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Sam Moore Reflects on Isaac Hayes, Jerry Wexler and a Life in Soul

Sam Moore Reflects on Isaac Hayes, Jerry Wexler and a Life in Soul

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 ...

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Concord Music Group's Statement on Isaac Hayes

Concord Music Group's Statement on Isaac Hayes

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 ...

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Isaac Hayes Innovative Singer, Composer Changed Pop Music

Isaac Hayes Innovative Singer, Composer Changed Pop Music

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 ...

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Isaac Hayes, Deep-Voiced Soul Icon, is Dead at 65

Isaac Hayes, Deep-Voiced Soul Icon, is Dead at 65

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 ...

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Singer Isaac Hayes Dead at 65

Singer Isaac Hayes Dead at 65

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 ...

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The Very Best Of Isaac Hayes

Label: Stax
Released: 2007

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Article: Reassessing

Isaac Hayes: Shaft

Read "Isaac Hayes: Shaft" reviewed by Trevor MacLaren


Isaac HayesShaftStax Records1971 “Who's that black private dick who's a sex machine with all the chicks? Shaft! Damn right!... The opening lines to Isaac Hayes' score for the seminal 1971 movie, Shaft, sound like a camp put-on today--but in the early '70s ...

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Can You Dig It?

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2005
Track listing: CD1: Theme from Shaft; Precious, Precious; Hyperbolicyllabicsesquedalymistic; Ain't that Loving You (for More Reasons than One); Never Can Say Goodbye; By the Time I Get to Phoenix; Soulsville; Wonderful; Help Me Love; Need to Belong to Someone; Good Love; The Look of Love; Do Your Thing; For the Good Times; I Stand Accused. CD2: Walk On By; Joy (Part 1); His Eye is on the Sparrow; Brand New Me; If Loving You is Wrong (I Don't Want to be Right); Someone Made You for Me; Baby I'm-a Want You; Let's Stay Together; Theme from The Men; I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love With You); Title Theme (from Three Tough Guys); Run Fay Run; Chocolate Chip; Come Live With Me; Disco Connection; Rock Me Easy Baby (Part 1); Medley: By the Time I Get to Phoenix/I Say a Little Prayer. DVD: Rolling Down a Mountainside; Theme from Shaft; Soulsville; Chocolate Salty Balls.

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Article: Album Review

Isaac Hayes: Can You Dig It?

Read "Can You Dig It?" reviewed by Jim Santella


We've all been exposed to the music of Isaac Hayes. His film soundtracks and jazz-tinged funk have had their effect. Today he's also known for his role as a school cafeteria worker in the animated television series South Park. A leading romantic icon in the popular music world, he's given Stax Records a pile of great ...

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Isaac Hayes at Wattstax

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2003
Track listing: The Theme from Shaft; Soulsville; Never Can Say Goodbye; Part Time Love; Your Love Is So Doggone Good; Ain


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