Curtis Mayfield - Super Fly (Rhino High Fidelity)
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Curtis Mayfield – vocals, guitar [click here to see more vinyl featuring Curtis Mayfield]
Phil Upchurch – guitar
Craig McMullen – guitar
Joseph "Lucky" Scott – bass
Master Henry Gibson – percussion
Morris Jennings – drums (all tracks except "Pusherman")
Tyrone McCullen – drums ("Pusherman")
Harry "Slip" Lepp – trombone
Johnny Pate – orchestrator, arranger
1 LP, heavyweight glossy tip-on gatefold jacket with OBI strip
Limited numbered edition of 5,000 copies
Original analog Master tape : YES (AAA)
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 33 RPM
Size : 12”
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : Optimal Media
Label : Rhino - High Fidelity Series
Original Label : Curtom
Recorded at RCA Studios, Chicago ("Pusherman" recorded in New York City)
Produced by Curtis Mayfield
Cut from the original analog master tapes by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio
Liner notes by Aaron Cohen
Originally released in July 1972
Reissued in 2026
Tracks:
Side A :
- Little Child Runnin' Wild
- Pusherman
- Freddie's Dead
- Junkie Chase (Instrumental)
Side B :
- Give Me Your Love (Love Song)
- Eddie You Should Know Better
- No Thing On Me (Cocaine Song)
- Think (Instrumental)
- Superfly
Awards :
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Ranked 76
1000 Recordings You Must Hear Before You Die - Ranked 247
Reviews :
"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." AllMusic Review by John Bush
Ratings :
Discogs : 4.61 / 5