The Impressions’ gospel-rooted rhythm ‘n’ blues, prominent on the pop charts during the struggle to end Jim Crow’s dominion, has been called the soundtrack of the civil rights movement. They have a rich history. Founded in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1958–Sam Gooden, at left in the photo above, was a founding member–they later moved to Chicago […]
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The Impressions Rock Plymouth
By Claude Scales on January 12, 2014 11:35 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Events, Music
Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
By Claude Scales on January 9, 2014 3:25 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn History, Comedy, Events, movies, Music, Theater
Starting this Friday (January 10) the Brooklyn Heights Cinema will be showing Inside Llewyn Davis, the Coen brothers’ take on the 1960s folk music scene; something dear to your correspondent’s heart. The Cinema will continue showing Nebraska, and the Sunday kids’ movie, starting at noon, will be Madagascar. Today (Thursday, January 9) is your last […]
The Impressions Head the Bill for “Free the Slaves” Concert at Plymouth
By Claude Scales on December 31, 2013 12:50 am in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn History, Events, Kids, Music
Plymouth Church is known for its pre-eminent role, under the leadership of Henry Ward Beecher, in the anti-slavery movement before the Civil War. While the Emancipation Proclamation declared the slaves free, and the Thirteenth Amendment abolished the “peculiar institution,” slavery still exists in the United States, and, on a larger scale, elsewhere in the world. […]
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