tuttu fruitt,
My heart, my love,my bathin' beauty she's alright, she's
Got just what it takes, she's got what it takes and to
Me she a- really rates

Oh oh oh oh,
Oh oh oh oh
Rrr
Reet Petite the finest girl you ever want to meet
Rrr
Reet Petite the finest girl you ever want to meet
Rrr
Reet Petite the finest girl you ever want to meet

Writer/s: GORDY, BERRY / CARLO, TYRAN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., SONY ATV MUSIC PUB LLC
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Reet Petite Song Chart

This was written by Berry Gordy and Tyran Carlo (Roquel "Billy" Davis). The royalties from this song (and two hits by Marv Johnson) enabled Gordy to borrow the money needed to start up Motown Records.

This was the first chart single for Wilson, a native of Detroit. He had been in the group The Dominoes, but this was his first release as a solo artist.

The title comes from a Louis Jordan movie with an all-black cast called Reet, Petite, and Gone.

In 1986, this was re-released in the UK and rocketed to #1 after millions of Britons saw a Miller beer commercial featuring a plasticine-animated Jackie Wilson singing this song.

Van Morrison wrote and recorded a song called "Jackie Wilson Said," which was covered by Dexys Midnight Runners . The first line in that song is: "Well, Jackie Wilson said, it was Reet Petite..."

In British slang, "Reet" means "Righteous."

This song holds the record for taking the longest time to reach #1 in the UK. Released in 1957, it finally topped the charts in 1986. (thanks, Ray - Nuneaton, United Kingdom)