Curtis Lee Mayfield was a socially conscious singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer and one of the most influential musicians and lyricists in the music world, especially soul and politically aware African-American music. His music crossed all ethnic and color boundaries, and he has never received the accolades he deserved. RIP Curtis, your music is still alive and touching people. You opened and expanded this 74-year-old white man's mind in the early 1970s.
There were SO many fine musicians at the time, but Curtis Mayfield always stood out to me. Glad I got to appreciate him in his time. Thanks for this! ☮️❤️
Yes Yes Yes Curtis Mayfield's "Superfly" along with Isaac Hayes " Shaft " broke the mold for soundtrack's that turned them from background music into chart toppers and could be enjoyed on their own. Just an amazing achievement as all of Mr Mayfield's music is. More Curtis please !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My mum bought this album after seeing the movie. For me, 10 years old in a white western Canadian family, this was mind blowing. At that age I never got the street references, but the music was incredible. So much going on yet nothing overshadowed anything else. Fantastic soundtrack! ♥
Thanks for playing this! Curtis' voice is so soft & smooth as silk. Then those growling horns, percussion top notch, all the sounds together✨️. This man had SO many tragedies in his lifetime. #RESPECT to the great Curtis Mayfield 🏆
I forgot about this song! I learned to love the music of others living with every culture in the Army. Thanks for playing it. Yeah, the 70's were a different time....
I was just about to enter the 7th grade when this song first came out. I grew up in a small town in Alaska and what this song described was nothing like my little world. And yet whenever it came on the radio I would focus on it like you do when you really love a tune. That's the power of a really great song.
I remember in 9th grade one of my friends asked me what my favorite album is. “Superfly” I said. “Mine too” he replied. Obviously Curtis hit hard enough for 2 suburban white boys to buy in too.
My parents gave me this album for Christmas when it came out. I wanted to see the movie at my local theater but I was still too young and I couldn't convince my Mom to take me. 😊 "Freddie's Dead" was my favorite funky track but over the years I've found myself returning most often to the beautiful "Give Me Your Love" and "Think."
When I hear this I'm instantly transported back to a smoky pool hall with a bunch of younger and older people all groove into the same music. Man this is beautiful!
Freddie's Dead and Junkie Chase (instrumental) should have been on that side too. Are you just doing a couple songs at a time? Curtis Mayfield was a genius. This album really creates the atmosphere for the movie which to me is the best of its genre from that period.
@@AirplayBeats Oh OK.! Major props for this !! Majority on here ( even from this era) are not familiar either. I can tell you this music was segregated. That's why you get so few suggestions for Curtis, James Brown, Sly & Family Stone, P- Funk all whom most definitly appeal to the same audience. I can tell you many of the artists you've reacted to are definitely influenced by all mentioned ! These are the Founding Father's of Funk 🔥
My best bud sent me the CDs of this soundtrack and Marvin Gaye's Trouble Man. Said they were absolutely "must haves". He was right about that. If Trouble Man is not on your list, it oughta be...
Same year, always assumed Curtis laid down that high falsetto first .. but then Marvin could have sung opera if he put his mind to it. Trouble Man is a must reaction for these lads.
Love those funky strings and Curtis' positive lyrical influence on this "Blaxploitation" movie. Henry Gibson is a monster on percussion, mainly bongos on Pusherman.
Great choice! Curtis Mayfield might be my favorite R&B artist of all time -- and that's a massive genre as you guys well know. Just so soulful and funky, beautiful music and singing, socially aware and a brilliant musician and songwriter to boot. RIP Curtis, thank you for all the great music!
La & Che! You can hear Curtis' talking voice on the song "No Thing On Me (Cocaine Song)" track no.7! In my humble opinion, the "Super Fly" album soundtrack is the best that was ever made because of its social commentary and its total groove! Great review, and as always my brothers Peace, Love & Blessings!!!
I can’t get enough of this stuff, guys. Freddy’s Dead was my jam off this album, but it’s all so damn good. Takes me back to hitchhiking from Indy to San Francisco then all the way down the coast with my best buddy when I was 17. This album IS San Francisco in the 70s.
The percussion that you were asking about on Pusherman I think are Roto Toms. When you turn the Roto Toms with your hand you can make subtle to extreme but very smooth changes in pitch. This is a great example of how to use them. The whole band superb but both the drummer and percussionist on this song are spectacular.
