| Record ID: |
610263 |
| Format: |
CD |
| Physical description: |
2 audio discs : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Date acquired: |
Not available |
| More creator details: |
soundtracks written, composed, and produced by Melvin Van Peebles. |
| Contents note: |
Disc 1 Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (Stax 3001): Sweetback losing his cherry -- Sweetback getting it uptight and preaching it so hard the bourgeois reggin angels in heaven turn around -- Come on feet do your thing -- Sweetback's theme -- Hoppin' John -- Mojo woman -- Sanra Z -- Reggins hanging on in there as best they can -- Won't bleed me -- The Man tries running his usual game but Sweetback's Jones is so strong he wastes the hounds (Yeah! Yeah! And besides that will be coming back takin' names & collecting dues). |
| Contents note: |
Disc 2 Don't Play Us Cheap (Staz 2-3006): You cut up the clothes in the closet of my dreams -- Break that party and opening -- The eight day wek -- Saturday night -- The Bowsers thing -- The book of life -- Quittin' time -- Ain''t love grand -- I'm a bad character -- Know your business -- Feast on me -- Ain't love grand -- Break that party -- Someday it seems that it just don't even pay to get out of bed -- Quartet -- The phoney game -- It make no difference -- Bad character bossa Nova -- Quartet -- The Washington's thing -- (If you see a devil) Smash him. |
| Date/place captured: |
Disc 1 recorded October and November 1970. Disc 2 recorded (May 1972) and mixed a Advantage Sound Studios, New York City. |
| Uniform title: |
Don't play us cheap. |
| Uniform title: |
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. |
