The Impressions Complete A&B Sides 1961-1968 (2-CD)

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The Impressions: Complete A&B Sides 1961-1968 (2-CD)

(2009/Universal-Island) 60 tracks with 12 page booklet. Essential!!

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Interpret: The Impressions
Album titlle: Complete A&B Sides 1961-1968 (2-CD)
Label UNIVERSAL
Genre R&B, Soul
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0600753123775
weight in Kg 0.12

Impressions, The - Complete A&B Sides 1961-1968 (2-CD) CD 1
01	Disc 1	The Impressions
02	Gypsy Woman	The Impressions
03	Grow Closer Together	The Impressions
04	Little Young Lover	The Impressions
05	Minstrel And Queen	The Impressions
06	I'm The One Who Loves You	The Impressions
07	Sad Sad Girl And Boy	The Impressions
08	It's All Right	The Impressions
09	Talking About My Baby	The Impressions
10	Girl You Don't Know Me	The Impressions
11	I'm So Proud	The Impressions
12	Keep On Pushing	The Impressions
13	You Must Believe Me	The Impressions
14	Amen	The Impressions
15	People Get Ready	The Impressions
16	Woman's Got Soul	The Impressions
17	Meeting Over Yonder	The Impressions
18	I Need You	The Impressions
19	Just One Kiss From You	The Impressions
20	You've Been Cheating	The Impressions
21	Since I Lost The One I Love	The Impressions
22	Too Slow	The Impressions
23	Can't Satisfy	The Impressions
24	Love's A-Comin'	The Impressions
25	You Always Hurt Me	The Impressions
26	It's Hard To Believe	The Impressions
27	I Can't Stay Away From You	The Impressions
28	We're A Winner	The Impressions
29	We're Rolling On (Pt.1)	The Impressions
30	I Loved And I Lost	The Impressions
31	Don't Cry My Love	The Impressions
32	Disc 2	The Impressions
33	As Long As You Love Me	The Impressions
34	Can't You See	The Impressions
35	Never Let Me Go	The Impressions
36	You've Come Home	The Impressions
37	I Need Your Love	The Impressions
38	Twist And Limbo	The Impressions
39	You'll Want Me Back	The Impressions
40	Never Too Much Love	The Impressions
41	A Woman Who Loves Me	The Impressions
42	I Made A Mistake	The Impressions
43	I Love You (Yeah)	The Impressions
44	See The Real Me	The Impressions
45	Long Long Winter	The Impressions
46	I've Been Trying	The Impressions
47	Get Up And Move	The Impressions
48	I've Found That I've Lost	The Impressions
49	Never Could You Be	The Impressions
50	Twilight Time	The Impressions
51	Man Oh Man	The Impressions
52	Falling In Love With You	The Impressions
53	No One Else	The Impressions
54	This Must End	The Impressions
55	Wade In The Water	The Impressions
56	Little Girl	The Impressions
57	You've Got Me Running	The Impressions
58	You Ought To Be In Heaven	The Impressions
59	It's All Over	The Impressions
60	We're Rolling On (Pt.2)	The Impressions
61	Up Up And Away	The Impressions
62	Sometimes I Wonder	The Impressions

The Impressions Gypsy Woman Without the richly burnished baritone leads of Jerry... more

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"The Impressions"

The Impressions

Gypsy Woman

Without the richly burnished baritone leads of Jerry Butler, who had fronted their soulful breakthrough ballad For Your Precious Love (you'll find it on our 1958 disc), The Impressions were finding it hard to come up with a second hit. Butler had quit the Chicago group amidst jealousy from some members over Vee-Jay Records unexpectedly giving him featured billing on the single.

Chicago native Curtis Mayfield, all of 16 when he played guitar and sang high tenor behind The Ice Man on For Your Precious Love, took over lead duties for The Impressions. He'd attended Wells High School while living in Cabrini-Green, the massive housing project on Chicago's near North Side. Even before that, he doo-wopped with The Alphatones on the West Side and sang hymns with the Northern Jubilee Gospel Singers. That's where he took up guitar, tuning his axe to a very unusual F# chord that gave Mayfield his highly distinctive sound.

The Impressions brought Fred Cash up from Chattanooga, Tennessee to replace Butler. He'd been in The Roosters there along with tenor-singing brothers Arthur and Richard Brooks and baritone Sam Gooden, who now comprised the rest of The Impressions. With Mayfield's airy high tenor out front, the quintet stuck around Vee-Jay's Abner label for a short while, but A&R man Calvin Carter didn't care for Curtis as a front man, so they were dropped. The Impressions made a single for Bandera Records, owned by Vi Muszynski, who had brought them to Vee-Jay in the first place, but Listen didn't reverse their fading fortunes. Curtis took a break to tour as Butler's guitarist, the pair co-writing three major R&B sellers for Jerry at Vee-Jay in 1960-61: the R&B chart-topping He Will Break Your Heart, Find Another Girl, and I'm A Telling You.

"In the writing of them, we would mess around, he would wind up singing the hook with me. So we decided to record 'em that way, and it turned out very well," says Butler. "I think a lot of that had to do with the way Curtis played guitar."

Eddie Thomas brought The Impressions to the major label ABC-Paramount, recording in New York with arranger/conductor Roy Glover, Jr., who decorated Mayfield's exotic Gypsy Woman with castanets and hushed backing. Cut in July of 1961, Gypsy Woman was a #2 R&B/#20 pop hit late that year (another Mayfield ballad, As Long As You Love Me, was its flip side). The Impressions were back.

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