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Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (An Opera​)​: Original Cast Soundtrack Album

by Melvin Van Peebles

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Come On Feet 04:16
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Hoppin John 02:25
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Mojo Woman 02:54
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Sanra Z 04:02
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Performed by a then-unknown Earth, Wind & Fire with contributions by Van Peebles. The soundtrack features a combination of hymn-based vocalization and jazz rhythms, capturing the funky, gritty and soulful spirit of the time, and foreshadowing the use of sampling that would occur in hip hop music, some 20 years later.

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released June 1, 1971

2017, © 2017 Concord Music Group, Inc.

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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

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