Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (soundtrack)
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The Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song OST is the soundtrack to Melvin Van Peebles
' 1971 film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
. The score was written by Van Peebles himself and performed by the then-unknown group Earth, Wind & Fire
. The soundtrack to Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song was ranked number 32 on Mojo Magazine's "MOJO 1000 - The Ultimate CD Buyers Guide" in the category soundtracks.
Melvin Van Peebles
Melvin "Block" Van Peebles is an American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, novelist and composer.He is most famous for creating the acclaimed film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, which heralded a new era of African American focused films...
' 1971 film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song is a 1971 American independent drama film, written, produced, scored, directed by, and starring Melvin Van Peebles, father of actor Mario Van Peebles . It tells the picaresque story of a poor African American man on his flight from the white authority...
. The score was written by Van Peebles himself and performed by the then-unknown group Earth, Wind & Fire
Earth, Wind & Fire
Earth, Wind & Fire is an American soul and R&B band formed in Chicago, Illinois, in 1969 by Verdine and Maurice White. Also known as EWF, the band has won six Grammy Awards and four American Music Awards. They have been inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Vocal Group Hall of...
. The soundtrack to Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song was ranked number 32 on Mojo Magazine's "MOJO 1000 - The Ultimate CD Buyers Guide" in the category soundtracks.
Side One
- "Sweetback Losing His Cherry" (2:45)
- "Sweetback Getting It Uptight And Preaching It So Hard The Bourgeois Reggin Angels In Heaven Turn Around" (5:00)
- "Come On Feet Do Your Thing" (4:15)
- "Sweetback's Theme" (7:36)
Side Two
- "Hoppin' John" (2:25)
- "Voices" (0:11)
- "Mojo Woman" (2:43)
- "Voices" (0:15)
- "Sanra Z" (3:47)
- "Voices" (0:17)
- "Reggins Hanging On In There As Best They Can" (2:58)
- "Voices" (1:13)
- "Won't Bleed Me" (2:41)
- "The Man Tries Running His Usual Game but Sweetback's Jones Is So Strong He Wastes the Hounds (Yeah! Yeah! and Besides That He Will Be Comin' Back Takin' Names and Collecting Dues)" (4:25)