@@Colin-1964 Absolutely but this is beyond soul. It's Spirtual. Especially " Move On Up" BtW This was not the entire Side 1 of Superfly Freddies Dead missing Hope they are doing entire Side 2!! Sly & Family Stone- There's A Riot Going On " also essential
Superfly is a great album! In my opinion, the album is better than the movie! I came of age in the '70's and when blaxplotation movies came out, those were the Golden Age of going to the movies for black Americans!
Love Curtis! Instantly recognizable voice. But I believe his music sans singing is unique and distinctive to him alone. His music, to me, reflects the cacophony of sounds of inner city street life - but beautiful and just as complex. Highly underrated as a guitarist he also used some of the most prolific musicians in R&B; Joseph “Lucky” Scott - bass, Phil Upchurch - guitar, “Master” Henry Gibon - percussion, Morris Jennings - drums. Together they played on so many of the R&B, soul, even jazz albums -likely thousands of songs.
Curtis Mayfield’s “Move On Up” is one of the most positive songs I’ve ever heard; gets you from the opening notes; fantastic groove❤; I hope you get to it 😊. Wonderful reaction as always!
What a time to grow up in. No offense to any one. I love to hear someone play music instead of computer. Curtis has such a soulful voice. Great song. Great reaction fellas. Appreciate you 🙏 ❤
Great stuff from back in the day. No computers back then , just imagination and composers, arrangers and musicians and record companies willing to finance a big project. Those tunable drums had rims that can be turned as you play and change the pitch. Roto-Toms
The end of "Little Child Running Wild" (outro) = The Bomb !!! It's one of my favourite endings to a song; the feelings, the emotion, takes me back every time I revisited this track.
When I was learning to play the bass, I went thru a very long soul music phase (never left it, tbh). Curtis Mayfield bass-lines are soooooo fun to play. Pusherman, in particular, is a real joy. Very creative, in the pocket, it's laid-back, yet it defines the structure of the entire track.
I believe a big part of the percussion on Pusherman was timbales, which is definitely sticks. As for the percussive sound on the guitar, it was Isaac Hayes who first pulled the wah-wah all the way up and left it there to get that sound for the iconic sound on the "Theme from Shaft." A funny story is that they'd done several takes with guitar player seriously ripping some riffs when, playing around during the break, he started messing with the wah-wah and made that scratchy sound. Isaac stopped everything, figured out what he was doing and told him on the next take to just do that the whole time. The guitarist was a bit angry he didn't get a chance to show his chops on the record until it won the Oscar for "Best Original Song."
you guys should check out Curtis Mayfield "here but I'm gone"...this man was pure talent...the back story is he was injured during a concert and became a quadriplegic...took multiple cuts to make the album because he couldn't breathe properly...great song...sad ending for an extremely talented man...
"The recording session for the song "Pusherman" took place at Bell Sound Studios in New York, and was followed by a several months-long hiatus (during which Mayfield wrote The Times Have Changed for his former group The Impressions and formulated his next solo effort, Back to the World). The instrumentals for the remaining songs were produced in a three-day session at Curtom Studios"
What a great talented man he was. Curtis had a wonderful Christain testimony he would share and then warn people of the horrors of drugs, as he himself well knew. Love his music. Thanks so much for playing this for a guy who was a teenager in the early 70s. Love your channel. God Bless
Steppenwolf had the song “the Pusher” which differentiated between a Pusher {who sold Heroin } and the local Dealer [ who sold Weed], they also had the great anti drug song “Snowblind Friend”. Should check them out
I think the way this soundtrack and the movie were done (based on a behind the scenes documentary on RUclips) is that Curtis created the music based on the 45 page script they gave him. Then, when they were filming the scenes, they were playing the songs in the background.
This music was popular during my early years in the USAF in 1972. I finally saw the movie in early 1973 in Biloxi, Ms., at Keesler AFB. While in line, a guy had a grand mal epileptic seizure. Scared me to death. I loved the movie and the music! Still do. The soundtrack is on my playlist on my iPad. This music paved the road to Hip Hop. I never tire of hearing this. Thanks guys! Excellent reaction as usual!
This entire album and artist is insanely good. I am so glad you guys are reacting to it. So funky, so smooth and full of social awareness. Thanks so much - can't wait to hear some of the other tunes!
