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The Impressions

THE IMPRESSIONS

YEAR

1991

INDUCTED BY

Tracy Chapman

CATEGORY

Performers

A bridge in more ways than one.

The Impressions traversed the sounds of the Fifties and Sixties as well as old and new social attitudes. Their music was the sound of the civil rights movement.

Arthur "Pop" Brooks, Sr.

Arthur "Pop" Brooks, Sr.

Curtis Mayfield

Curtis Mayfield

Fred Cash

Fred Cash

Jerry Butler

Jerry Butler

Richard A. Brooks

Richard A. Brooks

Sam Gooden

Sam Gooden

HALL OF FAME
ESSAY

By Joe McEwan

The impressions formed from the union of two friends, Jerry Butler and Curtis Mayfield of Chicago, Illinois. The two had sung together in church as adolescents, and had traveled with the Northern Jubilee Gospel Singers and the Traveling Souls Spiritual Church.

It was Butler who convinced his friend Mayfield to leave his own struggling group, the Alfatones, and join him, Sam Gooden, and brothers Richard and Arthur Brooks— the remnants of another struggling vocal group called the Roosters.

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