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"People Get Ready" is a 1965 single by The Impressions, and the title track from the People Get Ready album. The single is the group's best-known hit, reaching number-three on the Billboard R&B chart and number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100. The gospel-influenced track was a Curtis Mayfield composition that displayed the growing sense of social and political awareness in his writing. Martin Luther King Jr. named the song the unofficial anthem of the Civil Rights Movement and often used the song to get people marching or to calm and comfort them.
The gospel-influenced track was written and composed by Curtis Mayfield, who was displaying a growing sense of social and political awareness in his writing. Mayfield said,
"That was taken from my church or from the upbringing of messages from the church. Like there's no hiding place and get on board, and images of that sort. I must have been in a very deep mood of that type of religious inspiration when I wrote that song."
The song is the first Impressions hit to feature Mayfield's guitar in the break.
"People Get Ready" is in a long tradition of Black American freedom songs that use train imagery, such as "Wade in the Water", "The Gospel Train", and "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot". The idea comes from the spiritualist idea that once one dies the soul goes in a journey to the afterlife.
New stereo mix, sourced from the Time-Life Flower Power series.
"People Get Ready" is a 1965 single by The Impressions, and the title track from the People Get Ready album. The single is the group's best-known hit, reaching number-three on the Billboard R&B chart and number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100. The gospel-influenced track was a Curtis Mayfield composition that displayed the growing sense of social and political awareness in his writing. Martin Luther King Jr. named the song the unofficial anthem of the Civil Rights Movement and often used the song to get people marching or to calm and comfort them.
The gospel-influenced track was written and composed by Curtis Mayfield, who was displaying a growing sense of social and political awareness in his writing. Mayfield said,
"That was taken from my church or from the upbringing of messages from the church. Like there's no hiding place and get on board, and images of that sort. I must have been in a very deep mood of that type of religious inspiration when I wrote that song."
The song is the first Impressions hit to feature Mayfield's guitar in the break.
"People Get Ready" is in a long tradition of Black American freedom songs that use train imagery, such as "Wade in the Water", "The Gospel Train", and "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot". The idea comes from the spiritualist idea that once one dies the soul goes in a journey to the afterlife.
New stereo mix, sourced from the Time-Life Flower Power series.
![The Mamas & the Papas - Go Where You Wanna Go (2024 Stereo Mix) [Reupload]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZLJBfnsD9xo/mqdefault.jpg "The Mamas & the Papas - Go Where You Wanna Go (2024 Stereo Mix) [Reupload]
Go Where You Wanna Go is a 1965 song written by John Phillips. It was originally recorded by the Mamas & the Papas on their LP If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears and given limited release as a single. However, the record was withdrawn, and its A-side was reassigned to California Dreamin. Go Where You Wanna Go later became a hit for the 5th Dimension.
P.F. Sloan played guitar on the song. John Phillips said that he wrote it about Michelle Phillipss affair with Russ Titelman, a songwriter and record producer.")
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Soldier of Love (Lay Down Your Arms), also known as Soldiers of Love, is a 1962 song written by Buzz Cason and Tony Moon. It was originally recorded by soul artist Arthur Alexander and released as a B-side of the single Where Have You Been (All My Life), which reached #58 in the Billboard Hot 100 in June 1962. The song was later covered by The Beatles during a 1963 session at the BBC, released on the 1994 album Live at the BBC
As early as 1962, The Beatles had been playing live versions of the songs on both sides of Alexanders single, with Where Have You Been (All My Life) being unofficially recorded at the Star-Club in December that year. They recorded a cover of Soldier of Love on July 2, 1963, the day after recording the She Loves You/Ill Get You single. Unterberger rates the Beatles performance of the song as fabulous, calling it probably the greatest gem on Live at the BBC. Unterberger enumerates a number of ways in which the Beatles recording differs from the original, such as the Beatles playing the main riff on guitar, while on Alexanders recording the riff was played on piano. The Beatles also add vocal harmonies, which Unterberger describes as excellent, and eliminate Alexanders somber violins.
Unterberger states that the cumulative effect of the differences is to make the Beatles version exuberant, compared to Alexanders sad version, claiming that it sounds as if the Beatles expected to win over the woman as a matter of course, whereas there was a sense of desperate last-hope begging in Alexanders vocal. Critic Robert Christgau calls it one of the Beatles greatest covers. Rolling Stone critic Anthony DeCurtis uses John Lennons crooning on the song as an example of why Lennon was a great rock n roll singer. Author Ian MacDonald describes it as an ideal vehicle for Lennon, who sings the lead vocal. MacDonald also suggests that three songs from the Beatles 1963 album With the Beatles—Not a Second Time, It Wont Be Long and All Ive Got to Do—were influenced by Soldier of Love (Lay Down Your Arms).")