Curtis was very under-rated as the guitarist. Hendrix style on his song little wing is done in the style that Curtis used when he was in The Impressions. The Impressions music is what made me notice what a great writer, and musician Curtis was. He writting and production on the Claudine (Gladys Knight and the Pips) and Let's Do It Again (The Staple Singers) soundtrack is also amazing. Genius is over used a lot, but its the only word that comes to mind when you describe someone like Curtis Mayfield. I love that you young guys are keeping him alive by listening to he's music. This is how we keep our artist alive.
“my El D and just me for all the junkies to see” El D is a Cadillac Eldorado. It was like a magnet for recruiting other pushers and addicts. Cold Blooded album!
I think that’s why us old cats are so reluctant to try and get into the popular modern music. Because we grew up on music that was created by great musicians playing actual instruments! The music of our day had a Soul and Warmth to it that a computer or pro tool program just can’t duplicate.
Gentlemen, thanks for your review of Curtis. In my mind, you can see how in Little Child the music would reflect the sounds on the street as you walk about the neighborhood. The guitar in the background playing the same chord over and over is like a hammer on an anvil. The strings show the ambient background noise. The horns the exclamations that sound out. The message is in the music and the lyrics. As my father told me, though I didn't listen, "Why do you think they call it dope?" I was 22 when this came out, and I didn't wise up for another 17 years. Thank the Lord for seeing another way. Should you have a reason to, listen to some of Gil Scott-Heron's performances and records. He and Brian Jackson wrote some great songs.
Just saw this movie a few months ago. Hadn’t seen it in decades. Epic soundtrack. The late Ron O’Neal (Priest) was great in the movie. His tricked out Cadillac Eldorado in the movie was a loaner from a real pimp who got a small part in the movie in exchange for the use of his car!
Airplay Beats deserves more than just props for this( & whomever made this happen on Patreon) This music was totally off my and majorty radar growing up. Unlike Motown which was designed to crossover this was counterculture. There is no doubt this could easily have been in a classic Rock format as well. No one I played this for was not down. James Brown & Sly Stone also should be explored( both heavily sampled James Brown - "Outta Site" Live on the Tami Show 64 Best live performamance ever. Doing the moonwalk when MJ was in his diapers
There would also be no Prince without James Brown, Sly Stone and Jimi Hendrix. He took all this inspiration and created his own huge volume of music. Maybe some day we'll hear what's in Prince's vault.
Thanks for doin' this. When I discovered Curtis for myself, I really was drawn in for months and months. I know him from the opening credits to a weird old comedy movie called "The Groove Tube" which is kind of like "Kentucky Fried Movie" if you remember that one.. You guys should hit some comedy once in a while. Maybe not, but I'd love to see it.
Those are Roto Toms. You tuned them by turning the drum which of course changed the pitch! They were cool back in the day. Cool sound. Plus others but that is the sound that keeps changing pitch. I hear Congas and Bongos as well. Sounds like Curtis had a full orchestra plus big, soundtrack money. Beautiful.
@TE-LE-GRAM_The_AirplayBeat You guys are great. Your reactions are similar to the ones I had when I heard them back in the day. When you had the album, with all the assorted notes and paraphernalia in front of you, it was great when you were a dumb curious kid.
Lucky Scott does those little trills on the bass often. Kind of his thing, I guess. But yeah... I dunno if Curtis wrote the basslines or what, but it's so good. That tone is so mean.
I'm a 59 yr old white guy and have 10,000+ albums. The first I ever bought was CCR Cosmos Factory. The next I bought was 5 for a penny Columbia record club. At 9 yrs old I got Elton John Honky Chateau, Jackson 5 ABC, Al Green I'm Still in Love With You, Issac Hayes Shaft, and Curtis Mayfield Superfly. I stand by all my decisions, musically at least.
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Curtis Lee Mayfield was a socially conscious singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer and one of the most influential musicians
and lyricists in the music world, especially soul and politically aware African-American music. His music crossed all ethnic and color
boundaries, and he has never received the accolades he deserved. RIP Curtis, your music is still alive and touching people. You opened
and expanded this 74-year-old white man's mind in the early 1970s.
Amen
❤
This is not the entire Side 1.
Freddie's Dead and others missing. Hope Airplay finds out .
