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Jerry Butler: Power Of Love (Mercury)

John Swenson, Zoo World, 9 May 1974

JERRY BUTLER is unquestionably the King of Chicago-style cool R&B (the name Ice Man didn't come for nothing – at a time when Pickett epitomized the dancing fool, Butler was the epitome of elegant reserve).

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