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Professional ratings. Super Fly is the third studio album by American soul musician Curtis Mayfield, released on July 11, 1972, by Curtom Records. It was released as the soundtrack for the Blaxploitation film of the same name. Widely considered a classic of 1970s soul and funk music, Super Fly was a nearly immediate hit.
- Super Fly wasn’t Curtis Mayfield’s first work for film, nor was it his last. Before Super Fly, Mayfield wrote two songs for 1969’s volcano-themed disaster film Krakatoa, East of Java, a critical and commercial failure for many reasons, not least of which is that Krakatoa is west of Java.
- Mayfield understood the film from personal experience. “I didn’t have to leave my neighborhood to be surrounded by the things Super Flyis about,” he told Rolling Stone in 1973.
- The songs were recorded in four days. Sessions began at the end of 1971, when director Gordon Parks Jr. asked Mayfield and his band to appear in the film as a nightclub act performing behind the actors.
- Super Fly was the end of an era for Mayfield, marking his split with his second wife, his longtime arranger, and his manager and closest friend. During the recording Mayfield was in the middle of a separation from his second wife, Diane, mother of his second son, Todd, and his first daughter, Sharon.
Super Fly is the third studio album by American soul musician Curtis Mayfield, released in July 1972 on Curtom Records. It was released as the soundtrack for the Blaxploitation film of the same name. Widely considered a classic of 1970s soul and funk music, Super Fly was a nearly immediate hit. Its sales were bolstered by two million-selling ...
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Superfly Lyrics. 28.3K. About “Super Fly”. Super Fly is the original motion picture soundtrack for the classic 1972 Blaxploitation film of the same name. It is Curtis Mayfield’s third studio ...
Super Fly [Original Soundtrack] by Curtis Mayfield released in 1972. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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Super Fly is the third studio album by American soul musician Curtis Mayfield, released on July 11, 1972, by Curtom Records. It was released as the soundtrack for the Blaxploitation film of the same name. Widely considered a classic of 1970s soul and funk music, Super Fly was a nearly immediate hit. Its sales were bolstered by two million-selling singles, "Freddie's Dead" and the title track ...
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Superfly: 1. Ostentatiously fashionable; 2. An ostentatious, self-confident person. “Superfly” (one word for the song title; two words for the film title) was, in 1971, popular black slang for “cool” or “on-point.” “Super Fly’s” male lead was superfly. So was the blaxploitation film genre. And so was Curtis Mayfield’s 3:51 ...
