Genres: Soul, Northern Soul, Pop-Soul, Uptown Soul, Chicago Soul Active: 50's, 60's, 70's Formed: 1958 in Chicago, IL
Gene Chandler, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, Billy Butler, The Van Dykes, The Roosters, Walter Jackson, The Five Stairsteps, The Chi-Lites, The Dells, Sam Cooke, Major Lance, The Knight Brothers, The Esquires, Barbara Acklin, Jackie Wilson, The Temptations, The Spinners, Ben E. King, Solomon Burke Donny Hathaway, Jimi Hendrix, Walter Jackson, Chuck Jackson, Gene Chandler, Jimmy Cliff, The Heptones, The Melodians, Wailing Souls, Bob & Gene, The Manhattans, The Moments, Shades of Brown |  |
The quintessential Chicago soul group, the Impressions' place in R&B history would be secure if they'd done nothing but launch the careers of soul legends Jerry Butler and Curtis Mayfield. But far more than that, the Impressions recorded some of the most distinctive vocal-group R&B of the '60s under Mayfield's guidance. Their style was marked by airy, feather-light harmonies and Mayfield's influentially sparse guitar work, plus, at times, understated Latin rhythms. If their sound was sweet and lilting, it remained richly soulful thanks to the group's firm grounding in gospel tradition; they popularized the three-part vocal trade-offs common in gospel but rare in R&B at the time, and recorded their fair share of songs with spiritual themes, both subtle and overt.
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Release: September 3, 2008
Label: Universal Japan
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Release: May 13, 2008
Label: Remember
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