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Crucial Vinyl: Curtis Mayfield's Curtis

The Don's Crucial Vinyl, an album that has shaped his musical taste, is Curtis Mayfield's 1970 debut solo album Curtis.

Each week the Don selects a piece of Crucial Vinyl (an album that has shaped his musical taste and helped to make him who he is) from his collection. He features three tracks from it and explains why it means so much to him.

This week he picks Curtis Mayfield's 1970 debut solo album Curtis. Curtis began work on this album when he was still a member of the Impressions. By this time he was ready to move on from the pop feel towards funk and psychedelia. He was also becoming more acutely aware of and vocal about the social and political changes that were taking place in the US at the time.

Don was fourteen in 1970, and was the only black kid at his school in south London.

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Sun 15 Jun 2014 22:00
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Music Played

  • Andy Williams

    Can't Get Used To Losing You

  • Bob Marley & The Wailers

    She's Gone

  • Benji Boko

    No.1 Sound

  • Scott Dunbar

    Easy Rider

    • Not the Same Old Blues Crap II.
    • Fat Possum Records.

  • Fleet Foxes

    Helplessness Blues

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Oh Well (Parts 1 & 2)

  • Fugees

    Fu Gee La

  • Georgia

    Be Ache

    • Georgia.
    • Domino.
    • 3.

  • Karl Bryan and Harry J Allstars

    Soul Scorcher

  • Jessy Lanza

    Kathy Lee

  • Lapland

    Drink Me Dry

  • Hamilton Leithauser

    The Silent Orchestra

  • Ijahman Levi

    Whip That Tarantula

  • Little Dragon

    Paris

  • Locomotive

    Rudi's In Love

    • Parlophone Records Limited.

  • Honeyboy Martin & The Voices

    Dreader Than Dread

  • Curtis Mayfield

    We People Who Are Darker Than Blue

  • Curtis Mayfield

    (Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go

  • Curtis Mayfield

    The Makings Of You

  • Zara McFarlane

    Move/ Atjazz Rmx

  • Meshell Ndegeocello

    Tom

  • Derrick Morgan

    Tougher Than Tough (Rudie In Court)

  • Nick Hakim

    Pour Another

  • Preservation Hall Jazz Band

    Yellow Moon

  • Sammy Dread

    Rude Boy

  • Seahawks

    Look At The Sun

  • Simply Red

    Ghetto Girl

  • Tom Vek

    Broke

    • Luck.
    • Moshi Moshi.
    • 3.

  • Tony Joe White

    I've Got A Thing About You Baby

  • Whodini

    Magic's Wand

  • Zervas & Pepper

    Living In A Small Town

Broadcast

  • Sun 15 Jun 2014 22:00
    成人快手 Radio 6 Music