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Certain Songs #680: The Impressions – “People Get Ready”

October 25, 2016 by Jim Connelly

impressions-people_get_ready_single Album: People Get Ready
Year: 1965

A top-twenty single for the Impressions and an almost instant standard, The Impressions “People Get Ready” is on the shortlist of Prettiest Songs Ever Recorded, Soul Division.

Written by Curtis Mayfield, “People Get Ready” is slow and stately, stopping and starting seemingly at will, powered mostly by Mayfield’s guitar, which spends much of the song walking down the street, looking for other believers.

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