The Young Mods' Forgotten Story is an album and song by the American soul music

Soul music

Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...

 group The Impressions

The Impressions (American band)

The Impressions are an American music group from Chicago, originally formed in 1958. Their repertoire includes doo-wop, gospel, soul, and R&B....

. The album was their second album released on Impressions member Curtis Mayfield

Curtis Mayfield

Curtis Lee Mayfield was an American soul, R&B, and funk singer, songwriter, and record producer.He is best known for his anthemic music with The Impressions during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's and for composing the soundtrack to the blaxploitation film Super Fly, Mayfield is highly...

's label Curtom Records

Curtom Records

Curtom Records was a record label started by Curtis Mayfield of The Impressions along with Impressions associate Eddie Thomas in 1968 although the name was used as early as 1963. The labels name was a combination of Mayfields first name and Thomas' surname...

 originally in 1969.

Despite the Impressions late sixties work being known for their social or inspirational viewpoint such as #1 R&B hit "Choice of Colors" and "Mighty Mighty (Spade & Whitey)" the rest of the songs feature Mayfield's soul based love songs.

The last song "Mighty Mighty (Spade & Whitey)" hinted at the funk

Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...

 based sound Mayfield would explore on his later solo records.

Track listing

1. "The Young Mods' Forgotten Story" (Curtis Mayfield
   Curtis Mayfield
   Curtis Lee Mayfield was an American soul, R&B, and funk singer, songwriter, and record producer.He is best known for his anthemic music with The Impressions during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's and for composing the soundtrack to the blaxploitation film Super Fly, Mayfield is highly...
   
   ) – 2:00
2. "Choice of Colors" (Mayfield) – 3:15
3. "The Girl I Find" (Mayfield) – 2:37
4. "Wherever You Leadeth Me" (Mayfield) – 2:32
5. "My Deceiving Heart" (Mayfield) – 2:49
6. "Seven Years" (Mayfield) – 2:21
7. "Love's Miracle" (Mayfield) – 2:24
8. "Jealous Man" (Mayfield) – 2:34
9. "Soulful Love" (Mayfield) – 2:30
10. "Mighty Mighty (Spade & Whitey)" (Mayfield) – 2:21

Personnel

• Curtis Mayfield
  Curtis Mayfield
  Curtis Lee Mayfield was an American soul, R&B, and funk singer, songwriter, and record producer.He is best known for his anthemic music with The Impressions during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's and for composing the soundtrack to the blaxploitation film Super Fly, Mayfield is highly...
  
   - producer
• Donny Hathaway
  Donny Hathaway
  Donny Edward Hathaway was an American soul singer-songwriter and musician. Hathaway contracted with Atlantic Records in 1969 and with his first single for the Atco label, "The Ghetto, Part I" in early 1970, Rolling Stone magazine "marked him as a major new force in soul music."His collaborations...
  
   and Johnnie Pate - arranger

Charts

USA - Album

Year	Chart	Peak Position
1969	Black Albums	#21
1969	Pop Albums	#104

USA - Singles

Year	Song	Chart	Peak Position
1969	Choice Of Colors	Black Singles	#1
1969	Choice of Colors	Pop Singles	#21
1969	My Deceiving Heart	Black Singles	#69
1969	Seven Years	Pop Singles	#84
1969	Seven Years	Black Singles	#15

External links

• [ The Young Mods' Forgotten Story] at Allmusic