Edited by Azizi Powell
This post showcases the song "People Get Ready". This post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/15/lester-chambers-trayvon-martin-attacked-dedication-song_n_3601173.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular. That article is reports that a member of the Chambers Brothers was accousted at a Blues festival July 17, 2013 when he sung "People Get Ready" in honor of Trayvon Martin. Trayvon Martin was a 17 year old African American who was tragically killed in Florida in February 2012 when he was walking from a convenience store back to the house where he was staying. Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/03/chanting-at-trayvon-martin-million.html for a pancocojams post about the chants that were spoken by protestors who called for a trial for the man who killed Trayvon Martin.
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SHOWCASE VIDEOS
Example #1: People Get Ready -- The Impressions ( in HD)
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From Wikipedia:
"People Get Ready" was a 1965 single by The Impressions, and the title track from the album of the same name. The single is today the group's best-known hit, reaching number-three on the Billboard R&B Chart and number 14 on the Billboard Pop Chart. The gospel-influenced track was a Curtis Mayfield composition, and displayed the growing sense of social and political awareness in his writing.
Rolling Stone magazine named "People Get Ready" the 24th greatest song of all time. The song was included in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. "People Get Ready" has also been chosen as one of the Top 10 Best Songs Of All Time by a panel of 20 top industry songwriters and producers, including Paul McCartney, Brian Wilson, Hal David, and others as reported to Britain's Mojo music magazine, and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998. 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.
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Click http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yYOWQj2Wdo for more comments about "People Get Ready".
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Example #2: Chambers Brothers - People Get Ready LIVE version
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People Get Ready (live version) from the Love, Peace and Happiness double album released in 1969.
People get ready, there's a train a comin'
You don't need no baggage, you just get on board
All you need is faith to hear the diesels hummin'
Don't need no ticket, you just thank the Lord
People get ready for the train to Jordan
It's picking up passengers from coast to coast
Faith is the key, open the doors and board 'em
There's hope for all among those loved the most.
There ain't no room for the hopeless sinner
Who would hurt all mankind just to save his own
Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner
For there's no hiding place against the Kingdom's throne
So people get ready, there's a train a comin'
You don't need no baggage, you just get on board
All you need is faith to hear the diesels hummin'
Don't need no ticket, you just thank the Lord
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The train motif is a common feature in African American religious & non-religious songs. However, in the article about Lester Chamber that I linked to in the beginning of this post, Chambers indicated that "if the song was recorded today Mayfield would change the lyrics from “there’s a train a comin’” to "there's a change a comin.'"
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Thanks to Curtis Mayfield & the Inpressions & The Chambers Brothers for their musical legacys. Thanks for all those who continue to work toward the eradication of racism and injustice in the United States & throughout the world.
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions & The Chambers Brothers - People Get Ready (with lyrics)
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