George Jackson:  Talking About The Love I Have For You [Rare Soul 45] ER #101

Record Labe1/Year:  ER #101

Condition:    G+   [vinyl has surface scratches and playwear; still play VG strong, with light surface noise]  Hear soundclip

  Comments:   This artist is an unsung singer.  His singing ability was overshadowed by his writing for other singers.  He was a dynamic soul singer, in his own rights....should have gotten more recognition for his singing.  The many songs he wrote, created many singing stars, while he toiled in the background writing for them.   The wonderful songs he recorded for himself are finally being noticed, many years after his death.

 George Henry Jackson (March 12, 1945 – April 14, 2013) was an American blues, rhythm & blues, rock and soul songwriter and singer. His prominence was as a prolific and skilled songwriter; he wrote or co-wrote many hit songs for other musicians, including "Down Home Blues," "One Bad Apple", "Old Time Rock and Roll" and "The Only Way Is Up". As a southern soul singer he recorded a mere 15 singles between 1963 and 1985, with some success.

Jackson was born in Indianola, Mississippi, and moved with his family to Greenville at the age of five.[1] He started writing songs while in his teens, and in 1963 introduced himself to Ike Turner. Turner took him to Cosimo Matassa's studios in New Orleans to record "Nobody Wants to Cha Cha With Me" for his Prann label, but it was not successful.[2][3] Jackson then traveled to Memphis to promote his songs, but was rejected by Stax before helping to form vocal group The Ovations with Louis Williams at Goldwax Records. Jackson wrote and sang on their 1965 hit "It's Wonderful To Be In Love", which reached no.61 on the Billboard Hot 100 and no.22 on the R&B chart.[4][5] He also wrote for other artists at Goldwax, including Spencer Wiggins and James Carr, and recorded with Dan Greer as the duo George and Greer. After the Ovations split up in 1968, he recorded briefly for Hi Records, and also for Decca using the pseudonym Bart Jackson.[3][6] As a singer, he had a versatile tenor that was influenced by Sam Cooke, and released many records over the years, for a host of different labels, but his recordings never made him a star.[7]

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