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Artist: Curtis Mayfield Title: Superfly / Short Eyes Label:   Sequel Country: UK Date: 1 Jun 1998 Catalogue: NEM CD 964 Barcode: 5023224096425 Format: Double CD Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  1 Owns Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search on eBay This is an affiliate link for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
Superfly
1-01	Curtis Mayfield	Little Child Runnin' Wild	Curtis Mayfield	Rate
1-02	Curtis Mayfield	Pusherman	Curtis Mayfield	Rate
1-03	Curtis Mayfield	Freddie's Dead	Curtis Mayfield	Rate
1-04	Curtis Mayfield	Junkie Chase	Curtis Mayfield	Rate
1-05	Curtis Mayfield	Give Me Your Love	Curtis Mayfield	Rate
1-06	Curtis Mayfield	Eddie You Should Know Better	Curtis Mayfield	Rate
1-07	Curtis Mayfield	No Thing On Me (Cocaine Song)	Curtis Mayfield	Rate
1-08	Curtis Mayfield	Think	Curtis Mayfield	Rate
1-09	Curtis Mayfield	Superfly	Curtis Mayfield	Rate
Short Eyes
2-01	Curtis Mayfield	Do Do Wap Is Strong In Here	Curtis Mayfield	Rate
2-02	Curtis Mayfield	Back Against The Wall	Curtis Mayfield	Rate
2-03	Curtis Mayfield	Need Someone To Love	Curtis Mayfield	Rate
2-04	Curtis Mayfield	A Heavy Dude	Curtis Mayfield	Rate
2-05	Curtis Mayfield	Short Eyes / Freak, Freak, Free, Free, Free	Curtis Mayfield	Rate
2-06	Curtis Mayfield	Break It Down	H.P. Denenberg, M. Hirsch	Rate
2-07	Curtis Mayfield	Another Fool In Love	Curtis Mayfield	Rate
2-08	Curtis Mayfield	Father Confessor	Curtis Mayfield	Rate

Notes

Sequel "Double Feature" release
Original Curtom recordings

CD 1 first released as Vinyl LP "Super Fly" in The US in 1972 on Curtom CRS 8014 ST
CD 2 first released as Vinyl LP "Short Eyes" in The US in 1977 on Curtom 5017

Disc 1/"Superfly": Produced by Curtis Mayfield, Arranged by Johnny Pate
Disc 2/"Short Eyes": Produced by Curtis Mayfield, Arranged by Richard Tufo

12 page booklet with notes by Peter Burns

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Comments and Reviews

RogerFoster-45worlds 27th May 2016		Review This release combines Curtis Mayfield's two "Sound Track" LPs, the hugely successful "Super Fly" from 1972 (#1 on Billboard's US R&B and "Pop" LP Charts for a month towards the end that year) and the financially disastrous "Short Eyes" from 1977 (which only attained a miserly #59 on Billboard's US R&B chart and totally missed out on their "Pop" listings). In both instances the soundtrack LPs fared much better than their associated films. "Superfly" was about Hard Drugs and is quite well known whereas the little known "Short Eyes", according to the notes with this release, "Short Eyes" is/was street-slang for Paedophilia and was apparently set in a New York detention house known as "The Tombs". Apparently Curtis Mayfield invested heavily in the "Short Eyes" movie and its total failure eventually led to the collapse of his record company. Given the contentious subject material of "Short Eyes" it is hardly surprising that with this release Sequel presented it as a reissue of "Superfly" with a bonus disc containing "Short Eyes". What is a bit strange is that they changed the title of the 1972 LP from the two word "Super Fly" to the one word "Superfly", I wonder if they ever realised that they did that? 3 people found this review helpful.   ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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