The Impressions & Ike and Tina Turner Revue – You Must Believe Me

By , June 18, 2017 10:37 am

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The Impressions

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Mr and Mrs Turner

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Listen/Download – The Impressions – You Must Believe Me MP3

Listen/Download – Ike and Tina Turner Revue – You Must Believe Me MP3

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I will go ahead and assume that is you are regular visit to these environs that you are already acquainted with the sounds of the mighty Impressions.

Though the group were much more than just a vehicle for the genius of Curtis Mayfield, there is also no doubt that without him they would never have reached the heights they did.

Today’s selection was a Top 20 hit for the group in 1964, and is a perfect example of the group’s deep, gospel-inflected soul.

The arrangement is pure Chicago class (courtesy of Johnny Pate) but also opens with a taste of Mayfield’s Pop Staples-influenced guitar, sitting there all by itself, laying a foundation of Mississippi Delta soil on which the rest of the song rests (and weaving itself in and out of the arrangement all the way through).

One of Mayfield’s finest ‘begging for forgiveness’ tunes, it treads a fine line between pleading and confidence, with Sam Gooden and Fred Cash’s harmonies riding up in the front seat with Curtis’s voice so closely that it almost sounds like he’s doubling (tripling?) himself.

The way the muted horns rise up and recede again behind the verse is a thing of beauty, making it my favorite Impressions record by a longshot.

I’m also including a very groovy cover of the tune by the Ike and Tina Turner Revue.

Their version appeared on the 1965 LP ‘The Ike and Tina Turner Show Vol2’ on Loma. This, along with the previous year’s ‘Live – The Ike and Tina Turner Show’ is an essential volume and a fantastic snapshot of a live soul revue of the classic era.

If someone were smart, they’d reissue the two discs together.

Though it was recorded not long after the original by the Impressions fell off the charts, Tina introduces the song by saying they were going “way back”.

Ike’s guitar plays pretty close to the original, while the Ikettes and Tina trade lines expertly, giving the tune a fuller, more open harmony workout.

It’s a highlight of the album, which also includes a cover of the Impressions ‘Keep On Pushin’ (coincidentally the Impressions release that immediately preceded ‘You Must Believe Me’) as well as a weird ‘fake live’ version of the Turner’s Northern Soul classic ‘Somebody (Somewhere) Needs You’.

I hope you dig the tunes.

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Keep the faith

Larry

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