She continued to record most of her material for Spring there, including the follow-up album, Still Caught Up. By now, she had switched producers to work only with Brad Shapiro, recording at Muscle Shoals Studio in Alabama with the renowned Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section. The featured release was her version of Luther Ingram's million-seller, "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right", for which she received two Grammy nominations. In 1974, she released the album Caught Up, which introduced her innovative style of raunchy rap. The single was featured on the album of the same name and in the blaxploitation film Cleopatra Jones, also appearing on that film's soundtrack along with the song "Love Doctor". The following year brought her biggest single success and her third Top Ten hit, "It Hurts So Good," which made #3 on the R&B charts and #24 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart. "My Man, A Sweet Man" retains its popularity today for northern soul enthusiasts and is played on the radio in the UK and quoted as an example from this musical genre as is her 1976 recording, "A House for Sale". In 1972, Jackson had her first R&B Top Ten single with the follow-up, "Ask Me What You Want", which also reached the pop Top 30, then "My Man, A Sweet Man" reached #7 R&B all three hits were co-written by Jackson. Working with the label's in-house producer, Raeford Gerald, her first single to chart was 1971's deceptively titled "A Child of God (It's Hard to Believe)," which reached number 22 on the R&B charts. Although she first recorded for MGM Records in 1970, she soon left and began a long association with New York-based Spring Records. Jackson's singing career reportedly began on a dare to enter a 1964 Harlem nightclub talent contest, which she won.
She occasionally worked as a model for magazines like JIVE and Sepia. By the time Jackson was in her mid-teens, she had moved to Brooklyn to live with an aunt. Her mother died when she was a child and subsequently, she and her father moved to Newark, New Jersey. She is the mother of Keisha Jackson.īorn in Thomson, Georgia, Jackson is the daughter of a sharecropper. She has also recorded songs in a disco or dance music style and even some country styled songs. Her vocal performances are often distinguished by long, humorous, and explicit spoken sections in her music, which she started doing on stage to get the attention of the audience. Three of her albums have been certified gold by the RIAA for over 500,000 copies.
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