The Impressions Definitive Impressions (CD)
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The Impressions: Definitive Impressions (CD)
... The Impressions' Big Sixteen". I can still remember the first copy I ever saw, hanging in the window of "The Melody Inn" - the hippest record shop in Stanford-Le-Hope, Essex and, luckily for me, my local record shop. It was in a drop-down strip of plastic that also housed an import copy of James Brown's Try Me album, Motown Magic and The Late, Fantastically Great Elmore James. All four were second-hand, which showed an unbelievable lack of taste on the previous owner's part.
I later found out from the young, ultra-aware shop proprietor Martin Hubbard - my original musical mentor, and the man who later gave me my first job in the record business - that they belonged to an ex-mod called Ron, who'd 'grown up' and traded them in for Procol Harum and Grateful Dead albums, having declared to himself that "Soul was sh*t". Silly fella...".
Article properties: The Impressions: Definitive Impressions (CD)
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Interpret: The Impressions
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Album titlle: Definitive Impressions (CD)
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Genre R&B, Soul
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Label KENT
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Artikelart CD
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EAN: 0029667292320
- weight in Kg 0.107
| Impressions, The - Definitive Impressions (CD) CD 1 | ||||
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| 01 | Gypsy Woman | The Impressions | ||
| 02 | Grow Closer Together | The Impressions | ||
| 03 | Little Young Lover | The Impressions | ||
| 04 | Minstrel And Queen | The Impressions | ||
| 05 | I'm The One Who Loves You | The Impressions | ||
| 06 | Sad, Sad Girl And Boy | The Impressions | ||
| 07 | It's All Right | The Impressions | ||
| 08 | Talking About My Baby | The Impressions | ||
| 09 | I'm So Proud | The Impressions | ||
| 10 | Keep On Pushing | The Impressions | ||
| 11 | I've Been Trying | The Impressions | ||
| 12 | Girl You Don't Know Me | The Impressions | ||
| 13 | I Made A Mistake | The Impressions | ||
| 14 | You Must Believe Me | The Impressions | ||
| 15 | Amen | The Impressions | ||
| 16 | People Get Ready | The Impressions | ||
| 17 | Woman's Got Soul | The Impressions | ||
| 18 | Meeting Over Yonder | The Impressions | ||
| 19 | I Need You | The Impressions | ||
| 20 | Just One Kiss From You | The Impressions | ||
| 21 | You've Been Cheatin' | The Impressions | ||
| 22 | Since I Lost The One I Love | The Impressions | ||
| 23 | I Can't Satisfy | The Impressions | ||
| 24 | You Always Hurt Me | The Impressions | ||
| 25 | I Can't Stay Away From You | The Impressions | ||
| 26 | We're A Winner | The Impressions | ||
| 27 | We're Rolling On | The Impressions | ||
| 28 | I Loved And I Lost | 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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