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CURTIS MAYFIELD
Super Fly
1972 Canada pressingMore Friday night fire, baby!!
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥This album is forever GOATED.
Funky, badass psychedelic soul music from one of the greatest blaxploitation films ever made.
Lots of wah-wah guitars, gnarly percussion, funky-as-fuck bass, and Mayfield’s otherworldly falsetto.
A masterpiece tour-de-force album by one talented, funky motherfucker.
#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #records #vintage #retro #physicalmedia #analog #vinylcollection #art #music #curtismayfield #superfly #soul #funk #psychedelic #1970s #70s #70smusic #blaxploitation
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Another old favorite for this week's #JukeboxFridayNight theme, #Royalty.
The Impressions: Minstrel and Queen (1962)
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In addition to Jan Bradley's hit recording, there was also another version of the song, produced by Curtis Mayfield:
The Fasinations: Mama Didn't Lie (1962)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEB5vpk2R7w#CurtisMayfield #Fasinations #Fascinations #AlternateFridayMusic #Liar #soulmusic #girlgroups
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This week's #AlternateFridayMusic theme is #Liar. This song, written by Curtis Mayfield, was a major hit for the 19-year-old Chicago soul singer Jan Bradley:
Jan Bradley: Mama Didn't Lie (1962)
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On August 13th, 1990: American soul singer #CurtisMayfield becomes paralyzed from the neck down after stage lighting equipment falls on him at an outdoor concert at Wingate Field in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York; although unable to perform live, he continues to compose, sing, and record.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #DonLettsCultureClashRadio
Curtis Mayfield:
🎵 So In Love -
https://recordsalbums.com/curtis-mayfield-vinyl-records-albums-lps/5734-curtis-mayfield-love-is-the-place-lp-vinyl-record-for-sale.html Released during the early 1980s, Love Is the Place finds Curtis Mayfield embracing a smoother, more contemporary soul sound... #CurtisMayfield #Mayfield #Soul #ContemporarySoul #ContemporaryRandB #RandB #RhythmAndBlues #UsedVinylRecords #UsedLps #UsedRecords #UsedAlbums #RecordsForSale #RecordStore #Albums #Vinyls #VinylRecords #Records #RecordAlbums #LPs #LP #Record #Album
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https://recordsalbums.com/1674-curtis-mayfield-vinyl-records-albums-lps Curtis Mayfield was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer whose smooth voice and thoughtful lyrics helped shape soul and funk music... #CurtisMayfield #Mayfield #Soul #ContemporarySoul #ContemporaryRandB #RandB #RhythmAndBlues #UsedVinylRecords #UsedLps #UsedRecords #UsedAlbums #RecordsForSale #RecordStore #Albums #Vinyls #VinylRecords #Records #RecordAlbums #LPs #LP #Record #Album
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This week's #ThursdayFiveList theme is #SeeYouPeople. Lots of songs to choose from, but here's the sixties soul edition, with some of my all-time favorite records:
Bessie Banks: Go Now (1964, the original version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prlWGe2EHroDanny White: Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1962)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3RtfRoQfbMSolomon Burke: Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye) (1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFawKuhQIpEWalter Jackson: It's All Over (1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gCt7BDzhB4Kenny Carter: How Can You Say Goodbye (1966)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2MLvVOwKuU#soulmusic #BessieBanks #LarryBanks #DannyWhite #SolomonBurke #BertBerns #WalterJackson #CurtisMayfield #KennyCarter #deepsoul
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Curtis Mayfield « Curtis »
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this age, perfectly soundtracked, thanks to baby huey (james thomas ramey) & curtis mayfield.
('hard times' - baby huey, 1971)
#music #babyHuey #curtisMayfield #psychedelic #soul
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"People Get Ready" is a 1965 single by #theImpressions, and the title track from the #PeopleGetReady album. The single is the group's best-known hit, reaching number three on the Billboard R&B chart and number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100. The #gospel-influenced track was a #CurtisMayfield composition that displayed the growing sense of social and political awareness in his writing. In 2021, #RollingStone named "People Get Ready" the #122ndGreatestSongOfAllTime.
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Superfly
#curtismayfield #superfly #70sfilms #70smusic #rnb #soul #music #musicsky #musiciansky My first movie soundtrack purchase ... the soundtrack and movie released the same day ... July 11, 1972. It's a standout work of funk and soul. Both the movie and Curtis Mayfield also took on some of the most pressing social concerns of the day like drugs, poverty and street life. While the film was the subject of criticism for glamorizing the lifestyle of the drug dealer…
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Curtis Mayfield:
🎵 I Plan to Stay a Believerhttps://williamparker.bandcamp.com/track/i-plan-to-stay-a-believer
https://open.spotify.com/track/6JIfkqGRilj97vEdaLpHaS
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6G4PaS9BNkIuGqMo44rbfZ🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg -
SONG OF THE WEEK “I’ve Been Trying” by Fleur de Lys w/Chris Andrews. https://timchrisandrews.bandcamp.com/track/ive-been-trying
#chrisandrews #fleurdelys #freakbeat #psychedelic #soulmusic #garagerock #circles #TheWho #GlynJohns #polydor #IBCStudios #london #mellotron #impressions #curtismayfield
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"People Get Ready" is a 1965 single by #theImpressions, and the title track from the #PeopleGetReady album. The single is the group's best-known hit, reaching number three on the Billboard R&B chart and number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100. The #gospel-influenced track was a #CurtisMayfield composition that displayed the growing sense of social and political awareness in his writing. In 2021, #RollingStone named "People Get Ready" the #122ndGreatestSongOfAllTime.
