Cotton Comes to Harlem [Soundtrack, Import]

Galt MacDermot (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 18, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack, Import
• Label: Beyond Records
• ASIN: B00005TQ6P
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #418,711 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Cotton Comes to Harlem

2. Coffin Ed and Grave Digger [Instrumental]

3. Going Home

4. Sunlight Shining

5. Man in Distress [Instrumental]

6. Harlem Medley [Instrumental]

7. Black Enough

8. Stockyard [Instrumental]

9. The Loving Ballad

10. Deke [Instrumental]

11. Down in My Soul

12. Harlem by Day [Instrumental]

13. My Salvation

14. Ed and Digger [Instrumental]

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars excellent, September 8, 2010

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This review is from: COTTON COMES TO HARLEM (ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK LP, 1970) (Vinyl)

You'll never mistake Galt McDermot's composing style for any other. Hair) is the most known. But during this period, McDermot stuck with his funky soul theater style

Cotton Comes To Harlem was a 1970 film about two cops looking for eighty thousand stolen bucks in a bail of cotton. Ossie Davis directed.

This =being a film score gives McDermot opportunities he would not have composing for stage. His soundtrack contains more instrumentals and wonderful funky interludes. These don't deviate from the composer you know--those wha wha guitars and bass spitting out syncopations are in tact. The vocal tracks are also charming and work as soul tracks. Music in 1970 was more funky than when Hair was composed in 1967, and you'll notice this sounds slightly more like an out and out funk album than Hair's theater moves.

By the way, if you are an aspiring bass player and want to learn how to play from when musicians knew how, check out the four string work on this--or Hair for that matter.