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Album Information

  Name Curtis
  Cover Curtismayfield-1970lpjpg
  Type Album
  Artist Curtis Mayfield
  Released September 1970
  Recorded 1970
  Genre Funk / Soul
  Length 40:28
  Label Curtom
  Producer Curtis Mayfield <br /> Bill Inglot
  Reviews All Music Guide link
  This Album ''Curtis'' <br />(1970)
  Next Album '' Curtis/Live! ''<br />(1971)


''Curtis'' is the debut solo album by Curtis Mayfield , issued on his Curtom Records label in the fall of 1970. It includes the hit single "(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go". The album also featured the track "Move on Up" which Just Blaze later sampled for Kanye West 's 2006 single " Touch The Sky ".


TRACK LISTING

#" (Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below, We're All Going To Go " (Curtis Mayfield) – 7:50
#"The Other Side of Town" (Mayfield) – 4:01
#"The Makings of You" (Mayfield) – 3:43
#"We the People Who are Darker than Blue" (Mayfield) – 6:05
#"Move on Up" (Mayfield) – 9:00
#"Miss Black America" (Mayfield) – 2:53
#"Wild and Free" (Mayfield) – 3:16
#"Give It Up" (Mayfield) – 3:49


Bonus tracks

In late 2000, Rhino Records re-released the album as they did with the '' Superfly '' soundtrack with several bonus tracks including the radio edit for "(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go", and several demo versions of songs.

# "Power to the People version " (Curtis Mayfield) – 2:47
# "Underground version " (Mayfield) – 3:11
# "Ghetto Child version " (Mayfield) – 5:10
# "Readings in Astrology version " (Mayfield) – 3:31
# "Suffer version " ( Donny Hathaway , Mayfield) – 2:31
# "Miss Black America version " (Mayfield) – 2:22
# "The Makings of You" (Mayfield) – 4:35
# "(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go" (Mayfield) – 9:34
# "(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go edit " (Mayfield) – 3:26


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