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THE IMPRESSIONS
Chicago, Illinois, USA
* 1957	+ 1983

Line-Up:

Fred Cash - voc
Sam Gooden - voc
Reggie Torain - voc
Nate Evans - voc

Former Members:

Jerry Butler (voc, 1957-59, 1983); Arthur Brooks (voc, 1957-63); Richard Brooks (voc, 1957-63); Curtis Mayfield (voc, 1957-70, 1983); Leroy Hutton (voc, 1970-73); Ralph Johnson (voc, 1973-76)

Albums Discography:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	The Impressions	8/1963	ABC Paramount			43
2.	The Never-Ending Impressions	3/1964	ABC Paramount			52
3.	Keep On Pushing	8/1964	ABC Paramount			8
4.	People Get Ready	3/1965	ABC Paramount			23
5.	Greatest Hits	3/1965	ABC Paramount			79
6.	One By One	9/1965	ABC Paramount
7.	Impressions Big 16	12/1965	HMV
8.	Ridin' High	3/1966	ABC Paramount
9.	The Fabulous Impressions	7/1967	ABC Paramount
10.	We're A Winner	2/1968	ABC Paramount			35
11.	The Best Of The Impressions	9/1968	ABC Paramount
12.	For Your Precious Love	8/1968	Joy
13.	This Is My Country	12/1968	Curtom
14.	Young Mod's Forgotten Story	5/1969	Curtom
15.	The Big 16 Vol 2	7/1969	Stateside
16.	Versatile	1970
17.	Check Out Your Mind	1970	Curtom
18.	Amen (in the UK)	11/1970	Polydor
19.	16 Greatest Hits	3/1971	ABC
20.	Times Have Changed	4/1972	Curtom
21.	Preacher Man	3/1973	Curtom
22.	Early Years & Curtis Mayfield	7/1973	Probe
23.	3 The Hard Way	7/1974	Curtom
24.	Finally Got Myself Together	7/1974	Curtom
25.	First Impressions	6/1975	Curtom
26.	Sooner Or Later	1975
27.	It's About Time	1976	Cotillion
28.	Loving Power	3/1976	Curtom
29.	Originals (2LP)	11/1976	ABC
30.	The Vintage Years (2LP)	2/1977	Sire
31.	Collection	1978
32.	Come To My Party	1979	20th Century
33.	Fan The Fire	9/1981	20th Century
34.	In The Heat Of The Night	1982	MCA
35.	Right On Time	11/1983	Charly
36.	It's Alright	1985
37.	Your Precious Love	8/1987	Topline
38.	The Definitive Impressions	10/1989	Kent
39.	Lasting Impressions	10/1989	Curtom
40.	The Complete Vee-Jay Recordings	22.11.1993	Veejay
41.	All The Best feat. Curtis Mayfield	5/1994	Pickwick
42.	The Greatest Hits	22.09.1998	Geffen
43.	ABC Rarities	08.06.1999
44.	Indelible Impressions	20.09.1999
45.	20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection & Curtis Mayfield	06.06.2000	Chronicles
46.	Ultimate Collection	16.10.2001	Chronicles
47.	Definitive Impressions, Pt. 2	04.11.2003	Kent
48.	Tribute to Curtis Mayfield	20.01.2004	Delta
49.	People Get Ready: The Best of Curtis Mayfield with the Impressions, 1961-1968 & Curtis Mayfield	20.07.2004	Spectrum Audio
50.	The Best Of Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions Volume 2 & Curtis Mayfield	17.10.2005	Spectrum
51.	Golden Soul Hits & Jerry Butler	04.07.2006	Cbuj Ent
52.	Very Best of the Impressions	29.08.2006	Snapper
53.	People Get Ready: 21 Greatest Hits	13.05.2008	Remember
54.	Complete A & B Sides 1961-1968 (2CD)	30.07.2009	UMC
55.	I'm Coming Home for Christmas	13.10.2009	Mega Force
56.	People Get Ready: The Best Of Curtis Mayfields Impressions & Curtis Mayfield (2CD)	14.03.2013	Spectrum
57.	Ballads	09.04.2013	Geffen
58.	Legenden des Soul: Curtis Mayfield & the Impressions	30.05.2014	Universal
59.	The Best of the Impressions: The Curtom Years	22.04.2016	Varese Sarabande
60.	Singles Collection	24.02.2017