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Curtis Mayfield – Curtis / Live! (1971, US)
As randomly chosen via Fedi survey,[1] our next spotlight is on number 294 on The List, submitted by myself (buffyleigh).
This is one of my favourite live releases in my vinyl collection, the first solo live album from the indomitable Curtis Mayfield, recorded in 1971 at the (now if not, at the time, already) legendary NYC nightclub, The Bitter End. Mayfield leads his backing band on guitar, with Craig McMullen on rhythm guitar, Joseph “Lucky” Scott on bass, Tyrone McCullen on drums, and “Master” Henry Gibson on percussion, congas, and bongos (all of whom would join Mayfield on future albums including Super Fly).
Nearly half of the songs on Curtis/Live[2] were originally released by the soul/R&B vocal group The Impressions, which Mayfield had been a part of since the age of 16 and had just recently left to pursue a solo career. Mayfield was the primary songwriter on all 12 albums he released with The Impressions – from their 1963 s/t debut to their 1970 album Check Out Your Mind! – so the inclusion of these songs are more reworkings than covers. Three of the other tracks[3] come from the one solo album Mayfield had released by this time, Curtis (1970), and the remaining four[4] see their first (and, afaik, possibly only album) release here, including a cover of the Carpenters’ “We’ve Only Just Begun”.
Mayfield would go on to release (if I’m counting correctly) 17 more solo studio/soundtrack albums (including one after being paralyzed from the neck down, wtf) and a handful of other live albums, plus would pen albums for other artists such as Gladys Knight & the Pips, Mavis Staples, and Aretha Franklin. Both in his lifetime and after his death in 1999, Mayfield would be recognized for his influence on soul/R&B music and his impact on the civil rights and Black pride movements, all of which deserves thousands more words than we have here. If you haven’t yet gone down the Curtis Mayfield rabbit hole, this is a great place to start.
Happy listening and, don’t worry, if there’s a hell below, we’re all going to go.
- Songlink: Curtis Mayfield – Curtis / Live! (or, YT playlist)
- Warning: The version of “We the People Who Are Darker Than Blue” included on Apple Music and Spotify has been swapped for a different live version for some gorram reason, it’s not what’s on the actual release. Another reason to get a physical copy.
- Discogs: Curtis Mayfield – Curtis / Live!
- The survey choices that led to this spotlight were: “If you set you mind free, baby”, “Maybe you’d understand”, “Starfish and coffee”, and “Maple syrup and jam, oh oh” (following a survey that had “Starfish and coffee”/”Maple syrup and jam”/”Butterscotch clouds, a tangerine”/”And a side order of ham”). The last three were tied as the winning selections, so the survey results will be translated for three spotlights, each picking an album in The List that contains a (part of a) word from one of those phrases – in this case, “May(be)”. ↩︎
- “Mighty Mighty (Spade and Whitey)”, “We’re a Winner”, “People Get Ready”, “Check Out Your Mind”, and “Gypsy Woman”. ↩︎
- “The Makings of You”, “We the People Who are Darker Than Blue”, and “(Don’t Worry) If There’s a Hell Below, We’re All Going to Go”. ↩︎
- “I Plan to Stay a Believer”, “We’ve Only Just Begun”, “Stare and Stare”, and “Stone Junkie”. ↩︎
- Songlink: Curtis Mayfield – Curtis / Live! (or, YT playlist)
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On 17 Jun 1983: Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, England opens: UB40, Melanie, and #CurtisMayfield headline; other performers include: The Beat, Marillion, King Sunny Adé, The Chieftains, #DrJohn; Tom Paxton, Dennis Brown, The Enid, Incantation, and Aswad.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Curtis Mayfield:
🎵 Move on Uphttps://amineedgeanddance.bandcamp.com/track/curtis-mayfield-move-on-up-amine-edge-dance-bootleg-2
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #DreamTime
Curtis Mayfield:
🎵 Think -
Born this day in 1942 the great Curtis Mayfield.
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On Jun 3, 1942: #CurtisMayfield, American #singer-#songwriter and soul #musician ("Freddie's Dead"; "Superfly"), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1999).
#HappyBirthday #RIP 🥀
