Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (soundtrack)

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Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song cover
Soundtrack by Earth, Wind & Fire/Melvin Van Peebles
Released 1971
Recorded 1971
Genre Soundtrack
Length 37:28
Label Stax Records
Professional reviews
Earth, Wind & Fire chronology
The Need of Love
(1971)
''Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
(w/Melvin Van Peebles)
(1971)
Last Days & Shine
(1972)


Melvin Van Peebles chronology
Ain't Supposed To Die A Natural Death
(1970)
''Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
(w/Earth, Wind & Fire)
(1971)
Don't Play Us Cheap
(1973)

The Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song OST is the 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.

[edit] Track listing

  1. Sweetback Losing His Cherry
  2. Sweetback Getting It Uptight And Preaching It So Hard The Bourgeois Reggin Angels In Heaven Turn Around
  3. Come On Feet Do Your Thing
  4. Sweetback's Theme
  5. Hoppin' John
  6. Mojo Woman
  7. Sanra Z
  8. Reggins Hanging On In There As Best They Can
  9. Won't Bleed Me
  10. 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)

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