The Best of Jerry Butler

Track Listings
1. He Will Break Your Heart
2. For Your Precious Love
3. I'm a Telling You
4. Make It Easy on Yourself
5. Smile
6. Moon River
7. Find Another Girl
8. Let It Be Me
9. I Stand Accused
10. Aware of Love

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The Best of Jerry Butler

The Best of Jerry Butler
The Best of Jerry Butler - The Millenium Collection
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • LEGENDARY ICON OF SONG~BRAVO JERRY!
The Best of Jerry Butler - The Millenium Collection
Jerry Butler
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ASIN: B00004ZDVY
Release Date: 2000-10-17

Tracks:

  1. Only The Strong Survive
  2. Moody Woman
  3. I Dig You Baby
  4. Never Give You Up
  5. Mr. Dream Merchant
  6. Lost
  7. Hey, Western Union Man
  8. Ain't Understanding Mellow
  9. One Night Affair
  10. What's The Use Of Breaking Up
  11. A Brand New Me

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars LEGENDARY ICON OF SONG~BRAVO JERRY! .......2004-03-22

If Jerry Butler only had one hit and it was "For Your Precious Love", he would be a Soul Legend!! But this master had classic's like "Moon River", "He Will Break Your Heart", "Let It Be Me" (a truly brilliant duet with the late and great Betty Everett),and countless other classic hits such as the ones in this tasty sampler! Talk about overlooked classic's, I would most definitely put Jerry Butler at the head of that list and when anyone who love's great singing gets into this collection they will feel the same way!! Grammy and Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame let's get it together!!!!! This is a master and this collection of classic's such as "Only The Strong Survive", "Moody Woman", "I Dig You Baby", the mesmerizing "Mr. Dream Merchant", the soulful "Lost", and the masterful "Hey, Western Union Man", all make Jerry Butler one of the greatest ever!! Get this and for sure you will seek out other great works from this Legend!! Look at all of the "out of stocks" on this great singer and act fast!!!! Smoldering glorious tones and deeply passionate emotion made this wonderous talent a once in a lifetime experience!! Bravo Jerry!!!!
Very Best of the Vee-Jay Years
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • LEGENDARY SUBLIME VOCALS~BRAVO JERRY!!!
 Very Best of the Vee-Jay Years
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Manufacturer: Snapper
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ASIN: B000B9WDJG
Release Date: 2005-10-31

Tracks:

  1. For Your Precious Love
  2. DonT Drive Me Away
  3. Come Back My Love
  4. Lost
  5. Lonely Soldier
  6. He Will Break Your Heart
  7. Find Another Girl
  8. I'm A Telling You
  9. Moon River
  10. Make It Easy On Yourself
  11. You Can Run (But You Can't Hide)
  12. Whatever You Want
  13. Need To Belong
  14. Giving Up On Love
  15. I Stand Accused
  16. Let It Be Me (Ft Betty Everett)
  17. Smile (Ft Betty Everett)
  18. Good Times
  19. Just For You
  20. Nobody Needs Your Love
  21. Message To Martha
  22. IVe Been Trying
  23. WhereS The Girl
  24. I DonT Want To Hear It Anymore
  25. Love Is Strange (Ft Betty Everett)
  26. For Your Precious Love (Re-Cut)

Album Description

Every one of Butler's hits for Vee-Jay, both with The Impressions and solo, is included in this 26 track collection. Included is the 2 huge crossover hits 'Moon River' and 'Make It Easy On Yourself'. Charly. 2005.

