THIS IS THE LATE-90s/EARLY-2000 US REPRESSING on CURTOM Records. PARTIALLY IN SHRINK GATEFOLD COVER. The cover is in EX condition. normal wear and without any deterioration BUT light discolouration/wear on corners (where missing shrink), left spine is fully readable, for details see photos. The vinyl is in EX condition [barely played], and plays wonderfully.

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CURTIS MAYFIELD

 Perhaps because he didn't cross over to the pop audience as heavily as Motown's stars, it may be that the scope of Curtis Mayfield's talents and contributions have yet to be fully recognized. Judged merely by his records alone, the man's legacy is enormous. As the leader of the Impressions, he recorded some of the finest soul vocal group music of the 1960s. As a solo artist in the 1970s, he helped pioneer funk and helped introduce hard-hitting urban commentary into soul music. "Gypsy Woman," "It's All Right," "People Get Ready," "Freddie's Dead," and "Super Fly" are merely the most famous of his many hit records.

"CURTIS"

<reissue, originally published 1970>

Produced by Curtis Mayfield

LP        CURTOM RECORDS      CRS 8005 PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.       LATE-90s/EARLY-2000 REPRESSING
PARTIALLY IN SHRINK GATEFOLD SLEEVE (HEAVY CARDBOARD COVER)
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LABEL: CURTOM - YELLOW/ORANGE LABEL w/LOGO on TOP - BLACK TEXT

Catalog on cover: CRS 8005

Catalog on labels: CRS-8005 (CRS-8005-A) / CRS-8005 (CRS-8005-B)

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): 5032 CRS 8005-1 S 41706 Dc BQS

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): 5032 CRS 8005-1 B S 41707 Dc BQS

On labels: All Tunes.........BMI

On Back Sleeve: Tracklist + Credits

All tunes written, published and produced by Curtis Mayfield/Camad Music

tracklisting: please, for tracklist see pictures

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RECORD EX but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE EX but (please, see pictures and read above description)

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 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 he 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...(AllMusic)