Curtom was formed by Curtis Mayfield after he left the Impressions for a solo career. The Curtom
releases were exclusively of the soul records genre, mostly produced by Curtis Mayfield or with a great
connection either to him or to the Impressions. The first Curtis Mayfield albums released on this label are
absolute soul gems. The distribution was first by Buddah Records, but in 1973, Curtom
switched its distribution to Warner, then RSO. After the RSO deal ended, Curtom made some
independent deals with Capitol Records and Boardwalk Records for some of their artists. In the late
1980s
and early 1990s, Curtom was briefly reactivated through Ichiban Records, after which the entire catalog
was sold to Rhino Records.
The label for the Buddah distributed series is yellow and orange with a red stylized "CURTOM" across a
red and blue sun at the top of the label, and the sentence "WE'RE A WINNER" written in black letters
under the Curtom logo. The following text is written in black lettering in the form of an arc at the bottom
of the label: "EXCLUSIVELY DISTRIBUTED BY BUDDAH RECORDS - 1650 BROADWAY N.Y.C." with
a small Buddah logo (i.e., the famous "Shiva" statue) first between the words "Records" and "1650,"
then between the words "Buddah" and "Records" when the address moved to "810 7TH AVE. N.Y.C.
10019." For the 8600 series, this text changed to a lower case lettering.
When the distribution switched to Warner, the label remained mostly yellow, but the top half changed to
a multicolored background with a yellow "CURTOM". The text changed as well to "CURTOM RECORDS
INC., MANUFACTURED AND DISTRIBUTED BY WARNER BROS. RECORDS INC."
For the last two series, the distribution switched, first to Ichiban and then to Arista (which were mostly
reissues).
As far as we know, all releases were stereo only. The track listing below is given in playing
sequence whenever this information was available. For the albums whose catalog numbers are marked
with an asterisk (*), the songs are given in alphabetical order because the exact playing order was not
known to us. We would appreciate this information from anyone who has it.
We would appreciate any additions or corrections to this discography. Just send them to us via e-mail. Both Sides Now Publications
is an information web page. We are not a catalog, nor can we provide the records listed below. We have
no association with Curtom Records. Should you be interested in acquiring albums listed in this
discography (which are all out of
print), we suggest you see our Frequently Asked
Questions page and follow the instructions found there. This story and discography are copyright
2000 by Mike Callahan.
CURTOM ALBUM DISCOGRAPHY
Number - Title - Artist [Release Date] (Chart) Contents
8000 series (Distributed by Buddah):
CRS 8001 - This Is My Country - Impressions [1968] (12-68, #107) They Don't
Know/Stay Close To Me/I'm Loving Nothing/Loves Happening/Gone Away//You Want Somebody
Else/So Unusual/My Woman's Love/Fool For You/This Is My Country
*CRS 8002 - Love's Happening - 5 Stairsteps & Cubie [1969] (4-69, #198) Baby, Make
Me Feel So Good/Don't Change Your Love/I'm The One Who Loves You/I Made A Mistake/Little Boy
Blue/Little Young Lover/Love's Happening/New Dance Craze/Stay Close To Me/Your Love Has
Changed
*CRS 8003 - The Young Mod's Forgotten Story - Impressions [1969] (5-69, #1040
Choice Of Colors/Girl I Find/Jealous Man/Love's Miracle/Mighty Mighty (Spade And Whitey)/My
Deceiving Heart/Seven Years/Soulful Love/Wherever You Leadeth Me/Young Mod's Forgotten Story
CRS 8004 - The Best Impressions: Curtis, Sam and Fred - Impressions [1970] The
track lineup given on the back of the record jacket is incorrect. The correct playing order is given here.
