023 -- Super Soulful Soundtracks of the Seventies

During this period talented songwriters and musicians were handed the reins to entire soundtracks and produced a number of very successful albums that not only contributed to the success of their partner films, but helped define the musical landscape of the Seventies.

Soundtrack List:

Herbie Hancock — Blow Up (1966)

Simon & Garfunkle (w/ Dave Grusin) — The Graduate (1968)

Melvin Van Peebles

• Watermelon Man (1970)

• Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971)

• Don’t Play Us Cheap (1972)

Isaac Hayes

• Shaft (1971)

• Tough Guys (1974)

• Truck Turner (1974)

Al Kooper — The Landlord (1971)

Curtis Mayfield

• Superfly (1972)

• Claudine (1974)

Quincy Jones

• The Hot Rock (1972)

• The Heist aka “Dollar” (1972)

Taj Mahal — Sounder (1972)

James Brown

• Slaughter’s Big Rip-Off (1973)

• Black Caesar (1973)

Bobby Womack & JJ Johnson — Across 110th Street (1972)

Gene Page — Blacula (1972)

Roy Ayers — Coffy (1973)

Bob Dylan — Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)

Willie Hutch

• The Mack (1973)

• Foxy Brown (1974)

JJ Johnson

• Man and Boy (1971)

• Cleopatra Jones (1973)

• Willie Dynamite (1974)

Herbie Hancock

• Death Wish (1974)

• Round Midnight (1986)

Goblin

• Profondo Rosso (1975)

• Suspiria (1976)

• Zombi (1978)

• Patrick (1979)

Rose Royce — Car Wash (1976)

Nat Dove & The Devils — Petey Wheatstraw (1977)

Willie Nelson — The Electric Horseman (1979)

The Ramones — Rock N Roll High School (1979)

Jimmy Page — Death Wish II (1982)

Stevie Wonder — Woman in Red (1984)

Prince — Purple Rain (1984)

Iceberg Slim and the Red Holloway Quartet -- Reflections (1976)