People Get Ready

About People Get Ready

"People Get Ready" is a 1965 single by the Impressions, and the title track from the People Get Ready album. The single is 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 that 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 and also placed it at number 20 on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks. The song was included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. "People Get Ready" was named as one of the Top 10 Best Songs Of All Time by Mojo music magazine, and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998. In 2016, the song was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry due to its "cultural, historic, or artistic significance." Martin Luther King Jr. named "People Get Ready" the unofficial anthem of the Civil Rights Movement and often used the song to get people marching or to calm and comfort them. Various artists have covered the song, including Bob Marley & the Wailers in 1965 and 1977 and Rod Stewart & Jeff Beck in 1985. The Australian group Human Nature had a minor hit in Australia with their version in 1997. more »

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1996

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People get ready 
There's a train a-comin' 
You don't need no baggage 
Just get on board 
All you need is faith 
To hear the diesel hummin' 
You don't need no ticket 
Just thank the Lord 

People get ready 
For the train to Jordan 
It's pickin' up passengers 
From coast to coast 
Faith is the key 
Open the doors and board on 
There's room for all 
Amongst who loves the most 

There ain't no room 
For the hopeless sinner 
Who'd hurt all man kind 
Just to save his own 
Pitied are those 
Whose chances grow thinner
There's no hiding place 
In the kingdom's throne 

People get ready 
There's a train a-comin' 
You don't need no baggage 
Just get on board 
All you need is faith 
To hear the diesel hummin' 
You don't need no ticket 
Just thank the Lord

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Human Nature

Human Nature is an Australian pop vocal group. They formed in 1989, originally as a doo-wop group called The Four Trax, while the members were schoolmates in Sydney. After signing with Sony Music and renaming themselves Human Nature, they released their debut album Telling Everybody in 1996, and have charted 17 hits in Australia's Top 40, and five hits in Australia's Top 10. Three of their albums have reached multi-platinum certification in Australia, and four have reached platinum, with sales of over 1.6 million records in Australia. After transitioning from a boy band to a Motown tribute group, they have been performing on the Las Vegas Strip. more »

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