Lyrics by Curtis Mayfield

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1. Move On Up
2. (Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below We're All Go
3. A Prayer
4. Amen
5. Back To Living Again
6. Beautiful Brother Of Mine
7. Billy Jack
8. Can't Satisfy
9. Check Out Your Mind
10. Choice of colors
11. Diamond In The Back
12. Do Do Wap Is Strong In Here
13. Eddie You Should Know Better
14. Fool For You
15. Freddie's Dead
16. Future Shock
17. Give It Up
18. Give Me Your Love
19. Gypsy Woman
20. Hard Times
21. Here But I'm Gone
22. I'm So Proud
23. I'm The One Who Loves You
24. If I Were Only a Child Again
25. It's All Right
26. It's Hard To Believe
27. Junkie Chase
28. Just A Little Bit Of Love
29. Just Want To Be With You
30. Keep On Keeping On
31. Keep On Pushing
32. Kung Fu
33. Let's Not Forget
34. Little Child Runnin' Wild
35. Love's Sweet Sensation
36. Miss Black America
37. Need Someone To Love
38. Never Let Me Go
39. New World Order
40. No Thing On Me (Cocaine Song)
41. People Get Ready
42. Power To The People
43. Pusherman
44. Right On For The Darkness
45. She Don't Let Nobody (But Me)
46. So In Love
47. So You Don't Love Me
48. Stoned Out of My Mind
49. Superfly
50. The Girl I Find Stays On My
51. The Makings Of You
52. The Other Side Of Town
53. The Pusherman
54. Think
55. To Be Invisible
56. We Got To Have Peace-curtis Mayfield
57. We The People Who Are Darker Than Blue
58. We're A Winner
59. We've Only Just Begun
60. When You Used To Be Mine
61. Woman's Got Soul
62. You Have Been Cheatin'
63. You Mean Everything To Me

Curtis Lee Mayfield (June 3, 1942 – December 26, 1999) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. Dubbed the "Gentle Genius", he is considered one of the most influential musicians of soul and socially conscious African-American music. Mayfield first achieved success and recognition with the vocal group the Impressions during the civil rights movement of the late 1950s and the 1960s, and later worked as a solo artist. Mayfield started his musical career in a gospel choir. Moving to the North Side of Chicago, he met Jerry Butler in 1956 at the age of 14 and joined the Impressions. The group's lead singer and primary songwriter, Mayfield became noted as one of the first musicians to bring more prevalent themes of social awareness into soul music. In 1965, he wrote "People Get Ready" for the Impressions, which was ranked No. 24 in Rolling Stone's list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" in 2004. The song received numerous other awards; it was included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's "500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll", and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998. After leaving the Impressions in 1970 in pursuit of a solo career, Mayfield released several albums throughout the decade, including his debut Curtis (1970) and the soundtrack for the 1972 blaxploitation film Super Fly. The soundtrack was noted for its socially conscious themes, primarily addressing issues that heavily affected inner city residents and racial minorities such as crime, poverty and drug abuse. The album was ranked No. 72 in Rolling Stone's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" in 2003. On August 13, 1990, Mayfield was paralyzed from the neck down during an accident in which lighting equipment fell on him during a live performance at Wingate Field in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York. Despite this, he continued his career as a recording artist, releasing his final album New World Order in 1996. Mayfield won a Grammy Legend Award in 1994 and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995. He is a double inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a member of the Impressions in 1991, and again in 1999 as a solo artist. He is also a three-time Grammy Hall of Fame inductee. He died from complications of type 2 diabetes at the age of 57 on December 26, 1999.

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