Woman’s Got Soul/Emotions/Sometimes I Wonder/We’re In Love/Just Another Dance/Can’t Work No Longer/People Get Ready/I’ve Found That I’ve Lost/Hard To Believe/See The Real Me/Get Up & Move/You Must Believe Me
Legendary Chicago based R & B group The Impressions were at the height of their creativity and popularity during the mid sixties. People Get Ready features the Grammy winning title track and US top twenty hit single. Songwriter and lead singer Curtis Mayfield would enjoy huge success during the seventies. (US:23)
"People Get Ready featured another big Curtis Mayfield hit, one that made as strong an impact on the civil-rights movement as on the charts. One of the most beautiful songs of the '60s, the title track set the oft-used 'gospel train' as its theme, with Mayfield speaking of faith for the present and deliverance in the future, while Sam Gooden and Fred Cash contributed beautiful harmony vocals. That career touchstone aside, the rest of the material on the LP wasn't as strong, the two winners being Woman's Got Soul and You Must Believe Me, both in a similar brassy, uptown mode as expected from the Chicago soul kingpins."
"This shows The Impressions at a transition between their more adolescent-doo-wop/pop material to a mature soul vocal trio. Lyrically the tunes are still mostly of the romantic and lost-love variety, with only the famous title track showing a glimpse of where Mayfield's writing was headed. A pretty notable exception, the gospel-drenched People Get Ready, one of the most recorded tunes in history."
"Great stuff - memorable songs, great group harmonies and Curtis Mayfield on lead. What more could any real soul fan ask for."
"Good production, especially allowing for the age of most of the recordings with some 'message' music that's still topical today."
"All the tunes are great, but there are so many classics here that the set almost plays like a greatest hits."
"In short, it's hard to go wrong with twelve tracks of sweet, flawless singing and harmonies sweetened by vintage Northern soul arrangements."
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