# Move On Up with Curtis Mayfield

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Podcast: [Crossed Channels with Tony Fletcher and Dan Epstein](https://stenobird.com/podcast/crossed-channels-with-tony-fletcher-and-dan-epstein-6711463)
Published: 2025-02-20T11:02:07+00:00
Episode link: https://tonyfletcher.substack.com/p/move-on-up-with-curtis-mayfield
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## Resource

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit tonyfletcher.substack.com Welcome to the 14th episode of the CROSSED CHANNELS podcast — a.k.a. the podcast in which music journalists/obsessives Dan Epstein (the Yank) and Tony Fletcher (the Brit) clash and connect over music from either side of the pond. And this time out, our subject is Curtis , the 1970 solo debut of the legendary American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer Curtis Mayfield. Curtis produced two international hits — “(Don’t Worry) If There’s Hell Below We’re All Gonna Go” (listen via the YouTube clip that follows) and “Move On Up” — and topped the US R&B Albums charts while reaching #19 on the Billboard 200, setting the stage for Mayfield to leave The Impressions and embark upon a successful solo career that would peak commercially in 1972 with his soundtrack for the blaxploitation film Super Fly . As always, this full CROSSED CHANNELS episode (75 mins) is only available to paid subscribers of Jagged Time Lapse and/or Tony Fletcher, Wordsmith , though a short preview of the episode is available for all to listen to. To hear this episode in full, along with all of our previous CROSSED CHANNELS episodes , just sign up for a paid subscription to one (or both!) of our Substacks.

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