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Jerry Butler Songs

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Jerry Butler, Jr. (born December 8, 1939) is an American soul singer and songwriter. He is also noted as being the original lead singer of the famed R&B vocal group the Impressions, as well as a 1991 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee. Since his 1991 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Impressions, several music writers and critics have stated that Butler also deserves a second induction as a solo artist, based upon his career as a recording artist and songwriter after leaving that group.

Below is a list of Jerry Butler songs, sorted by the most popular first. Place mouse on to see information about song. Click song title to play song and to read details about the song including lyrics (if available). Click year to list all songs from that year. Click label to list songs from that record label. Songs with chart position "---" either never made it into the US top 100 R&B or UK charts or we have no details of their highest chart positions if they did.

(Song are sorted in highest US R&B Top 100 and/or UK Top 100 chart position order)


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1 record label: Vee Jay 354
chart position: RandB #1 (7 weeks), US #7
weeksinr&bchart: 16
written by: Jerry Butler, Curtis Mayfield & Calvin Carter
album: He Will Break Your Heart
Jerry Butler He Will Break Your Heart
1960 Vee Jay
2 record label: Mercury 72898
chart position: RandB #1, US #4
written by: Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff & Jerry Butler
album: The Ice Man Cometh
comments: [philly sound]
Jerry Butler Only the Strong Survive
1969 Mercury
3 record label: Vee Jay 567
chart position: RandB #2 (1 week), US #31
weeksinr&bchart: 15
written by: Curtis Mayfield
album: Need To Belong
Jerry Butler Need To Belong
1963 Vee Jay
4 record label: Vee Jay 598
chart position: RandB #3 (3 weeks), US #61
weeksinr&bchart: 18
written by: Billy Butler and Jerry Butler
Jerry Butler I Stand Accused
1964 Vee Jay
5 record label: Mercury 72850
chart position: RandB #1, US #16
written by: Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff & Jerry Butler
album: The Ice Man Cometh
comments: [philly sound]
Jerry Butler Hey, Western Union Man
1968 Mercury
6 record label: Mercury 72960
chart position: RandB #4, US #20
written by: Kenny Gamble, Thom Bell & Jerry Butler
album: Ice on Ice
comments: [philly sound]
Jerry Butler What's the Use of Breaking Up
1969 Mercury
7 record label: Vee Jay 405
chart position: RandB #14, US #11, US AC #3
written by: Henry Mancini & Johnny Mercer
album: Moon River
Jerry Butler Moon River
1961 Vee Jay
8 record label: Mercury 72798
chart position: RandB #4, US #20
written by: Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff & Jerry Butler
album: The Ice Man Cometh / The Soul Goes On
comments: [philly sound]
Jerry Butler Never Give You Up
1968 Mercury
9 record label: Mercury 72929
chart position: RandB #3, US #24
written by: Kenny Gamble, Thom Bell & Jerry Butler
album: Ice on Ice
comments: [philly sound]
Jerry Butler Moody Woman
1969 Mercury
10 record label: Vee Jay 375
chart position: RandB #10, US #27
weeksinr&bchart: 11
written by: Curtis Mayfield and Jerry Butler
album: Aware Of Love
Jerry Butler Find Another Girl
1961 Vee Jay
11 record label: Vee Jay 390
chart position: RandB #8, US #25
weeksinr&bchart: 9
written by: Jerry Butler & Curtis Mayfield
album: Aware Of Love
Jerry Butler I'm a Telling You
1961 Vee Jay
12 record label: Vee Jay 451
chart position: RandB #18, US #20
written by: Burt Bacharach & Hal David
album: Need To Belong
comments: [ballad]
Jerry Butler Make It Easy On Yourself
1962 Vee Jay
13 record label: Mercury 73335
chart position: RandB #6, US #52
written by: Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff
album: The Spice of Life
Jerry Butler One Night Affair
1972 Mercury
14 record label: Motown 1414
chart position: RandB #7, US #51
