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DIRTY LAUNDRY

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FREDDIE'S DEAD (Theme from
Super Fly
)

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GHETTO CHILD (LITTLE CHILD RUNNIN' WILD)

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HARD TIMES

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HERE BUT I'M GONE

BY CURTIS MAYFIELD, IVAN MATIAS, ANDREA MARTIN MARQUEZE ETHRIDGE, RICO WADE, PATRICK BROWN, AND RAYMON MURRAY

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I PLAN TO STAY A BELIEVER

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(DON'T WORRY) IF THERE'S A HELL BELOW, WE'RE ALL GOING TO GO

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IT'S ALL RIGHT

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I'VE FOUND THAT I'VE LOST

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KEEP ON PUSHING

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KUNG FU

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LOVE ME

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MIGHTY MIGHTY (SPADE AND WHITEY)

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MR. WELFARE MAN

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THE OTHER SIDE OF TOWN

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PEOPLE GET READY

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PUSHERMAN

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SO YOU DON'T LOVE ME

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SUPERFLY

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SWEET EXORCIST

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THIS IS MY COUNTRY

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TO BE INVISIBLE

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WE PEOPLE WHO ARE DARKER THAN BLUE

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Notes

1. The Reverend A. B. Mayfield

were worth almost $800
: Hall, “Mean Price by Gender.”

Louisiana citizens lynched
: “Lynching by State,” Charles Chesnutt Digital Archive.

“Up and down Indiana and Wabash and Prairie”
: Wilkerson,
Warmth of Other Suns
, 268â269.

“There was nothing to block or buffer”
: Rawls, “Dead End Street.”

2. My Mama Borned Me in a Ghetto

“Until the 1943 uprising in Detroit”
: Wilkerson,
Warmth of Other Suns
, 131.

“Mom had this great big pot”:
Carolyn Mayfield, interview by Atria and Mayfield.

“Mama was kind of on the timid side”
: Ibid.

“She was always around”:
Ibid.

“I guess pimps are a luxury”
: Page, “Does Curtis Mayfield Sincerely Want to Be Rich?”

“Many Christmases, we didn't have anything”
: Carolyn Mayfield, interview by Atria and Mayfield.

“If anything went on, we looked to him”
: Ibid.

“De times is mighty stirrin'”
: Dunbar, “How Lucy Backslid.”

“It is a peculiar sensation”
: DuBois,
Souls of Black Folk
, 3â4.

“When other children came by to play”
: Monroe Anderson, “From Superfly to Super Star.”

“He used to stand on the tree stump”
: “Darker Than Blue,”
Omnibus
.

“She was a reasonable mother”
: Ibid.

“I never will forget”
: Carolyn Mayfield, interview by Atria and Mayfield.

“Aside from the gospel music”
: Valentine, “Curtis Mayfield in the Talk-In.”

“a whiskey-drinking Democratic precinct captain”
: Werner,
Higher Ground
, 36.

3. Traveling Souls

“It wasn't a pleasant home”
: Carolyn Mayfield, interview by Atria and Mayfield.

“My father had a doctor”
: Butler, interview by Atria and Mayfield.

“We sang traditional gospel songs”
: Ibid.

“I never really had to acquire an interest”
: Werner,
Higher Ground
, 35.

“
[Eddie Patterson] brought a guitar with him”
: Light, “Lasting Impression.”

“The church had plenty of little affairs”
: Werner, “Curtis Mayfield.”

“A group of white boys”
: Butler with Smith,
Only the Strong Survive
, 22.

“They seemed to know only one phrase”
: Ibid.

“It was a twelve-string”
: “Soul of an R&B Genius,”
Guitar Player
.

“When I first started playing guitar”
: Valentine, “Curtis Mayfield in the Talk-In.”

“It was my other self”
: Gonzales, “Curtis Mayfield.”

“My education didn't give me any background”
: Alexander, “The Impressions.”

“When we were little she told us”
: Carolyn Mayfield, interview by Atria and Mayfield.

“Brown v. Board was what the grown-ups talked about”
: Butler, interview by Atria and Mayfield.

“We felt we were up in Pill Hill”
: Carolyn Mayfield, interview by Atria and Mayfield, 2013.

“It was really high-class living”
: Page, “Does Curtis Mayfield Sincerely Want to Be Rich?”

“We used to harmonize and sing Frankie Lymon”
: Aletti, “Jerry Butler.”

“We were all trying to sing”
: Werner,
Higher Ground
, 68.

crowds of eager young kids lined up
: Ibid., 69.

“We thought that this would all be over”
: Garrow,
Bearing the Cross
, 26.

“We'd tell him to get away from us”
: Werner,
Higher Ground
, 68.

“Once they'd gone to bed, I'd slip out”
: Bowman, booklet for
Movin' On Up
.

“Arthur was stockily built”
: Butler with Smith,
Only the Strong Survive
, 38.

“If you join us, man, with the way you play”
: Ibid.

“We woodshedded for a good year”
: Werner,
Higher Ground
, 69.

“The Medallionaires thought they were hot stuff”
: Thomas, interview by Atria and Mayfield.

“Their harmony was mind blowing”
: Ibid.

“We couldn't get through a song”
: Ibid.

“I can't see it on a marquee”
: Ibid.

“What's the new name then?”
: Goins, “Soulful Conversation.”

4. The Original Impressions

“I had never heard of [Eddie Howard]”
: Butler with Smith,
Only the Strong Survive
, 40.

“She talked very fast”
: Ibid.

“Vee-Jay had an employee lounge”
: Davis,
Man Behind the Music
, 44.

“We thought they were ridiculous”
: Butler with Smith,
Only the Strong Survive
, 40.

“Gee, I really want to record you guys”
: Ibid., 42.

“That's it! That's it!”
: Werner,
Higher Ground
, 74.

“Here comes the rip off”
: Butler with Smith,
Only the Strong Survive
, 43.

“We were very happy and very grateful”
: Ibid.

“I ain't gonna lie”
: Ibid., 44.

“a huge room with the control room way up in the air”
: Callahan, “Vee Jay Album Discography.”

“Four or five takes later”
: Butler with Smith,
Only the Strong Survive
, 44.

“When we heard that song coming across”
: Butler, interview by Atria and Mayfield.

“I knew that Curtis, Sam, Arthur and Richard didn't like it”
: Butler with Smith,
Only the Strong Survive
, 50.

“By the time he got through talking”
: Ibid.

“The rift over the phrase”
: Ibid.

“You can understand all these fellows”
: Werner,
Higher Ground
, 76.

the market featured “cigar-chomping hawkers”
: Butler with Smith,
Only the Strong Survive
, 53.

“We were treated like a bunch of kids”
: Ibid., 52.

“Don't worry”
: Ibid.

“dressed like some fairytale prince”
: Ibid., 53.

Larry started his rap: “Ladies and gentlemen”
: Ibid.

“I got the same feeling that night”
: Ibid., 54.

“didn't even buy us a hamburger”
: Ibid.

“Curtis was so broke in those days”
: Gonzales, “Gangster Boogie.”

“Mrs. Washington was a very hip old lady”
: Butler with Smith,
Only the Strong Survive
, 66.

“She sure did bless the hell out of us”
: Ibid.

“Wait a minute!”
: Ibid., 56.

“We used to play tricks on one another”
: Ibid., 174.

“I felt like a stranger”
: Ibid., 66.

“Jocko was number one”
: Ibid., 58.

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