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The Very Best of (Curtis Mayfield) | 
| Artist: Curtis Mayfield
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 6127
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 72584
UPC: 081227258429
EAN: 0081227258429
ASIN: B0000033X2
Release Date: March 4, 1997
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| Tracks:
| • | (Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below We're All Going To Go | | • | The Makings Of You | | • | Move On Up | | • | Get Down | | • | We Got To Have Peace | | • | Freddie's Dead (Theme From Superfly) | | • | Superfly | | • | Pusherman | | • | Future Shock | | • | Can't Say Nothin' | | • | Kung Fu | | • | So In Love | | • | Only You Babe | | • | Do Do Wap Is Strong In Here | | • | Between You Baby And Me | | • | Do Be Down |
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 Disappointed Mayfield Fan November 23, 2008
Pearline Tollen (Phila, PA,USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Having grown up listing to Curtis' many songs, I was disappointed in the selections contained in this dvd. I wish I had listened to the samples before ording.
 Rhino does the best compilations August 14, 2008
R. Kyle (USA)
Isaac Hayes' untimely passage took me on an Old School Reunion. What better counterpoint to Hayes' voice than Curtis Mayfield's falsetto. As usual, Rhino did an excellent job gathering Mayfield's best and making the collection sound great.
Curtis Mayfield left us years ago, in 1999 at the age of 47. He was one of the first R&B musicians to inject social messages into his music. Those messages are still valid today.
Favorites:
"Freddie's Dead" all time favorite. I had that 45 and I swear I must have worn the grooves off the single.
"Don't Worry" is a protest song that is worthy of hearing today. I hadn't heard it back in the day, but it's well worth a listen and more than a passing thought to the message today.
"Superfly" which is the song I used to love to listen to back to back with "Shaft."
Rebecca Kyle, August 2008
 Just to set the record straight May 9, 2008
Rocco A. Savaiano (Chicago, USA)
This is a great compilation but someone mentioned that the so-called "Diamond in the Back" isn't included. Well, that's because that is NOT a Mayfield song. It is actually called "Be Thankful For What You Got" by William DeVaughn and came out in 1974. It's a common misconception out there, so I figured I'd clear up any confusion. Yes, it's a very good song, but is not Mayfield's. That is all. Enjoy this Best Of.
The Best Single Disk Compilation of Curtis Mayfield Work....!!!! August 3, 2006
fetish_2000 (U.K.)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
From the moment, he sang with `The Impressions', it was clear that singer "Curtis Mayfield", wasn't your average soul/R&B Singer. His vocals were seemingly effortlessly able to move from a Soft warm tone, to a gritty and ominous mood to the next. And along with being an accomplished guitarist (Something not usually associated with Soul/R&B singers), an accomplished singer / songwriter and a producer of some note. He remained a hugely talented individual, and one that although most people will undoubtedly know him for his exceptional "Superfly" soundtrack (and possibly his debut "Curtis" studio album), an artist that truly deserves something of a current re-evaluation of his musical output.
Firstly, it's important to note that this `Rhino' label release focuses squarely on his solo output, so those looking for something that includes his work with the Impressions, will need to look elsewhere. But as is the way with `Rhino's' releases, you get a very concise and excellently compiled album, that skilfully manages to includes the hits, but also include any possibly overlooked gems, that only a true interest in the artists work can bring. So have `Rhino' somehow managed to squeeze an impressive song catalogue into the 16 tracks that make up this collection???. Well...yes they have!!!, and remarkably they've pulled it off in such a truly impressive manner....so what you get are the well known classics, such as the gritty and urban grooves of "Freddie's Dead", "Superfly", & "Pusherman".. from his definitive Blaxploitation soundtrack "Superfly"...all moody funk, stinging brass and horn sections, dark psychedelic soul & cautionary R&B. And the mood changes with the inclusion of material from his "Curtis" album, with tracks such as: "(Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below We're All Going To Go", "The Makings of You" & "Move on Up", that take the more subtle intimacy and lush arrangements, and progressive Soul of that album, and make for a varied listening experience. And here's why `Rhino' always generally impress me, by including tracks that maybe the causal listener (such as myself), probably won't be overly familiar with, and include them in their compilations so we can appreciate the inclusion of tracks such like : "Do Do Wap is Strong in Here", "Between you Baby and Me" & "Do be Down", which may well be required listening for those that are real fans of Mayfield's work. But for anyone fairly new to Curtis' work, or hasn't been following his career, these are like undiscovered musical nuggets of gold. And it yet again (in my eyes) establishes the `Rhino' label as one of the most consistently superb compilers of Soul or R&B artists.
Personally speaking...I wished that this could have been stretched out into a double-CD editon, as several of his essential cuts from "Superfly", and his "Curtis" studio album, didn't quite make the cut, and even some of his instrumentals literally begged to be included, and whilst I'm on the subject, why no material from his seminal "Curtis Live" album??....but again this is merely nitpicking at what has been created, to be a reasonably priced, one CD compilation of Mayfield's work, and even the die-hard fans that will probably head for the Double-disk Anthology (which includes his work with `The Impressions') will probably sneer. Even they would agree, that is probably the most perfectly complied single disk compilation of one of Soul/R&B finest singer/songwriters.
THE MAKINGS OF YOU ! June 17, 2006
J. Hoffman (dover, pa. United States)
Best collection of the late, great Curtis Mayfield, of his solo work. God rest your soul !!
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