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MAYFIELD Curtis
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Personal Data:

Born:	03.06.1942	(Chicago, Illinois, USA)
Died:	26.12.1999	(disease)

Appearances:

1957	The Roosters
1957-70	The Impressions
1983	The Impressions

Former Members:

Gary Thompson (g, cca 1975)
Lucky Scott (bg, cca 1975)
Rich Tufo (kb, cca 1975)
Quinton Joseph (ds, cca 1975)

Albums Discography:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Curtis	10/1970	Curtom			19
2.	Curtis Live (2LP, in the USA 09.07.1971, Buddah)	5/1971	Curtom			21
3.	Roots	11/1971	Curtom			40
4.	Superfly produced by: Curtis Mayfield	8/1972	Curtom		26	1
5.	Back To The World	6/1973	Curtom/Buddah			13
6.	Curtis Mayfield: His Early Years With The Impressions	7/1973	Probe
7.	In Chicago Live	11/1973	Curtom
8.	Do It All Night	1974
9.	Sweet Exorcist	4/1974	Curtom			19
10.	Move On Up - The Best Of Curtis Mayfield	10/1974	Buddah
11.	Got To Find A Way	25.10.1974	Kama Sutra			76
12.	There's No Place Like America Today	4/1975	Curtom
13.	Let's Do It Again & The Staple Singers	31.10.1975	Curtom
14.	Give, Get, Take And Have produced by: Curtis Mayfield	5/1976	Curtom
15.	Never Say You Can't Survive	3/1977	Curtom
16.	Short Eyes produced by: Curtis Mayfield	21.10.1977	Curtom
17.	Do It All Night	10/1978	Curtom
18.	Heartbeat	8/1979	RSO			42
19.	The Right Combination	6/1980	RSO
20.	Something To Believe In	7/1980	RSO
21.	Love Is The Place	1981	Boardwalk
22.	Honesty	10/1982	Boardwalk
23.	We Come In Peace With A Message Of Love	9/1985	C.R.C.
24.	The Collection	1986	2LP
25.	Live In Los Angeles	1987	Capitol
26.	Live In Europe	6/1988	Ichiban
27.	Night Riding	1988
28.	Superfly 1990	1990
29.	People Get Ready	2/1990	Essential
30.	Take It To The Street	3/1990	Arista
31.	Off All Time (2LP)	1991	IRS
32.	A Man Like Curtis-The Very Best Of Curtis Mayfield	11/1992	Music Collection
33.	The Best Of Curtis Mayfield	1993
34.	Hard Times	9/1993	Traditional Line
35.	BBC Radio 1 Live In Concert	1/1994	Windsong
36.	Get Down To The Funky Groove	3/1994	Charly
37.	Live!	4/1994	Movieplay Gold
38.	Curtis Mayfield	5/1994	Laserlight
39.	All The Best & The Impressions	5/1994	Pickwick
40.	Groove On Up	8/1994	Charly
41.	Tripping Out	11/1994	Charly
42.	New World Order	23.09.1996	WEA		44	137
43.	Love, Peace & Understanding - Anthology	21.04.1997	Sequel/edel
44.	Right Combination / Can't Let This Good ... & Linda Cliff	23.08.1999
45.	Loves Sweet Sensation	13.09.1999
46.	Move On Up - Singles Anthology (2CD)	20.09.1999	Sequel
47.	Love Songs	16.01.2001	Rhino
48.	Essentials	18.06.2002	Rhino
49.	Live at Ronnie Scott's	22.10.2002	Sanctuary
50.	Soul Music	25.02.2003	Planet Media
51.	People Get Ready: The Best of Curtis Mayfield with the Impressions, 1961-1968 & Curtis Mayfield	20.07.2004	Spectrum Audio
52.	Mayfield: Remixed - The Curtis Mayfield Collection	15.03.2005	Rhino
53.	Immortal Curtis Mayfield: Superfly Guy	05.07.2005	Metro
54.	The Best Of Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions Volume 2 & The Impressions	17.10.2005	Spectrum
55.	Definitive Collection	14.03.2006	Mastercuts
56.	Definitive Soul Collection	11.07.2006	Rhino
57.	Soul Legends	25.07.2006	Universal International
58.	Greatest Hits	10.10.2006	Silver Star/Zyx
59.	Gospel Greats	19.12.2006	Collectables
60.	Love Songs Vol 1	07.07.2008	Get Back
61.	Pusherman (2CD)	20.10.2011	Metro Select
62.	Flashback With Curtis Mayfield	05.06.2012	Rhino Flashback
63.	People Get Ready: The Best Of Curtis Mayfields Impressions & The Impressions (2CD)	14.03.2013	Spectrum
64.	Die Zeit Edition: Legenden des Soul	10.06.2014
65.	Playlist: The Best of Curtis Mayfield	18.03.2016	Rhino

