Curtis Mayfield - People Get Ready (1987)Clip contains short interview from UK TV. People Get Ready was an Impressions track from the album of the same title from 1965. Mayfield was the the lead singer in the group until about 1971, when he left to go solo.
The Black Fredom Movement used it like other Mayfield songs that had been adopted by the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's as anthems.
No touring footage has turned up for Mayfield apart from a few UK clips. He never used large bands for touring either, no brass or strings, such a great shame .... The Techniques, The Uniques, Bob Marley and The Wailers, and many other early vocal groups in Jamaica were deeply influenced by the songwriting, vocal harmonies, and black consciousness that appear as hallmarks on Impressions recordings from the early to mid 1960s.
Many of the Wailers' early ska recordings are Impressions covers. One of Marley's most well known songs, "One Love", is in fact a take on "People Get Ready".
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