4-CD clambox set containing five hours of glorious music celebrating the career of the late great Curtis Mayfield, selected from the recordings he made for his own Curtom label between 1968 and 1990. Includes authoritative 52 page booklet.
4CD BOXSET FEATURING ALL THE CLASSIC CURTIS TRACKS – NOW IN CLAM BOX
Curtis Mayfield’s untimely death in December of 1999 ended the extraordinary career of one of the 20th century’s most prolific and influential musical figures.
Truly multi-talented, as well as being a distinctive vocalist, guitarist and producer, Curtis Mayfield was also a writer of great range and vision whose inspirational songs made him a leading figure in America’s civil rights movement.
Soul Legacy is the most comprehensive anthology and overview yet assembled of Mayfield’s prolific recording career from 1968 up to the time of his tragic stage accident in 1990. Compiled from the singles and the two dozen albums which he released on his own Curtom Records, this set features him in both a solo capacity and as a key member of the ground-breaking Impressions group.
Each of this deluxe set’s four discs has been carefully compiled to reflect the range of Mayfield’s genius under four general themes: – Inspirational Themes, Love Songs, Cautionary Songs and Films & Dance.
Containing over five hours of music, the set’s full color, lavishly illustrated booklet includes detailed track-by-track commentary on each of its 76 tracks in addition to an authoritative biography of the gentle genius and his immense contribution to popular music.
trax CD 1:
01 Move On Up 02 Keep On Pushin' 03 We're A Winner 04 People Get Ready 05 I Plan To Stay A Believer 06 We People Who Are Darker Than Blue 07 Everybody Needs A Friend 08 It's Alright 09 Need Someone To Love 10 Something To Believe In 11 So In Love 12 People Never Give Up 13 This Year 14 Wild And Free 15 We Got To Have Peace 16 Make Me Belive In You 17 Beautiful Brother Of Mine 18 Miss Black America 19 Keep On Keeping On
trax CD 2:
01 Gypsy Woman 02 You're Really Something Sadie 03 I've Been Trying 04 Fool For You 05 Wherever She Leadeth Me 06 Gone Away 07 Seven Years 08 I'm So Proud 09 So Unusual 10 Just Want To Be With You 11 Show Me Love 12 You Mean Everything To Me 13 Hey Baby (Give It All To Me) 14 You're So Good To Me 15 Between You And Me (Duet With Linda Clifford) 16 Only You Babe 17 I'm Gonna Win Your Love 18 Ain't No Love Lost (Duet With Linda Clifford) 19 Baby It's You 20 So You Don't Love Me 21 Still Within Your Heart
trax CD 3:
01 (Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below 02 Mighty Mighty (Spade And Whitey) 03 Check Out Your Mind 04 Underground 05 Future Shock 06 If I Were Only A Child Again 07 To Be Invisible 08 Mother's Son 09 They Don't Know 10 Choice Of Colours 11 This Is My Country 12 Back To The World 13 Homeless 14 Cannot Find A Way 15 Dirty Laundry 16 I Mo Git You Sucka 17 Kung Fu 18 Hard Times 19 When The Seasons Change
trax CD 4:
01 Superfly 02 Billy Jack 03 Eddie You Should Know Better 04 Do Do Wap Is Strong In Here 05 Short Eyes/Freak, Free, Free, Free 06 Pusherman 07 Freddie's Dead 08 Tripping Out 09 Get Down 10 Party Night 11 Do It All Night 12 You Are, You Are 13 Toot An' Toot An' Toot 14 Soul Music 15 Do Be Down 16 She Don't Let Nobody But Me 17 Can't Say Nothin' 18 Ain't Got Time
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CURTIS MAYFIELD "Soul Legacy"
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CD1
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CD2
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CD3
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CD4
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COVERS:
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BONUS:
CURTIS MAYFIELD - Curtis (1970)
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The first solo album by the former leader of the Impressions, Curtis represented a musical apotheosis for Curtis Mayfield -- indeed, it was practically the "Sgt. Pepper's" album of '70s soul, helping with its content and its success to open the whole genre to much bigger, richer musical canvases than artists had previously worked with. All of Mayfield's years of experience of life, music, and people were pulled together into a rich, powerful, topical musical statement that reflected not only the most up-to-date soul sounds of its period, finely produced by Mayfield himself, and the immediacy of the times and their political and social concerns, but also embraced the most elegant R&B sounds out of the past. As a producer, Mayfield embraced the most progressive soul sounds of the era, stretching them out compellingly on numbers like "Move on Up," but also drew on orchestral sounds (especially harps), to achieve some striking musical timbres (check out "Wild and Free"), and wove all of these influences, plus the topical nature of the songs, into a neat, amazingly lean whole. There was only one hit single off of this record, "(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Down Below We're All Going to Go," which made number three, but the album as a whole was a single entity and really had to be heard that way. In the fall of 2000, Rhino Records reissued Curtis with upgraded sound and nine bonus tracks that extended its running time to over 70 minutes. All but one are demos, including "Miss Black America" and "The Making of You," but mostly consist of tracks that he completed for subsequent albums; they're fascinating to hear, representing very different, much more jagged and stripped-down sounds. The upgraded CD concludes with the single version of "(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below We're All Going to Go." (Bruce Eder, Allmusic)
Amazing stuff. Many thanks!
Beautiful music and the commentary is exceptional. thank you very much.
Curtis is da man! Thanks!!
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I cried when Curtis became paralyzed in 1990, and cried harder when he died. THANKS for the Curtis!
Gyro, you might be interested in knowing that someone on Usenet in the alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.1960s group has uploaded just about every Garage Greats from a few years ago, complete with RYP's covers!
You guys are just too cool. All this great music boggles the mind.
Thanks so much.
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