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"People Get Ready" is a 1965 single by the Impressions, and the title track from the People Get Ready album. The single is the group's best-known hit, reaching number three on the Billboard R&B chart and number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 .
People Get Ready is a studio album by the Impressions, released on ABC-Paramount in 1965. It contains Curtis Mayfield's "People Get Ready", which was a successful single that had a significant impact on the civil rights movement. [1] The album reached number 23 on the Billboard 200 chart [2] and number 1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. [3]
People Get Ready "Amen" / 7 1 — Greatest Hits: 1965 "Long, Long Winter" — 35 — Keep On Pushing "People Get Ready" / 14 3 — People Get Ready "I've Been Trying" 133 35 — Keep On Pushing "Woman's Got Soul" b/w "Get Up and Move" 29 9 — People Get Ready "Meeting over Yonder" b/w "I've Found That I Lost" (from People Get Ready) 48 12 ...
There are many covers of Impressions songs by the Wailers, including "Keep On Moving", "Long Long Winter" and "Just Another Dance". Bob Marley also sampled the lyrics of the Impressions song "People, Get Ready" for his song "One Love/People Get Ready". The Wailers had recorded it on several occasions before it was released as a single in 1984.
Longest-serving member of Rock Hall-inducted act appeared on R&B classics like "For Your Precious Love" and "People Get Ready"
The Impressions is the debut album by the American soul music group of the same name. It produced six chart hit singles, including their biggest hit, the Billboard top 10 pop smash " It's All Right ", and the top 20 hit " Gypsy Woman ".
In 1965, he wrote "People Get Ready" for The Impressions, which was ranked No. 24 in Rolling Stone's list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" in 2004. [9] The song received numerous other awards; it was included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's "500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll", [10] and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998.
The Sonic song was written before Buxer and Jackson "ever started working on" the single, Buxer said. The chorus hook for "Hard Times," a song Buxer had written for a band he was in, was also repurposed for Sonic, he said. "These cues are all over the Internet," he said. "People have accurately matched the songs to the cues."