BLACK SOCIAL HISTORY : AFRICAN AMERICAN " JACKIE MOORE " ONE OF THE RELATIVELY FEW ARTISTS WHO EMERGED IN THE EARLY 70's TO ENJOY A RUN OF SUCCESS WITH A SOUTHERN SOUL BASED SOUND : GOES INTO THE " BLACK GENIUS "

                                             BLACK                      SOCIAL               HISTORY                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 One of the relatively few artists who emerged in the early '70's to enjoy a run of success with a Southern soul-based sound, this Florida singer recorded her best material for Atlantic in Miami with noted session players like the Memphis Horns and the Dixie Flyers. Putting her earthy pop-soul to ballads and mid-tempo material, much of it written and crafted by producer Dave Crawford, Moore had a half-dozen R&B hits for the label; the biggest, "Precious, Precious" (1970) and "Sweet Charlie Babe" (1973), were also small pop hits. In 1972 and 1973, she cut some tunes in Philadelphia's Sigma Sound Studios with a slicker feel, with generally successful results. There was nothing especially earth-shaking about Moore's style or material, but it was solid stuff with a grittier feel than much of the soul music in vogue at the time. After leaving Atlantic, she had one more sizable R&B hit, "Make Me Feel Like a Woman" (1975).