We're a Winner 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....

. The album was their last one released before they changed to the Curtom Records

Curtom Records

Curtom Records was a record label started by Curtis Mayfield of The Impressions along with Impressions associate Eddie Thomas in 1968 although the name was used as early as 1963. The labels name was a combination of Mayfields first name and Thomas' surname...

 label.

Despite The Impressions' late sixties work being known for expressing the band's social and/or inspirational viewpoints, most of We're a Winner's tracks are love songs. The exceptions are the title track, "We're a Winner

We're a Winner

"We're a Winner" is a 1967 single recorded by The Impressions for the ABC-Paramount label. Written and produced by Impressions lead singer Curtis Mayfield, the song is notable as one of the most prominent popular recordings dealing with the subject of black pride...

", and "Little Brown Boy".

Track listing

1. "We're a Winner
   We're a Winner
   "We're a Winner" is a 1967 single recorded by The Impressions for the ABC-Paramount label. Written and produced by Impressions lead singer Curtis Mayfield, the song is notable as one of the most prominent popular recordings dealing with the subject of black pride...
   
   " (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...
   
   ) – 2:25
2. "Moonlight Shadows" (Mayfield) – 3:11
3. "Let Me Tell the World" (Mayfield) – 3:16
4. "I'm Gettin Ready" (Mayfield, Phil Upchurch
   Phil Upchurch
   Phil Upchurch is an American jazz and R&B guitarist and bassist.Upchurch started his career working with The Kool Gents, The Dells, and The Spaniels before going on to work with Curtis Mayfield, Otis Rush and Jimmy Reed. He then returned to Chicago to play and record with Woody Herman, Stan Getz,...
   
   ) – 2:31
5. "Nothing Can Stop Me" (Mayfield) – 3:16
6. "No One to Love" (Mayfield) – 2:31
7. "Little Brown Boy" (Mayfield) – 2:44
8. "I Loved & I Lost" (Mayfield) – 2:31
9. "Romancing to the Folk Song" (Mayfield) – 2:35
10. "Up, Up and Away
    Up, Up and Away (song)
    "Up, Up and Away" is a 1967 song written by Jimmy Webb and recorded by The 5th Dimension, that became a major pop hit, reaching #7 on the U.S. Pop Singles chart and #18 in Canada...
    
    " (Jimmy Webb
    Jimmy Webb
    Jimmy Webb is an American songwriter, composer, and singer. He wrote numerous platinum selling classics, including "Up, Up and Away", "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", "Wichita Lineman", "Galveston", "The Worst That Could Happen", "All I Know", and "MacArthur Park"...
    
    ) – 3:17
11. "We're Rolling On, Pt. 1"
12. "We're Rolling On, Pt. 2"

Charts

Year	Chart	Peak Position
1969	Black Albums	#4
1969	Pop Albums	#35