There were SO many fine musicians at the time, but Curtis Mayfield always stood out to me. Glad I got to appreciate him in his time. Thanks for this! ☮️❤️
Yes Yes Yes Curtis Mayfield's "Superfly" along with Isaac Hayes " Shaft " broke the mold for soundtrack's that turned them from background music into chart toppers and could be enjoyed on their own. Just an amazing achievement as all of Mr Mayfield's music is. More Curtis please !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My mum bought this album after seeing the movie. For me, 10 years old in a white western Canadian family, this was mind blowing. At that age I never got the street references, but the music was incredible. So much going on yet nothing overshadowed anything else. Fantastic soundtrack! ♥
Thanks for playing this! Curtis' voice is so soft & smooth as silk. Then those growling horns, percussion top notch, all the sounds together✨️. This man had SO many tragedies in his lifetime. #RESPECT to the great Curtis Mayfield 🏆
Curtis was one of the first to really push funk and soul into the mainstream.
You guys made my day reviewing this, one of the greatest albums of all time. Pretty much everything he did in the early to mid 70s is gold!
I forgot about this song! I learned to love the music of others living with every culture in the Army. Thanks for playing it. Yeah, the 70's were a different time....
Agree....and, MISS 'EM!! ❤❤❤❤❤ Thank You, kindly, for YOUR SERVICE!!!
I was just about to enter the 7th grade when this song first came out. I grew up in a small town in Alaska and what this song described was nothing like my little world. And yet whenever it came on the radio I would focus on it like you do when you really love a tune. That's the power of a really great song.
I remember in 9th grade one of my friends asked me what my favorite album is. “Superfly” I said. “Mine too” he replied. Obviously Curtis hit hard enough for 2 suburban white boys to buy in too.
My parents gave me this album for Christmas when it came out. I wanted to see the movie at my local theater but I was still too young and I couldn't convince my Mom to take me. 😊 "Freddie's Dead" was my favorite funky track but over the years I've found myself returning most often to the beautiful "Give Me Your Love" and "Think."
When I hear this I'm instantly transported back to a smoky pool hall with a bunch of younger and older people all groove into the same music. Man this is beautiful!
Yes!
❤
This is not the entire Side 1.
Freddie's Dead and others missing. Hope Airplay finds out .
@@jgsrhythm100 Yeah hope so too!
@@jhamptonjr They are . They just responded
@@jgsrhythm100 Awesome!
The band War was huge at this time as well. You can hear the influence
"A victim of ghetto demands" always stays with me.
With The Impressions , Curtis Mayfield's "Gypsy Woman" '61, showcased his incredible voice, and guitar playing, and writing.
With the Impressions I absolutely love, You've Been Cheatin. Total dance tune.
Curtis knew all about layering and composing. Master.
Freddie's Dead and Junkie Chase (instrumental) should have been on that side too. Are you just doing a couple songs at a time? Curtis Mayfield was a genius. This album really creates the atmosphere for the movie which to me is the best of its genre from that period.
Yea we’re going to do a couple at a time. Freddie’s dead and Junkie chase will be next.
@@AirplayBeats Oh OK.!
Major props for this !!
Majority on here ( even from this era) are not familiar either. I can tell you this music was segregated.
That's why you get so few suggestions for Curtis, James Brown, Sly & Family Stone, P- Funk all whom most definitly appeal to the same audience. I can tell you many of the artists you've reacted to are definitely influenced by all mentioned !
These are the
Founding Father's of Funk 🔥
Freddie's dead is crazy
My best bud sent me the CDs of this soundtrack and Marvin Gaye's Trouble Man. Said they were absolutely "must haves". He was right about that. If Trouble Man is not on your list, it oughta be...
Same year, always assumed Curtis laid down that high falsetto first .. but then Marvin could have sung opera if he put his mind to it. Trouble Man is a must reaction for these lads.
Can you dig why us old farts got into Cube's "It Was a Good Day" and other stuff that came a generation later?
Trouble Man is soooo good
Such a classic album.
Love those funky strings and Curtis' positive lyrical influence on this "Blaxploitation" movie. Henry Gibson is a monster on percussion, mainly bongos on Pusherman.
The so called, "first", blaxsploitation movie,"Sweet Sweet back..."
featured the debut of Earth, Wind, and Fire.
Great choice! Curtis Mayfield might be my favorite R&B artist of all time -- and that's a massive genre as you guys well know. Just so soulful and funky, beautiful music and singing, socially aware and a brilliant musician and songwriter to boot. RIP Curtis, thank you for all the great music!
and nice hands La!
