Live at Ronnie Scott's (Curtis Mayfield album)

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People Get Ready: Live at Ronnie Scott's
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Released1988
Recorded31 July 1988
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Label Curtom
Producer Roger Lemkin, Stephen Cleary
Curtis Mayfield chronology
Live in Europe
(1988)
People Get Ready: Live at Ronnie Scott's
(1988)
Take It to the Streets
(1990)
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People Get Ready: Live at Ronnie Scott's is an album by Curtis Mayfield recorded at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club.

Contents

Track listing

  1. “Little Child Runnin' Wild”
  2. “It's All Right”
  3. People Get Ready
  4. “Pusherman”
  5. Freddie's Dead
  6. "I'm So Proud"
  7. “Billy Jack”
  8. “We Got to Have Peace”
  9. “Move on Up”
  10. “To Be Invisible”

Personnel

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