Album Details

Jerry Butler Shot to Fame in 1958 as the 20-year Old Lead Singer of the Impressions When for Your Precious Love Reached Number Three in the R&B Chart and Successfully Crossed Over Into the National Chart. Shortly Afterwards Butler Signed to Chicago's Vee-jay Label as a Solo Artist, Where He Established Himself as One of the Most Successful and Popular Soul Singers of the Early Sixties, Notching 19 Hits for Vee-jay Between 1958 and 1966. In his Early Solo Days at Vee-jay Butler was Fortunate Enough to Be Able to Call on the Song Writing and Playing Talents of his Friend and Impressions Co-founder Curtis Mayfield. Their First Collaboration, 'he Will Break Your Heart', Gave Butler his First Number One R&B Hit, Crossed Over Into the National Top Twenty and Established Him as a Major Talent on the Chicago Soul Scene. Every One of Butler's Hits for Vee-jay, Both with the Impressions and Solo, is Included in this 26-track Collection.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars LEGENDARY SUBLIME VOCALS~BRAVO JERRY!!!.......2006-03-11

Jerry Butler can sing anything...witness the variety in this timeless collection of superb classics including "Moon River" and experience one of the finest male vocalists in the past fifty years!!! Starting with the magnificent "For Your Precious Love" which Jerry still delivers in a masterful and sublime way, this incredibly great singer has not been given his just due and listening to his various collections of remarkable performances make this hard to figure out...no male singer moves me quite the way Mr. Jerry Butler does and listening to "Make It Easy On Yourself" makes this easy to understand! Filled with classic hits and numerous stunning performances, this is a must have collection for anyone who appreciates the finest that music can offer...Bravo to Jerry Butler and to the wonderous Betty Everett who do "Let It Be Me" so gorgeous making this the definitive version and they make this classic standard totally their own in a very magical way...we love and miss you Betty Everett and long live Jerry Butler and please go back into the studio and grace us with another classic like only you can!!! This collection is a timeless masterpiece.
Nothing Says I Love You Like I Love You/The Best Love I Ever Had
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Two superb but underexposed albums from "The Iceman".
 Nothing Says I Love You Like I Love You/The Best Love I Ever Had
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ASIN: B000A7IHRG
Release Date: 2005-08-30

Tracks:

  1. (I'm Just Thinking About) Cooling Out
  2. Let's Make Love
  3. Sad Eyes
  4. Mighty Good People
  5. I'm Glad to Be Back
  6. Nothing Says I Love You Like I Love You
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  8. Are You Lonely Tonight
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  11. Don't Be an Island
  12. Tell Me Girl (Why It Has to End)
  13. Reach Out for Me
  14. We've Got This Feeling Again
  15. Angel Face
  16. Best Love I Ever Had [Slow Version]

Album Description

Jerry Butler started his career in The Impressions with Curtis Mayfield, before going on to a very successful solo career, although still collaborating with Mayfield as writer and producer. Gamble and Huff produced Butler's two biggest selling albums Ice On Ice and You & Me in 1969. Edsel. 2005.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Two superb but underexposed albums from "The Iceman"........2006-03-17

Perhaps because they were both released at a time when disco ruled the charts these two albums' sales figures were dismal--the material on both, however, was nothing short of glorious and superb. Jerry Butler's reunion with Gamble and Huff resulted in some great Philly Soul with gorgeous numbers like "Let's Make Love", "Angel Face", "Would You Mind?", "Don't Be An Island" and both the disco and slow-tempo versions of "Nothing Says I Love You Like I Love You" being key cuts.
Best of Jerry Butler & The Impressions
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Release Date: 2005-08-02

Tracks:

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  3. Hey Western Union Man
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  5. Ain't Understanding Mellow
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  7. Amen
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  10. It's All Right
  11. Talking About My Baby

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars Why Do They Do This?.......2007-03-10

There's a reason it is only $5.98. They're rerecorded. Even Amazon disguises that they are rerecordings. The CD says so in white type in the lower left corner, but the Amazon repro of the label doesn't show it. Hmmmm... Don't waste time with this one, get the originals.
His Best
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    		His Best
    Jerry Butler
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    Release Date: 2000-08-24