The Impressions hits from the ABC-Paramount days are remakes on this album. Gypsy Woman (S,
remake)/Keep On Pushin' (S, remake)/I'm So Proud (S, remake)/Say You Love Me (S)/I've Been Trying
(S, remake)/Amen (S, remake)//Choice Of Colors (S)/Fool For You (S)/Wherever You Leadeth Me
(S)/Mighty Mighty Spade And Whitey (S)/Gone Away (S)/This Is My Country (S)
CRS 8005 - Curtis - Curtis Mayfield [1970] (10-70, #19) (Don't Worry) If There's A Hell
Below We re All Going To Go/The Other Side Of Town/The Makings Of You/We The People Who Are
Darker Than Blue/Move On Up/Miss Black America/Wild And Free /Give It Up
CRS 8006 - Check Out Your Mind! - Impressions [1970]
CRS 8007 - The Baby Huey Story/The Living Legend - Baby Huey [1971] Baby Huey
and the Babysitters were legendary nightclub performers during the 1960s in the Chicago area. Listen
To Me/Mama Get Yourself Together/A Change Is Going To Come//Mighty, Mighty/Hard Times/California
Dreamin'/Running/One Dragon Two Dragon
CRS 8008 - Curtis/Live! - Curtis Mayfield [1971] (5-71, #21) (2-LP set) Mighty Mighty
(Spade And Whitey)/Rap/I Plan To Stay A Believer/We're A Winner//Rap/We've Only Just Begun/People
Get Ready/Rap/Stare And Stare//Check Out Your Mind/Gypsy Woman/The Makings Of You/Rap/We
The People Who Are Darker Than Blue//(Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below We're All Going To
Go/Stone Junkie
CRS 8009 - Roots - Curtis Mayfield [1971] (11-71, #40) Get Down/Keep On Keeping
On/Underground/We Got To Have Peace//Beautiful Brother Of Mine/Now You're Gone/Love To Keep
You In My Mind
CRS 8010 - Patti Miller - Patti Miller [1971]
*CRS 8011 - Ruby Jones - Ruby Jones [1971] Bicycle Built For Everyone/46th
Street/Freely Away/Have No Witness/Looking Out At Tomorrow/99,000 Times/Oh Boy/Stone
Junkie/Tightrope
*CRS 8012 - Times Have Changed - Impressions [1972] (4-72, #192) I Need To Belong
To Someone/Inner City Blues/Love Me/Our Love Goes On And On/Potent Love/Stop The War/This
Love's For Real/Times Have Changed
CRS 8013 -
CRS 8014ST - Superfly (Soundtrack) - Curtis Mayfield [1972] (8-72, #1) Little Child
Runnin Wild/Pusherman/Freddie's Dead/Junkie Chase (Instrumental)/Give Me Your Love (Love
Song)/Eddie You Should Know Better/No Thing On Me (Cocaine Song)/Think (Instrumental)/Superfly
CRS 8015 - Back to the World - Curtis Mayfield [1973] (6-73, #16) Back To The
World/Future Shock/Right On For The Darkness//If I Were Only A Child Again/Can't Say Nothin'/Keep
On Trippin'/Future Song (Love A Good Woman, Love A Good Man)
CRS 8016 - Preacher Man - Impressions [1973] What It Is/Preacher Man/Simple
Message (Ernie Story)/Find The Way//Thin Line/Color Us All Gray (I'm Lost)/I'm Loving You
CRS 8017 - Love Oh Love - Leroy Hutson [1973] So In Love With You/Love Oh
Love/When You Smile/Getting It On/Time Brings On A Change/I'll Be There I'll Still Care/I'm In Love
With You Girl/As Long As There's Love Around
CRS 8018 - Curtis in Chicago-Recorded Live! - Curtis Mayfield and Others [1973]
(11-73, #135) Superfly/For Your Precious Love - Curtis Mayfield, Jerry Butler & Impressions/I'm So
Proud - Curtis Mayfield, Fred Cash & Sam Gooden/Once In My Life - New Impressions/Preacher Man -
New Impressions//If I Were Only A Child Again/Duke Of Earl - Gene Chandler/Love Oh Love - Leroy
