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Super Fly is a 1972 American blaxploitation crime drama film directed by Gordon Parks Jr. and starring Ron O'Neal as Youngblood Priest, an African American cocaine dealer who is trying to quit the underworld drug business. The film is well known for its soundtrack, written and produced by soul musician Curtis Mayfield. It was released on August ...
"Superfly" is a song by Curtis Mayfield, the title track from his 1972 soundtrack album for the film of the same name. It was the second single released from the album, following " Freddie's Dead (Theme From Superfly ) ", and reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #5 on the Best Selling Soul Singles chart. [ 4 ]
A classic of 1970s soul and funk music, Super Fly was a nearly immediate hit. Its sales were bolstered by two million-selling singles, "Freddie's Dead" (number 2 R&B charts, number 4 Pop charts) and the title track (number 5 R&B, number 8 Pop). Super Fly is one of the few soundtracks to out-gross the film it accompanied. [15]
"Freddie's Dead" was sampled in the 1973 break-in record, "Super Fly Meets Shaft" (US #31). The 1988 Fishbone album Truth and Soul features a cover of the song. Master P recorded "Kenny's Dead", a parody of Mayfield's song for the television show South Park , featuring the character Kenny McCormick , for Chef Aid: The South Park Album .
"Superfly" (song), the album's title track; Superfly, a remake of the 1972 blaxploitation film; Armour of God II: Operation Condor, a 1991 Hong Kong film released in the Philippines as Superfly. Superfly, a soundtrack album from the 2018 film "Super Fly" (Giant Panda song), a 2005 single by Giant Panda
I wanted the current sound of Atlanta, so I hunted [Future] down. We were doing the Gap commercial with him and Cher. I normally don't mix things up, but we just started talking about [working on Superfly] on set. [2] On June 15, 2018, the second half of the album was released with an addition of ten tracks. [3]
Super Fly T.N.T. is a 1973 American blaxploitation crime drama film directed by and starring Ron O'Neal. O'Neal reprises his role of Youngblood Priest from the 1972 film Super Fly. The film was both a critical and commercial failure. The film was released on VHS in 1993, but it has not been released on DVD or Blu-ray.
"Super Fly Meets Shaft" is a break-in record co-written by Dickie Goodman and recorded by John & Ernest. It consists of lines from popular R&B /soul songs of the day, which tell a story about the main characters from the films Super Fly (1972) and Shaft (1971).