For Your Precious Love

"For Your Precious Love" is a song written by Arthur Brooks, Richard Brooks and Jerry Butler, and performed by Jerry Butler and The Impressions in 1958. It was released as a single on Vee-Jay Records and peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Best Sellers in Stores and Top 100 charts. The song was ranked #335 on Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2010.

The song has been covered numerous times with many versions reaching the US charts as well, including a new version by Butler himself, who peaked at number 99 on the Hot 100 chart in March 1966.

The 1968 version in South Africa by Durban group, The Flames, reached the top spot on the local charts and has been considered a classic in the country ever since.

Other versions

Precious Love

Precious Love may refer to:

See also

The Pool of Life

The Pool Of Life is the first album released by Mike Badger and The Onset. It was released by the Probe Plus Label in 1988. The story of the boundless Universe and all its wondrous Worlds. Dedicated to Rainbow Warriors, Freedom Fighters and Sun Dancers.

Track listing

All words and music by Mike Badger, except Mansion On The Hill by Williams/Rose arr. Danny Dean.

Recorded May 1988 at the Ameritz Studio (Birkenhead)

Musicians

Precious Love (Jody Watley song)

"Precious Love" is the fourth and the final single from Jody Watley's second album, Larger than Life. "Precious Love" was the least success of the four singles released from the album, it peaked at number 87 on the US pop chart, but did find better success on the R&B chart where it peaked at number 51.

Charts

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Your Precious Love

"Your Precious Love" is a popular song that was a 1967 hit for Motown singers Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. Written by Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson and produced by Harvey Fuqua and Johnny Bristol, the doo-wop styled recording features background vocals by Fuqua, Gaye, Terrell and Bristol, and instrumentals by The Funk Brothers with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. The song peaked at #5 on Billboard Pop Singles chart, #2 on Billboard's R&B Singles chart, and the top 40 on Billboard's Easy Listening survey. The song was later sampled by Gerald Levert on the song, "Your Smile", on his 2002 album, The G Spot.

Cover versions

Al Jarreau and Randy Crawford performed the song live at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1981, backed by an All-Star ensemble featuring Larry Carlton, David Sanborn and Marcus Miller and the Yellowjackets, released on Casino Lights. In 1984, father Neil Sedaka and daughter Dara Sedaka reached the Billboard Top 15 of the Adult Contemporary chart with their duet cover version of the song. Japanese pop star Seiko Matsuda also covered the song for her 1996 English language album Was It the Future. A cover version by D'Angelo and Erykah Badu was released on the High School High soundtrack album in 1996, as well as featured on the 1999 tribute album Marvin Is 60. There was also an a cappella cover of the song by Cedric the Entertainer and Avant figures in a gag sequence in the 2004 MGM film Barbershop 2: Back in Business. Another cover of the song was recorded by Peter Cox of Go West and Easther Bennett of Eternal and appears on Cox's 2006 album Motor City Music (Curb Records). Sarah Connor recorded the song as an overdubbed "duet" with Marvin Gaye on her 2007 album Soulicious. Fantasia Barrino included a sample of the song on "Collard Greens and Cornbread" from her 2010 album Back to Me.