#JERRY BUTLER FULL#
The CD also adds historical liner notes by author Craig Werner. One of the first and best compilations to range through Jerry Butlers entire career on the pop charts, Rhinos The Best of Jerry Butler offered a lot of tracks - especially considering its release date, the mid-80s - and remains the best place to hear the full scope of Chicagos smoothest soul singer. But overall these sessions are highlights of slick-yet-not-too-slick early Philly soul production, and ones in which the artist (Butler) is as much a creative contributor as Gamble & Huff. Mini Bio (1) Jerry Butler got his start in the music business at age 18 when he and his friend Curtis Mayfield formed a singing group and named them The Impressions. The consistently sentimental stories might be a little overwhelming all at once.
Jerry’s sister, Linda, held everything together, generous in greeting and thanking everyone individually who was in attendance. Former hockey player friends, broad-shouldered, taciturn, granite-like men in their 50s, shook their heads quietly. Family members sat with friends in near silence. It was the equal of its predecessor in sophisticated production, too, sometimes introducing the electric sitar-like sounds that became vogue throughout soul music for a while. At the funeral, there was a sense of bewilderment. The Iceman Cometh, the (slightly) earlier of the pair of albums, is the one that will grab listeners' attention more, as it has the hits "Never Give You Up," "Hey, Western Union Man," and "Only the Strong Survive." But really, Ice on Ice isn't far behind in quality, featuring "A Brand New Me," which some listeners might be more familiar with from Dusty Springfield's version. Thus it isolates, on one solid package, the short-lived time in which Butler, working with Gamble & Huff, successfully enhanced the early Philadelphia soul sound, and vice versa.
Dream Merchant and You and Me) featuring the same Butler-Gamble-Huff combination. Both of the late-'60s albums on which Butler collaborated with the Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff production team, The Iceman Cometh and Ice on Ice, are combined on a single CD, with the addition of three other tracks from the era (which originally appeared on the LPs Mr. Here's a sensible, good-value thematic reissue, a blast of fresh air in an era where sometimes any excuses seem to be getting made to put out the same material over and over.
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