We're a Winner (album)

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We're a Winner
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Studio album by
Released1968
Genre Chicago soul
Label ABC Records [1]
Producer Johnny Pate
The Impressions chronology
The Fabulous Impressions
(1967)
We're a Winner
(1968)
This Is My Country
(1968)
Singles from We're a Winner
  1. "We're a Winner"
    Released: December 1967
  2. "I Loved and I Lost"
    Released: June 1968
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We're a Winner is an album by the American soul music group the Impressions, released in 1968. [5] It was the group's last album for ABC Records; they moved on to Curtis Mayfield's Curtom Records. [6]

Contents

Track listing

All tracks composed by Curtis Mayfield; except where indicated. "We're Rolling On" Parts 1 and 2 are bonus tracks added for the 1994 and 2007 CD reissues of this album.

  1. "We're a Winner" – 2:25
  2. "Moonlight Shadows" – 3:11
  3. "Let Me Tell the World" – 3:16
  4. "I'm Gettin Ready" (Mayfield, Phil Upchurch) – 2:31
  5. "Nothing Can Stop Me" – 3:16
  6. "No One to Love" – 2:31
  7. "Little Brown Boy" – 2:44
  8. "I Loved and I Lost" – 2:31
  9. "Romancing to the Folk Song" – 2:35
  10. "Up, Up and Away" (Jimmy Webb) – 3:17
  11. "We're Rolling On, Part 1"
  12. "We're Rolling On, Part 2"

Personnel

Charts

YearChartPeak Position
1968Black Albums4
Pop Albums35 [7]

References

  1. Popoff, Martin (September 8, 2009). Goldmine Record Album Price Guide. Penguin. ISBN   978-1-4402-2916-9 via Google Books.
  2. We're a Winner at AllMusic
  3. Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 4. MUZE. p. 464.
  4. The New Rolling Stone Record Guide. Random House. 1983. p. 240.
  5. Pruter, Robert (May 8, 1992). Chicago Soul. University of Illinois Press. ISBN   978-0-252-06259-9 via Google Books.
  6. "The Impressions | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  7. Whitburn, Joel (2001). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Albums, 1955-2001. Record Research. p. 402.