What was Wilson Pickett’s biggest hit?

American soul singer Wilson Pickett’s biggest hit was “In the Midnight Hour” (1965), a smash single that resulted from his collaboration with guitarist Steve Cropper of Booker T. and the MG’s. The song reached number one on the rhythm-and-blues (R&B) list and spent 23 weeks on the chart. In 1966 it was nominated for a Grammy Award for best R&B recording. In 2016 the U.S. Library of Congress added “In the Midnight Hour” to the National Recording Registry, a list of audio recordings deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant