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''The Impressions' Greatest Hits'' is the first compilation album by R&B vocal group The Impressions. Track listing All tracks written by Curtis Mayfield unless noted. ;Side A # "Gypsy Woman" # "Talking About My Baby" # "I'm So Proud" # "Keep On Pushing ''Keep On Pushing'' is a studio album by the Impressions, released on ABC-Paramount in 1964. This was the group's biggest hit album ever, reaching number 8 on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart, the band's highest position on the chart, and number 4 on ..." # "Never Let Me Go" (Joseph Scott) # "It's All Right" ;Side B # "You Must Believe Me" # "Sad, Sad Girl and Boy" # "I'm the One Who Loves You" # "Minstrel and Queen" # "Grow Closer Together" # "Amen" (Mayfield, Johnny Pate) External links''The Impressions' Greatest Hits''at Discogs The Impressions albums 1965 greatest hits albums ABC Records compilation albums {{1960s-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Impressions
The Impressions were an American music group originally formed in 1958. Their repertoire includes gospel, doo-wop, R&B, and soul. The group was founded as the Roosters by Chattanooga, Tennessee natives Sam Gooden, Richard Brooks and Arthur Brooks, who moved to Chicago and added Jerry Butler and Curtis Mayfield to their line-up to become Jerry Butler & the Impressions. By 1962, Butler and the Brookses had departed, and after switching to ABC-Paramount Records, Mayfield, Gooden, and returning original Impressions' member Fred Cash collectively became a top-selling soul act. Mayfield left the group for a solo career in 1970; Leroy Hutson, Ralph Johnson, Reggie Torian (born Reginald Torian), and Nate Evans (Twinight Records) were among the replacements who joined Gooden and Cash. Inductees into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Vocal Group Hall of Fame, the Impressions had a string of hits in the 1960s, many of which were heavily influenced by gospel music and served as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
R&B Music
Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African-American communities in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music ... ith aheavy, insistent beat" was becoming more popular. In the commercial rhythm and blues music typical of the 1950s through the 1970s, the bands usually consisted of piano, one or two guitars, bass, drums, one or more saxophones, and sometimes background vocalists. R&B lyrical themes often encapsulate the African-American experience of pain and the quest for freedom and joy, as well as triumphs and failures in terms of relationships, economics, and aspirations. The term "rhythm and blues" has undergone a number of shifts in meaning. In the early 1950s, it was frequently applied to blues records. Starting in the mid-1950s, after this style of music contr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABC-Paramount
ABC Records was an American record label founded in New York City in 1955. It originated as the main popular music label operated by the Am-Par Record Corporation. Am-Par also created the Impulse! jazz label in 1960. It acquired many labels before ABC was sold to MCA Records in 1979. ABC produced music in a variety of genres: pop, rock, jazz, country, rhythm and blues, soundtrack, gospel, and polka. In addition to producing records, ABC licensed masters from independent record producers, and purchased regionally released records for national distribution. The label was initially called Am-Par Records (1955), but quickly changed to ABC-Paramount Records (1955–1966), and then renamed ABC Records in 1966. History Background In the 1940s and early 1950s, the Federal Communications Commission took action against the Anti-competitive practices of movie studios and broadcasting companies, forcing the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) to sell the Blue Network, the sister network ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People Get Ready (Impressions Album)
"People Get Ready" is a 1965 single by The Impressions, and the title track from the '' People Get Ready'' album. The single is the group's best-known hit, reaching number-three on the ''Billboard'' R&B chart and number 14 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. The gospel-influenced track was a Curtis Mayfield composition that displayed the growing sense of social and political awareness in his writing. '' Rolling Stone'' magazine named "People Get Ready" the 24th greatest song of all time and also placed it at number 20 on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks. The song was included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. "People Get Ready" was named as one of the Top 10 Best Songs of All Time by ''Mojo'' music magazine, and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998. In 2015, the song was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry due to its "cultural, historic, or artistic significance". Martin Luther King Jr. na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One By One (The Impressions Album)
''One by One'' is an album by the American soul music group the Impressions, released in 1965. It consists mostly of cover songs, with only a few originals. Track listing #" Twilight Time" (Artie Dunn, Al Nevins, Buck Ram, Morty Nevins) – 2:17 #"I Wanna Be Around" (Johnny Mercer, Sadie Vimmerstadt) – 2:15 #" Nature Boy" ( eden ahbez) – 2:24 #"Just One Kiss from You" ( Curtis Mayfield) – 2:37 #"I Want to Be with You" ( Lee Adams, Charles Strouse) – 3:17 #"Answer Me, My Love" (Fred Rauch, Carl Sigman, Gerhard Winkler) – 2:43 #"It's Not Unusual" (Gordon Mills, Leslie Reed) – 2:20 #" Without a Song" (Edward Eliscu, Billy Rose, Vincent Youmans) – 3:18 #"Falling in Love with You" (Mayfield) – 2:56 #" My Prayer" ( Georges Boulanger, Jimmy Kennedy) – 2:58 #"Mona Lisa" (Jay Livingston, Raymond Evans) – wrongly credited to Sallie M. Sefrit and Mana Zucca – 2:28 #"Lonely Man" (Mayfield) – 2:43 Personnel ;The Impressions * Curtis Mayfield – vocals *Fred C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compilation Album
