Sweet Exorcist

Infobox Album |
Name = Sweet Exorcist
Type = Album
Artist = Curtis Mayfield


Released = 1974
Recorded =
Genre = Funk/Soul
Length = 32:18
Label = Curtom
Producer = Curtis Mayfield
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:h9fpxqq5ldse link]
*Robert Christgau C [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=294&name=Curtis+Mayfield link]
*"Rolling Stone" (not rated) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/curtismayfield/albums/album/180510/review/5944396/sweet_exorcist link]
*"iTunes" (favourable) Rating|4|5
Last album = "Claudine" (with Gladys Knight and the Pips) (1974)
This album = "Sweet Exocist" (1974)
Next album = "Let’s Do It Again" (with The Staple Singers) (1975)

Kicking off with a remake of The Impressions' "Ain't Got Time," Curtis Mayfield's "Sweet Exorcist" is a mid-tempo funk album that continued to mine Mayfield's signature soul vein. "To Be Invisible" was a standout track, and the album's requisite hit single, "Kung Fu," cashed in on the then-current martial arts craze. It failed, however, to match the success of Carl Douglas's "Kung Fu Fighting," also from 1974.

The album was recorded at Curtom Studios, acquired by Curtis Mayfield's Curtom record label from RCA, in Chicago by R. Anfinsen and J. Janus.

In 2001, The song "Kung Fu" was covered by The Dirtbombs on their album "Ultraglide in Black".

Track listing

All tracks composed by Curtis Mayfield; except where indicated

# “Ain't Got Time”
# “Sweet Exorcist”
# “To Be Invisible”
# “Power to the People”
# “Kung Fu”
# “Suffer” (Mayfield, Donny Hathaway)
# “Make Me Believe In You”