Jackie Shane was a gay, cross-dressing soul singer born in Nashville, TN in 1940. He made his away across the Canadian border in the early '60s and, in 1963, scored a local and soon forgotten hit in Toronto. The song was a cover of William Bell’s “Any Other Way". Jackie replaced the country-soul flavor of the Bell original for a slower, gracefully hushed serving of smooth . . .
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