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    1. He Will Break Your Heart
    2. For Your Precious Love
    3. Let It Be Me
    4. Moon River
    5. Come Back To My Love
    6. Lost
    7. Find Another Girl
    8. I'm A Tellin You
    9. Make It Easy On Yourself
    10. You Can Run (But You Can't Hide)
    11. Whatever You Want
    12. Need To Belong
    13. Giving Up On Love
    14. I Stand Accused
    15. Smile
    16. Good Times
    17. A Lonely Soldier
    18. For You Precious Love
    The Best of Jerry Butler
    Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    • Probably the best single CD collection
    • Very good choice of songs
    • Smooth as silk but some material is marginal
    • The Iceman cometh (so, originality is WAY overrated)!
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    		 The Best of Jerry Butler
    Jerry Butler
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    ASIN: B00000348Y
    Release Date: 1990-10-25

    Tracks:

    1. For Your Precious Love
    2. He Will Break Your Heart
    3. Find Another Girl
    4. I'm A Telling You
    5. Moon River
    6. Make It Easy On Yourself
    7. You Can Run (But You Can't Hide)
    8. I'm The One That Loves You
    9. Theme From 'Taras Bulba' (The Wishing Star)
    10. Whatever You Want
    11. Need To Belong
    12. Giving Up On Love
    13. I Don't Want To Hear Anymore
    14. I Stand Accused
    15. Let It Be Me
    16. Never Give You Up
    17. Hey, Western Union Man
    18. Only The Strong Survive

    Customer Reviews:

    4 out of 5 stars Probably the best single CD collection.......2005-05-05

    Because Butler has changed labels several times over his 4 decade long career, it's pretty well impossible to get EVERYTHING on 1 disc due to licensing issues. This one does about as good a job as I've seen though:

    All his most well-known crossover hits are here: "Moon River" (the definitive version of the tune...sorry Mr. Williams), "He Will Break Your Heart","Make it Easy on Yourself", his duet with Betty Everett for a great cover of the Everly Brothers "Let it Be Me", and soul classic "For Your Precious Love" (with the Impressions). Late 60s comeback pop hits "Hey, Western Union Man" and "Only the Strong Survive" are a bit murkier in many oldies fans memories, but they're nonetheless great songs that deserve to be remembered.

    Outside of those, you get several tunes that did well on R&B charts if more unknown to pop fans: Top 10 hits "Find Another Girl","I'm a Telling You", and "Never Give You Up". The only omission from the 50s/60s era is top 10 hit "Are You Happy?" from 1967. (His latter-day 70s stuff isn't here either...probably because of licensing..but you can get that on the Millennium collection, ASIN B00004ZDVY)

    Add to that the usual fantastic Rhino job of remastering and liner notes and you have as close to the definitive Jerry Butler single CD compilation as exists for the time being.

    4 out of 5 stars Very good choice of songs.......2002-07-27

    Excellent collection of the Ice man on VeeJay records. It only overlaps on 2 songs with his Mercury Very Best compilation.
    Only 4 stars because of the sound quality, it could be very much better.

    4 out of 5 stars Smooth as silk but some material is marginal.......2001-03-14

    Being too young to know the complete library of Jerry Butler tunes I can only comment on what has been included on this disc. Suffice it to say that 90% of the tunes are outstanding but there are notable exceptions. That and only that is what brings the rating down to 4 stars.

    Jerry's performances are flawless. His voice is fluid, soulful, and evocative. But even Henry Aaron couldn't hit a home run every time he came to the plate. If a few of the cuts (primarily) at the end of this compilation had been left off I would have rated this as a five star disc.

    And I would invite more traditional music (non R&B) fans to take a listen. For the material within is appealing to both fans of soul and the more traditional.

    I find myself coming back to this collection very often and singing along with these reflective songs of simplicity, beauty and longing that seems to have only existed in my memory.

    5 out of 5 stars The Iceman cometh (so, originality is WAY overrated)!.......2000-12-12

    Jerry Butler was one of the smoothest, most soulful crooner to ever get onto vinyl. This compilation is the one place to find much of his best work, and is a great value.

