Jackie Moore

Emerging in the early 1970s, this Florida singer ranked among the select few who sustained a career on a Southern soul foundation. Her strongest work appeared on Atlantic in Miami, where she worked alongside celebrated session musicians such as the Memphis Horns and the Dixie Flyers. She applied her earthy pop-soul approach to ballads and mid-tempo numbers, most of them written and shaped by producer Dave Crawford, and collected a half-dozen R&B hits for the label. The largest of these, “Precious, Precious” (1970) and “Sweet Charlie Babe” (1973), also registered modest pop-chart entries. In 1972 and 1973 she tracked several selections at Philadelphia’s Sigma Sound Studios in a sleeker style that proved largely effective. Moore’s style and song choices never aspired to radical innovation, yet they supplied dependable material that carried a rawer edge than much of the soul then in fashion. After parting ways with Atlantic she scored one further substantial R&B success, “Make Me Feel Like a Woman” (1975).