A compilation album comprises Album#Tracks, tracks, which may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several Performing arts#Performers, performers. If by one artist, then generally the tracks were not originally intended for release together as a single work, but may be collected together as a greatest hits album or box set. If from several performers, there may be a theme, topic, time period, or genre which links the tracks, or they may have been intended for release as a single work—such as a tribute album. When the tracks are by the same recording artist, the album may be referred to as a retrospective album or an anthology. Content and scope Songs included on a compilation album may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several performers. If by one artist, then generally the tracks were not originally intended for release together as a single work, but may ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curtis Mayfield
Curtis Lee Mayfield (June 3, 1942 – December 26, 1999) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer, and one of the most influential musicians behind soul and politically conscious African-American music.Curtis Mayfield , Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. "…significant for the forthright way in which he addressed issues of black identity and self-awareness. …left his imprint on the Seventies by couching social commentary and keenly observed black-culture archetypes in funky, danceable rhythms. …sounded urgent pleas for peace and brotherhood overextended, -funk tracks that laid out a fresh musical agenda for the new decade." Accessed 28 November 2006. Dubbed t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I'm So Proud (song)
"I'm So Proud" is a song written by American singer-songwriter Curtis Mayfield and recorded by the Impressions in 1963 for the album ''The Never Ending Impressions''. Released as a single in 1964, "I'm So Proud" peaked at number 14 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 Singles chart and number 16 on the '' Cash Box'' Top 100 Singles chart. Charts Cover versions R&B/Soul group, The Main Ingredient, covered "I'm So Proud" on their 1970 album, “Tasteful Soul”. Deniece Williams covered "I'm So Proud" as the title track to her 1983 album, reaching number 28 on the '' Billboard'' Hot Black Singles chart. Phyl Garland of ''Stereo Review ''Sound & Vision'' is an American magazine, purchased by AVTech Media Ltd. (UK) in March 2018, covering home theater, audio, video and multimedia consumer products. Before 2000, it had been published for most of its history as ''Stereo Review''. ...'' thought her version "displays Williams in a coolly assertive Sixties vein." References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keep On Pushing (song)
"Keep On Pushing" is a 1964 single by The Impressions, and was the title track of the album of the same name. Chart history The single became the group's sixth Top 40 single, and a Top 10 Pop smash, peaking at number ten. It went to number one for two weeks on the ''Cash Box'' R&B chart. Use in presidential campaigns *Decades later, the song was used as the theme to the 2004 Democratic National Convention keynote address by then-Illinois Senate, Illinois State Senator Barack Obama, who endorsed United States Senator, U.S. Senator John Kerry for President of the United States, President. *It was frequently played at rallies in the early days of the Joe Biden presidential campaign, 2020, 2020 presidential campaign of Joe Biden. Popular culture *The title was mentioned in-between the lyrics, by Curtis Mayfield in the Impressions rendition of the Negro Spiritual "Amen". (1964). *The album (cover) is one of several featured on the front cover art of the Bob Dylan's 1965 album ''Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Pate
John William Pate (born December 5, 1923) is an American former jazz bassist who became a producer, arranger, and leading figure in Chicago soul, pop, and rhythm and blues. He learned piano and tuba as a child and later picked up the bass guitar. He learned arranging while serving in the United States Army. Career The jazz era Following stints with Coleridge Davis and Stuff Smith in the 1940s,Johnny Pateat Allmusic in 1951, Pate was recording on Chess Records with Eddie South and his Orchestra, credited on bass and arrangements. This was also the first of a series of Chess recordings on which Pate collaborated with saxophonist Eddie Johnson. In the 1950s, he was also a resident arranger for Red Saunders's house band at the Club DeLisa. Johnny Pate's trio recorded for a number of Chicago labels, including Gig and Talisman. For the Cincinnati-based Federal Records, the Johnny Pate Quintet had a hit with "Swinging Shepherd Blues", which reached No. 17 on the ''Billboard'' R&B c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discogs
Discogs (short for discographies) is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. While the site was originally created with a goal of becoming the largest online database of electronic music, the site now includes releases in all genres on all formats. After the database was opened to contributions from the public, rock music began to become the most prevalent genre listed. , Discogs contains over 15.7 million releases, by over 8.3 million artists, across over 1.9 million labels, contributed from over 644,000 contributor user accounts – with these figures constantly growing as users continually add previously unlisted releases to the site over time. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc. and located in Portland, Oregon, United States. History The discogs.com domain name was registered in August 2000, and Discogs itself ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Impressions Albums
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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