Don't Play Us Cheap (soundtrack)

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Don't Play Us Cheap (Original Cast & Soundtrack Album)
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Soundtrack album by Original Cast
Released 1973
Recorded 1972
Genre Broadway, R&B, Soul
Label Stax
Producer Melvin Van Peebles
Melvin Van Peebles chronology
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
(1971)
Don't Play Us Cheap (Original Cast & Soundtrack Album)
(1973)
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Don't Play Us Cheap is the cast album and soundtrack to Melvin Van Peebles' 1972 Broadway musical, Don't Play Us Cheap , and its 1973 film adaptation, which share the same song selections and cast.

Melvin Van Peebles American actor

Melvin "Block" Van Peebles is an American actor, filmmaker, playwright, novelist and composer.

<i>Dont Play Us Cheap</i> 1973 film by Melvin Van Peebles

Don't Play Us Cheap is a 1972 musical written, produced, and directed by Melvin Van Peebles, about an imp and a devil who take human form and try to break up a Harlem house party. A film version was produced in 1973.

Track listing

  1. "You Cut Up The Clothes In The Closet Of My Dreams"
  2. "Break That Party And Opening"
  3. "The Eight Day Week"
  4. "Saturday Night"
  5. "The Bowsers Thing"
  6. "The Book Of Life"
  7. "Quittin Time"
  8. "Ain't Love Grand"
  9. "I'm A Bad Character"
  10. "Know Your Business"
  11. "Feast On Me"
  12. "Ain't Love Grand"
  13. "Break That Party"
  14. "Someday It Seems That It Just Don't Even Pay To Get Out Of Bed"
  15. Quartet
  16. "The Phoney Game"
  17. "It Makes No Difference"
  18. "Bad Character Bossa Nova"
  19. Quartet
  20. "The Washingtons Thing"
  21. (If You See A Devil) Smash Him

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References

  1. Unterberger, Richie. Don't Play Us Cheap at AllMusic