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Love the Impressions. I think they may rank over the Tempts in the 60s' for me.

Really?

funkpill said:

That Chicago soul, gotta love it.

The Impressions & Temptations were definitely neck-to-neck. Only thing separating them was the dancing, which the Impressions seldom did.
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yeah, Curtis said he couldn't dance

funkpill said:

Can't hate him for being honest. The one thing the Impressions had that the Temptations seldom did was writing their own material, well it was mainly Curtis though most of the members did write their own stuff.

Well The Tempts were with Motown

And Berry wasn't having it


In fact, Curtis was one of thee first to own his publishing.
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funkpill said:

In a Mayfield booklet I got, he was on he same bill as James Brown and they played before them. After the got through killing, JB said "man, how do y'all do it. We go out there dancin' and sweating and y'all just chill back and sing and the crow goes nuts."

funkpill said:

As I said, lol

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Curtis' falsetto and the harmonies of Curtis, Fred & Sam are the reasons. They were just SMOOTH with it and the audience fed off their vibe.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

He said that about Sam Cooke too

funkpill said:

Some folks needed to dance to add on to the excitement, some didn't. Marvin couldn't dance to save his life and yet the crowd went nuts too.

True


And the thing is, JB had a nice singin voice also.

Guess he wanted to stand out more

My favorite male vocal group ... EVER!!

Timmy84 said:

I also love the Impressions records with Leroy Hutson and Ralph Johnson on lead. I love them all.

funkpill said:

Exactly. Plus he had to have the biggest band so of course when people came to see James, it was "the greatest show on Earth", everything had to be big for James to get ahead. If he had just sung, he would've only been a Sam Cooke/Ray Charles/Little Richard follower, he HAD to amp it up and I'm glad he did.

MrSoulpower said:

I love the stuff they did with the original quintet lineup with Jerry Butler in the lineup. It's interesting how three of the greatest soul musicians were in one band (Jerry & Curtis at the beginning and then Leroy later on).

Timmy84 said:

me also


or else i would've been a wall flower

funkpill said: