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Young-Holt Unlimited Plays Super Fly

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The final Young-Holt Unlimited album captures their seamless transition into a new era of Chicago soul heralded by Curtis Mayfield's landmark Superfly score

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Track List:

  1. FREDDIE’S DEAD
  2. GIVE ME YOUR LOVE
  3. PUSHER MAN
  4. SUPERFLY
  5. HEY PANCHO
  6. COULD IT BE I’M FALLING IN LOVE
  7. (THEY LONG TO BE) CLOSE TO YOU
  8. PEOPLE MAKE THE WORLD GO ROUND
  9. MYSTICAL MAN

The final Young-Holt Unlimited album captures their seamless transition into a new era of Chicago soul heralded by Curtis Mayfield's landmark Superfly score. A skilled and deeply funky interpretation of the emerging blaxploitation sound that sacrifices none of the group's signature groove, Plays Super Fly is the rare cash-in record with integrity and invention to spare. Only half of the album reprises Superfly material, most notably a percolating rendition of "Freddie's Dead" -- the remainder of the set casts Y-HU in dramatically different directions, including the loping original "Hey Pancho," a sweet but never saccharine cover of "Could It Be I'm Falling in Love" and a mind-boggling rendition of "Close to You" spotlighting Ken Chaney's future-forward electric piano.