All Because of You

It was recorded in 1975 for Leroy Hutson’s Hutson album on Curtom Records, with Hutson credited as producer and arranger and the sessions tied to Curtom Studios in Chicago. The record features Hutson on lead vocals and keyboards with players including Phil Upchurch, Craig McMullen, Donnell Hagan, Joseph Scott, Ronald Coleman, Bill McFarland, Jerry Wilson, and the Kitty Haywood Singers. Released as the opening track on Hutson, it became one of Hutson’s best-known solo sides and entered Billboard’s Hot Soul Singles chart in 1975. It helped define his run of elegant, Chicago-based Curtom soul during the mid-1970s. The song remains a signature Leroy Hutson recording and has been repeatedly singled out in retrospectives of his Curtom catalog. Its instrumental has also been reused on later Hutson-related release material, extending the track’s afterlife beyond the original single.