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(Universal-MCA) 22 tracks (57:25) 1961-1968 more

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The Impressions: The Best Of The Impressions Featuring Curtis Mayfield (CD)

(Universal-MCA) 22 tracks (57:25) 1961-1968

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Interpret: The Impressions
Album titlle: The Best Of The Impressions Featuring Curtis Mayfield (CD)
Label MCA
Genre R&B, Soul
Year of publication 1997
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0008811165925
weight in Kg 0.1

Impressions, The - The Best Of The Impressions Featuring Curtis Mayfield (CD) CD 1
01	Gypsy Woman
02	Little Young Lover
03	I'm The One Who Loves You
04	It's All Right
05	Minstrel And Queen
06	Girl, You Don't Know Me
07	Thats What Love Will Do
08	I'm So Proud
09	Talking About My Baby
10	Long Long Winter
11	I've Been Trying
12	Keep On Pushing
13	You Must Believe Me
14	Amen
15	Woman's Got Soul
16	We're In Love
17	People Get Ready
18	Meeting Over Yonder
19	I Need You
20	You've Been Cheatin'
21	You Always Hurt Me
22	We're A Winner
23	We're Rolling On

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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