Hutson/Amen - Curtis Mayfield, Gene Chandler, Leroy Hutson, Impressions & Guests
CRS 8019 - Finally Got Myself Together - Impressions [1974] (7-74, #176) If It's In You
To Do Wrong/I'm A Changed Man (Finally Got Myself Together)/I'll Always Be Here/Miracle Woman//We
Go Back A Ways/Guess What I Got/Try Me (One More Time)/Don't Forget What I Told You
CRS 8020 - The Man - Leroy Hutson [1974] Can't Say Enough About Mom/Gotta Move
- Gotta Groove/Ella Weez/Give This Love A Try//The Ghetto '74/After THe Fight/Could This Be
Love/Dudley Do-Right
8600 series (Distributed by Buddah):
CRS 8600 - Natural Four - Natural Four [1974] Can This Be Real/You Bring Out The
Best In Me/Try Love Again/You Can't Keep Running Away//This Is What's Happening Now/Love That
Really Counts/Try To Smile/Love's Society/Things Will Be Better Tomorrow
CRS 8601 - Sweet Exorcist - Curtis Mayfield [1974] (5-74, #39) Ain't Got Time/Sweet
Exorcist/To Be Invisible/Power To The People//Kung Fu/Suffer/Make Me Believe In You
*CRS 8602 - Three the Hard Way - Impressions [1974] Having A Ball/Make A
Resolution/Mister Keyes/On The Move/Something's Mighty, Mighty Wrong/That's What Love Will
Do/Three The Hard Way (Chase And Theme)/Wendy
CRS 8603 - Bittersweet Stories - Bobby Whiteside [11/74]
CRS 8604 - Got to Find a Way - Curtis Mayfield [1974] (11-74, #76) Love Me (Right In
The Pocket)/So You Don't Love Me/A Prayer//Mother's Son/Cannot Find A Way/Ain't No Love Lost
5000 series (Distributed by Warner Brothers):
*CU 5001 - There's No Place Like America Today - Curtis Mayfield [1975] (6-75, #120)
Billy Jack/Blue Monday People/Hard Times/Jesus/Love To The People/So In Love/When Seasons
Change
CU 5002 - Hutson - Leroy Hutson [1975] All Because Of You/others
CU 5003 - First Impressions - Impressions [1975] (8-75, #115) Sooner Or Later/Same
Thing It Took/Old Before My Time/First Impressions//Groove/I'm So Glad/How High Is High/Why Must A
Love Song Be A Sad Song
*CU 5004 - Heaven Right Here on Earth - Natural Four [1975] (5-75, #182) Baby Come
On/Count On Me/Give This Love A Try/Heaven Right Here On Earth/Love's So Wonderful/What Do You
Do/What's Happening Here/While You're Away
CU 5005 - Let's Do It Again (Soundtrack) - Staple Singers [1975] (11-75, #20) Let's Do
It Again/Funky Love/A Whole Lot Of Love/New Orleans//I Want To Thank You/Big Mac/After Sex/Chase
CU 5006 - Now - Ed Townsend [1976] If You Can't Take Me Higher/Maybe I'll Bump/I'm
With You/How Could You Do It//Where Did Those Signs Go/The Moving Finger Writes/Got A New Lease
(On Life)/This Too Shall Pass
CU 5007 - Give, Get, Take And Have - Curtis Mayfield [1976] (7-76, #171) In Your Arms
Again (Shake It)/This Love Is Sweet/P.S. I Love You/Party Night//Get A Little Bit (Give, Get, Take And
Have)/Soul Music/Only You Babe/Mr. Welfare Man
CU 5008 - Nightchaser - Natural Four [1976]
CU 5009 - Loving Power - Impressions [1976] (3-76, #195) Loving Power/Sunshine/I
Can't Wait To See You/If You Have To Ask//You Can't Be Wrong (All The Time)/I Wish I'd Stayed In
Bed/Keep On Trying
*CU 5010 - Feel the Spirit - Leroy Hutson [1976] (3-76, #170) Butterfat/Don't Let It Get
Next To You/Feel The Spirit ('76)/It's The Music/Let's Be Lonely Together/Lover's Holiday/Never Know
What You Can Do (Give It A Try)
CU 5011 - Hutson II - Leroy Hutson [1976]
CU 5012 - Mystique - Mystique [1977]
