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People Get Ready! The Curtis Mayfield Story (Box Set) (CD)

By: Curtis Mayfield (Artist)

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DISC 1 for People Get Ready! The Curtis Mayfield Story (Box Set) (CD) Album By Curtis Mayfield (Artist)
1   Gypsy Woman - (with The Impressions)
2   It's All Right - (with The Impressions)
3   I'm So Proud - (with The Impressions)
4   Keep On Pushing - (with The Impressions)
5   Amen - (with The Impressions)
6   People Get Ready - (with The Impressions)
7   Woman's Got Soul - (with The Impressions)
8   We're A Winner - (with The Impressions)
9   I Loved And I Lost - (with The Impressions)
10   Fool For You - (with The Impressions)
11   This Is My Country - (with The Impressions)
12   Choice Of Colors - (with The Impressions)
13   Makings Of You, The
14   If There's A Hell Below We're All Going To Go, (Don't Worry)
15   Move On Up
16   We People Who Are Darker Than Blue
17   Check Out Your Mind
18   Mighty Mighty (Spade And Whitey)
19   Stone Junkie
 
DISC 2 for People Get Ready! The Curtis Mayfield Story (Box Set) (CD) Album By Curtis Mayfield (Artist)
1   Beautiful Brother Of Mine
2   Get Down
3   We Got To Have Peace
4   Freddie's Dead (Theme From "Superfly")
5   Superfly
6   Give Me Your Love
7   Pusherman
8   Future Shock
9   If I Were Only A Child Again
10   Can't Say Nothin'
11   Kung Fu
12   Sweet Exorcist
13   To Be Invisible
14   Mother's Son
15   Billy Jack
16   So In Love
 
DISC 3 for People Get Ready! The Curtis Mayfield Story (Box Set) (CD) Album By Curtis Mayfield (Artist)
1   Only You Babe
2   Party Night
3   Mr. Welfare Man
4   Show Me Love
5   Do Do Wap Is Strong In Here
6   You Are, You Are
7   Do It All Night
8   You're So Good To Me
9   Between You Baby And Me - (with Linda Clifford)
10   Love's Sweet Sensation - (with Linda Clifford)
11   Love Me, Love Me Now
12   Tripping Out
13   She Don't Let Nobody (But Me)
14   Baby It's You
15   Homeless
16   Do Be Down
 

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Rolling Stone (12/26/96, p.189) - "...documents a musical revolution across three discs, from Mayfield's stirring, gospel-rocked soul with the Impressions to his socially conscious '70s funk..."

Title Note

Personnel includes: Curtis Mayfield (vocals, guitar, keyboards, drum programming); Phil Upchurch, Patrick Ferreri, Norman Harris, Tom Ferrone, Michael Sembello, Tony Brown (guitar); Nella Rigell-Colson (harp); Jay Norem (harmonica); Lenard Druss, Dale Clevenger, Charles "Skip" Lane, Curtis Mayfield III, Hank Ford (horns); John Ross, Sonny Burke, Eugene Curry, Chester Thompson, William Green, Michael Brown (keyboards); Joseph "Lucky" Scott, James Walker, Lebron Scott (bass); Donald Simmons, Robert Sims, Tyrone McCullen (drums); Tony Carpenter, Paulinho Da Costa, Efrain Toro (percussion); Carlos Glover (drum programming); Leroy Hutson, Janis Hutson, Mr. & Mrs. Michael Hawkins, Oren Waters, Maxine Waters Willard, Alice King (background vocals); "Instant Funk" Rhythm Section,

The Impressions: Curtis Mayfield (vocals, guitar); Fred Cash, Samuel Gooden (vocals).

Kitty Haywood & The Haywood Singers: Kitty Haywood, Vivian, Cynthia, Ann (background vocals).

Producers: Johnny Pate, Curtis Mayfield, Gil Askey, Dino Fekaris.

Compilation producers: David McLees, David Nathan, Bill Inglot.

Includes liner notes by Wayne Edwards, David Nathan, Gary Peterson, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight, Don Cornelius, Chuck D., Tevin Campbell, George Clinton and Ronald Isley, and an interview with Curtis Mayfield by Alan Warner.

Digitally remastered by Bill Inglot and Fred Hersch (Digiprep).

The history of soul music has never been short on heroes. Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin all rightly stand tall in a sea of giants. On the edge of the Midwest, Chicago in particular, one Curtis Mayfield stands abreast the architects of '60s soul. Like his peers, Mayfield's background was in gospel. Although he did technically go on to stardom with secular music, he never abandoned the humanistic warmth of the church hymns that formed him.

It is that same humanistic warmth that sweeps across the 3 discs of PEOPLE GET READY! Mayfield was often politically pointed, but always inclusive and optimistic. The self-penned and self-produced "People Get Ready" and "It's All Right," to name but two gems, are recordings that no soul aficionado should live without. It is more than any one particular song, however, and more than the fusion of soul and funk he helped create in the '70s with "Superfly," that makes this collection so impressive. Mayfield's gift was that while trudging through the war torn '60s and the drug-laden exploitation of the next decade, he continually made music of beauty without sacrificing its emotional center.

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