written by: Jerry Butler, Homer Talbert and P. Henley
album: Suite for the Single Girl
comments: [Motown Sound]
Jerry Butler I Wanna Do It to You
1977 Motown
15 record label: Mercury 72648
chart position: RandB #8, US #60
written by: Dennis Bell, Lorraine Ellison and Marybell Lambert
Jerry Butler I Dig You Baby
1967 Mercury
16 record label: Mercury 72876
chart position: RandB #9, US #39
written by: Theresa Bell, Jerry Butler and Kenny Gamble
album: The Ice Man Cometh
Jerry Butler Are You Happy
1968 Mercury
17 record label: Mercury 72991
chart position: RandB #12, US #44
written by: Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff and Jerry Butler
album: Ice on Ice
Jerry Butler Don't Let Love Hang You Up
1969 Mercury
18 record label: Mercury 73045
chart position: RandB #15, US #46
written by: Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff and Jerry Butler
album: You and Me
comments: [philly sound]
Jerry Butler I Could Write a Book
1970 Mercury
19 record label: Mercury 72764
chart position: RandB #15, US #62
written by: Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff and Jerry Butler
album: Mr. Dream Merchant / The Ice Man Cometh
Jerry Butler Lost
1967 Mercury
20 record label: Vee Jay 588
chart position: RandB #17, US #56
written by: Richard Gottehrer, Jerry Goldstein and Bob Feldman
album: Need To Belong
Jerry Butler Giving Up On Love
1964 Vee Jay
21 record label: Mercury 72721
chart position: RandB #23, US #38
written by: Larry Weiss and Jonas B. Ross
album: Mr. Dream Merchant
Jerry Butler Mr. Dream Merchant
1967 Mercury
22 record label: P.I.R. 3656
chart position: RandB #14
written by: Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff and Jerry Butler
album: Nothing Says I Love You Like I Love You
Jerry Butler (I'm Just Thinking About) Cooling Out
1978 P.I.R.
23 record label: Mercury 73443
chart position: RandB #15
written by: Jerry Butler and Johnny Bristol
album: Power of Love
Jerry Butler Power of Love
1973 Mercury
24 record label: Mercury 73290
chart position: RandB #20, US #85
written by: Harry Warren and Al Dubin
album: The Spice of Life
Jerry Butler I Only Have Eyes for You
1972 Mercury
25 record label: Abner 1024
chart position: RandB #17
written by: A. Tucker, T. Twiggs, C. Batenza
Jerry Butler Lost
1959 Abner
26 record label: Mercury 73015
chart position: RandB #21, US #62
written by: Helen Miller and Rose Marie McCoy
album: Ice on Ice
comments: [ballad]
Jerry Butler Got to See If I Can't Get Mommy (To Come Back Home)
1970 Mercury
27 record label: Vee Jay 463
chart position: RandB #23, US #63
written by: Paul Griffin, Don Covay and Dennison
Jerry Butler You Can Run (But You Can't Hide)
1962 Vee Jay
28 record label: Vee Jay 651
chart position: RandB #33, US #64
written by: Ted Daryll
Jerry Butler Good Times
1965 Vee Jay
29 record label: Vee Jay 396
chart position: RandB #25, US #99
written by: Arthur Brooks, Richard Brooks and Jerry Butler
comments: [Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #327]
Jerry Butler For Your Precious Love
1966 Vee Jay
30 record label: Vee Jay 486
chart position: US #68
written by: Bob Gaudio and Bob Crewe
Jerry Butler Whatever You Want
1963 Vee Jay
31 record label: Vee Jay 696
chart position: Cashbox R&B #27, US #122
written by: Van McCoy
Jerry Butler I Can't Stand to See You Cry
1965 Vee Jay
32 record label: Abner 1035
chart position: RandB #25
written by: Curtis Mayfield and Jerry Butler
Jerry Butler A Lonely Soldier
1960 Abner
33 record label: Vee Jay 696
chart position: Cashbox RandB #27
written by: R. Newman
comments: [ballad]
Jerry Butler Nobody Needs Your Love (More Than I Do)
1965 Vee Jay
34 record label: Mercury 73210
chart position: RandB #38, US #85
written by: Billy Butler and C. Jones
album: Jerry Butler Sings Assorted Sounds
Jerry Butler How Did We Lose It Baby
1971 Mercury
35 record label: Motown 1421
chart position: RandB #28, US Dance #39
written by: Paul Wilson
album: Suite for the Single Girl
comments: [Motown Sound] Chalk It Up / Let's Go Get Out of Town in US dance charts
