Artiest:

Jerry Butler

Titel:

Iceman Cometh  Ltd. (1968)

Release:

5 Januari 2021

Maatschappij:

Elemental Music / Universal

Product Code:

88556

EAN:

8435395502570

Disc.

1

Tracks:

01. Hey Western Union Man

02. Can’t Forget About You Baby

03. Only The Strong Survive

04. How Can I Get In Touch With You

05. Just Because I Really Love You

06. Lost

07. Never Give You Up

08. Are You Happy

09. (Strange) I Still Love You

10. Go Away – Find Yourself

11. I Stop By Heaven

Tracks 1, 4 & 7: Bobby Martin

Tracks 2 & 5: Thom Bell

Tracks 3 & 8-11: Bobby Martin & Thom Bell

Track 6: Joe Renzetti

Originally released as SR-61198 by Mercury Records in November 1968.

Produced by Kenneth Gamble & Leon Huff.

Original Lp cover by Jay Thompson.

Engineered by Joe Tarsia.

Recorded at Cameo-Parkway Studios and Sigma Sound Studio, Philadelphia, PA,

Winter-Summer 1968, except “Lost”, recorded at Bell Sound Studios, New York, September 1967.

Extra:

Mini-LP Papersleeve Gatefold Cardboard Replica CD

Mini-LP klaphoes replica

Info:

The Ice Man Cometh, Jerry Butler’s most successful LP, was the first full-album work from the production team Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff. It marks an excellent collaboration, the first time R&B production techniques reached a level of maturity and elegance capable of fully complementing one of the smoothest vocalists in soul history. The Top Ten singles “Hey, Western Union Man” and “Only the Strong Survive” weren’t just popular radio hits, but great performances displaying how far the R&B/soul crowd had progressed from the novelty-laden ‘50s. Thanks to Butler and Gamble/Huff, the sound proved incredibly influential, both in the short term (Elvis Presley was definitely listening and cut a very similar “Only the Strong Survive” one year later) and the long term (Gamble and Huff’s Philly Intl. label ruled the mid-’70s R&B world with the same sound). Here’s where it coalesced.