Gerald Sims played on two of the most immortal soul songs ever - Chicago Reader

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Gerald Sims was born in Chicago on January 5, 1940, but when he was still very young his mother moved him and his three brothers by bus to Kalamazoo, Michigan—she thought there was too much trouble for them to get into in the big city. Because Sims had developed a limp due to a childhood polio infection, though, he avoided a lot of physical activities. He didn’t get into sports like his brothers, instead teaching himself how to play guitar.

Sims got noticed by Carl Davis of Okeh Records , and he left the Daylighters to release a few singles for Okeh under his own name. By the mid-60s, though, he’d grown more interested in the production side of music making. While at Okeh, Sims worked with Davis on scoring and arranging recordings by the likes of Gene Chandler and Walter Jackson.

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