'72 Curtis Mayfield FUNK OST "Super Fly" Gimmick Blaxploitation Cover / Sealed

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Item Description:

Original 1st Gimmick Cover Release of Curtis Mayfield's Blaxploitation OST Funk Masterpiece "Super Fly" ~ STILL FACTORY SEALED!!

Artist: CURTIS MAYFIELD

Title: SUPER FLY

Year: 1972

Label: Curtom

Catalog Number: CRS 8014-ST

Format: Stereo

Country Of Origin: USA

Cover Format: Unipak Gatefold w/ Cutaway Gimmick Blaxploitation Front

Cover Condition: NM (still completely factory-sealed)

Vinyl Condition: MINT

Shrinkwrap Condition: 100% intact with no rips or splits / original department store price sticker still inplace.

If you're not familiar with this release, here's a little background: Curtis Mayfield was a rare American poet, one of the few social commentators who was equally capable of delivering well aimed jibes at the US authorities or, more controversially, often asking difficult, probing questions of his own community. Using Mayfield to score the blaxploitation film Super Fly was an inspired choice. No other artist in popular music knew so well, and expressed through his music so naturally, the shades of gray inherent in contemporary inner-city life. His debut solo album, 1970's Curtis, had shown in vivid colors that the '60s optimist (author of the civil-rights anthems "Keep On Pushing" and "People Get Ready") had added a layer of subtlety to his material; appearing on the same LP as the positive and issue-oriented "Move On Up" was an apocalyptic piece of brimstone funk titled "(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go." For Super Fly, Mayfield wisely avoids celebrating or exploiting the wheeling-and-dealing themes present in the movie, instead using each song to focus on a different aspect of what he saw as a plague on America's streets. He also steers away from explicit moralizing, and simply tells it like it is, with vibrant storytelling and a skill for getting inside the heads of the characters. "Freddie's Dead," one of the album's signature pieces, tells the story of one of the film's main casualties, a good-hearted yet weak-willed man caught up in the life of a pusher, and devastatingly portrays the indifference of those who witness or hear about it. "Pusherman" masterfully uses the metaphor of drug dealer as businessman, with the drug game, by extension, just another way to make a living in a tough situation, while the title track equates hustling with gambling. Ironically, the sound of Super Fly positively overwhelmed its lyrical finesse. A melange of deep, dark grooves, trademarked wah-wah guitar, heady percussion and stinging brass, Super Fly ignited an entire genre of music (the blaxploitation soundtrack), and changed soul music forever. And this original press is the best it has ever sounded.?

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