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Gary Jackson

real name Gary Lee Jackson Sr.

Gary Jackson is credited on 740 releases across 241 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1962–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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740

Credits

241

Albums

7

Decades active

126

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March 8, 1945 - February 3, 2014
Songwriter.
Active mostly in the Chicago soul scene. Best known as co-writer of Jackie Wilson's "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher". Gary L. Jackson was born in Columbus, Kansas on March 8, 1945 to the union of Claude Jackson Sr. and Margaret Smith. Gary, his mother, his maternal grandparents, George and Lottie Smith, later moved from Joplin, Missouri to Chicago, Illinois in 1940.

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Credited work

740 releases · 241 albums · active 1962–2024

  • Performance · 810
  • Other credits · 8

Studios: Ter Mar Studios · Caribbean Sound Studios · Fiesta Club, Sheffield · Stereo Sound Studio, Barbados

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