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Track Listing
1. For Your Precious Love - (with The Impressions)
2. Come Back My Love - (with The Impressions)
3. He Will Break Your Heart
4. Find Another Girl
5. I'm a Telling You
6. Moon River
7. Aware of Love
8. Make It Easy on Yourself
9. You Can Run (But You Can't Hide)
10. Message to Martha
11. Need to Belong
12. Giving up on Love
13. I Don't Want to Hear It Anymore
14. I Stand Accused
15. Let It Be Me - (with Betty Everett)
16. Good Times
Album Notes
Additional personnel: The Impressions, Betty Everett.
Chicago soul king Jerry Butler wasn't called "the Ice Man" for nothing. His cool, smooth style found favor on both the pop and R&B charts from the 1950s through the '70s, and the Vee-Jay label is where it all started. BEST OF THE VEE JAY YEARS kicks off with a pair of tracks Butler recorded as the singer for the Impressions, and moves on to such early solo smashes as "He Will Break Your Heart," which were also collaborations with the Impressions' best-known frontman, Curtis Mayfield. The collection follows Butler as he explores a multitude of directions, from Bacharach-David Brill Building pop ("Make it Easy on Yourself") to standards ("Moon River"), but no matter how far beyond R&B he reaches for his material, the Ice Man invests it with his trademark brand of quietly powerful soul.
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