The Impressions is the debut album 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 of the same name

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 produced no less than 6 chart hit singles,including their biggest-ever hit, the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

Top 10 Pop smash "It's All Right

It's All Right

"It's All Right" is a 1963 single by The Impressions. The single was the most successful chart entry of the group's career. "It's All Right" was one of two top-ten singles on the Billboard Hot 100, and the first of six number ones on the Billboard R&B chart...

", and the Top 20 Hit, "Gypsy Woman". After the departure of original Impressions lead singer Jerry Butler

Jerry Butler (singer)

Jerry Butler is an American soul singer and songwriter. He is also noted as being the original lead singer of the R&B vocal group, The Impressions, as well as a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.Butler is also an American politician...

 to a successful solo career, and the other original members, brothers Arthur Brooks and Richard Brooks

Richard Brooks

Richard Brooks was an American screenwriter, film director, novelist and occasional film producer.-Early life and career:...

, the remaining original members , 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...

, Sam Gooden

Sam Gooden

Sam Gooden is an African-American soul singer. He is best known for being an original member of the successful group The Impressions from its beginnings as The Roosters in the 1950s. Sam and the group are still recording and performing...

,and Fred Cash

Fred Cash

Fred Cash is an African-American soul singer. He is best known for being a member of the successful group The Impressions, a group in which he replaced Jerry Butler in 1960. Cash was an original member of the Roosters , the group that later evolved into The Impressions. After leaving the group for...

, choose not to replace them, instead, they scaled down to a trio, and went on to become one of America's top R&B vocal groups. []

Track listing

1. "It's All Right" (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. "Gypsy Woman" (Mayfield)
3. "Grow Closer Together" (Mayfield)
4. "Little Young Lover" (Mayfield)
5. "You've Come Home" (Mayfield)
6. "Never Let Me Go" (Joseph Scott)
7. "Minstrel and Queen (Queen Majesty)" (Mayfield)
8. "I Need Your Love" (Richard Brooks
   Richard Brooks
   Richard Brooks was an American screenwriter, film director, novelist and occasional film producer.-Early life and career:...
   
   )
9. "I'm the One Who Loves You" (Mayfield)
10. "Sad, Sad Girl and Boy" (Mayfield)
11. "As Long as You Love Me" (Mayfield)
12. "Twist and Limbo" (Mayfield)

Charts

USA - Album

Year	Chart	Peak Position
1964	Pop Albums	#43

USA - Singles

Year	Song	Chart	Peak Position
1962	Gypsy Woman	Pop Singles	#20
1962	Grow Closer Together	Pop Singles	#99
1962	Little Young Lover	Pop Singles	#96
1963	It's All Right	Pop Singles	#4
1963	I'm the One Who Loves You	Pop Singles	#73
1963	Sad, Sad Girl and Boy	Pop Singles	#84

External links

• [ The Impressions (album)] at Allmusic