five teens out of Chicago who called themselves the[roosters]were looking for a song to record in[1958]but no luck until they changed the group name to[the impressions]and recorded a song that one of the members had wrote called[for your precious love]well the song was a hit, but the young man named[jerry butler]left soon after due to group politics[wonder what became of him?]well the group had no hits for awhile until group member[Curtis Mayfield]wrote a tune called[gypsy woman]in[1961]and the impressions never looked back for the rest of the decade.. minstrel and queen.. sad boy and girl..never let me go.. amen.. grow closer together.. I'm so proud.. it's alright.. never could you be- and many more hits including the theme of the first[miss black America] pagent, at the close of the sixties the impressions sang about black pride..choice of colors.. check out your mind.. keep on pushing- just a shoutout to one of the great groups of soul music history-the fabulous impressions!