r", which hit #1 on the R&B charts that same year, represente= a new level of social awareness in Mayfield's music. Mayfield created his=own label, Curtom, and moved The Impressions to the label. Over the next two ye=rs, more Impressions message tracks, including the #1 R&B hit "Choice =f Colors" (1969

'm a Changed Ma=)" (which also reached the Pop top 20), and the #3 singles "Same Thing i= Took" and "Sooner or Later". In 1976, The Impressions left Curtom and Mayfield behind for Cotillion Records, and had their final major=hit with "Loving Power". The same year, Ralph Johnson was replaced by Nate Evan