Singles Discography:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	For Your Precious Love / Sweet Was The Wine pressions) (Jerry Butler And The Im)	5/1958	Abner		11
2.	Come Back My Love / Love Me	1958	Abner
3.	The Gift Of Love / At The Country Fair	1959	Abner
4.	Lovely One / Senorita I Love You	1959	Abner
5.	That You Love Me / A New Love	1959	Abner
6.	Gypsy Woman / As Long As You Love Me	9/1961	ABC Paramount		20
7.	Growing Closer Together / Can't You See	1/1962	ABC Paramount		99
8.	Little Young Lover / Never Let Me Go	6/1962	ABC Paramount		96
9.	You've Come Home / Minstrel And Queen	10/1962	ABC Paramount		113
10.	I'm The One Who Loves You / I Need Your Love	1/1963	ABC Paramount		73
11.	Sad, Sad Girl And Boy / Twist And Limbo	4/1963	ABC Paramount		84
12.	It's All Right / You'll Want Me Back	9/1963	ABC Paramount		4
13.	Talking About My Baby / Never Too Much Love	1/1964	ABC Paramount		12
14.	Girl You Don't Know Me / A Woman Who Loves Me	3/1964	ABC Paramount
15.	I'm So Proud / I Made A Mistake	3/1964	ABC Paramount		14
16.	Keep On Pushing / I Love You (Yeah)	5/1964	ABC Paramount		10
17.	You Must Believe Me / See The Real Me	8/1964	ABC Paramount		15
18.	Amen / Long Long Winter (v GB 10.12.65, HMV)	11/1964	ABC Paramount		7
19.	People Get Ready / I've Been Trying	2/1965	ABC Paramount		14
20.	Woman's Got Soul / Get Up And Move	3/1965	ABC Paramount		29
21.	A Meeting Over Yonder / I've Found That I've Lost	5/1965	ABC Paramount		48
22.	It's All Right EP (v GB)	6/1965	HMV
23.	I Need You / Never Could You Be	8/1965	ABC Paramount		29
24.	Just One Kiss From You / Twilight Time	9/1965	ABC Paramount		76
25.	You've Been Cheatin' / Man Oh Man	11/1965	ABC Paramount		33
26.	You've Been Cheatin' / Just One Kiss From You (v GB)	14.01.1966	HMV
27.	Since I Lost The One I Love / Falling In Love With You (v GB 18.3.66)	1/1966	ABC Paramount		90
28.	Too Slow / No One Else (v GB 29.4.66)	3/1966	ABC Paramount		91
29.	Can't Satisfy / This Must End	19.08.1966	ABC Paramount		65
30.	Soulfully EP (v GB)	9/1966	HMV
31.	You Always Hurt Me / Little Girl	2/1967	ABC Paramount		96
32.	You've Got Me Runnin' / It's Hard To Believe	5/1967	ABC Paramount
33.	I Can't Stay Away From You / You Ought To Be In Heaven	8/1967	ABC Paramount		80
34.	We're A Winner / It's All Over	12/1967	ABC Paramount		14
35.	We're A Winner / You've Got Me Runnin' (v GB)	1/1968	Stateside
36.	We're Rolling On (part 1) / We're Rolling On (part 2)	4/1968	ABC Paramount		59
37.	I Loved And I Lost / Up Up And Away	7/1968	ABC Paramount		61
38.	Fool For You / I'm Loving Nothing	9/1968	Curtom		22
39.	Don't Cry My Love / Sometimes I Wonder	11/1968	ABC Paramount		71
40.	This Is My Country / My Woman's Love	11/1968	Curtom		25
41.	You Want Somebody Else / My Deceiving Heart	2/1969	Curtom		103
42.	Just Before Sunrise / East Of Java	2/1969	ABC Paramount
43.	Can't Satisfy / You've Been Cheatin' (v GB)	2/1969	Stateside
44.	Seven Years / The Girl I Find	4/1969	Curtom		84
45.	Choice Of Colours / Mighty Mighty Spade And Whitey	6/1969	Curtom		21
46.	Say You Love Me / You'll Always Be Mine	10/1969	Curtom		58
47.	Amen (1970) / Wherever She Leadeth Me	12/1969	Curtom		110
48.	Check Out Your Mind / Can't You See	5/1970	Curtom		28
49.	(Baby) Turn On To Me / Soulful Love	8/1970	Curtom		56
50.	Ain't Got Time / I'm So Proud (v GB 30.4.71, Buddah)	2/1971	Curtom		53
51.	Love Me / I Need To Belong To Someone	7/1971	Curtom		94
52.	Love Me / Do You Wanna Win (v GB)	8/1971	Polydor
