{"id":691,"date":"2014-05-30T14:19:33","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T21:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slowsuburbandeath.com\/?p=691"},"modified":"2014-05-30T14:19:33","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T21:19:33","slug":"funkysoul-friday-tune-eddie-you-should-know-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/?p=691","title":{"rendered":"Funky\/Soul Friday tune: Eddie You Should Know Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Eddie You Should Know Better - Curtis Mayfield (Jenewby.com) #TheMusicGuru\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q0lD9Z0ATzk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The late Curtis Mayfield had possessed such an incredible depth of uncompromising musical talent which should have earned him far more recognition than he ever received.<!--more-->He left behind a legacy of soul, blending classical instruments with rich bass funk, plucky guitar and passionate vocals to create an urban sound that I remember drifting from open living room windows and boom boxes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Eddie You Should Know Better&#8221; is one of the great songs from the &#8220;Superfly&#8221; soundtrack, written and performed by Curtis Mayfield. This album may not have received the attention of &#8220;Saturday Night Fever&#8221;, but I consider the &#8220;Superfly&#8221; to be one of the finest soundtracks in film history. Mayfield did not like the subject matter of &#8220;Superfly,&#8221; a very dated and slightly, dizzily dreadful film about a troublesome pusher, so his lyrics reflect his own rebellion against the film&#8217;s theme.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Friday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late Curtis Mayfield had possessed such an incredible depth of uncompromising musical talent which should have earned him far more recognition than he ever<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/?p=691\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Funky\/Soul Friday tune: Eddie You Should Know Better<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[13,33],"tags":[312],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}