Curtis Mayfield

Continuing along the theme of my last post.... with Contra's comment .... (always one to take you down a wormhole) Whatever may come.... stay funky!

So, last week's funk fell fantastically flat. See if you can dig Curtis Mayfield's uplifting message...

Yes its Funky Friday folks & Freddie's Dead. Still dead after all these years.
Curtis Mayfield's warning shot got lost in the blizzard as the seventies faded into the blood-soaked eighties,
as Cocaine and then crack flooded the streets and emergency rooms across America.
Maybe he shouldn't have sugar-coated the message.... MORE

[Curtis Mayfield - Get Down - 00:03:50]
Friday ain't Funky without Curtis Mayfield. I was going to post this wonderful picture of my booty.. but, since I'm not a CHEATER , I won't funk your eyes with my goods (hah).
Instead, I uploaded a picture of my twin:... MORE

Looking for the SoundTrack for the Pieace Of The Action

This is what I wrote yesterday before talking to your mom... ... Lufthansa sent out an e-mail about cheopo fares to California... was gonna delete it but then I remembered I need a flight to the East Coast. Washington is about 600 bucks, and I'm gonna cough them up somehow. Why didn't I do that when you were alive? Thought of good old Orpheus. Remembered that I can't bring you back, no matter how well I could learn how to write... The classics knew their stuff all r... MORE

"Move On Up" has got to be one of Curtis Mayfield's most famous tracks. The uplifting vibe & the irresistible groove has made it one of the classic anthems of the Northern Soul scene. You can always bank on this song to usher in smiles & cheers from the dancefloor every time it's dropped in the set... Here's the song gets a Eric Kupper remix (taken off the Mayfield: Remixed album). Honestly, there's nothing much you can add on to the original but Kupper's mix doe... MORE

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Curtis Mayfield (June 3, 1942 – December 26, 1999) was an American soul, funk, and R&B singer, songwriter, and record producer best known for his anthemic music with The Impressions and composing the soundtrack to the blaxploitation film Superfly. From these works and others, he was highly regarded as a pioneer of funk and of politically conscious African-American music.He was also a multi-instrumentalist who played the guitar, bass, piano, saxop... MORE

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Tryin' to get over

WE GOT TO HAVE PEACE by CURTIS MAYFIELD We got have peace
To keep the world alive
And war to cease. We got to have joy,
True in our hearts
With strength we can't destroy. People please hear us
Through our voice the world knows
There's no choice. And the people in the neighbourhood
Who would if they only could
Meet and shake the other's hand
Work together for the good of the land
Give us all an equal chance
It could be such a sweet romance ... MORE

...if it's good enough for Mary J. Blige's incidental music, it's good enough for you and yours, my brother from another mother...I'm fresh out of quarters, though...if this don't add to the "mood tonight", I don't know what will...you ol' dirty bastard...... MORE

...and so are all you funky mofos on MOG ...ok, this one's a given...I'm gonna throw it on before I go to TCB ...Curtis Mayfield was just so fucking ahead of what was to come, listen to the story-- it's a movie screenplay in a song...pump this track when you're pulling out of wherever the hell it is you work and remember: YOU CAN 'T FAKE THE FUNK !!!... MORE

Old Curtis was and still is one of akind. Anything I hear from dude is right-on. Solid!

...I was just checking Massive Attack's Blue Lines LP and when I got to "Be Thankful for What You've Got" I felt like chillaxin' on the scene in a gangsta lean; the time was nigh for a little pimp-tastic funk, so I immediately clicked over to Curtis Mayfield's Superfly Soundtrack when that Hammond B-3 started bubbling at the top of "Little Child Runnin' Wild" my shirt collars got longer and my Nikes turned into platform boots...continued... MORE