🎤 On This Day in Music History – October 15, 1958 At a session bursting with energy and emotion, Jackie Wilson recorded one of the most electrifying performances of his career — “Lonely Teardrops.” Written by Berry Gordy Jr., his sister Gwen Gordy, and Tyran Carlo (Roquel Davis), the song became the record that launched both Wilson and Gordy into music history. Gordy would later use his royalties from “Lonely Teardrops” to start a little label called Motown Records — and the rest, as they say,