Love love love Curtis Mayfield! I’ve turned a lot of young people onto CM and they’re blown away!
La & Che! You can hear Curtis' talking voice on the song "No Thing On Me (Cocaine Song)" track no.7! In my humble opinion, the "Super Fly" album soundtrack is the best that was ever made because of its social commentary and its total groove! Great review, and as always my brothers Peace, Love & Blessings!!!
1960's and 1970's Rock,Top 40,R&B music is AWESOME.
I'm a 60 year old rocker however our generation listened to it all.
“Pusherman”, “Freddie’s Dead”, are my two favorite tracks since 1975…………
I can’t get enough of this stuff, guys. Freddy’s Dead was my jam off this album, but it’s all so damn good. Takes me back to hitchhiking from Indy to San Francisco then all the way down the coast with my best buddy when I was 17. This album IS San Francisco in the 70s.
The percussion that you were asking about on Pusherman I think are Roto Toms. When you turn the Roto Toms with your hand you can make subtle to extreme but very smooth changes in pitch. This is a great example of how to use them. The whole band superb but both the drummer and percussionist on this song are spectacular.
This album is GENIUS !
Great Tune! Give “Move On Up” a listen.✌🏻🏴
Absolutely 💯
@@jgsrhythm100
The list could go on! But loved Move On Up since first hearing it in the late 70’s. Got to love a bit of Soul!✌🏻😬
@@Colin-1964
Absolutely but this is beyond soul. It's Spirtual. Especially " Move On Up" BtW This was not the entire Side 1 of Superfly
Freddies Dead missing
Hope they are doing entire Side 2!!
Sly & Family Stone- There's A Riot Going On " also essential
Thanks guys. I’ve just been and downloaded it to my collection 👍👍
Superfly is a great album! In my opinion, the album is better than the movie! I came of age in the '70's and when blaxplotation movies came out, those were the Golden Age of going to the movies for black Americans!
And those movies made Pam Greer a star. They don't make actresses like her anymore.
Love Curtis! Instantly recognizable voice. But I believe his music sans singing is unique and distinctive to him alone. His music, to me, reflects the cacophony of sounds of inner city street life - but beautiful and just as complex. Highly underrated as a guitarist he also used some of the most prolific musicians in R&B; Joseph “Lucky” Scott - bass, Phil Upchurch - guitar, “Master” Henry Gibon - percussion, Morris Jennings - drums. Together they played on so many of the R&B, soul, even jazz albums -likely thousands of songs.
Curtis Mayfield’s “Move On Up” is one of the most positive songs I’ve ever heard; gets you from the opening notes; fantastic groove❤; I hope you get to it 😊. Wonderful reaction as always!
What a time to grow up in. No offense to any one. I love to hear someone play music instead of computer. Curtis has such a soulful voice. Great song. Great reaction fellas. Appreciate you 🙏 ❤
Great stuff from back in the day. No computers back then , just imagination and composers, arrangers and musicians and record companies willing to finance a big project. Those tunable drums had rims that can be turned as you play and change the pitch. Roto-Toms
Curtis and the musicians on this album was fantastic!
Oh man…CM was THE man. Why isn’t there music like this anymore?? I’m your momma, I’m your daddy…
The end of "Little Child Running Wild" (outro) = The Bomb !!!
It's one of my favourite endings to a song; the feelings, the emotion, takes me back every time I revisited this track.
This album came out when I was 13 years old. It was a total vibe that took over.
Good, good stuff! I remember seeing the movie with my pops!
When I was learning to play the bass, I went thru a very long soul music phase (never left it, tbh). Curtis Mayfield bass-lines are soooooo fun to play. Pusherman, in particular, is a real joy. Very creative, in the pocket, it's laid-back, yet it defines the structure of the entire track.
Listen to this, I am transported back to shag carpeting watching, “uptown Saturday night “or “Cooley high”.
I've never heard this album in its entirety. That was dope as hell Bros.... Thanks for turning us on to some new music. Pusherman was super fly😎
I believe a big part of the percussion on Pusherman was timbales, which is definitely sticks. As for the percussive sound on the guitar, it was Isaac Hayes who first pulled the wah-wah all the way up and left it there to get that sound for the iconic sound on the "Theme from Shaft." A funny story is that they'd done several takes with guitar player seriously ripping some riffs when, playing around during the break, he started messing with the wah-wah and made that scratchy sound. Isaac stopped everything, figured out what he was doing and told him on the next take to just do that the whole time. The guitarist was a bit angry he didn't get a chance to show his chops on the record until it won the Oscar for "Best Original Song."
you guys should check out Curtis Mayfield "here but I'm gone"...this man was pure talent...the back story is he was injured during a concert and became a quadriplegic...took multiple cuts to make the album because he couldn't breathe properly...great song...sad ending for an extremely talented man...
