"Freeman"

"Freeman"
South Shore Commission
Featured on Discomania 2
Jukebox International
Song originally released 1975
Disco
Vinyl
B

What is going on in this song?  The personal is political, but this is not the simple yet profound beauty of "Do It ('Til You're Satisfied)."  The title suggests a black man freed from slavery, but it is a duet between a black man who doesn't want to commit, and a self-supporting black woman who wants him to not run off the morning after.  By the end, she says that "freedom is the key to loving" her, and he promises to love her every night.  And all this in a couple minutes with an ominous as Jaws riff, although the dance version runs seven and a half minutes, and I'm sure the commission's report was fifty pages long, you know, bureaucracy.