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Jerry Butler, Legendary Soul Singer, Dies at 85 Following Parkinson's Disease Diagnosis
Jerry Butler has died at the age of 85. Butler was the original lead singer of the Impressions before embarking on a successful solo career.
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Jerry Butler in New York City in February 2003. Photo:
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Jerry Butler has died at the age of 85.
Per the Chicago Sun-Times, Butler died on Thursday, Feb. 20 after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, a family friend told the publication. “He was very important to both music and to the community, and he will be missed," his niece Yolanda Goff told the publication on Feb. 21.
"We hope the city of Chicago recognizes the legacy he leaves behind."
Nicknamed "The Ice Man," Butler began his music career with the R&B group the Impressions. After two years with them, he embarked on a successful solo career, with hit songs like "He Will Break Your Heart,” “Only the Strong Survive,” "Ain't Understanding Mellow" and many more.
Butler was born in Sunflower, Miss., in 1939. His family moved to Chicago when he was 3 years old. He first discovered music in church. “I was the guy that never expected to be in show business. Show business was an avocation,” he told NPR in 2005. “It was something that I did as a hobby. I enjoyed it. I would have sang free if I couldn't have gotten paid. And once I found out I could get paid, I took it a little more seriously, and got into it a little bit more.”
Jerry Butler in New York City in 1965.Don Paulsen/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty
He and his future Impressions bandmate Curtis Mayfield sang with the Northern Jubilee Gospel Singers. When they left the group, they joined the Roosters. In 1958, the group got a new manager and a new name: Jerry Butler & the Impressions.
Their first hit single was 1958’s "For Your Precious Love,” which hit No. 3 on the R&B chart and No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was Butler’s favorite of all his songs, he told NPR. “ ‘For Your Precious Love’ is the one song that if I go and perform someplace and don't sing it, people want their money back. They think they've been cheated,” he said.
From left: Curtis Mayfield, Jerry Butler and Fred Cash in New York City in 1965.Don Paulsen/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty
After the song’s success, “all of a sudden I had money,” Butler told the Chicago Reader in 1990. “I could buy clothes. I could buy a car. I was on the Dick Clark show [American Bandstand]. I was doing all the kind of stuff that folks dream about. But I don’t think it ever really affected me the way it does other people. I never saw it as I’m a star.”
Butler left the group in 1960. He would continue to collaborate with Mayfield, however, and Mayfield wrote and sang background on some of Butler’s hits. Mayfield died in 1999.
Jerry Butler in Chicago in August 1980.Paul Natkin/WireImage
Butler’s 1960 single, "He Will Break Your Heart,” hit No. 7 on the pop chart. Some of his other successful singles included "Find Another Girl", "I'm A-Telling You," "Only the Strong Survive," “Let It Be Me,” "Hey, Western Union Man," "Never Give You Up" and "Ain't Understanding Mellow." “He Will Break Your Heart” also charted in the ‘70s when it was re-recorded as “He Don’t Love You (Like I Love You)” by Tony Orlando and Dawn. Butler was also one of the first artists to record the song “Moon River.”
Butler was also a songwriter, and he and Otis Redding co-wrote the latter’s hit "I've Been Loving You Too Long.”
Jerry Butler in New York City in May 1983.Michael Putland/Getty
Philadelphia DJ Georgie Woods gave Butler the nickname “Ice Man.” "While performing one night in Philadelphia, the sound system went down, and from my days in the church, we just kept on singing,” Butler told KPBS in 2011. “So we sang the song a cappella. And when we finished it, the people jumped up outta their seats and hooped and hollered and George ran on stage and said. 'That was the coolest thing I ever saw. So cool, we’re gonna call you the Ice Man.'" Butler later used the nickname for the 1968 album The Ice Man Cometh and the 1969 album Ice on Ice.
Butler continued to tour and collaborate with other R&B artists. “You know, we are at the point now where we are masters of our craft, and we just go out there and have a real good time,” he told NPR. In all, he released more than 50 albums.
The Impressions in 1983.Brownie Harris/Corbis/Getty
Butler was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Impressions in 1991. But he didn’t care much for accolades. “The work is more important than the completion of the work,” he told the Chicago Reader. “I enjoy doing it more than I enjoy having done it and being rewarded for it or being awarded for it or getting a plaque for it or a gold record for it. That’s the after-effect of the work. The work’s more important.” In 2004, he released a memoir, Only the Strong Survive: Memoirs of a Soul Survivor.
Butler served on the Cook County Board Commissioner in the greater Chicago area from 1986 to 2018. He took a break from recording once he was elected. He decided to enter politics, he told the Reader, at the encouragement of a friend.
Jerry Butler in Cleveland in November 2011.Jason Miller/Getty
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Butler married Annette Butler in 1959. In later years, she worked as one of his background singers. “She just had a multitude of talent, but I think she let it all get swallowed up by me,” he told the Chicago Sun-Times in 2019 when she died. “She told me I took her to places she never thought she’d go. Two young people from the West Side of Chicago, going to England and Portugal and all those places.” The couple shared twin sons, Anthony and Randy.
“We were two young kids having a heckuva time,” Butler told the Sun-Times, “doing what we loved.”
Butler is survived by his sons, four grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
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 was traumatized by the abrupt deaths of multiple students who had crushes on her. Plagued by rumors that she was a “witch,” Mi Jeong decided to quit school and stay cooped up inside at home. Even then, her mysterious “curse” followed her, and her father tragically died after saving her from a venomous snake bite.
In a preview that aired at the end of the episode, it was revealed that it was not Mi Jeong’s idea to leave the village; instead, it turned out that she had been pressured to leave by the other villagers. Most shocking of all, Lee Dong Jin (GOT7’s Jinyoung)’s mother Mi Sook (Jang Hye Jin) was seen standing at the forefront of the group asking Mi Jeong to leave. Later, while lying in a hospital bed, Mi Sook confessed to her son, “I was the one who chased that girl away.”
As Mi Sook was always kind, friendly, and generous to not only her son but also her neighbors, her unexpected and seemingly uncharacteristic involvement in Mi Jeong’s departure raised the question of whether something else had happened in the village after her father’s death.
In newly released stills from the drama’s upcoming third episode, a remorseful Mi Sook brings up the incident with Mi Jeong, which had remained painfully buried in her heart. As she lies in the hospital with Dong Jin by her side, Mi Sook catches her son off guard with her shocking confession—and what she has to say ultimately makes Dong Jin determined to figure out and undo the “curse” that afflicts Mi Jeong.
The drama’s production team teased, “This week, the heartbreaking reason why Mi Jeong had no choice but to leave the village—and why Dong Jin wants so badly to help Mi Jeong return to an ordinary life—will be revealed.”
“Dong Jin will begin to dig into Mi Jeong’s ‘pattern of death’ in earnest,” they continued. “The true mystery will begin starting from Episode 3.”
The third episode of “The Witch” will air on February 22 at 9:10 p.m. KST.
In the meantime, check out the first two episodes of the drama with subtitles on Viki below!
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