The tropics have made momentary Bob Marley fans of Lucy and I. Which leads to "One Love." Which leads to "People Get Ready."

clipped from www.rollingstone.com Written by: Curtis Mayfield Produced by: Johnny Pate Released: Jan. '65 on ABC-Paramount Charts: 8 weeks Top spot: No. 14 People Get Ready The Impressions Posted Dec 09, 2004 12:00 AM "It was warrior music," said civil-rights activist Gordon Sellers. "It was music you listened to while you were preparing to go into battle." Mayfield wrote the gospel-driven R&B ballad, he said, "in a deep mood, a spiritual state of mind," just before Martin Luther King's march on the group's hometown of Chicago. Shortly after "People Get Ready" was released, Chicago churches began including their own version of it in songbooks. Mayfield had ended the song with "You don't need no ticket/You just thank the Lord," but the church version, ironically, made it less Christian and more universal: "Everybody wants freedom/This I know."