Van Peebles, Melvin: Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (Original Soundtrack)

Van Peebles, Melvin SKU: 32647716
Van Peebles, Melvin: Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (Original Soundtrack)

Van Peebles, Melvin: Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (Original Soundtrack)

Van Peebles, Melvin SKU: 32647716

Format: VINYL LP

Regular price $29.98
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Title: Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (Original Soundtrack)
Artist: Van Peebles, Melvin
Label: Fantasy
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 888072397712
Genre: Soul/R & B

Vinyl LP pressing. The wildly eclectic, hard-grooving, soulful soundtrack to the genre-defining film by the same name: Melvin Van Peebles' Sweet Sweetback's Badassssss Song (1971). Featuring a then virtually unknown, but already hot Earth Wind & Fire, Sweetback's is a landmark record in what would become the blaxploitation genre. An absolute must have for connoisseurs of funk, soul, soul-jazz, hip-hop and beyond. Fans of Isaac Hayes' iconic Shaft album will not want to pass this by. Van Peebles did not have any money for traditional advertising methods, so he released the soundtrack album prior to the film's release in order to generate publicity. Initially, the film was screened only in two theaters in the United States. It went on to gross $4.1 million at the box office. Huey P. Newton celebrated and welcomed the film's revolutionary implications, and Sweetback became required viewing for members of the Black Panther Party. According to Variety, it demonstrated to Hollywood that films which portrayed "militant" blacks could be highly profitable, leading to the creation of the blaxploitation genre, although critic Roger Ebert did not consider this example of Van Peebles' work to be an exploitation film.

Tracks:
1.1 Sweetback Losing His Cherry
1.2 Sweetback Getting It Uptight and Preaching It So Hard the Bourgeois Reggin Angels in Heaven Turn Around
1.3 Come on Feet
1.4 Sweetback's Theme
1.5 Hoppin John 6. Mojo Woman
1.6 Sanra Z
1.7 Reggins Hangin on in There As Best They Can
1.8 Won't Bleed Me
1.9 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)
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