Jerry Butler - Jerry Butler - Greatest Hits
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Artist: Jerry ButlerEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2011-05-18
Music Label: Curb
Soundtracks:
- For Your Precious Love
- He Will Break Your Heart
- Moon River
- Make It Easy on Yourself
- Let It Be Me
- Hey, Western Union Man
- Only the Strong Survive
- What's the Use of Breaking Up?
- I Wanna Do It to You
- Chalk It Up
- The Devil in Mrs. Jones
Music reviews of Jerry Butler - Greatest Hits
Music Review: Not the optimum Butler collection, though it's decent
Rating: 3 Stars
Jerry Butler has been making smoothly soulful music for over 40 years now and as you'd expect changed record labels over that time. Record labels consideration for the bottom line being what it is, so far there's NO comprehensive collection for Butler assembling ALL of his career chart hits. Some were on Vee-Jay, others on Mercury..even Motown. This collects most of the best of the 50s/60s stuff with a couple interesting, if not particularly well-known, 70s moments from the Iceman.
HIGHLIGHTS:
"For Your Precious Love" is a soul classic. "Moon River" leaves Andy Williams' better known rendition in the dust and proves Butler to be a creamy voiced vocalist with more in common with Nat "King" Cole than, say, Wilson Pickett. "Make it Easy on Yourself" practically bleeds emotion. The duet with Betty Everett on Everly Brothers classic "Let it Be Me" equals the original. "Only the Strong Survive" was a powerful anthem of tenacity. "Devil in Mrs. Jones" is a funky novelty from 1976 no doubt inspired by the porn flick of the same name ("The Devil in Mrs. Jones/makes me want to make love all night long/The Devil in Mrs. Jones/makes me want to raise some h*ll of my own")
LOWS:
"Chalk it Up" isn't outright bad, but Butler doing disco is probably most interesting as an oddity.
BOTTOM LINE:
This is OK and you might be happy with it, but the out-of-print Rhino collection does a little better job of gathering together at least the 50s and 60s material (ASIN B00000348Y). Still, you'll need to get the Millennium collection too to fill in some of the gaps from his last gasp of stardom in the early 70s. (ASIN B00004ZDVY)
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