Curtis Mayfield Productions
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Searching for a definitive list of his shit. Nothing Curtom related cause I know all that, but maybe other shit outside of it. Shit like the Patti Jo "Make Me Believe In You" on Wand which I guess was another Chicago imprint.
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staple singers
sparkle ost
Yeah I know all them, thanks.
Looking for kind of more obscure joints that might have slipped though the cracks. Also like songwriting credits as well.
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my B.
Not CUrtis-related but might as well be.
K in Canada.
-new world - "we're gonna make it"/"help the man" (polydor 1972)
-the newday - "just another reason"/"wait a minute" (on top 1969) (also released as the passions on tower)
but I know the Fascinations CD has some other stuff from
that label that is more obscure...
Please list the ones you know. That way we can make the definitive list you want.
Give me time....K>
He was quite heavily involved with the Steps from the gitgo. Their first few singles (and album) came out on his Windy C label, and a couple years later they had a solitary LP (Love's Happening) on Curtom.
It wasn't - Wand was based in New York.
I don't recall the title either, but it's on Epic. As reissue-happy as CBS-Sony is, I'm surprised they haven't brought this back on CD.
Yeah I figured that out. A subsidiary of Scepter.
Anyway, yeah I know this is going to be a long list. There's the Curtom stuff with the solo material, 5 Stairsteps, Baby Huey, Leroy Hudson. There's the soundtracks (Sparkle, Short Eyes, Claudette.) I'm really more interested in finding the more obscure tracks that dude either produced or had some sort of involvement in, like the Patti Jo and the Linda Clifford and shit like that, which is serious quality.
Chris came through with a couple top choice joints.
...who was on Curtom.
I'm sure you're aware of his OKeh productions*** or the OTHER labels he owned besides Curtom (Thomas, Mayfield, Gemigo, Windy C). As I sit here, Jan Bradley on Formal and Chess comes to mind (he wrote and I think produced her big hit "Mama Didn't Lie"). First one I can think of that hasn't been mentioned that wasn't released on any of his labels.
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***Major Lance, Walter Jackson, Opals, Artistics
K.
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Do you think this is Jamaican musicians, or Chicago cats cashing in?
I know he was idolized by most Jamaicans, so contact and his subsequent participation is highly likely. I can ask some of the fellow nerds for the lowdown.
K.
And not that obscure; by the disco era, I think she was the label's main moneymaker.
-new world - "we're gonna make it"/"help the man" (polydor 1972)
Hot 45 here in the Europe now - no one can find it - people getting well upset....
Rez
Legendary 45 over here - so mad indemand in Englun...
Rez
Produced by Leroy Hutson, not Curtis.
Wish I had kept one of my copies, but you're right - the UK
heads were willing to pay far too well for me to hold onto them.
K.
I still don't see why Curtom/Gemigo/WB went to all that trouble to make a PROMO POSTER, yet never released an entire Arnold Blair LP...
Well in that case the Notations' Superpeople on Gemigo could be there too. Not actually Curtis but might as well be.