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Ray Charles, Isaac Hayes 'For Lovers' CDs out on Dec. 22
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Two discs feature the artists' greatest love songs, just in time for Christmas,New Year's Eve, and Valentine's Day!
LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Concord Music Group's For Lovers series will continue on December 22, 2009 with CDs from both Ray Charles and Isaac Hayes, featuring each artist's greatest love songs. Previously, Concord has issued For Lovers albums by Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Tony Bennett, Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Bill Evans, Sarah Vaughan, Dave Brubeck, Rosemary Clooney, Wes Montgomery and Mel Torm ...
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Isaac Hayes' "Shaft" Soundtrack Gets Deluxe Reissue from Stax
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Pivotal 1971 soundtrack was one of soul music’s best sellers of all time and earned Isaac Hayes a Grammy, Oscar and Golden Globe.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — In 1971, the song was everywhere. “Who is the man who would risk his neck for his brother man?” Shaft? Damn right. Isaac Hayes’ Shaft soundtrack album became a #1 album on both the pop and R&B charts — and remained on the charts for a jaw-dropping 60 weeks. The first soul soundtrack ...
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Isaac Hayes' 'Hot Buttered Soul' Album Reissued on Stax with Bonus Tracks, Digital Remastering
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Four-song long-player ushered in the era of album-oriented soul with hits “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” and “Walk On By.” Reissue contains notes by Jim James of My Morning Jacket.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Until Isaac Hayes released Hot Buttered Soul in 1969, soul music had been a singles-oriented genre. Best known as the partner of David Porter in writing such Stax hits as “Hold On! I’m Coming,” “Soul Man” and “B-A-B-Y” among others, Hayes, along with Marvin ...
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Isaac Hayes' "Black Moses" and "Juicy Fruit" Albums Reissued on CD
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Isaac Hayes’ epic 1971 album Black Moses, which captured the artist at the peak of his popularity, will be reissued on Stax Records on February 24, 2009. The release is a complete replication of the original Black Moses package, folding out into a cross-shaped image of the artist. The album was re-mastered from the original tapes. New liner notes are by Rob Bowman, the Grammy Award-winning Stax scholar and author of Soulsville U.S.A: The Story of ...
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Sam Moore Reflects on Isaac Hayes, Jerry Wexler and a Life in Soul
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Michael Ricci
Last week was a terrible blow to anybody invested in the soul and R&B music of the late '60s. Between the deaths of Isaac Hayes and Atlantic Records executive Jerry Wexler, it seemed as if one of the greatest eras in American pop music began to fade.
Sam Moore (above, left, with Hayes), one half of the R&B duo Sam and Dave, is performing an Isaac Hayes tribute at Sunset Junction this weekend, and he knew the players of the ...
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Concord Music Group's Statement on Isaac Hayes
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The Stax Records and Concord Music Group family lost a great friend on Sunday when soul music giant Isaac Hayes died suddenly at the age of 65.
To the world he was Black Moses, Ike The Ripper and, later, Chef from TV's South Park. To the rest of us who had the extraordinary opportunity to work with him in recent years, he was just Isaac. He was humble, unpretentious and refreshingly down-to-earth. Not bad for a man who delivered a ...
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Isaac Hayes Innovative Singer, Composer Changed Pop Music
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Michael Ricci
Los Angeles Times Indepth Obituary Isaac Hayes, the musician, composer and producer whose innovative sound changed the shape of pop music and whose shaved head, bejeweled outfits and regal demeanor embodied African American masculinity in the 1970s, has died. He was 65.
Family members found Hayes unresponsive Sunday afternoon next to a treadmill in a downstairs bedroom in his home just east of Memphis, Tenn., said Steve Shular, a spokesman for the Shelby County Sheriff's Office. Hayes' wife, ...
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Isaac Hayes, Deep-Voiced Soul Icon, is Dead at 65
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Michael Ricci
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP)--Isaac Hayes, the pioneering singer, songwriter and musician whose relentless “Theme From Shaft" won Academy and Grammy awards, died Sunday afternoon, the Shelby County Sheriff's Office said. He was 65. A family member found him unresponsive near a treadmill and he was pronounced dead an hour later at Baptist East Hospital in Memphis, according to the sheriff's office. The cause of death was not immediately known. In the early 1970s, Hayes laid the groundwork for disco, for what ...
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Singer Isaac Hayes Dead at 65
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All About Jazz
Soul singer and arranger Isaac Hayes, who won Grammy awards and an Oscar for the theme from the 1971 action film Shaft has died, sheriff's officials in Memphis, Tennessee, reported Sunday. Singer Issac Hayes seen performing in the U.K. last year. Hayes was found dead Sunday at age 65.
Relatives found Hayes, 65, unconscious in his home next to a still-running treadmill, said Steve Shular, a spokesman for the Shelby County Sheriff's Department.
Paramedics attempted to revive him and took ...
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