1972 Curtis Mayfield Lp Original Gatefold Super Fly...Curtom label Original
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Original Curtis Mayfield Lp ~~Super Fly... Lp Cover is VG+ light brown coloring..some bends .Record looks VG++/NM Buyer to pay $4.50 s/h Thanks for looking Classic Curtis Mayfield in Very Nice Shape

1972 Curtis Mayfield Original Soundtrack~~SUPER FLY~~Original Gatefold Cover~~Rare

1972 Super Fly (soundtrack) Curtis Mayfield

Jump to navigationJump to search Super Fly Soundtrack album companion album to Super Fly by  Curtis Mayfield Released July 11, 1972 Recorded December 1971 – May 1972 Studio RCA Studios
(Chicago, Illinois)
Bell Sound Studios
(New York, New York) Genre
  • Funk
  • soul
  • Blaxploitation
Length 37:05 Label Curtom Producer Curtis Mayfield Curtis Mayfield chronology Roots
(1971) Super Fly
(1972) Back to the World
(1973) Alternative cover Deluxe 25th anniversary edition cover Singles from Super Fly
  1. "Freddie's Dead"
    Released: July 1972
  2. "Superfly"
    Released: October 1972
Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating AllMusic [1] Billboard (favorable)[2] Christgau's Record Guide A–[3] Los Angeles Times [4] Pitchfork 9.1/10[5] Q [6] Rolling Stone (favorable) 1972[7] The Rolling Stone Album Guide  2004[8] Sputnikmusic [9] Vibe (favorable)[10]

     Super Fly is the third studio album by American soul musician Curtis Mayfield, released in July 1972 on Curtom Records. It was released as the soundtrack for the Blaxploitation film of the same name. Widely considered a classic of 1970s soul and funk music, Super Fly was a nearly immediate hit. Its sales were bolstered by two million-selling singles, "Freddie's Dead" (number 2 R&B charts, number 4 Pop charts) and the title track (number 5 R&B, number 8 Pop). Super Fly is one of the few soundtracks to out-gross the film it accompanied.

Super Fly, along with Marvin Gaye's What's Going On (1971), was one of the pioneering soul concept albums, with its then-unique socially aware lyrics about poverty and drug abuse making the album stand out. The film and the soundtrack may be perceived as dissonant, since the film holds rather ambiguous views on drug dealers, whereas Curtis Mayfield's position is far more critical. Like What's Going On, the album was a surprise hit that record executives felt had little chance at significant sales. Due to its success, Mayfield was tapped for several film soundtracks over the course of the decade.Release

Super Fly was originally released in 1972 on Curtom Records in both LP and eight-track formats. It also featured distribution in countries outside of the United States, including Italy, Germany, France, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

Critical reception

Music critics lauded Super Fly.Rolling Stone's Bob Donat was favorable of Mayfield's anti-drug and self-liberation themes, and called Super Fly "not only a superior, imaginative soundtrack, but fine funky music as well and the best of Curtis Mayfield's four albums made since he left the Impressions".In a 2004 review of the album, Rolling Stone gave Super Fly five out of five stars and cited it as Mayfield's "creative breakthrough".Rock critic Robert Christgau of The Village Voice gave the album an A- and lauded Mayfield's songwriting. Christgau also wrote that "these songs speak for (and to) the ghetto's victims rather than its achievers (cf. 'The Other Side of Town', on Curtis), transmitting bleak lyrics through uncompromisingly vivacious music. Message: both candor and rhythm are essential to our survival".John Bush of AllMusic praised the album's lyrical substance and sound, calling it a "melange of deep, dark grooves, trademarked wah-wah guitar, and stinging brass". On its significance, Bush concluded by stating:

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.[1]

—?John Bush

Accolades

  • In the Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (2002), writer Colin Larkin gave the album a five-star rating.
  • In 2003, VH1 named Super Fly the 63rd greatest album of all time.
  • The title track was selected by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as one of the "500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll".
  • In 2003, the album was ranked number 69 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, and 72 in a 2012 revised list.
  • The album is ranked number 986 in All-Time Top 1000 Albums (3rd edition, 2000).
  • **********In 2019, the album was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".**********

Track listing

Original LP

All songs were written and composed by Curtis Mayfield.

Side one No. Title Length 1. "Little Child Runnin' Wild" 5:23 2. "Pusherman" 5:04 3. "Freddie's Dead" 5:27 4. "Junkie Chase" (instrumental) 1:36 Side two No. Title Length 5. "Give Me Your Love (Love Song)" 4:20 6. "Eddie You Should Know Better" 2:16 7. "No Thing on Me (Cocaine Song)" 4:53 8. "Think" (instrumental) 3:43 9. "Superfly"


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