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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