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Curtis Mayfield’s song for Freddie, the doomed small-time hustler in Gordon Parks Jr.’s Super Fly, from his soundtrack to the film on his own Curtom label in 1972. As a single it went to No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 2 on the R&B chart. Rhino posted it for its Soul Sunday series.
Curtis Mayfield. Written and produced by Curtis Mayfield. From Super Fly (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), Curtom, 1972. Sources: Rhino on YouTube. Photograph: a street scene on 47th Street on Chicago’s South Side – Mayfield’s home town – June 1973, by John H. White for the EPA’s DOCUMERICA project, National Archives (public domain). Wikimedia Commons.
- №
- NMU 261108
- artist
- Curtis Mayfield
- title
- Freddie’s Dead
- writer & producer
- Curtis Mayfield
- film
- Super Fly, dir. Gordon Parks Jr. (1972)
- from
- Super Fly (1972)
- label
- Curtom
- photograph
- John H. White, 47th Street, Chicago, 1973. Public domain.
- filed
- November 8, 2026
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