53.	Inner City Blues / We Must Be In Love (v USA)	10/1971	Curtom
54.	Inner City Blues / Amen / Keep On Pushing (v GB)	10/1971	Polydor
55.	Our Love Goes On And On / This Love's For Real	5/1972	Curtom
56.	Preacher Man / Times Have Changed	1973	Curtom
57.	People Get Ready / We're Rolling On feat. Curtis Mayfield	30.03.1973	Probe
58.	Thin Line / I'm Loving You	03.08.1973	Buddah
59.	If It's In You To Do Wrong / Times Have Changed	1/1974	Curtom
60.	Sometimes I Wonder	4/1974	ABC
61.	Finally Got Myself Together (I'm A Changed Man) / I'll Always Be There	4/1974	Curtom		17
62.	You've Been Cheatin'	7/1974	ABC
63.	Gypsy Woman	7/1974	ABC
64.	Something's Mighty Mighty Wrong / Three The Hard Way	9/1974	Curtom
65.	Sooner Or Later / Miracle Woman	7/1975	Curtom		68
66.	Same Thing It Look / I'm So Glad	9/1975	Curtom		75
67.	First Impressions / Old Before My Time produced by: Ed Townshend	17.10.1975	Curtom	16
68.	First Impressions / Loving Power (v USA)	11/1975	Curtom
69.	Loving Power	1/1976	Curtom		103
70.	I Wish I'd Stay In Bed / I'm So Glad (v GB)	07.05.1976	Curtom
71.	I Wish I'd Stay In Bed / Sunshine (v USA)	5/1976	Curtom
72.	This Time / I'm A Fool For Love	1976	Cotillion
73.	Silent Night / I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus	1976	Cotillion
74.	You've Been Cheatin' / Amen	10/1976	ABC
75.	Stardust / You'll Never Find	1977	Cotillion
76.	Can't Get Along / You're So Right For Me	1977	Cotillion
77.	Believe In Me / A Long Time Ago	1978	Robin Hood
78.	Young Lover / Don't Send Me Away	1978	Robin Hood
79.	Lover's Lane / Let Me Know	1978	Robin Hood
80.	All Through The Night / Meanwhile Back In My Heart	1979	Robin Hood
81.	Sorry / All I Want To Do Is Make Love To You	1979	20th Century
82.	Maybe I'm Mistaken / All I Want To Do Is Make Love To You	1979	20th Century
83.	Shorty's Got To Go / Pretty Betty / Listen (v GB)	1979	JSP
84.	For Your Precious Love / You're Mine	1981	20th Century
85.	Fan The Fire / Love Love Love	1981	20th Century
86.	Fan The Fire / For Your Precious Love	8/1981	20th Century
87.	Listen / Shorty's Got To Go	1981	Port
88.	Can't Wait 'Til Tomorrow / Love Workin' On Me	1982	MCA
89.	The Young Mod's Forgotten Story / Preacher Man / Mighty Mighty Spade & Whitey / (Baby) Turn To Me (reissue)	28.08.2000	Curtom

Awards:

1990 Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame
1998 Grammy Hall Of Fame ("People Get Ready", 1965)
2003 Vocal Group Hall Of Fame

Various:

1957-? The Roosters

appeared on the LP:

Eric Clapton: Reptile (13.3.01, Reprise)

Compilation Appearances:

"People Get Ready" on OST "American Dreams Original Soundtrack: 1963-1964" (6.5.03, Hip-O)

Press References:

Melody Maker
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1971	0	01.05.1971	12	New Pop Singles	single review
1973	31	04.08.1973	25	New Singles	single review
1974	43	26.10.1974	44	Albums	album review
1975	36	06.09.1975	36	Albums	album review
1975	43	25.10.1975	38	Soul Food	interview
1976	13	27.03.1976	42	Soul Food	album review
1983	43	22.10.1983	23	Albums	album review
New Musical Express
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1974	0	23.02.1974	47	Soul - Soul Notes
1974	0	03.08.1974	2	News Desk - Recording News
1975	0	29.03.1975	22	Platters	album review
1975	0	06.09.1975	17	Platters	album review
1976	0	17.04.1976	24	Platters	album review
1976	0	08.05.1976	15	Platters	album review, single review
1976	0	04.12.1976	34	Platters	album review