Melvin Van Peebles – Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (An Opera)

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Label:	Stax – STS-3001
Format:	Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold
Country:	US
Released:	1971
Genre:	Funk / Soul, Non-Music, Stage & Screen
Style:	Soundtrack, Dialogue, Movie Effects, Soul, Rhythm & Blues

Tracklist

A1	Sweetback Losing His Cherry	2:45
A2	Sweetback Getting It Uptight And Preaching It So Hard The Bourgeois Reggin Angels In Heaven Turn Around	5:00
A3	Come On Feet	4:15
A4	Sweetback's Theme	7:36
B1a	Hoppin John	2:25
B1b	Voices	0:11
B2a	Mojo Woman	2:43
B2b	Voices	0:15
B3a	Sanra Z	3:47
B3b	Voices	0:17
B4a	Reggin Hangin On In There As Best They Can	2:58
B4b	Voices	1:13
B5	Wont Bleed Me	2:41
B6	The Man Tries Running His Usual Game But Sweetback's Jones Is So Strong He Wastes The Hounds (Yeah! Yeah! And Besides That Will Be Coming Back Takin' Names & Collecting Dues)	4:25

Soundtracks Written & Composed by Melvin Van Peebles (ASCAP)

A Production of Yeah, Inc.

Stax Records, 98 N. Avalon, Memphis, U.S.A.

Matrix / Runout (Side A Label): T SS-0221 -1 (etched)
Matrix / Runout (Side B Label): T SS-0237 -2 (etched)
Matrix / Runout (Side A Variant ‘T’ stamped, the rest etched. ‘M’ with serifs and small ‘HC’): T SS-0221 - 2 M HC
Matrix / Runout (Side B Variant ‘V’ & ‘T’ stamped, the rest etched. ‘M’ with serifs and small ‘HC’): V T SS-0222 - 2 M HC

	Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
New Submission	Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (An Opera) (LP, Album)	Stax	2325 047	Germany	1971
Recently Edited	Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (An Opera) (LP, Album, Stereo, Pitman Press, Gatefold)	Stax	STS-3001	US	1971
New Submission	Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (LP, Album, Promo, Gatefold)	Stax	STS-3001	US	1971
New Submission	Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (An Opera) (LP, Album, Club Edition, Stereo, Gatefold)	Stax	STS-3001	US	1971
New Submission	Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (An Opera) (LP, Album, Gatefold)	Stax	STS-3001	US	1971

LeoElectroid Jul 12, 2022
Madlib sampled 'Come on Feet' .... ... .. .. . .
CrashDDZ Apr 23, 2020
Edited 4 years ago
The style description Soundtrack, Dialogue, Movie Effects, Soul, Rhythm & Blues is perfect. I'd argue it should include Hip Hop because of how many lifts that have been taken from this gem. The album weaves from street scenes with sirens wailing to spoken poetry to jazz riffs and straight fire RnB. This soundtrack plays out like a movie one scene leading through the next until Sweet Sweetback wastes the hounds. What a ride. Every track sounds like a busy city block and you can bet something interesting is going down on every corner.