The Essentials

Tracklist

• 1
  (Don't Worry) If There’s a Hell Below
  7:51
  4.7 ★
• 2
  Get Down
  5:48
• 3
  Freddie’s Dead
  5:28
  5.0 ★
• 4
  Superfly
  3:54
  4.2 ★
• 5
  Future Shock
  5:19
• 6
  If I Were Only a Child Again
  2:54
• 7
  Can’t Say Nothin’
  5:17
• 8
  Kung Fu
  3:50
• 9
  So in Love
  5:13
• 10
  Only You Babe
  4:21
• 11
  Between You Baby And Me
  4:43
• 12
  Do Do Wap Is Strong in Here
  5:28
  5.0 ★

More by Curtis Mayfield

Curtis

Curtis 1970

New World Order

New World Order 1996

Back to the World

Back to the World 1994

Take It to the Streets

Take It to the Streets 1990

We Come in Peace With a Message of Love

We Come in Peace With a Message of Love 1985

Honesty

Honesty 1982

Release credits

• Clifford Davis
  saxophone [1]
• Craig McMullen
  guitar [3-4]
• Curtis Mayfield
  guitar [3-4, 9], lead vocals [3-4, 9], producer [1, 3-9], vocal [1]
• Danny Turbeville
  assistant [1]
• Donald Simmons
  drums (drum set) [1]
• Elloit Golub
  violin [1]
• Gary Slabo
  arranger [1], instrument [1]
• Harold D. Klatz
  viola [1]
• Harold Dessent
  woodwind [1]
• Harold Lepp
  instrument [1]
• John Howell
  trumpet [1]
• John Ross
  keyboard [1]
• Johnny Pate
  arranger [3-4], orchestrator [3-4]
• Joseph Scott
  bass guitar [3-4, 9]
• Leonard Druss
  saxophone [1]
• Linda Clifford
  performer [11]
• Lorin Binford
  trombone [1]
• Master Henry Gibson
  percussion [1, 3-4, 9]
• Morris Jennings
  drums (drum set) [3-4]
• Patrick Ferreri
  guitar [1]
• Phil Upchurch
  guitar [1, 9]
• Quinton Joseph
  membranophone [9]
• Richard Single
  instrument [1]
• Richard Tufo
  arranger [5-7, 9]
• Riley Hampton
  arranger [1]
• Robert "Snake" Sims
  drums (drum set) [1], percussion [1]
• Robert Lewis
  horn [1]
• Roger Anfinsen
  engineer [1, 3-7, 9]
• Ron Kolber
  baritone saxophone [1]
• Rudolph Stauber
  trumpet [1]
• Sam Heiman
  instrument [1]
• Sol Bobrob
  violin [1]
• Tom Flye
  engineer [1]
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Issues

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  The Essentials

  CD
  18 June 2002