People Get Ready: The Curtis Mayfield Story
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People Get Ready: The Curtis Mayfield Story
- Artist: Curtis Mayfield
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- Release Date: February 27, 1996
- Type: Compilation (best of), Box set
- Genre: Rhythm & Blues
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The focus of this three-CD, 51-song production is on Curtis Mayfield's solo work; much of the first disc is devoted to his most popular work with the Impressions, but the remainder of the compilation surveys his solo output from 1970 to 1990. The Impressions tracks are uniformly excellent, but the Mayfield-only cuts are more problematic. The best of these -- the Superfly highlights, of course, and early-'70s singles like "(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below We're All Going to Go" and "Beautiful Brother of Mine" -- are as good as anything he ever did. But even in the early '70s, he was erratic. Some of the post-Superfly stuff is OK; this period takes up half of disc two and all of disc three. Mayfield never lost his vocal abilities or his production skills; after the late '70s his material got into dance music and romantic urban contemporary. For a Mayfield retrospective, most will be better off with MCA's two-disc Anthology 1961-1977, which goes into the Impressions period with much greater depth and includes the cream of his '70s solo recordings. ~ Richie Unterberger, Rovi| People Get Ready: The Best of Curtis Mayfield with the Impressions, 1961-1968 (2004 Album by The Impressions) | |
| People Get Ready: The Deluxe Recordings (Album by Manhattans) |
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People Get Ready: The Curtis Mayfield Story
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| Compilation album by Curtis Mayfield | |||
| Released | February 27, 1996 | ||
| Genre | Funk/Soul | ||
| Label | Curtom | ||
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People Get Ready: The Curtis Mayfield Story is a three-disc box set compilation album by Curtis Mayfield. It covers his entire career up to 1996 (New World Order, Mayfield's last album, was released in 1997), including several songs from his tenure with The Impressions (tracks 1-12 on the first disc). It was released on Curtom on February 27, 1996.
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Curtis Mayfield, except where noted.
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| No. | Title | Original album | Length | ||||||
| 1. | "Gypsy Woman" | The Impressions (1963) | 2:21 | ||||||
| 2. | "It's All Right" | The Impressions (1963) | 2:49 | ||||||
| 3. | "I'm So Proud" | The Never Ending Impressions (1964) | 2:50 | ||||||
| 4. | "Keep on Pushing" | Keep on Pushing (1964) | 2:33 | ||||||
| 5. | "Amen" (Mayfield, Johnny Pate) | Keep on Pushing (1964) | 3:29 | ||||||
| 6. | "People Get Ready" | People Get Ready (1965) | 2:38 | ||||||
| 7. | "Woman's Got Soul" | People Get Ready (1965) | 2:18 | ||||||
| 8. | "We're a Winner" | We're a Winner (1968) | 2:24 | ||||||
| 9. | "I Loved and I Lost" | We're a Winner (1968) | 3:16 | ||||||
| 10. | "Fool for You" | This Is My Country (1968) | 2:54 | ||||||
| 11. | "This is My Country" | This Is My Country (1968) | 2:49 | ||||||
| 12. | "Choice of Colors" | The Young Mods' Forgotten Story (1969) | 3:18 | ||||||
| 13. | "The Makings of You" | Curtis (1970) | 3:44 | ||||||
| 14. | "(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go" | Curtis (1970) | 7:51 | ||||||
| 15. | "Move On Up" | Curtis (1970) | 8:54 | ||||||
| 16. | "We People Who are Darker than Blue" | Curtis (1970) | 6:03 | ||||||
| 17. | "Check Out Your Mind" | Check Out Your Mind! (1970) | 3:53 | ||||||
| 18. | "Mighty Mighty (Spade and Whitey)" (live) | Curtis/Live! (1971) | 6:58 | ||||||
| 19. | "Stone Junkie" (live) | Curtis/Live! (1971) | 7:47 | ||||||
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| No. | Title | Original album | Length | ||||||
| 1. | "Beautiful Brother of Mine" | Roots (1971) | 7:28 | ||||||
| 2. | "Get Down" | Roots (1971) | 5:48 | ||||||
| 3. | "We Got To Have Peace" | Roots (1971) | 4:46 | ||||||
| 4. | "Freddie's Dead" | Super Fly (1972) | 5:28 | ||||||
| 5. | "Superfly" | Super Fly (1972) | 3:55 | ||||||
| 6. | "Give Me Your Love (Love Song)" | Super Fly (1972) | 4:18 | ||||||
| 7. | "Pusherman" | Super Fly (1972) | 5:03 | ||||||
| 8. | "Future Shock" (single edit) | Back to the World (1973) | 3:38 | ||||||
| 9. | "If I Were Only a Child Again" | Back to the World (1973) | 2:55 | ||||||
| 10. | "Can't Say Nothin'" (single edit) | Back to the World (1973) | 3:38 | ||||||
| 11. | "Kung Fu" (single edit) | Sweet Exorcist (1974) | 3:51 | ||||||
| 12. | "Sweet Exorcist" | Sweet Exorcist (1974) | 3:52 | ||||||
| 13. | "To Be Invisible" | Sweet Exorcist (1974) | 4:11 | ||||||
| 14. | "Mother's Son" | Got to Find a Way (1974) | 6:06 | ||||||
| 15. | "Billy Jack" | There's No Place Like America Today (1975) | 6:08 | ||||||
| 16. | "So in Love" | There's No Place Like America Today (1975) | 5:12 | ||||||
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| No. | Title | Original album | Length | ||||||
| 1. | "Only You Babe" | Give, Get, Take and Have (1976) | 4:22 | ||||||
| 2. | "Party Night" | Give, Get, Take and Have (1976) | 3:49 | ||||||
| 3. | "Mr. Welfare Man" | Give, Get, Take and Have (1976) | 5:36 | ||||||
| 4. | "Show Me Love" (single edit) | Never Say You Can't Survive (1977) | 3:47 | ||||||
| 5. | "Do Do Wap is Strong in Here" | Short Eyes (1977) | 5:31 | ||||||
| 6. | "You Are, You Are" | Do It All Night (1978) | 3:40 | ||||||
| 7. | "Do It All Night" (Mayfield, Gil Askey; single edit) | Do It All Night (1978) | 3:41 | ||||||
| 8. | "You're So Good to Me" (Mayfield, Askey; single edit) | Heartbeat (1979) | 3:38 | ||||||
| 9. | "Between You Baby and Me" | Heartbeat (1979) | 4:44 | ||||||
| 10. | "Love's Sweet Sensation" (Frankie Bleu) | The Right Combination with Linda Clifford (1980) | 3:51 | ||||||
| 11. | "Love Me, Love Me Now" (single edit) | Something to Believe In (1980) | 4:51 | ||||||
| 12. | "Tripping Out" (Bunny Sigler; single edit) | Something to Believe In (1980) | 3:53 | ||||||
| 13. | "She Don't Let Nobody (But Me)" (Mayfield, Dino Fekaris) | Love Is the Place (1982) | 3:56 | ||||||
| 14. | "Baby It's You" | We Come In Peace With A Message Of Love (1985) | 3:34 | ||||||
| 15. | "Homeless" | Take It to the Streets (1990) | 7:33 | ||||||
| 16. | "Do Be Down" | Take It to the Streets (1990) | 4:09 | ||||||
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