Jack Harold Butcher (May 18, 1924 – July 29, 2011), better known asJack Barlow, was an Americancountry music singer and songwriter. He recorded onDot Records during the 1960s and 1970s, charting seven times onHot Country Songs.

Barlow first worked as a disc jockey before moving toNashville, Tennessee. His first single was "I Love Country", which reached number 21 onCash Box in 1965. Barlow later moved toEpic Records, then to Dot Records, charting onBillboard for the first time in 1968 with "Baby, Ain't That Love".^[1] His highest chart entry came in late 1971 to early 1972, when he took "Catch the Wind" to number 26.^[2] This was followed by a recording of "They Call the Wind Maria", from the 1969Clint Eastwood filmPaint Your Wagon.^[1] Then in the mid 1970s Jack recorded a series of radio and TV commercials for Big Red chewing gum byWrigley’s.

Barlow's last charting release was "The Man on Page 602", credited to Zoot Fenster. The song is about an image found in a 1975Sears catalog, of a man modelingboxer shorts who appears to be inadvertently exposing hisgenitalia.^[3] Barlow continued to record until 2007, also singing commercial jingles and doing voice-over work. He died in mid-2011 from an undisclosed illness.^[4]

• 1924 births
• 2011 deaths
• American country singer-songwriters
• American male singer-songwriters
• Dot Records artists
• People from Moline, Illinois
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• Country musicians from Illinois

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