I still have this song on the 45 RPM Record and also Freddys Dead!
Seen SUPERFLY, LOVED THE MUSIC OF CURTIS MAYFIELD!!!🎤🎤👍👍🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎤🎤🎤👍👍
"The recording session for the song "Pusherman" took place at Bell Sound Studios in New York, and was followed by a several months-long hiatus (during which Mayfield wrote The Times Have Changed for his former group The Impressions and formulated his next solo effort, Back to the World). The instrumentals for the remaining songs were produced in a three-day session at Curtom Studios"
I had this album; love Curtis Mayfield.
Little Child Running Wild
Is My favorite song of all time.
Musically it’s perfect to my ears
What a great talented man he was. Curtis had a wonderful Christain testimony he would share and then warn people of the horrors of drugs, as he himself well knew. Love his music.
Thanks so much for playing this for a guy who was a teenager in the early 70s.
Love your channel.
God Bless
Curtis elevates me on that pillow of groove and high lyrical talk/sing that flies me over the horizon.
Thoroughly enjoyed that--thanks gents!
Congas = hands
Bongos= fingers
Congas you stand to play
Bongos you sit and they go between your knees
One of my favorite albums from the era. Curtis Mayfield rocked out meaningful tunes that made you think while you danced. Great LP. ✌️❤️🎶
Steppenwolf had the song “the Pusher” which differentiated between a Pusher {who sold Heroin } and the local Dealer [ who sold Weed], they also had the great anti drug song “Snowblind Friend”. Should check them out
Incredible sounds on this one,i love it
I hear fingers, hands and sticks on the percussion instruments. What a great song.
I think the way this soundtrack and the movie were done (based on a behind the scenes documentary on RUclips) is that Curtis created the music based on the 45 page script they gave him. Then, when they were filming the scenes, they were playing the songs in the background.
All the songs on this album is so so goooood! Love it played it over and over in the day!
This music was popular during my early years in the USAF in 1972. I finally saw the movie in early 1973 in Biloxi, Ms., at Keesler AFB. While in line, a guy had a grand mal epileptic seizure. Scared me to death. I loved the movie and the music! Still do. The soundtrack is on my playlist on my iPad. This music paved the road to Hip Hop. I never tire of hearing this. Thanks guys! Excellent reaction as usual!
This entire album and artist is insanely good. I am so glad you guys are reacting to it. So funky, so smooth and full of social awareness. Thanks so much - can't wait to hear some of the other tunes!
Thank you for transporting me back to a time and place that I took for granted as a you man.
Mayfield was a fine guitarist
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have been listening to Curtis since 1970 and remember buying his first LP and this album Super Fly is a must for music lovers
Taking me way back👍👍
“Everyone had a job”. You just nailed it. And they did that job very very well. These were mastered musicians.
OHHHHHH BOY!!! THIS is gonna be GOOD!!! HUGS!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
Curtis was very under-rated as the guitarist. Hendrix style on his song little wing is done in the style that Curtis used when he was in The Impressions. The Impressions music is what made me notice what a great writer, and musician Curtis was. He writting and production on the Claudine (Gladys Knight and the Pips) and Let's Do It Again (The Staple Singers) soundtrack is also amazing. Genius is over used a lot, but its the only word that comes to mind when you describe someone like Curtis Mayfield. I love that you young guys are keeping him alive by listening to he's music. This is how we keep our artist alive.
“my El D and just me for all the junkies to see” El D is a Cadillac Eldorado. It was like a magnet for recruiting other pushers and addicts. Cold Blooded album!
I think that’s why us old cats are so reluctant to try and get into the popular modern music. Because we grew up on music that was created by great musicians playing actual instruments! The music of our day had a Soul and Warmth to it that a computer or pro tool program just can’t duplicate.
