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- soul music
- In soul music
…Mayfield’s Impressions, prime movers of Chicago soul, added their own sense of social consciousness to the soul music movement, notably in “Keep On Pushing” (1964) and “People Get Ready” (1965). By the decade’s end even Motown, the most conservative of the soul labels, had begun to release issue-oriented records, especially…
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- “It’s All Right”: Chicago Soul
- In “It’s All Right”: Chicago Soul
Berry Gordy, Jr., and his Motown Records, based in Detroit, Michigan, overshadowed the Windy City during the 1960s. But several black music producers—including Roquel (“Billy”) Davis and Carl Davis (who were not related), Johnny Pate (who also was an arranger), and Curtis Mayfield
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