People Get Ready (The Impressions album)

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
Studio album by The Impressions
Released	February 1965
Genre	Chicago soul Gospel
Length	30:52
Label	ABC-Paramount
Producer	Johnny Pate
The Impressions chronology
Keep On Pushing (1964) People Get Ready (1965) The Impressions' Greatest Hits (1965)
Singles from People Get Ready
"You Must Believe Me" Released: 1964 "People Get Ready" Released: 1965 "Woman's Got Soul" Released: 1965

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Woman's Got Soul"	2:20
2.	"Emotions"	2:48
3.	"Sometimes I Wonder"	2:58
4.	"We're in Love"	2:28
5.	"Just Another Dance"	2:51
6.	"Can't Work No Longer"	2:21
7.	"People Get Ready"	2:40
8.	"I've Found Out That I've Lost"	2:51
9.	"Hard to Believe"	2:27
10.	"See the Real Me"	2:25
11.	"Get Up and Move"	2:13
12.	"You Must Believe Me"	2:30

All tracks are written by Curtis Mayfield

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

• Curtis Mayfield – lead vocals, guitar
• Fred Cash – backing vocals
• Sam Gooden – backing vocals
• The Funk Brothers – instrumentation
• Johnny Pate – arrangement, production

Charts

Chart	Peak position
US Billboard 200[2][4]	23
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[3][4]	1

See also

• List of Billboard number-one R&B albums of 1965

References

1. Bush, John. "People Get Ready (Universal) - The Impressions". AllMusic. Retrieved January 26, 2018.
2. "The Impressions - Billboard 200". Billboard. Archived from the original on May 16, 2018. Retrieved January 26, 2018.
3. "The Impressions - Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums". Billboard. Archived from the original on May 16, 2018. Retrieved January 26, 2018.
4. "The Impressions - Awards". AllMusic. Archived from the original on July 26, 2014. Retrieved January 26, 2018.

External links

• People Get Ready at Discogs (list of releases)