Gentlemen, thanks for your review of Curtis. In my mind, you can see how in Little Child the music would reflect the sounds on the street as you walk about the neighborhood. The guitar in the background playing the same chord over and over is like a hammer on an anvil. The strings show the ambient background noise. The horns the exclamations that sound out. The message is in the music and the lyrics. As my father told me, though I didn't listen, "Why do you think they call it dope?" I was 22 when this came out, and I didn't wise up for another 17 years. Thank the Lord for seeing another way. Should you have a reason to, listen to some of Gil Scott-Heron's performances and records. He and Brian Jackson wrote some great songs.
Just saw this movie a few months ago. Hadn’t seen it in decades. Epic soundtrack. The late Ron O’Neal (Priest) was great in the movie. His tricked out Cadillac Eldorado in the movie was a loaner from a real pimp who got a small part in the movie in exchange for the use of his car!
Curtis Mayfield could sing the phone book and I'd listen. Classic.
It is so Very well put together. Like you said, simeone had to pkay all those parts, compose & arrange it.
The Pride of Cabrini- Green, my Chicago brother
Listen to this album many many times growing up..thanks guys
Airplay Beats deserves more than just props for this( & whomever made this happen on Patreon)
This music was totally off my and majorty radar growing up.
Unlike Motown which was designed to crossover this was counterculture. There is no doubt this could easily have been in a classic Rock format as well. No one I played this for was not down.
James Brown & Sly Stone also should be explored( both heavily sampled
James Brown - "Outta Site"
Live on the Tami Show 64
Best live performamance ever.
Doing the moonwalk when MJ was in his diapers
You guys know "Doo Doo Wop is Strong in Here"? by Curtis? What a groove!
Great song
@@cptight88 The drums are goin' crazy. Guitar too.
That WAS fast. Great execution man.
Absolutely heartbreak hotel great observation 😮
There would be no Prince without Curtis Mayfield.
There would also be no Prince without James Brown, Sly Stone and Jimi Hendrix. He took all this inspiration and created his own huge volume of music. Maybe some day we'll hear what's in Prince's vault.
Thanks for doin' this. When I discovered Curtis for myself, I really was drawn in for months and months. I know him from the opening credits to a weird old comedy movie called "The Groove Tube" which is kind of like "Kentucky Fried Movie" if you remember that one..
You guys should hit some comedy once in a while. Maybe not, but I'd love to see it.
this whole album Playlist bound love this
Legendary❤
Loved this song as a kid although I hand no context. Lived in Germany at the time - as an Army Brat. Trip to the past. Thank you.
Joseph "Lucky" Scott is one of my favorite bass players. Got some great tones and playing on this album.
Curtis used the best musicians in the game at the time! Classic album and film dare I say. The layers of instruments on “Pusha Man” is so incredible!
Those are Roto Toms. You tuned them by turning the drum which of course changed the pitch! They were cool back in the day. Cool sound. Plus others but that is the sound that keeps changing pitch. I hear Congas and Bongos as well. Sounds like Curtis had a full orchestra plus big, soundtrack money. Beautiful.
Underrated guitar player. RIP What a life!
@TE-LE-GRAM_The_AirplayBeat You guys are great. Your reactions are similar to the ones I had when I heard them back in the day. When you had the album, with all the assorted notes and paraphernalia in front of you, it was great when you were a dumb curious kid.
Lucky Scott does those little trills on the bass often. Kind of his thing, I guess. But yeah... I dunno if Curtis wrote the basslines or what, but it's so good. That tone is so mean.
"Eddie You Should Know Better" is my fave track on this. A beautiful 2 minute short story with orchestration...
This was the coolest thing around when it was released. Everybody had the 8-track in their car.
Issac Hayes ,Shaft had an intro about 3_mins long .One of the longest ever.
Excellent choice. I’d recommend his Curtis album, If There’s A He’ll Below is a great track
This album side format is working for me.
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MOVIE "DARK SHADOWS" USES A FEW OF HIS SONGS IN IT. HILARIOUS MOVIE!!!!👍👍👍👍👍👍
I'm a 59 yr old white guy and have 10,000+ albums. The first I ever bought was CCR Cosmos Factory. The next I bought was 5 for a penny Columbia record club. At 9 yrs old I got Elton John Honky Chateau, Jackson 5 ABC, Al Green I'm Still in Love With You, Issac Hayes Shaft, and Curtis Mayfield Superfly. I stand by all my decisions, musically at least.
an Amazing album and Soundtrack.....Great Choice