53 years ago TODAY, Curtis Mayfield turned a movie into a movement when his “Super Fly” soundtrack album hit number one on the Billboard 200 in 1972! The film was a breakout of the blaxploitation era, and Mayfield’s songs (“Pusherman,” “Freddie’s Dead,” “Superfly”) pushed the story’s grit and morality into the mainstream. The namesake single, “Superfly,” climbed to number eight on the Hot 100 and became one of Mayfield’s signature songs. #nostalgia #musichistory #70s #70smusic #70sthrowback | Cl

Super Fly is the third studio album by American soul musician Curtis Mayfield, released on July 11, 1972, by Curtom Records. It was released as the soundtrack for the Blaxploitation film of the same name. 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-gro