Description: Curtis Mayfield Super Fly 12" VINYL RECORD LP BRAND NEW & FACTORY SEALED Curtom Records Rhino Entertainment 524044 UPC | 081227980436 1972, 2010 ►Heavyweight 180G Vinyl TRACK LISTING SIDE ONE 1. Little Child Runnin' Wild 2. Pusherman 3. Freddie's Dead 4. Junkie Chase (Instrumental) SIDE TWO 1. Give Me Your Love (Love Song) 2. Eddie You Should Know Better 3. No Thing on Me (Cocaine Song) 4. Think (Instrumental) 5. Superfly Curtis Mayfield was an American soul, rhythm and blues and funk singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is highly regarded as a pioneer of funk and of politically conscious African-American Music. He was also a multi-instrumentalist who played the guitar, bass, piano, saxophone, and drums. Curtis was best known for writing and producing the soundtrack to the film Super Fly. Super Fly is one of the few films ever to have been out grossed by its soundtrack. The choice of Curtis Mayfield to score the blaxploitation film Super Fly was an inspired one. No other artist in popular music knew so well, and expressed through his music so naturally, the shades of gray inherent in contemporary inner-city life. His debut solo album, 1970's Curtis, had shown in vivid colors that the '60s optimist (author of the civil-rights anthems "Keep On Pushing" and "People Get Ready") had added a layer of subtlety to his material; appearing on the same LP as the positive and issue-oriented "Move On Up" was an apocalyptic piece of brimstone funk titled "(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go." For Super Fly, Mayfield wisely avoids celebrating the wheeling-and-dealing themes present in the movie, or exploiting them, instead using each song to focus on a different aspect of what he saw as a plague on America's streets. He also steers away from explicit moralizing; through his songs, Mayfield simply tells it like it is (for the characters in the film as in real life), with any lessons learned the result of his vibrant storytelling and knack of getting inside the heads of the characters. "Freddie's Dead," one of the album's signature pieces, tells the story of one of the film's main casualties, a good-hearted yet weak-willed man caught up in the life of a pusher, and devastatingly portrays the indifference of those who witness or hear about it. "Pusherman" masterfully uses the metaphor of drug dealer as businessman, with the drug game, by extension, just another way to make a living in a tough situation, while the title track equates hustling with gambling ("The game he plays he plays for keeps/hustlin' times and ghetto streets/tryin' ta get over"). Ironically, the sound of Super Fly positively overwhelmed its lyrical finesse. A melange of deep, dark grooves, trademarked wah-wah guitar, and stinging brass, Super Fly ignited an entire genre of music, the blaxploitation soundtrack, and influenced everyone from soul singers to television-music composers for decades to come. It stands alongside Saturday Night Fever and Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols as one of the most vivid touchstones of '70s pop music. SHIPPING TO USA ONLY $4.79 (Media Mail) Buyer Pays Shipping 1st LP $4.79... each additional $1.50 LPs will only be combined with other LPs To qualify for the combined discount, all items must be purchased together, paid for with 1 payment, and shipped all together in 1 shipment. Please use the add to cart feature, once you have ordered all your desired items, proceed to checkout to complete your order with the combined total.
Price: 28.98 USD
Location: Gold River, California
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Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Artist: Curtis Mayfield
Record Label: Curtom Records, Rhino Entertainment, Warner Music
Case Type: Cardboard Sleeve
MPN: 081227980436
Inlay Condition: Mint (M)
Format: Record
Record Grading: Mint (M)
Language: English
Release Year: 1972, 2010
Record Size: 12"
Style: Soul, Funk, R&B, Progressive Soul, Chicago Soul, Uptown Soul, Psychedelic Soul, Blaxploitation, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Smooth Soul
Features: 180-220 gram, Die Cut Cover
Composer: Curtis Mayfield
Speed: 33 RPM
Release Title: Super Fly
Color: Black
Material: Vinyl
Catalog Number: 524044
Type: Album
Producer: Curtis Mayfield
Sleeve Grading: Mint (M)
Era: 1970s
Run Time: 43:34
Genre: Funk, Psychedelic, R&B & Soul, Soul, Soundtracks & Musicals, Psychedelic Soul, Chicago Soul, Soundtrack, Uptown Soul
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
