I remember I saw a curtis mayfield album cover in the thrift store last year titled love is the place but the lp was missing and I hated that the lp was missing because most used record stores that have this lp are selling it very expensive and I heard some of it at another used record store and it sounded like Curtis was trying to revive the doo wop era with duets ballads with some female singer named linda especially with how new wave and synthesizers dominated the early 80's. here is the link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_is_the_Place