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Certain Songs #263: Curtis Mayfield – “Superfly”

July 27, 2015 by Jim Connelly

220px-CurtisMayfieldSuperfly Album: Super Fly
Year: 1972.

Back in the mid-70s, whenever this song came on KYNO 1300 AM, it always kinda weirded me out.

While the Super Fly soundtrack was a huge enough cultural phenomenon to land two hard funk songs into the pop top ten, the first of those singles, “Freddie’s Dead,” at least felt like other R&B hit singles I’d heard by folks like Marvin Gaye & Isaac Hayes.

But “Superfly” made no damn sense to me at all.

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