Songwriting pair Chuck Jackson and pianist Marvin Yancy formed The Independents in 1971 in the famed Jerry Butler Songwriters Workshop. Learn about the role Black activism played in the music and legacy of this Chicago soul band. | ✍️ Steve Krakow
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Yancy attended the Moody Bible Institute, and Jackson studied commercial art and music at Furman University in South Carolina. After Jackson left school in 1964, he joined an R&B band, and in 1968 he moved to Chicago to work as an art director forMusic still had a powerful hold on Jackson, though. When he heard from a friend about a songwriting workshop sponsored by soul singerjob to join it.
Operation Breadbasket was launched in 1962 in Atlanta by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and its founding president, Martin Luther King Jr. “The fundamental premise of Breadbasket is a simple one,” King said in 1967. “Negroes need not patronize a business which denies them jobs, or advancement [or] plain courtesy.”
The two young songwriters and musicians had put the group name “Independents” on the hub label for “Just As Long As You Need Me,” so now they needed to actually assemble a band.
Even today I’m pained by that outcome, because the band seemed on track to become the next Impressions, Dramatics, or even Gladys Knight & the Pips. But Yancy and Jackson went on to great success as a songwriting team. In late 1974 they began working with emerging singer Natalie Cole, who’d just signed to Capitol Records. They wrote her first hit song in 1975, “This Will Be ,” and their partnership with her would produce four gold and two platinum albums.
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