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Isaac Hayes' "Black Moses" and "Juicy Fruit" Albums Reissued on CD
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Isaac Hayes: Shaft
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 ...
Can You Dig It?
By Isaac Hayes
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.
Isaac Hayes: Can You Dig It?
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 ...
