Jerry Butler

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Jerry Butler

American singer

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Chicago Soul
…a distinctly soulful sound was Jerry Butler and the Impressions’ “For Your Precious Love” (1958). Butler and the Impressions parted company to pursue parallel careers but remained in contact, and the group’s guitarist, Mayfield, provided Butler’s next big hit, “He Will Break Your Heart” (1960); its gospel structure established the…
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…a distinctly soulful sound was Jerry Butler and the Impressions’ “For Your Precious Love” (1958). Butler and the Impressions parted company to pursue parallel careers but remained in contact, and the group’s guitarist, Mayfield, provided Butler’s next big hit, “He Will Break Your Heart” (1960); its gospel structure established the…
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Vee Jay Records
…“For Your Precious Love” by Jerry Butler and the Impressions in 1958, and reaching a pinnacle with a string of hits by the Four Seasons in the early 1960s. When Capitol refused its option to release several Beatles singles—as well as their first American album, Introducing . . . the…
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…“For Your Precious Love” by Jerry Butler and the Impressions in 1958, and reaching a pinnacle with a string of hits by the Four Seasons in the early 1960s. When Capitol refused its option to release several Beatles singles—as well as their first American album, Introducing . . . the…
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