Original Album Series

Tracklist

• CD 1: Curtis
• 1
  (Don’t Worry) If There’s Hell Below We’re All Gonna Go
  7:50
  4.5 ★
• 2
  The Other Side of Town
  4:01
• 3
  The Makings of You
  3:43
• 4
  We the People Who Are Darker Than Blue
  6:05
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Move On Up
  8:54
  5.0 ★
• 6
  Miss Black America
  2:58
• 7
  Wild and Free
  3:16
• 8
  Give It Up
  3:43
• CD 2: Curtis/Live!
• 1
  Mighty, Mighty (Spade and Whitey)
  6:56
• 2
  Rap
  0:26
• 3
  I Plan to Stay a Believer
  3:16
• 4
  We’re a Winner
  4:47
• 5
  Rap
  0:51
• 6
  We’ve Only Just Begun
  3:44
• 7
  People Get Ready
  3:47
• 8
  Rap
  0:34
• 9
  Stare and Stare
  6:12
• 10
  Check Out Your Mind
  3:53
• 11
  Gypsy Woman
  3:48
• 12
  The Makings of You
  3:28
• 13
  Rap
  2:01
• 14
  We the People Who Are Darker Than Blue
  6:46
• 15
  (Don’t Worry) If There’s a Hell Below We’re All Going to Go
  9:27
• 16
  Stone Junkie
  8:05
• CD 3: Roots
• 1
  Get Down
  5:48
• 2
  Keep on Keeping On
  5:10
• 3
  Underground
  5:17
• 4
  We Got to Have Peace
  4:47
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Beautiful Brother of Mine
  7:27
• 6
  Now You’re Gone
  6:52
• 7
  Love to Keep You in My Mind
  3:46
• CD 4: Superfly
• 1
  Little Child Runnin’ Wild
  5:26
• 2
  Pusherman
  5:05
  4.6 ★
• 3
  Freddie’s Dead
  5:29
  5.0 ★
• 4
  Junkie Chase
  1:40
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Give Me Your Love (Love Song)
  4:20
• 6
  Eddie You Should Know Better
  2:20
  4.0 ★
• 7
  No Thing on Me (Cocaine Song)
  4:56
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Think
  3:48
• 9
  Superfly
  3:56
  4.6 ★
• CD 5: Back to the World
• 1
  Back to the World
  6:49
• 2
  Future Shock
  5:20
• 3
  Right On for the Darkness
  7:29
• 4
  Future Song (Love a Good Woman, Love a Good Man)
  5:02
• 5
  If I Were Only a Child Again
  2:54
• 6
  Can’t Say Nothin’
  5:17
• 7
  Keep On Trippin’
  3:17

More by Curtis Mayfield

Curtis

Curtis 1970

The Joy

The Joy 2010

Soul Legacy

Soul Legacy 2001

The Anthology: 1961–1977

The Anthology: 1961–1977 1992

Live in Europe

Live in Europe 1988

The Right Combination

The Right Combination 1980

Release credits

• Clifford Davis
  saxophone [1-3]
• Craig McMullen
  guitar [4.1-9, 2.1-16]
• Curtis Mayfield
  guitar [2.1-16, 4.1-9], lead vocals [4.1-3, 4.5-9, 2.1, 2.3-4, 2.6-7, 2.9-12, 2.14-16], producer [4.1-9, 5.1-7, 3.3, 1.1-8], spoken vocals [2, 5, 8, 13], vocal [1-3, 5]
• Danny Turbeville
  assistant [1-8]
• Donald Simmons
  drums (drum set) [1-3]
• Elloit Golub
  violin [1-3]
• Gary Slabo
  arranger [1-8], instrument [1-3]
• Harold D. Klatz
  viola [1-3]
• Harold Dessent
  woodwind [1-3]
• Harold Lepp
  instrument [1-3]
• Harry “The Hipster” Gibson
  bongos [1-16], congas [1-16]
• John Howell
  trumpet [1-3]
• John Ross
  keyboard [1-3]
• Johnny Pate
  arranger [1-9], orchestrator [1-9]
• Joseph Scott
  bass guitar [2.1-16, 4.1-9]
• Leonard Druss
  saxophone [1-3]
• Lorin Binford
  trombone [1-3]
• Master Henry Gibson
  percussion [1.1-3, 4.1-9]
• Morris Jennings
  drums (drum set) [1, 3-9]
• Patrick Ferreri
  guitar [1-3]
• Phil Upchurch
  guitar [1-3]
• Richard Single
  instrument [1-3]
• Richard Tufo
  arranger [1-7]
• Riley Hampton
  arranger [1-8]
• Robert "Snake" Sims
  drums (drum set) [1-3], percussion [1-3]
• Robert Lewis
  horn [1-3]
• Roger Anfinsen
  engineer [1.1-8, 4.1-9, 5.1-7]
• Ron Kolber
  baritone saxophone [1-3]
• Rudolph Stauber
  trumpet [1-3]
• Sam Heiman
  instrument [1-3]
• Sol Bobrob
  violin [1-3]
• Tom Flye
  engineer [1-8]
• Tyrone McCullen
  drums (drum set) [2.1-16, 4.2]
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Issues

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  O
  Original Album Series

  5x CD
  2009