    Henry Mancini said on the liner notes to another great J.B. album The Spice of Life (which for God knows why has not made it yet to to compact discs) that Jerry Butler recorded the very first version of "Moon River". Appropriately, it is included here. It also has a representative of Butler's early work as a member of the Impressions, with that doo-wop classic, "Your Precious Love"

    All of the hits from J.B.'s career are found on this one disc. "Make It Easy On Yourself", "He Will Break Your Heart", "Western Union Man", "Only the Strong Survive" and the great duet with Betty Everett, "Let It Be Me".

    J.B. is a classic old school crooner. His voice is miles deep and smooth as slightly oiled silk. This album is the place to find his best work.

    5 out of 5 stars Tears of Joy from Captain Midnight.......2000-12-07

    when I heard this CD I feel upon my knees looked to heaven and wept tears of joy.This is truly the music of the Gods don't miss this CD.
    The Very Best of Jerry Butler
    Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    • To Joey Hoffman
    • SILKY SOUL!!
    		 The Very Best of Jerry Butler
    Jerry Butler
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    Release Date: 1992-02-04

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    1. Only The Strong Survive
    2. Hey, Western Union Man
    3. Never Give You Up
    4. Moody Woman
    5. Ain't Understanding Mellow
    6. I Dig You Baby
    7. One Night Affair
    8. What's The Use Of Breaking Up
    9. Lost
    10. Mr. Dream Merchant
    11. How Did We Lose It
    12. Are You Happy

    Customer Reviews:

    4 out of 5 stars To Joey Hoffman.......2004-11-25

    NOW there is a box set of Jerry Butler songs, one with his sometimes partner, the late Betty Everett (Shoop Shoop Song, Let It Be Me) included. So all of you get that cocoa and check out Amazon. You'll find it. All the Butler you can stand. This one? It's what Joey said but there ARE other singers. If you want a little bit of Jerry Butler, this package contains some of his best tunes. You won't be disappointed with The Iceman. Believe it.

    5 out of 5 stars SILKY SOUL!!.......2002-11-08

    THIS MAN ORIGINALLY CALLED THE ICEMAN ,REALLY SHOULD BE CALLED "THE PRINCE OF SOUL" HIS VOICE IS SO SMOOTH & WARM TO THE SOUL,ALL YOU NEED NOW IS YOUR HONEY TO CURL UP TO WITH A NICE STEAMING CUP OF HOT COCOA,OOH BABY BABY!!HE'S ONE OF THE GREATEST SOUL SINGERS OF OUR TIME FROM THE EARLY DAYS OF THE IMPRESSIONS TO HIS SOLO YEARS N SOME DUETS HERE N THERE.I DON'T KNOW WHY THERE IS NOT A FABULOUS ,FANTASTIC BOX SET OF THIS GREAT ARTIST.MMMM MAYBE ONE DAY!!START WITH,FOR YOU PRECIOUS LOVE,NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP,LOST,HEY,WESTERN UNION MAN,ONLY THE STRONG SURVIVE,WHERE ARE YOU GOING, ONE NITE AFFAIR,HOW DID WE LOSE IT BABY,TOGETHER,JUST YOU & ME,(THELMA HOUSTON)AIN'T UNDERSTANDING MELLOW(BRENDA LEE EAGER)ON & ON!!JOEY HOFFMAN( THE SOUL BROTHER OF DOVER) 52757 "YEAH BABY"
    The Best Love
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • Oh, yes! Jerry's Best Vocals!
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    • LEGENDARY SINGER AT HIS BEST~BRAVO JERRY!!!!
    		 The Best Love
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    ASIN: B00008EWUQ
    Release Date: 1995-12-01

    Tracks:

    1. Best Love I Ever Had
    2. Would You Mind?
    3. Don't Be an Island
    4. Tell Me Girl (Why It Has to End)
    5. Reach Out for Me
    6. We've Got This Feeling Again
    7. Angel Face
    8. Best Love I Ever Had [Slow Version]

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Oh, yes! Jerry's Best Vocals!.......2006-01-31

    Jerry's vocal on "The Best Love I Ever Had" (uptempo version) smoulders slowly and then bursts into flame. This song is so great that there are 2 versions. Another gorgeous ballad "Angel Face" is so smooth and sexy. It's heavenly! The knock-out number that is worth waiting for is the slow version of "The Best Love I Ever Had" which is the finale. Look out! This one is infectious!

