Lialeh [Soundtrack]

Bernard Purdie (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 9, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 1974
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Light In The Attic
• ASIN: B00009NQOW
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #373,092 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Forget foreplay, baby, the main event is here! Light In The Attic proudly presents the soundtrack to Lialeh, the first major black porn movie and final word in soulful shagging music. Bryan Records released this Shaft-era classic in 1974, and since then it s been harder to find than a honky in Harlem. Legendary drummer Bernard Pretty Purdie composed, produced and performed Lialeh s score, while between projects with Curtis Mayfield, Aretha, The Last Poets, The Rolling Stones, James Brown... Music fans have long looked to Lialeh for seven original Purdie tracks, his first as writer/composer, untempered by the A&R s who guided his records for Flying Dutchman, Date, Prestige and Mega.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Only two of the songs are really funky... but..., November 14, 2009

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Eddie Landsberg "My 10th year as a reviewer !... (Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lialeh (Audio CD)

I first became acquainted with this little ditty via a video clip from the film in which Purdie and band (which included Horace Ott and Seldon Powel) and jamming away at a Jazz club... Purdie is poundin' the drum skins (as only Purdie can) and singing in a Donny Hathaway-ish voice the funky but Jazzy theme song (badly out of sink) while a topless girl is dancing around the stage... Between the sweatiness of the musicians into their thing, and the moves of the dancer, the scene is pretty hot, and no, I'm not making this up!) - - of course the young couples are at their tables digging the music.

Naturally, I knew I had to get both the film (oop, actually) and the soundtrack... and naturally I had to do a bit of research... Apparently it was part of the porno chic and blaxploitation boom... and ticket sales were boosted by the presence of Purdie, even at the time the most recorded session man on the planet.

As for the sound track, I have to be honest... while the first two tracks are indeed quite funky, it goes down hill after that... (Well, the good'uns are Lialeh, Touch Me Again and Hap'nin') - - meaning that the MP3 download option might be a bit more sensible... on the other hand, there are a number of Millie Jackson type tunes... plus Conscious, which features kinda of a twangy Bobby Womack vibe, with reverential horns and a real greasy Hammond (I imagine a slow lovin' for the first time, or driving down the city streets on a rainy night contemplating type theme...) -- Pass Me Not is also down home reverentially Sunday morning gospelly with the piano/organ and over amped Hammond. - - and then there's a boogie woogie type blues called ALL PINK ON THE INSIDE (* as I write this I flinch and say...oy vey!)

All in all, definitely a great tid bit of '70s culture... and an excellent taste of rare Purdie funk... at least for 12 or so moments of the album it lasts - - those 12 minutes however making me having no regrets getting the album.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun curiosity piece, February 27, 2007

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Benjamin A. Opie - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lialeh (Audio CD)

Bernard Purdie was given the chance to head up a quick session to score a film in 1974...the first primarily African American triple-X feature.

So despite being something of a novelty just for that reason, how is it? Not bad, and on some songs quite good. Hap'nin' is a lively instrumental funk with a great drum solo at the top, lots of Fender Rhodes and a touch of wah wah guitar; Pass Me Not is a pretty good gospel tune! The remainder of the record is a bit uneven (All Pink on the Inside? please...) but generally fun, played with heart, and worth a listen.

4.0 out of 5 stars excellent, February 11, 2010

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Bill Your 'Free Form FM Handi Cyber Print DJ ... (Mahwah, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lialeh (Audio CD)

Session God Bernard "Pretty" Purdie--who played on more soul records than dust specks can fit on a pinhead- did this soft skin blaxploitation soundtrack.

This is pretty good soul with some great vocalists. Interestingly, he does not flash his chops or get into funk jazz interludes, like Iasic Hayes--so successfully-did on Shaft.

Nice unknown soul. Pretty humble for a guy who claims to have sat in for Ringo, uncredited, on early Beatle records.