Soul singer Bobby McClure sang with Sam Cooke, duetted with Fontella Bass, and collaborated with Swamp Dogg, but he fell ...

Butler, who died Feb. 20, was born in rural Miss., and had his first hit in 1958, singing lead with The Impressions. He later moved to Chicago and entered local politics. Originally broadcast in 2000.

BUTLER: You know, see, we were never big and famous, as was Sam Cooke or Lou Rawls with the Pilgrim Travelers and Sam Cooke with the Soul Stirrers. And so when we started singing rhythm and blues ...

“When Sam and the Soul Stirrers came to [a] church, you would’ve thought they were gonna have a rock concert there,” fellow ...