Jerry Butler

Yeah.

I'd like to add before we move on, speaking of Cabrini-Green's pop cultural history, soul icons like Major Lance, Jerry Butler, and friggin' Curtis Mayfield live there.

Hell yeah.

As did jazz pop pianist Ramsey Lewis of the Ramsey Lewis Trio.

This artist originated in Chicago, Illinois, in the U.S., known for the genres soul, funk, R&B, Chicago soul, and also some psychedelic soul.

Singer, songwriter, record producer, multi-instrumentalist playing the guitar, bass, piano saxophone and also the drums being active from 1956 to 1999 working for the labels Curtom Warner Brothers and also Reiner Records and associated with the Impressions and famous Jerry Butler really a nice one to check out being known for the notable instrument the Fender Stratocaster So until next time, hope you have a great day.

Remember, God loves you.

Jesus is the only way.

She wanted to be around music.

But she goes and she's working for Kenny Gamble and Leon Hough, and they are not yet the legends that they became but they have begun having success with Jerry Butler and I think at the time that she went there they were working on an album with Dusty Springfield and because they were in the midst of that project with Dusty Springfield they were looking for songs and Tom Bell basically had written this piece of music and he needed some lyrics And apparently just says to Linda, hey, have you ever tried writing lyrics? And she essentially tells him, I have written poems and that kind of thing, but I haven't really, you know, written lyrics.

So let's try it.

So they sit down and write, I want to be a free girl.

This is Joe Salmon before he...

Jerry Butler, brother.

Oh, Jerry Butler.

The Iceman.

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Late great Jerry Butler.

All right, good morning, folks.

Well, no, let me back up.

When I did the local song, I was asked to sing at the Masonic Temple on this show with Jerry Butler.

Oh, man.

And then I was asked if I would sing Let It Be Me with him, because I think he sang with a partner.

Lee Russell, I think.

Yeah, yeah.

So I sang Let It Be Me with Jerry Butler.

And I was like, oh, gosh, I thought I had died and gone to heaven, you know, because I loved his voice.

And we'll start with a record that, uh, to my ears, sounds like one of the first great declarations of this new music.

We've got Jerry Butler & The Impressions from 1958, For Your Precious Love.

[gentle music]

Your precious love means more to me than any love could ever be.

That effortless phrasing, the way he could glide around a melody without it ever sounding like he was working at it, yeah, that was really something special.

Jackie Wilson's I'm Wanderin' was just before that, a showman in every sense.

And we opened with Jerry Butler & The Impressions, and For Your Precious Love, and we heard Jerry Butler's rich baritone and those beautifully arranged backing voices, uh, which made the track we opened with sound like something beyond the usual vocal group rhythm and blues.

Hey, that's a pretty good collection of early soul voices to open, uh, uh, the show today, and, uh, hey, we're only getting started.

You know, we always had a good time.

Then we did Giving Up on Love with Jerry Butler, which is also a top five.

I think it was number one R&B record.

Giving up on