The Ice Man Cometh by Jerry Butler proved highly influential; John Bush noted in Allmusic that the album “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”.  In 1969, Elvis Presley recorded one of the hits from The Ice Man Cometh, “Only the Strong Survive”.   

(July 2014)