Curtis Mayfield Greatest Hits Zip
Nov 6, 2017 - Disclaimer: This is one of those questionable picks that pepper the list: 16 years of music in a greatest hits double album. Not sure that's a.
Curtis Mayfield was a driving force in black music from the early '60s through the mid-'70s, as a singer, writer, producer, and label owner. Mayfield began singing with gospel groups such as the Northern Jubilee Singers, who were part of his grandmother's Traveling Soul Spiritualist Church. He met lifelong friend and collaborator Jerry Butler at a gospel function, and they went on to form the Impressions, a rhythm & blues vocal group, in 1957.
In 1958 they, along with Sam Gooden and Richard and Arthur Brooks, recorded 'For Your Precious Love' on Vee-Jay Records. Butler's cool baritone dominated the record, and he left to pursue a solo career. Mayfield and Butler teamed up again in 1960, with Butler singing and Mayfield writing and playing guitar on 'He Will Break Your Heart' (Number Seven pop, Number One R&B). A re-formed Impressions with Mayfield, Gooden, and Fred Cash signed with ABC-Paramount and scored with Mayfield's flamenco-styled 'Gypsy Woman' (Number 20 pop, Number Two R&B). Mayfield then entered a prolific period during which his writing and singing would come to define the Chicago sound, which rivaled Motown in the early and mid-'60s. With the Impressions, Mayfield produced, wrote, and sang lead on numerous hits; some included uplifting civil-rights-movement messages.
'It's All Right' (Number Four pop, Number One R&B) in 1963; 'I'm So Proud' (Number 14 pop), 'Keep On Pushing' (Number 10 pop), and 'Amen' (Number Seven pop, Number 17 R&B) in 1964; 'People Get Ready' (Number 14 pop, Number Three R&B) in 1965; and 'We're a Winner' (Number 14 pop, Number One R&B) in 1968 reflect the quality of Mayfield's work. Meanwhile, as the staff producer for Columbia-distributed Okeh Records, Mayfield wrote memorable music for Major Lance — 'The Monkey Time' (Number Eight pop, Number Four R&B) and 'Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um' (Number Five pop) — and for Gene Chandler: 'Just Be True' (Number 19 pop) and 'Nothing Can Stop Me' (Number 18 pop, Number Three R&B).
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On his own Windy C and Mayfield labels, he produced hits with the Five Stairsteps and Cubie, 'World of Fantasy' (Number 12 R&B), and the Fascinations, 'Girls Are Out to Get You' (Number 13 R&B), respectively. In the late '60s Mayfield started his third company, Curtom, this one distributed by Buddah Records. During the '70s Curtom moved from Buddah to Warner Bros. Netobjects fusion for windows 10.
To RSO Records for distribution. In 1970 Mayfield also made a major career move, leaving the Impressions to go solo, though he continued to direct the group's career through the decade.
Solo albums — Curtis (Number 19), Curtis/Live! (Number 21), and Roots (Number 40) all sold well, establishing Mayfield as a solo performer. But it was his soundtrack to the blaxploitation film Superfly that is generally considered his masterpiece — an eerie yet danceable blend of Mayfield's knowing falsetto with Latin percussion and predisco rhythm guitars. The 4-million-selling album (Number One, 1972) included two gold singles, 'Superfly' (Number Eight pop, Number Five R&B) and 'Freddie's Dead' (Number Four pop, Number Two R&B); it sold an additional million copies as a tape. It foreshadowed Mayfield's continued involvement with film in the '70s.
He scored Claudine, writing the Gladys Knight and the Pips' single 'On and On' in 1974; Let's Do It Again, which featured the Staples Singers on the title song in 1975; and Sparkle with Aretha Franklin in 1976. Two years later Mayfield and Franklin would team again for Almighty Fire.
In 1977 Mayfield would both score and act in the low-budget prison drama Short Eyes, a critical success. As a solo artist, Mayfield continued to score with 'Future Shock' (Number 11 R&B, 1973), 'If I Were Only a Child Again' (Number 22 R&B, 1973), 'Can't Say Nothin' ' (Number 16 R&B, 1973), 'Kung Fu' (Number Three R&B, 1974), 'So in Love' (Number Nine R&B, 1975), 'Only You Babe' (Number Eight R&B, 1976), and two duets with Linda Clifford: 'Between You Baby and Me' (Number 14 R&B, 1979) and 'Love's Sweet Sensation' (Number 34 R&B, 1980). In 1980 Mayfield, who by then had moved with his family (including six children) from Chicago to Atlanta, signed with Boardwalk Records and enjoyed a popular album and singles with Love Is the Place and 'She Don't Let Nobody (But Me)' (Number 15 R&B) and 'Toot 'n' Toot 'n' Toot' (Number Two R&B).
Mayfield rejoined the Impressions for a 1983 reunion tour. Mayfield's recording career hit a wall when Boardwalk went bankrupt, but he formed his own CRC label to release 1985's We Come in Peace With a Message of Love, which went unnoticed, as did his 1990 album for the revived Curtom label (distributed by Atlanta's Ichiban). Mayfield continued touring, however, and was especially popular in England, where the band the Blow Monkeys recorded a duet with him in 1987, '(Celebrate) The Day After You.' In 1990 Mayfield scored the dud movie Return of Superfly; the music was released on an album, Superfly 1990, on which Mayfield collaborated with rapper Ice-T — one of several '90s stars, such as Arrested Development and Lenny Kravitz, to cite Mayfield's influence. On August 14, 1990, while Mayfield was performing an outdoor concert in Brooklyn, New York, a lighting rig fell atop him, leaving him permanently paralyzed from the neck down. Mayfield and the Impressions were subsequently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and a lavish and emotional tribute was paid to Mayfield at the 1994 Grammy Awards gala.