One by One (Impressions album)
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One by One is an album and song by the American soul music
Soul music
Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...

 group The Impressions
The Impressions (American band)
The Impressions are an American music group from Chicago, originally formed in 1958. Their repertoire includes doo-wop, gospel, soul, and R&B....

. It consists mostly of cover songs with only a few original Impressions songs.

Track listing

  1. "Twilight Time
    Twilight Time (song)
    "Twilight Time" is a popular song with lyrics by Buck Ram, and the music by The Three Suns .Original hits of "Twilight Time" included the Three Suns and Les Brown & His Band of Renown ....

    " (Alan Dunn, Al Nevins
    Al Nevins
    Al Nevins, born Albert Tepper , was a renowned musician, producer, arranger, guitarist and violinist. He was also member of a pop trio called the Three Suns and is considered one of the major forces behind the evolution of the 1950s music into the early 1960s pop/rock music.-The Three Suns:Al...

    , Buck Ram
    Buck Ram
    Buck Ram was an American songwriter, and popular music producer and arranger.-Biography:...

    )
    – 2:17
  2. "I Wanna Be Around
    I Wanna Be Around
    "I Wanna Be Around" is a popular song. In the lyrics, the singer declares that he "wants to be around" when the woman who spurned him inevitably gets her heart broken....

    " (Johnny Mercer
    Johnny Mercer
    John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American lyricist, songwriter and singer. He is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music. He was also a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as those written by others...

    , Sadie Vimmerstadt)
    – 2:15
  3. "Nature Boy
    Nature Boy (song)
    "Nature Boy" is a song by eden ahbez, published in 1947. The song tells a fantasy of a "strange enchanted boy... who wandered very far" only to learn that "the greatest thing... was just to love and be loved in return"...

    " (eden ahbez
    Eden Ahbez
    eden ahbez was an American songwriter and recording artist of the 1940s-1960s, whose lifestyle in California was influential on the hippie movement...

    )
    – 2:24
  4. "Just One Kiss From You" (Curtis Mayfield
    Curtis Mayfield
    Curtis Lee Mayfield was an American soul, R&B, and funk singer, songwriter, and record producer.He is best known for his anthemic music with The Impressions during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's and for composing the soundtrack to the blaxploitation film Super Fly, Mayfield is highly...

    )
    – 2:37
  5. "I Want to Be With You" (Lee Adams
    Lee Adams
    Lee Richard Adams is an American lyricist best known for his musical theatre collaboration with Charles Strouse.Born in Mansfield, Ohio, Adams received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Ohio State University and a Master's from Columbia University.Adams won Tony Awards in 1961 for Bye Bye Birdie...

    , Charles Strouse
    Charles Strouse
    Charles Strouse is an American composer and lyricist.-Life and career:Strouse was born and raised in New York City, the son of Ira and Ethel Strouse...

    )
    – 3:17
  6. "Answer Me, My Love
    Answer Me, My Love
    "Answer Me, My Love" is a popular song, originally written by Gerhard Winkler and Fred Rauch. The English lyrics were written by Carl Sigman in 1953....

    " (Fred Rauch, Carl Sigman
    Carl Sigman
    Carl Sigman was an American songwriter.-Biography:Born in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, Sigman graduated from law school and passed his Bar exams to practice in the state of New York...

    , Gerhard Winkler)
    – 2:43
  7. "It's Not Unusual
    It's Not Unusual
    "It's Not Unusual" is a song written by Les Reed and Gordon Mills, first recorded by a then-unknown Tom Jones after having first been offered to Sandie Shaw. Jones recorded what was intended to be a demo for Shaw, but when she heard it she was so impressed with Jones' delivery that she declined the...

    " (Gordon Mills
    Gordon Mills
    Gordon William Mills , was a successful London-based music industry manager and songwriter who was born in Madras, India and grew up in Trealaw in the Rhondda Valley, South Wales...

    , Leslie Reed)
    – 2:20
  8. "Without a Song
    Without a Song
    "Without a Song" is a popular song with music by Vincent Youmans and lyrics by Billy Rose and Edward Eliscu, published in 1929. It was included in the musical play, Great Day....

    " (Edward Eliscu
    Edward Eliscu
    Edward Eliscu was a lyricist, playwright, producer and actor. He attended the City College of New York where he attained a Bachelor of Science degree. He then began acting in Broadway plays...

    , Billy Rose
    Billy Rose
    William "Billy" Rose was an American impresario, theatrical showman and lyricist. He is credited with many famous songs, notably "Me and My Shadow" , "It Happened in Monterey" and "It's Only a Paper Moon"...

    , Vincent Youmans
    Vincent Youmans
    Vincent Youmans was an American popular composer and Broadway producer.- Life :Vincent Millie Youmans was born in New York City on September 27, 1898 and grew-up on Central Park West on the site where the Mayflower Hotel once stood. His father, a prosperous hat manufacturer, moved the family to...

    )
    – 3:18
  9. "Falling in Love With You" (Mayfield) – 2:56
  10. "My Prayer
    My Prayer
    "My Prayer" is a 1939 popular song with music by the famous salon violinist Georges Boulanger and lyrics by Jimmy Kennedy. It was originally written by Boulanger with the title "Avant de Mourir" in 1926. The lyrics for this version were added by Kennedy in 1939. Glenn Miller recorded the song that...

    " (Georges Boulanger
    Georges Boulanger
    Georges Ernest Jean-Marie Boulanger was a French general and reactionary politician. At the apogee of his popularity in January 1889 many republicans including Georges Clemenceau feared the threat of a coup d'état by Boulanger and the establishment of a dictatorship.- Early life and career :Born...

    , Jimmy Kennedy
    Jimmy Kennedy
    Jimmy Kennedy OBE was an Irish songwriter, predominantly a lyricist, putting words to existing music such as "Teddy Bears' Picnic" and "My Prayer", or co-writing with the composers Michael Carr, Wilhelm Grosz and Nat Simon amongst others.-Biography:Kennedy was born near Omagh...

    )
    – 2:58
  11. "Mona Lisa" (Sallie Sefrit, Mana Zucca
    Mana Zucca
    Mana-Zucca was an American actress, singer, pianist and composer born in New York City.-Life:Mana-Zucca was born Augusta Zuckerman in New York City on December 25, 1885. She was a child prodigy who began composing at an early age. At the age of eight, she performed as piano soloist in the...

    )
    – 2:28
  12. "Lonely Man" (Mayfield) – 2:43

Charts

USA - Album
Year Chart Peak Position
1965 Black Albums #4
1965 Pop Albums #104


USA - Singles
Year Song Chart Peak Position
1965 Just One Kiss From You Pop Singles #76

External links

  • [ One by One] at Allmusic
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