    2 out of 5 stars Definitely NOT Jerry Butler at his best.......2005-10-03

    Sorry Bradley Briggs, that's definitely not Jerry Butler at his best! It seems by 1980 Jerry Butler lost the sparkle and funk of his 1976 "Love's on the Menu" album and the fabulous groove on his joint album with Thelma Houston. Once you experienced these, it's hard to settle for anything less. I am confident in his huge catalogue there are some more pearls like these.I wish I knew them all and they were not out of print...

    5 out of 5 stars LEGENDARY SINGER AT HIS BEST~BRAVO JERRY!!!!.......2004-09-28

    Anyone who wants to hear the greatest male "soul" singer of all time (or just plain great singer!) at his absolute peak with awesome orchestrations filled with the best group of musicians on the planet had better grab this set while its around!!! Opening with the great title song "The Best Love", it is clear that Jerry Butler is in ultimate vocal form and flows brilliantly through a great arrangement with a vocal that is all over the map but ever so smoothly!!! A Jerry Butler original features a gorgeous vocal filled with passionate longing and a glorious orchestration swirling with strings and beautiful background vocals making "Would You Mind" a masterpiece that is followed by a beautiful duet with Debra Henry "Don't Be An Island". Totally amazing that the masterful "Tell Me Girl(Why It Has To End)" wasn't a huge hit as Jerry's magnificent vocal pleads and soars to incredible heights and depths and becomes one of the finest performance's of his brilliant career-this one is completely stunning!!! A cooking remake of "Reach Out For Me" is winning while "We've Got This Feeling Again" is another great duet with Debra Henry that flows with a great rhythm track and sounds like it should have been a hit!!! A haunting vocal with an engrossing arrangement make the Gamble/Huff original "Angel Face" another standout in a superb set that is full of great songs with the bulk of them produced by the legendary Philly team Gamble/Huff along with Dexter Wansel and Jerry Butler!! This is an example of the classic Philly Soul production team at its peak with grand and incredibly creative arrangements and a singer who is simply brilliant...Closing this peerless collection is a slowed down seductive version of the title song "The Best Love" and Jerry's passionate vocal is sublime and beyond compare...BRAVO JERRY BUTLER!!!
    Philadelphia vol. 1 FEATURING: Archie Bell & the Drells, Jerry Butler, Dee Dee Sharp, Bunny Sigler, The O'Jays, The Trammps, Teddy Pendergrass, Patti LaBelle, Norman Harris, Lou Rawls, MFSB, Bobby Rush, Jean Carn, The Jones Girls
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      		Philadelphia vol. 1 FEATURING: Archie Bell & the Drells, Jerry Butler, Dee Dee Sharp, Bunny Sigler, The O'Jays, The Trammps, Teddy Pendergrass, Patti LaBelle, Norman Harris, Lou Rawls, MFSB, Bobby Rush, Jean Carn, The Jones Girls
      Don't Let Love Get You Down - Archie Bell & the Drells / Best Love I Ever Had - Jerry Butler / Easy Money - Dee Dee Sharp / Somebody Loves You - Bunny Sigler , Let's Clean Up the Ghetto / Big Gangster - The O'Jays / Promise Me - The Trammps / You and Me for Right Now - Teddy Pendergrass , Need and Want You - Patti LaBelle / You Make Me Feel Brand New - Norman Harris / Family Reunion - Lou Rawls / Use to Be My Guy - MFSB Love , and I Wanna Do the Do - Bobby Rush / If You Wanna Go Back - Jean Carn / Keep It Comin' - The Jones Girls / Rhythm Talk
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      Best of Jerry Butler
      Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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      Release Date: 1997-04-11

      Tracks:

      1. Message to Martha
      2. For Your Precious Love
      3. Make It Easy on Yourself
      4. I Stand Accused
      5. Find Another Girl
      6. I'm a Telling You
      7. Moon River
      8. He Will Break Your Heart
      9. Smile
      10. Let It Be Me