Jerry Butler Chalk It Up
1977 Motown
36 record label: Vee Jay 598
chart position: US #95
written by: Randy Newman
Jerry Butler I Don't Want To Hear Anymore
1964 Vee Jay
37 record label: Mercury 73101
chart position: RandB #42, US #95
written by: Bobby Scott and Danny Meehan
Jerry Butler Where Are You Going
1970 Mercury
38 record label: Mercury 72592
chart position: RandB #34, US #103
written by: Bobby Miller, Billy Butler and Jerry Butler
Jerry Butler Love (Oh, How Sweet It Is)
1966 Mercury
39 record label: Mercury 73629
chart position: RandB #33
written by: Leroy Hutson and Zane Grey
album: Sweet Sixteen
Jerry Butler Playing on You
1974 Mercury
40 record label: Vee Jay 475
chart position: Cashbox R&B #44, US #100
written by: Franz Waxman and Hal David
Jerry Butler Theme From Taras Bulba
1962 Vee Jay
41 record label: Mercury 73241
chart position: RandB #33
written by: Chuck Jackson
album: The Sagittarius Movement
Jerry Butler Walk Easy My Son
1971 Mercury
42 record label: Sue 4009
chart position: RandB #33
written by: J.D. Jones
Jerry Butler Just for You
1965 Sue
43 record label: Mercury 73131
chart position: RandB #36, US #109
written by: Jerry Butler, Billy Butler and Larry Wade
album: Jerry Butler Sings Assorted Sounds
Jerry Butler Special Memory
1970 Mercury
44 record label: Vee Jay 405
chart position: Cashbox R&B #45, US #105
written by: Jerry Butler and Curtis Mayfield
Jerry Butler Aware of Love
1961 Vee Jay
45 record label: Mercury 72960
chart position: US #109
written by: Kenny Gamble, Thom Bell and Jerry Butler
album: Ice on Ice
Jerry Butler A Brand New Me
1969 Mercury
46 record label: Mercury 73495
chart position: RandB #46
written by: Jerry Butler and Marvin Yancy
album: Sweet Sixteen
Jerry Butler Take the Time to Tell Her
1974 Mercury
47 record label: P.I.R. 3746
chart position: RandB #49
written by: Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff
album: The Best Love
Jerry Butler The Best Love I Ever Had
1980 P.I.R.
48 record label: Tamla Motown 1039
chart position: RandB #55
written by: Michael Smith
album: Love's on the Menu
comments: [Motown Sound]
Jerry Butler The Devil in Mrs. Jones
1976 Tamla Motown
49 record label: Mercury 73459
chart position: RandB #58
written by: Ben Raleight and Bob Halley
album: Ben Raleight and Bob Halley
Jerry Butler That's How Heartaches Are Made
1974 Mercury
50 record label: Fountain 400
chart position: RandB #83
written by: Phillip Brown and Rufus Hill
album: Ice 'N Hot
comments: [ballad]
Jerry Butler No Love Without Changes
1982 Fountain
51 record label: P.I.R. 3673
chart position: RandB #86
written by: Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff and Jerry Butler
album: Nothing Says I Love You Like I Love You
Jerry Butler Nothing Says I Love You Like I Love You
1979 P.I.R.
-- record label: Fountain 82 400
written by: Freddie Perren, Keni St. James
album: Ice 'N Hot
comments: [disco funk]
Jerry Butler All The Way
1982 Fountain
-- record label: Mercury 61198
written by: Gamble, Huff, Butler
album: The Ice Man Cometh
comments: [album cut]
Jerry Butler How Can I Get In Touch With You
1968 Mercury
-- record label: Mercury 61198
written by: Butler, Butler, Gamble
album: The Ice Man Cometh
comments: [album cut]
Jerry Butler Can't Forget About You, Baby
1968 Mercury
-- record label: Mercury 61198
written by: Butler, Gamble, Farrow, Bell
album: The Ice Man Cometh
comments: [ballad album cut]
Jerry Butler Just Because I Really Love You
1968 Mercury
-- record label: Mercury 72876
written by: Butler, Farrow, Harris
album: The Ice Man Cometh
comments: [ballad]
Jerry Butler (Strange) I Still Love You
1968 Mercury
-- record label: Mercury 72929
written by: Gamble, Bell, Butler
album: The Ice Man Cometh
comments: [ballad]
Jerry Butler Go Away, Find Yourself
1968 Mercury
-- record label: Mercury 61198
written by: Gamble, Huff, Butler
album: The Ice Man Cometh
comments: [ballad album cut]
Jerry Butler I Stop By Heaven
1968 Mercury




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