In Memory of Isaac Hayes
By APOOO • Aug 11th, 2008 • Category: Thinking Out Loud •
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What a very talented individual…he left us way too soon…but through his music his legacy will always live on. We will remember the bald head (which he preferred long before it became popular); his dark, chocolate, smooth, velvety skin; in later years his role as Chef on Southpark and we, of course, will never forget his ability to play the piano/keyboard and grace us with his deep, sultry, soulfood voice. A voice that would make you wanna holla and probably did…lol.
In honor of Hayes, please share your favorite Isaac Hayes song and/or memory.
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I love the Shaft soundtrack, and that Oscar performance, which I have seen on video of the night he won is fabulous if you can find it. I love Chef too LOL. What I lot of people didn’t know was that as a young man, before he was really famous, he wrote songs with David Porter for Stax in Memphis, which was distributed by Atlantic Records. Some of these are classics, such as Sam and Dave’s Soul Man. Not only Sam and Dave, Carla Thomas and others recorded these songs. Just last summer BMI gave him and Dave Porter a special award, and a couple of years back, he was put into the songwriters hall of fame too. Amazing performer, writer, personality and voice.
If you visit my blog …just placed it thirty minutes ago…you will get my shock and irony of talking about all things Memphis while covering a jazz concert, parading in a Memphis Soul t-shirt and denim, not even knowing that one of my favorite soul legends made a transition.
Other memories…
I was four when “Shaft” hit the movie theatres and I ended up seeing it at the drive-in…had a blanket covering me because the cousins wanted to be cheap, lol!
I was privvy to BLACK posters in the basement of my parents’ house – women wearing huge afros and equally huge hoop earrings, P-Funk Album Covers and Isaac Hayes as Black Moses. I was in that basement All The Time and we had an eight-track player with the soundtrack to Shaft and I played that theme song to death! It was the throbbing bass and the shrill of the guitar that hypnotized me…and is the result of my mainly dating musicians(guitarists, drummers and saxophone players and plenty of piano maestroes) as an adult, lol!
(This is a cut, copy and paste of an answer I shared in another person’s blog).
I looooooooooooooove Isaac Hayes, always have, always will, I remember Hot Buttered Soul, and I have always loved a man who knew he was a man and would dare to be different, Isaac Hayes personified that for me. And I Stand Accused is still one of my all time favorite love songs, learned how to slow drag (slow dance to those who don’t know slow dragging…giggling) to it. I will surely miss him, I have all of his stuff on vinyl, reel-to-reel and CD…
RIP Isaac Hayes
angelia
Isaac Hayes version of “Walk on By” keeps playing in my head. His deep, slowwww voice wasn both haunting and sexy. Like Angelia, “I Stand Accused” is on my top list of ballads. I remember watching the Academy Awards in the 70s and rejoicing when he won the Academy Award for the soundtrack to Shaft. Wow. He was a bad mother shut yo mouth.
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Raeann–yes he was a multi-talented and multi-faceted individual!
Lisa–headed to read your blog.
Angelia–I STAND ACCUSED, love, love, love it…I’m going to add it to this blog if I can find it on YouTube.
It is on You Tube I have it on my blog…
angelia
My favorite is the theme song to Shaft.
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‘Wow” is all I can say about the passing of one of the creators of the “Sounds Of Phili”.
Isac Hayes material is the true definition of “Soul Music”.
My band “Nu-Cullers” has been performing his Songs like, Walk on By and Shaft for the past year.
We will now step up and add a few more of his songs in memory of this Musical pioneer.
My hat is off to the man that was truely, a “Bad Motha ——–”.The One And Only Isac Hayes.
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OMG!!!!
This brings back memories of Sunday morning cleaning. My mom dressed in moo-moo with a rag on her head cleaning big mama’s silverware. The kitchen table was covered with big buttermilk biscuits eggs and sausage, and daddy’s at the stove cooking his special home fries with onions and green peppers.
Thanks for the memory, Yas!
R.I.P
Isaac