For Your Precious Love
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| "For Your Precious Love" | |
|---|---|
| Single by Jerry Butler and The Impressions | |
| B-side | "Sweet Was the Wine" |
| Released | 1958 |
| Recorded | 1958 |
| Studio | Universal Recording Corp. (Chicago) |
| Genre | Rhythm and blues |
| Length | 2:41 |
| Label | Falcon 1013 |
| Songwriter(s) | Arthur Brooks, Richard Brooks and Jerry Butler |
"For Your Precious Love" is a song written by Arthur Brooks, Richard Brooks and Jerry Butler,[1] and performed by Jerry Butler and The Impressions in 1958. The song was ranked #335 on Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2010.[2]
Chart performance[edit]
It was released as a single on Vee-Jay Records and peaked at number 3 on the Most Played R&B chart, and number 11 on the Billboard Top 100 charts.[3] In addition, a new version by Butler himself, who peaked at number 99 on the Hot 100 chart in March 1966.
Other versions[edit]
The song has been covered numerous times with many versions reaching the US charts as well:
- Garnet Mimms (1963, Hot 100 #26)
- Otis Redding covered the song for his album The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads in 1965.
- Oscar Toney, Jr. (1967, Hot 100 #23)
- Jackie Wilson and Count Basie (1968, Hot 100 #49)
- Linda Jones as "Your Precious Love" (1972, Hot 100 #74)
- Aaron Neville covered the song for his album Orchid in the Stone in 1986.
- The Rolling Stones covered it during their sessions for 1989's Steel Wheels album. It was never released, but can be heard on YouTube.
- A 1968 version in South Africa by the Durban based group, The Flames, reached the top spot on the local charts[4] and has been considered a classic in the country ever since.
- Roy Meriwether covered this instrumentally, on the album “Soul Knight” (1968, Capitol Records)
Popular culture[edit]
- The Otis Redding recording appears at the beginning of the 2006 French thriller Tell No One by Guillaume Canet and on the film's soundtrack album.
- The same recording can also be heard in the 2009 movie Mr. Nobody by Jaco Van Dormael.
- Linda Jones version (1972) can be found among soundtracks in Ali movie of 2001 by Michael Mann.
References[edit]
- ^ ASCAP Title Search (title must be entered to search line)
- ^ "Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". Rolling Stone. April 7, 2011. Retrieved October 1, 2015.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 272.
- ^ "Top 20 Hit Singles of 1968". South Africa's Rock Lists Website. Retrieved 10 June 2013.
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