Every Billboard Top 40 Single 1971: “#9: “Don’t Let The Green Grass Fool You” -Wilson Pickett. January 16, 1971.

• Single:”Don’t Let The Green Grass Fool You”- Wilson Pickett
• Record Company- Atlantic
• Genre: Soul
• Written by Jerry Akines, Johnny Bellman, Victor Drayton and Reginald Turner
• Time: 2:46
• B-side: “Ain’t No Doubt About It”
• Album- Wilson Pickett In Philadelphia
• Grade: A
• Peaked at #17 11 weeks in the Billboard Hot 100

“The Wicked Pickett”- Wilson Pickett was born in Prattville, Alabama in 1941- raised in Detroit. A soul singer-songwriter. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991. He had 38 Hot 100 singles from 1963-1973 with 16 making the Top 40. His biggest hit was “Land Of 1000 Dances” #6 in 1966. His most well known single though may be “In The Midnight Hour” #21 in 1965. 1971 was a good year for Pickett on the charts with 3 Top 40 hits. Wilson Pickett died of a heart attack in 2006 at the age of 64.