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Isaac Hayes News

Isaac Hayes' landmark album to be reissued posthumously

Isaac Hayes' landmark album to be reissued posthumously

Late soul man's 'Black Moses' is due out next month

  • Jan 12, 2009

Isaac Hayes Foundation benefits in will

Late singer's estate is split between family and foundation

  • Sep 22, 2008

Isaac Hayes' funeral details released as family thanks fans

Late soul man was about to begin work on a new album, his son says

Rhys Ifans' The Peth pay tribute to Isaac Hayes

Band say Hayes was 'uniquely original'

  • Aug 13, 2008

'South Park' pays tribute to Isaac Hayes

Show's creators put acrimonious departure aside to praise 'Chef'

  • Aug 13, 2008

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NME Video: Music News - 15 August 2008

NME Video: Music News - 15 August 2008

NME's latest news update from the last seven days. Oasis announce a UK arena tour, further tributes to Isaac Hayes and Alex Turner plans to collaborate with The kills.

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Isaac Hayes - Shaft - live 1973

Isaac Hayes - Shaft - live 1973 (03:45)

Isaac Hayes´s live 1973, the song is Shaft, the other man is Jesse Jackson. The Soul Man was died 11.8.2008 From Spain, Rest in peace Black Moses... visit mp3 files on www.myspace.com/bomboconocecajaprods

Isaac Hayes Never Can Say Goodbye

Isaac Hayes Never Can Say Goodbye (05:18)

REVIEW FROM ALLMUSIC www.allmusic.com The sheer tenacity -- albeit undeniably fitting -- of this double-disc set has made Black Moses (1971) one of Isaac Hayes' most revered and best-known works. The...

8| Pan's People & Isaac Hayes - Disco Connection (TOTP 15-04-1976)

8| Pan's People & Isaac Hayes - Disco Connection (TOTP 15-04-1976) (02:11)

TOP OF THE POPS (15-04-1976) -- part 8 of 13. Introduced by Dave Lee Travis

Isaac Hayes - Walk On By

Isaac Hayes - Walk On By (03:24)

Isaac Hayes performing Burt Bucharach's & Hal David's "Walk On By" (Single Version) Live, at Music Scene 1969. A Dionne Warwick Cover. Below are the lyrics of the full version as it appears on "Hot Buttered Soul...

Isaac hayes I Stand Accused (live)

Isaac hayes I Stand Accused (live) (03:51)

The original rapper puts it down

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Isaac Hayes Biography

Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. (August 20, 1942 - August 10, 2008) was an American singer-songwriter, actor and musician. Hayes was one of the main creative forces behind southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served as both an in-house songwriter and producer with partner David Porter during the mid-1960s. Alongside, Bill Withers, the Sherman Brothers, Steve Cropper and John Fogerty, Hayes & Porter were named to the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2005 in recognition of their string of successful hit songs for Sam & Dave, Carla Thomas and others In the late 1960s. Their hit song "Soul Man" by Sam & Dave has been recognized as one of the best or most influential songs of the past 50 years by the Grammy Hall of Fame, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Rolling Stone magazine, and the RIAA Songs of the Century.

In the late 1960s, Hayes became a recording artist, and recorded successful soul albums such as Hot Buttered Soul (1969) and Black Moses (1971) as the Stax label's premier artist. In addition to his work in popular music, Hayes was a film score composer for motion pictures. His best known work, for the 1971 blaxploitation film Shaft, earned Hayes an Academy Award for Best Original Song (the first Academy Award received by an African-American in a non-acting category) and two Grammy Awards. He received a third Grammy for the album Black Moses.

In 1992, in recognition of his humanitarian work, he was crowned an honorary king of Ghana's Ada district. Hayes also acted in motion pictures and television; from 1997 to 2005, he provided the voice for the character "Chef" on the Comedy Central animated TV series South Park, and Gandolf "Gandy" Fitch on The Rockford Files (which ran on NBC from 1974-1980).

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Isaac Hayes's Best Songs

  • 1. Run Fay Run
  • 2. Theme From Shaft
  • 3. Walk On By
  • 4. Never Can Say Goodbye
  • 5. Do Your Thing
  • 6. By The Time I Get To Phoenix
  • 7. The Look Of Love
  • 8. Bumpy's Lament
  • 9. I Stand Accused
  • 10. Soulsville
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Isaac Hayes Discography

Isaac Hayes albums.

  • Hot Buttered Soul - 28/05/1991 (Stax Records/GB)
  • U-Turn - (Sony International/US)
  • Lifetime Thing - (Polydor/US)
  • And Once Again - (Polydor/US)
  • Don't Let Go - (Polydor/US)
  • Hotbed - (Stax Records/US)
  • For The Sake Of Love - (Polydor/US)
  • New Horizon - (Polydor/US)
  • Groove-A-Thon - (Stax Records/XU)
  • Juicy Fruit (Disco Freak) - (ABC Records/US)
  • Chocolate Chip - (HBS/US)
  • Joy - 12/1973 (Stax Records/US)
  • To Be Continued - (Stax Records/US)

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