Singles Discography:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	(Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below We're All Going To Go / The Makings Of You	11/1970	Curtom		29
2.	Give It Up / Beautiful Brother Of Mine	5/1971	Curtom
3.	Move On Up / Give It Up / Beautiful Brother Of Mine	6/1971	Buddah	11
4.	Mighty Mighty (Spade And Whitey) (live)	9/1971	Curtom
5.	We Got To Have Peace / People Get Ready (v GB)	11/1971	Buddah
6.	Get Down / We're A Winner	11/1971	Curtom		69
7.	We Got To Have Peace / We're A Winner	2/1972	Curtom
8.	Beautiful Brother Of Mine / Love To Keep You In My Mind	4/1972	Curtom
9.	Keep On Keeping On / Stone Junkie (v GB)	5/1972	Buddah
10.	Move On Up / Underground	6/1972	Curtom
11.	Freddie's Dead / Underground	8/1972	Curtom		4
12.	Superfly / Underground	11/1972	Curtom		8
13.	Superfly / Give Me Your Love (Love Song)	11/1972	Buddah
14.	People Get Ready & The Impressions	30.03.1973	Probe
15.	Future Shock / The Other Side Of Town	7/1973	Curtom		39
16.	If I Were Only A Child Again / Think	10/1973	Curtom		71
17.	Back To The World / Other Side Of Town	19.10.1973	Buddah
18.	Can't Say Nothing / Future Shock	12/1973	Curtom		88
19.	Kung Fu / Right On For The Darkness	6/1974	Curtom		40
20.	Sweet Exorcist / Suffer	10/1974	Curtom
21.	Move On Up / Give It Up	22.11.1974	Buddah
22.	Mother's Son / Love Me Right In The Pocket	07.03.1975	Buddah
23.	Stash That Butt, Sucker / Zanzibar	6/1975	Columbia
24.	So In Love / Hard Times	9/1975	Curtom		67
25.	Only You Babe / Love To The People	7/1976	Curtom
26.	Party Night / P.S. I Love You	9/1976	Curtom
27.	Show Me Love / Just Want To Be With You	3/1977	Curtom
28.	Do Do Wap Is Strong Here / Need Someone To Love	11/1977	Curtom
29.	You Are, You Are / Get A Little Bit (Give, Get, Take And Have)	7/1978	Curtom
30.	Do It All Night / Party Party	9/1978	Curtom
31.	No Goodbyes / Party Party	11/1978	Curtom	65
32.	In Love, In Love, In Love / Keeps Me Loving You	12/1978	Curtom
33.	This Year / This Year (instrumental)	3/1979	RSO
34.	Between You Baby And Me / You're So Good To Me & Linda Clifford	8/1979	RSO
35.	It's Alright / Superfly	10/1980	RSO
36.	Come Free Your People / Toot An' Toot An' Toot	1981	Boardwalk
37.	She Don't Let Nobody (But Me) / You Get All My Love	10/1981	Boardwalk		103
38.	Hey Baby (Give It All To Me) / Summer Hot	10/1982	Boardwalk
39.	Move On Up	1/1983	P.R.T.
40.	Dirty Laundry / Nobody But You	3/1983	Boardwalk
41.	Baby It's You / Breakin' In The Streets	11/1986	98.6
42.	Celebrate (The Day After You) / Beautiful Child & The Blow Monkeys	5/1987	RCA	52
43.	Move On Up (live) / Little Child Runnin' Wild (live)	6/1988	Ichiban	87
44.	He's A Fly Guy / He's A Fly Guy (instrumental) & Fishbone	5/1989	Arista
45.	I Mo Git U Sucka / He's A Fly Guy	5/1989	Arista
46.	Homeless / People Never Give Up	2/1990	Arista
47.	Do Be Down / Got To Be Real	6/1990	Arista
48.	Superfly 1990 / Superfly 1990 (Fly edit mix) & Ice T	9/1990	Capitol	48
49.	New World Order	11/1996
50.	Move On Up (Lisa Marie Experience mixes) & Tricksters	19.01.1998	Phuzz
51.	Move On Up / Superfly / Freddie's Dead (reissue)	28.08.2000	Curtom
52.	Tripping Out / Give Me Your Love / You're So Good To Me (reissue)	11.12.2000	Curtom
53.	Astounded & Bran Van 3000	30.04.2001	Virgin	40
54.	Superfly / Freddie's Dead (reissue)	26.04.2004	Black Beats/Smith & Co
55.	Kung Fu	18.09.2006	Curtom
56.	Walk With Me / I Got A Women / Move On Up & The Arc Choir & Ray Charles	12.11.2007	KW
57.	Give Me Your Love	22.12.2008	East End
58.	RSO House Party EP (House Party / It's Loving Time(Your Baby's Home) / Love Me, Love Me Now / (Baby) I Can't Get Over Losing You) & Linda Clifford & Fred Wesley & TTF, (reissue)	10.10.2013	RSO

Awards:

1994 Grammy Legend Award
1995 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
1998 Grammy Hall Of Fame ("Superfly")
2000 Songwriters Hall Of Fame
2005 Grammy Awards - Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical (track "Superfly (Louie Vega EOL Mix)")
2019 Grammy Hall Of Fame (SP "Move On Up", 1972)

Various:

1968 own label Curtom

appeared on the LP:

Bran Van 3000: Discosis (2001)

Press References:

Melody Maker
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1971	0	10.07.1971	43	Pop Albums	album review
1971	0	27.11.1971	23		interview
1971	0	04.12.1971	52	Pop Albums	album review
1972	0	29.01.1972	20	Caught In The Act	gig review
1974	38	21.09.1974	43	Albums	album review
1974	48	30.11.1974	64	Albums	album review
1975	1	04.01.1975	14
1976	30	24.07.1976	24	New Albums	album review
1978	8	25.02.1978	29	Albums	album review
1979	8	03.03.1979	23		interview
1979	28	28.07.1979	20	Albums	album review
1983	28	09.07.1983	29	It's Alive	gig review
1984	7	18.02.1984	16	It's Alive!	gig review
1990	0	20.10.1990	4	News
1995	2	14.01.1995	8	A.W.O.L.	profile
1997	6	08.02.1997	52	Albums	album review
New Musical Express
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1972	0	18.11.1972	8
1973	0	16.06.1973	36	Albums	album review
1974	0	08.06.1974	46	Soul - Soul Notes
1974	0	03.08.1974	2	News Desk - Recording News
1974	0	19.10.1974	23	Platters	album review
1974	0	28.12.1974	21	Platters	album review
1975	0	22.02.1975	17
1975	0	06.12.1975	25	Platters	album review
1990	0	25.08.1990	3	News