      Customer Reviews:

      4 out of 5 stars Probably the best single CD collection.......2005-05-05

      Because Butler has changed labels several times over his 4 decade long career, it's pretty well impossible to get EVERYTHING on 1 disc due to licensing issues. This one does about as good a job as I've seen though:

      All his most well-known crossover hits are here: "Moon River" (the definitive version of the tune...sorry Mr. Williams), "He Will Break Your Heart","Make it Easy on Yourself", his duet with Betty Everett for a great cover of the Everly Brothers "Let it Be Me", and soul classic "For Your Precious Love" (with the Impressions). Late 60s comeback pop hits "Hey, Western Union Man" and "Only the Strong Survive" are a bit murkier in many oldies fans memories, but they're nonetheless great songs that deserve to be remembered.

      Outside of those, you get several tunes that did well on R&B charts if more unknown to pop fans: Top 10 hits "Find Another Girl","I'm a Telling You", and "Never Give You Up". The only omission from the 50s/60s era is top 10 hit "Are You Happy?" from 1967. (His latter-day 70s stuff isn't here either...probably because of licensing..but you can get that on the Millennium collection, ASIN B00004ZDVY)

      Add to that the usual fantastic Rhino job of remastering and liner notes and you have as close to the definitive Jerry Butler single CD compilation as exists for the time being.

      4 out of 5 stars Very good choice of songs.......2002-07-27

      Excellent collection of the Ice man on VeeJay records. It only overlaps on 2 songs with his Mercury Very Best compilation.
      Only 4 stars because of the sound quality, it could be very much better.

      4 out of 5 stars Smooth as silk but some material is marginal.......2001-03-14

      Being too young to know the complete library of Jerry Butler tunes I can only comment on what has been included on this disc. Suffice it to say that 90% of the tunes are outstanding but there are notable exceptions. That and only that is what brings the rating down to 4 stars.

      Jerry's performances are flawless. His voice is fluid, soulful, and evocative. But even Henry Aaron couldn't hit a home run every time he came to the plate. If a few of the cuts (primarily) at the end of this compilation had been left off I would have rated this as a five star disc.

      And I would invite more traditional music (non R&B) fans to take a listen. For the material within is appealing to both fans of soul and the more traditional.

      I find myself coming back to this collection very often and singing along with these reflective songs of simplicity, beauty and longing that seems to have only existed in my memory.

      5 out of 5 stars The Iceman cometh (so, originality is WAY overrated)!.......2000-12-12

      Jerry Butler was one of the smoothest, most soulful crooner to ever get onto vinyl. This compilation is the one place to find much of his best work, and is a great value.

      Henry Mancini said on the liner notes to another great J.B. album The Spice of Life (which for God knows why has not made it yet to to compact discs) that Jerry Butler recorded the very first version of "Moon River". Appropriately, it is included here. It also has a representative of Butler's early work as a member of the Impressions, with that doo-wop classic, "Your Precious Love"

      All of the hits from J.B.'s career are found on this one disc. "Make It Easy On Yourself", "He Will Break Your Heart", "Western Union Man", "Only the Strong Survive" and the great duet with Betty Everett, "Let It Be Me".

      J.B. is a classic old school crooner. His voice is miles deep and smooth as slightly oiled silk. This album is the place to find his best work.

      5 out of 5 stars Tears of Joy from Captain Midnight.......2000-12-07

      when I heard this CD I feel upon my knees looked to heaven and wept tears of joy.This is truly the music of the Gods don't miss this CD.

      Soul Music:

      1. The Best of Parliament: Give Up the Funk
      2. The Great Aretha Franklin: The First 12 Sides
      3. The Live [Live]
      4. The Tide Is Turning
      5. The Ultimate Collection
      6. The Ultimate Collection
      7. The Ultimate Collection
      8. Twisting the Knife
      9. Ultimate Collection
      10. Ultimate Collection

      Soul Music

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