CU 5013 - Never Say You Can't Survive - Curtis Mayfield [1977] (3-77, #173) Show Me
Love/Just Want To Be With You/When We're Alone/Never Say You Can't Survive//I'm Gonna Win Your
Love/All Night Long/When You Used To Be Mine/Sparkle
CU 5014 - Locked in This Position - Barbara Mason & Bunny Sigler [1977] Love
Song/Lonely (Lonely For You Baby)/Locked In This Position/I'm With You Now//My
Girl/Never Stop Loving You/Can't Believe A Word You Say/Leaving/Trying To Find
(Someone To Love Me)
CU 5015 - Sugar Candy Lady - Billy Butler [6/77] Sugar Candy Lady/I Know The Feeling
Well/Play My Music/The Saga Of Sadie Lee//Feel The Magic/I'm Gonna Make Her
Mine/Alone At Last (Part I & II)/My Love For You Grows
CU 5016 - Linda - Linda Clifford [1977] From Now On/Be Tender With My Love/You
Can Do It/You Gotta Tell Her/One Thing On My Mind//Tonight's The Night/Only Fooling Myself/Still In
Love With You/If It's Magic
*CU 5017 - Short Eyes - Curtis Mayfield [1977] A Heavy Dupe/Another Fool In
Love/Back Against The Wall/Break It Down/Do Do Wap Is Strong In Here/Father Confessor/Need
Someone To Love/Short Eyes
CU 5018 - Closer to the Source - Leroy Hutson [1978] In The Mood/Where Did Love
Go/They've Got Love/Get To This (You'll Get To Me)//Closer To The Source/Heaven Right
Here (On Earth)/Everybody's A Masterpiece/You're A Winner
CU 5019 - A Piece Of the Action - Mavis Staples [1977] Chocolate City/Of Whom Shall
Be Afraid/Orientation/A Piece Of The Action//Good Lovin' Daddy/'Til Blossoms Bloom/Koochie, Koochie,
Koochie/Getting Deeper (Instrumental)
CU 5020 - Love Oh Love - Leroy Hutson [1978]
CUK 5021 - If My Friends Could See Me Now - Linda Clifford [1978] (5-78, #22) If My
Friends Could See Me Now/You Are, You Are/Runaway Love//Broadway Gypsy Lady/I Feel Like Falling
In Love Again/Please Darling, Don't Say Goodbye/Gypsy Lady
CUK 5022 - Do It All Night - Curtis Mayfield [1978] Do It All Night/No Goodbyes//Party,
Party/Keeps Me Loving You/In Love, In Love, In Love/You Are, You Are
Curtom (Distributed by Capitol):
ST 12131 - I'm Yours - Linda Clifford [1980] Reissue of Curtom RS 1-3087.
2900 series (Distributed by Ichiban):
CUR 2901 - Live in Europe - Curtis Mayfield [1988] (2-LP set) Introduction/Ice-9 (Ice-9
Featuring Henry Gibson)/Back To The World/It's Alright - Amen//Gypsy Woman/Freddie's
Dead/Pusherman//We've Gotta Have Peace/We've Only Just Begun/People Get Ready//Move On Up/If
There's A Hell Below/When Seasons Change
CUR 2902 - Greatest Hits of All Time (Classics Collection) - Curtis Mayfield [1989] (2-
LP set)
CRC Label 2000 series:
CRC-2001 - We Come in Peace With a Message of Love - Curtis Mayfield [1985]
Curtom label, continuation of CRC label 2000 series:
CUR-2002 - Superfly (Soundtrack) - Curtis Mayfield [1988] Reissue of Curtom CRS
8014 ST)
CUR-2003 - There Is No Place Like America Today - Curtis Mayfield [1989] Reissue of
Curtom 5001.
CUR-2004 -
CUR-2005 - Something to Believe In - Curtis Mayfield [1989] Reissue of RSO 3077.
CUR-2006 -
CUR-2007 - Greatest Hits - Linda Clifford [1990]
*CUR-2008 - Take It to the Street - Curtis Mayfield [1990] Do Be Down/Don't Push/Got
To Be Real/He's A Fly Guy/Homeless/I Mo Git U Sucka/On And On/Who Was That Lady
Thanks to Peter Preuss, Paul Pickering, and Marvin Heiman.
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