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People Get Ready: The Curtis Mayfield Story
02/27/1996 | Rhino / Wea
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All Music Guide Review
The focus of this three-CD, 51-song production is on Curtis Mayfield's solo work; much of the first disc is devoted to his most popular work with the Impressions, but the remainder of the compilation surveys his solo output from 1970 to 1990. The Impressions tracks are uniformly excellent, but the Mayfield-only cuts are more problematic. The best of these -- the Superfly highlights, of course, and early-'70s singles like "(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below We're All Going to Go" and "Beautiful Brother of Mine" -- are as good as anything he ever did. But even in the early '70s, he was erratic. Some of the post-Superfly stuff is OK; this period takes up half of disc two and all of disc three. Mayfield never lost his vocal abilities or his production skills; after the late '70s his material got into dance music and romantic urban contemporary. For a Mayfield retrospective, most will be better off with MCA's two-disc Anthology 1961-1977, which goes into the Impressions period with much greater depth and includes the cream of his '70s solo recordings. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide
People Get Ready: The Curtis Mayfield Story Track Listing
Credits of People Get Ready: The Curtis Mayfield Story
- Robert Lustrea
- Horn
- James Mack
- Arranger
- Tracy Mayfield
- Bass
- David McLees
- Compilation Producer
- Craig McMullen
- Guitar
- Floyd Morris
- Keyboards
- Roger Moulton
- Strings
- Ted Myers
- Project Supervisor
- George Pappas
- Engineer
- Gary Peterson
- Discographical Annotation
- Bill Porter
- Horn
- Lonnie Reaves
- Keyboards
- Julia Tillman Waters
- Vocals (Background)
- Don Sciarrotta
- Engineer
- Lebron Scott
- Bass
- Don Simmons
- Drums
- Robert Sims
- Drums
- Fred Spector
- Strings
- Luis Stenfanell
- Percussion
- Wendell Stewart
- Drums
- Alfonzo Surrett
- Vocals (Background)
- Fred Tackett
- Guitar
- Chester Thompson
- Keyboards
- Gary Thompson
- Guitar
- Tim Tobias
- Keyboards
- Efrain Toro
- Percussion
- Ron Tyson
- Vocals (Background), Producer
- Carlos Vega
- Drums
- Larry Washington
- Percussion
- Maxine Willard Waters
- Vocals (Background)
- Luther Waters
- Vocals (Background)
- Oren Waters
- Vocals (Background)
- Fred Wesley
- Arranger, Horn
- Harry Yarmark
- Engineer
- Earl Young
- Drums
- Pat Ferreri
- Guitar
- David Loeb
- Keyboards
- Johnny Pate
- Arranger, Producer
- Hank Ford
- Horn
- Roy Glover, Jr.
- Arranger
- David Nathan
- Compilation Producer
- William Puett
- Horn
- Michael Ingram
- Percussion
- Sonny Burke
- Keyboards
- David Arenz
- Strings
- Preston Wilcox
- Drums
- David Redfern
- Photography
- Coco Shinomiya
- Art Direction
- John Ross
- Keyboards
- John McKenna
- Design
- Todd Mayfield
- Vocals (Background)
- Gary Slavo
- Arranger, Horn
- Quincy Newell
- Project Assistant
- Ron Stanley
- Engineer
- David Corio
- Photography
- Michael Putland
- Photography
- Arnold Roth
- Strings
- Bruce Grailisch
- Guitar
- Frances Jeffrey
- Strings
- Carl Paroub
- Engineer
- Christopher Rex
- Strings
- Bill Schoen
- Strings
- Rudolph Stauber
- Horn
- True Saints
- Vocals (Background)
- Rich Turfo
- Arranger, Keyboards
- Sonny Seals
- Horn
- Michael Johnson
- Project Assistant
- Dino Fakaris
- Arranger, Vocals (Background), Producer
- Alice Sanderson
- Vocals (Background)
- Ann Haywood
- Vocals (Background)
- Angela King
- Vocals (Background)
- Barney Conway
- Engineer
- Gary Stewart
- Project Supervisor
- James Walker
- Bass
- Len Chausow
- Strings
- Jimmy Williams
- Bass
- Leon Mitchell
- Arranger
- Alejo
- Percussion
- Tyrone McCullen
- Drums
- Bob Fisher
- Project Assistant
- Mystique
- Vocals (Background)
- Gene Page
- Arranger
- Bunny Sigler
- Keyboards, Producer
- Tony Brown
- Guitar
- Michael Sembello
- Guitar
- Leroy Hutson
- Vocals (Background)
- Michael Brown
- Keyboards
- Buzz Amato
- Keyboards
- Roger Anfinsen
- Engineer
- Gil Askey
- Arranger, Horn, ?
- Sol Bobrov
- Strings
- Dennis Belfield
- Bass
- Peter Bertolino
- Strings
- Lorin Binford
- Horn
- Frank Borgognone
- Strings
- Fred Breitberg
- Engineer
- Jim Burgess
- Engineer
- Keni Burke
- Bass
- George Bussey
- Arranger
- Tony Carpenter
- Percussion
- Fred Cash
- Vocals
- Liz Cifani
- Strings
- Dale Clevenger
- Horn
- Paulinho Da Costa
- Percussion
- Peter Cronin
- Photography
- Eugene Lambchops Curry
- Keyboards
- Clifford Davis
- Horn
- Bobby Eli
- Guitar
- Mikki Farrow
- Vocals (Background)
- Tom Ferrone
- Guitar
- Tom Flye
- Engineer
- Johnny Frigo
- Strings
- Karl B. Fruh
- Strings
- Dean Gant
- Keyboards
- Carlos Glover
- Engineer, Drum Programming
- Adrian Gola
- Strings
- Elliot Golub
- Strings
- Bruce Gray
- Keyboards, Producer
- William Green
- Keyboards
- Donnelle Hagan
- Drums
- Harry Hagan
- Horn
- Riley Hampton
- Arranger
- Norman Harris
- Guitar, Producer, Arranger
- Michael Hawkins
- Vocals (Background)
- Kitty Haywood
- Vocals (Background)
- Vivian Haywood
- Vocals (Background)
- Dan Hersch
- Remastering
- Paul Howard
- Horn
- John Howell
- Horn
- Arthur Hoyle
- Horn
- Bill Inglot
- Compilation Producer, Remastering
- Morris Jennings
- Drums
- Quinton Joseph
- Drums
- Carlton "Cotton" Kent
- Keyboards
- Harold Klatz
- Strings
- Ron Kolber
- Horn
- Eddie Kramer
- Engineer
- Robert Lewis
- Horn
- Ricki Linton
- Vocals (Background)
- Calvin Bridges
- Vocals (Background)
- Donny Hathaway
- Arranger
- The Impressions
- Performer
- The Jones Girls
- Vocals (Background)
- Curtis Mayfield
- Guitar, Vocals, Producer, Main Performer, Photography, Drum Programming, Engineer, Vocals (Background), Keyboards, Arranger, Horn
- Ross Traut
- Guitar
- Phil Upchurch
- Guitar
- Master Henry Gibson
- Percussion
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