Don't Play Us Cheap: Original Cast And Soundtrack Album

by Melvin Van Peebles

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1.	You Cut Up The Clothes In The Closet Of My Dreams 05:49	info	buy track
2.	Break That Party And Opening 02:16	info	buy track
3.	The Eight Day Week 00:45	info	buy track
4.	Saturday Night 01:20	info	buy track
5.	The Bowsers Thing 03:59	info	buy track
6.	The Book Of Life 04:24	info	buy track
7.	Quittin' Time 07:11	info	buy track
8.	Ain't Love Grand 04:19	info	buy track
9.	I'm A Bad Character 03:38	info	buy track
10.	Know Your Business 01:49	info	buy track
11.	Feast On Me 03:26	info	buy track
12.	Ain't Love Grand (Reprise) 04:13	info	buy track
13.	Break That Party 03:01	info	buy track
14.	Someday It Seems That It Just Don't Even Pay To Get Out Of Bed 03:31	info	buy track
15.	Quartet 05:48	info	buy track
16.	The Phoney Game 01:42	info	buy track
17.	It Makes No Difference 02:33	info	buy track
18.	Bad Character Bossa Nova 03:37	info	buy track
19.	Quartet (Reprise) 04:09	info	buy track
20.	The Washingtons Thing 05:11	info	buy track
21.	(If You See A Devil) Smash Him 02:24	info	buy track

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Gospel is at the stylistic core of much of 1972’s somewhat more traditional Don’t Play Us Cheap, a Broadway production spotlighting the thrilling voices of onetime Ikette Joshie Jo Armstead and legendary gospel quartet basso George (Ooppee) McCurn.

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released January 1, 1972

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Melvin Van Peebles Chicago, Illinois

Renaissance man Melvin Van Peebles revolutionized African-American cinema with the release in 1971 of his decidedly off-the- wall Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song. The soundtrack album is equally radical, featuring Van Peebles’s often-dissonant jazz-flavored funk tunes sung by himself with a very young Earth, Wind & Fire, along with dialogue from the film and bits of homegrown gospel music. ... more