Deep Tracks 78

1. The Main Attraction – Grant Green
2. Reuben’s Train – Bill Keith
3. Was It Good To You? – The Isley Brothers
4. Baby Boogaloo – Nilo Espinosa
5. Le Pere de Notre Pays-Prince Nico Mbarga & Rocafil Jazz
6. Sittin' Drinkin' And Thinkin'-Little Junior Parker
7. Mulher De Malandro-Geraldo Filme
8. I Do-Marvelows
9. Save Me-James Knight & The Butlers
10. Poly – Emiliano Salvador
11. From the Days of Pigtails-The Chairmen of the Board
12. El Soul Condor-Certain Lions & Tigers
13. I Don't Need No Help-Frank Owens
14. Hi De Ho (That Old Sweet Roll)-Dorothy Morrison
15. God Loves His Children-Earl Scruggs

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At 19-minutes long, The Main Attraction, which occupied the entire Side A of the original soundtrack LP, is not exactly a composition, more of an improvisational structure. Noted arranger David Matthews came in with two main riffs, played by Don Grolnick on the electric piano, and later doubled by the horn section. Don started to play those riffs, and then the other musicians joined him. The groove is solid like a rock, but the guest soloists seem to fly like seagulls over the cliffs. Hubert Laws, the supreme jazz flutist, plays with his usual facility and sublime tone. Too bad no one remembers the movie.

Prince Nico Mbarga (1 January 1950 – 24 June 1997) was a highlife musician, born to a Nigerian mother and a Cameroonian father in Abakaliki, Nigeria.Although he only recorded one significant hit, "Sweet Mother," in 1976, which sold more than 13 million copies (and which is recognised as one of Africa's greatest songs), Mbarga played an important role in the evolution of African popular music. With his soulful vocals set to the light melodies and multiple guitars of his band, Mbarga created a unique hybrid of Igbo and Congolese guitar playing and uplifting highlife rhythms. He formed his own group, Rocafil Jazz, to perform regularly at the Naza Hotel in the eastern Nigerian city of Onitsha.

The Chairmen of the Board were one of the smoothest and most popular soul acts to emerge from Detroit in the early '70s. Although their time at the top of the R&B charts was brief -- their first Top Ten arrived in 1970, their last in 1973 -- they recorded a handful of '70s soul classics, all distinguished by the high, trembling vocals of General Norman Johnson, who also wrote the bulk of the group's material.