“The Spice Of Life” by Jerry Butler - album review
| features in: Album Chart of 1972 ● Album Chart of the Decade: 1970s |
A monster double LP set to revel in. Hurrah! To boot, Brenda Lee Eager’s invited back for a couple of duets. “Oh good” I think to myself (not). However, one of them, “You Can’t Always Tell” turns out to be the best of a bad bunch, she’s kinda classy like Betty Wright on that one, her previous warbling giving way to a more genuinely soulful performance rather than the technical voice training excercise routine that I feared. Elsewhere, there are are four tracks which I officially register as “pathetically abysmal”. These are new depths for the bold Jerry…
The Jukebox Rebel
07–Jan–2010
| Tracklist |
| A1 | [04:54]  Jerry Butler - What’s So Good About It (You’re My Baby) (Jerry Butler, Samuel F. Brown III) Soul |
| A2 | [06:25]  Jerry Butler - If I Could Remember (Not Ever Having You) (Jerry Butler, Samuel F. Brown III) Soul |
| A3 | [03:31]  Jerry Butler - I Only Have Eyes For You (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) Pop |
| A4 | [04:59]  Jerry Butler - That’s The Way It Was (That’s The Way It Is) (Jerry Butler, Samuel F. Brown III) Pop Ballad |
| B1 | [03:26]  Jerry Butler - One Night Affair (Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff) Soul |
| B2 | [03:25]  Jerry Butler - A Prayer (Jerry Butler, Samuel F. Brown III) Soul |
| B3 | [05:22]  Jerry Butler - Get On The Case (Cal Carter, James Blumenberg, Johnny Jones) Pop |
| B4 | [05:11] Jerry Butler - So Far Away (Carole King) Pop Ballad |
| C1 | [05:54]  Jerry Butler - I Need You (Jerry Peters) Disco / Funk |
| C2 | [05:47]  Jerry Butler featuring Brenda Lee Eager - You Can’t Always Tell (Billy Butler, Larry Wade, Terry Callier) Soul |
| C3 | [03:51]  Jerry Butler - Stop Steppin’ On My Dreams (Jerry Butler, Samuel F. Brown III) Soul |
| C4 | [03:39]  Jerry Butler - Baby I’m A Want You (David Gates) Pop |
| D1 | [04:11]  Jerry Butler featuring Brenda Lee Eager - (They Long To Be) Close To You (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) R n B |
| D2 | [04:01] Jerry Butler - Don’t Rip Me Off (Sherman Davis) Soul |
| D3 | [06:10]  Jerry Butler - The Masquerade Is Over / Since I Fell For You (Allie Wrubel, Herb Magidson - Buddy Johnson) Pop Ballad |
| D4 | [04:54] Jerry Butler - All Kinds Of People (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) Pop Ballad |
