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| What The... You Mean I Can't Sing? | 
 enlarge | Artist: Melvin Van Peebles
Label: Water
Category: Music
List Price: $18.49
Buy New: $10.28
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 366788
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 766481216247
EAN: 0646315712223
ASIN: B0000A0WKI
Release Date: March 16, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: All products brand new and factory sealed.
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| Tracks:
| • | A Birth Certificate Ain't Nothing But a Death Warrant | | • | So Many Bars | | • | Save the Watergate 500 | | • | Superstition - Melvin Van Peebles, Wonder, Stevie | | • | There | | • | Come on Write Me | | • | Eyes on the Rabbit | | • | My Love Belongs to You |
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Album Description
Full title - What The...You Mean I Can't Sing?! Film producer/director Melvin Van Peebles invented the blaxploitation film genre with his groundbreaking 1970 'Sweet Sweetback Bad Ass Song'. He's also known for writing several novels & screenplays throughout the 70's (including 'Greased Lightning') & acting in films such as 'Lost Action Hero', 'Terminal Velocity' & 'Boomerang.' As a major influence on Spike Lee & Quentin Tarantino, Van Peebles remains a legend of African American cinema. On this rare 1974 album for Atlantic Records Van Peebles sings passionate reflections on the state of 70's black culture over some very funky grooves with strings & orchestration (think of the soundtrack to any Pam Grier flick). Harold Wheeler arranged the music with the same touch of class he brought to his work with Nina Simone, the soundtrack to The Wiz, & Bernard 'Pretty' Purdie. Fans of underground 70's
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| Customer Reviews:
funnier than chris rock; cooler than Miles Davis December 9, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
How many albums are wicked funny and massively cool at the same time. This is it, music fans. Skip lunch for a week and get it. Oh and it's funky, too. Greasy enough to close some arteries. Answers the musical question, "What if Frank Zappa was black?"Funny, funky, cool, toe-tapping, intelligent. What more can you ask for?
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