Jerry Butler's Birth Card: The 10 of Clubs

In the record

Jerry Butler Jr. (December 8, 1939 – February 20, 2025) was an American soul singer-songwriter, producer, musician, and politician. The birth-card coordinate for December 8 is the 10 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1991 Performers with The Impressions induction.

Rock Hall record

• 1991 Performers — inducted member of The Impressions

The 10 of Clubs coordinate

Jerry Butler's birthday maps to the 10 of Clubs (The Master Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame vote and not a verdict on Jerry Butler. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You carry a finished body of knowledge and keep teaching from it.

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Jerry Butler in the public record

He was the original lead singer of the R&B vocal group the Impressions, who were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991. After leaving the group in 1960, Butler achieved over 55 Billboard Pop and R&B Chart hits as a solo artist including "He Will Break Your Heart," "Let It Be Me," and "Only the Strong Survive." He was inducted into the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame in 2015. Butler served as a Commissioner for Cook County, Illinois, from 1985 to 2018. As a member of the 17-member county government board, he chaired the Health and Hospitals Committee and served as Vice Chair of the Construction Committee. Butler was born in Sunflower, Mississippi, United States, on December 8, 1939. When Butler was three years old, the family moved to Chicago, Illinois, and he grew up in the Cabrini–Green housing projects. The mid-1950s had a profound effect on Butler's life. He performed in a church choir with Curtis Mayfield.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Jerry Butler (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 2 of Hearts

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Jerry Butler, and not a forecast of induction.

You keep your needs and theirs in the same conversation, and you let disagreement stay on the table. You're wired for union—you understand yourself best in relationship to another. You read people, harmonize needs, and create the felt sense of "us." Connection isn't a luxury for you; it's how you locate yourself.

Butler's solo career saw a string of hits, including the Top 10 successes "He Will Break Your Heart," "Find Another Girl," "I'm A-Telling You" (all co-written by fellow Impression Curtis Mayfield and featuring Mayfield as harmony vocal), the million selling "Only the Strong Survive," "Moon River," "Need To Belong" (recorded with the Impressions after he went solo), "Make It Easy on Yourself," "Let It Be Me" (with Betty Everett), "Brand New Me," "Ain't Understanding Mellow" (with Brenda Lee Eager), "Hey, Western Union Man," and "Never Give You Up." His 1969 "Moody Woman" release became a Northern Soul favourite and featured at number 369 in the Northern Soul Top 500.

Paired on shared wording: need, understanding, union, yourself.

Also on the record

1. As a teenager, Butler sang in a gospel quartet called Northern Jubilee Gospel Singers, along with Mayfield.
2. Mayfield, a guitar player, became the lone instrumentalist for the six-member Roosters group, which later became The Impressions.
3. Inspired by Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers, the Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, and the Pilgrim Travelers, getting into the music industry seemed inevitable.
4. Butler's younger brother, Billy Butler, also had a career in the music industry, including playing guitar with Jerry's band, until his death in 2015.

Other inductees with this card

• Billy Guy — 1987 Performers with The Coasters
• Bobby Elliott — 2010 Performers with The Hollies
• Brian Jones — 1989 Performers with The Rolling Stones
• Brian Wilson — 1988 Performers with The Beach Boys
• Calvin Simon — 1997 Performers with Parliament-Funkadelic
• Danny Cedrone — 2012 Performers with The Comets
• Diana Ross — 1988 Performers with The Supremes
• Dion — 1989 Performers
• Doug Clifford — 1993 Performers with Creedence Clearwater Revival
• Ed King — 2006 Performers with Lynyrd Skynyrd
• Glen Buxton — 2011 Performers with Alice Cooper
• Gregg Allman — 1995 Performers with The Allman Brothers Band
• 22 more inductees share this card.

FAQ

What is Jerry Butler's birth card?

The 10 of Clubs. December 8 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Rock Hall induction?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Jerry Butler's dates come from?

Birth date 1939-12-08 is the day-precision date on Jerry Butler's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Inductee identity comes from the Wikipedia Performers list, which cites RockHall.com. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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