It's All Right - Impressions, The / Huey Lewis & the News (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)

It's All Right (Impressions, The, 1963; Huey Lewis & the News, 1993). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2021-11-28. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"

"It's All Right" was the Impressions first top 10 hit rising to #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1963 (Whitburn, 2013). The song was written by group member and lead singer, Curtis Mayfield (songfacts, com, 2021). Group mate, Fred Cash, claimed that Curtis would create his songs based on side comments people around him would say; "It's All Right" arose from "A conversation between . . . Curtis Mayfield, baritone Sam Gooden, and tenor Fred Cash in between performances in Nashville . . . The trio had recently teamed up with producer Johnny Pate and were excitedly talking about future possibilities for The Impressions when Fred Cash exclaimed that "it's all right!" Mayfield picked up on the phrase and wrote this tune" (songfacts.com, 2021). Huey Lewis and the News also charted with their a cappella version of the song in 1993; their version rose to #37 on the Billboard Airplay chart and is found on the "B" side of of the single "Give Me The Keys" (Whitburn, 2013).

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