"Black Pearl" is a song written by Phil Spector, Toni Wine, and Irwin Levine, and performed by Sonny Charles and the Checkmates, Ltd. It was inspired by the 1968 Sidney Poitier film For Love of Ivy, about Ivy Moore, a maid who, after nine years of service, leaves to go to secretarial school. The song reached No. 8 on the U.S. R&B chart, No. 13 on the Billboard pop chart, and No. 31 in Australia in 1969. The song was featured on the group's 1969 album, Love Is All We Have to Give.