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Need to Belong is the title recording of Jerry Butler's 1963 Vee-Jay album. Curtis Mayfield, Butler's former colleague in the Impressions, wrote the song. Its place among Butler's interpretations of other writers...
Read background and sources1960-2025. Each year contains 150 selections.