Well I was saving this one for a rainy day, but I guess today is truly as good as any other day.
R.I.P. Isaac Hayes 1942-2008
Chef's gone! Well, technically Chef has been 'gone' for a while, but unless you were living in a cave, or a Scientology Testing Center yesterday, the great Issac Hayes passed away. Scientology jokes aside, the man's contribution to funk and soul plays second fiddle only to James Brown.
While he left behind a string of classics, here's his most infamous
The Theme to Shaft.
I'm going to do things a tad differently today, for sake of time and the sheer fucking volume of it all, by simply listing genres and artist names. No long winded descriptions of bands or childhood memories.
Enjoy!
LS
Disco Dept.
Decimo - Shaft
Love Unlimited Orchestra - Theme From Shaft
Eddy & The Soul Band - Theme From 'Shaft'
Reggae Dept.
Chosen Few - Shaft
Cedric Im Brooks - Shaft
Byron Lee And The Dragonaires - Shaft
Jamaica's Groove Band - Shaft
Big Youth with the Prince Buster All Stars - Shaft
Lloyd Charmers - Shaft
Funk/Jazz/Soul/Rare Groove Dept.
Bernard 'Pretty' Purdie - Theme From Shaft
Prophet of Soul - Theme From Shaft
The Bar-Kays - Son of Shaft
Cecil Holmes Soulful Sounds - Shaft
Easy Listening/Grandmas Record Collection Yet Still Decidedly Funky Dept.
Henry Mancini - Theme from Shaft
Hollyridge Strings - Theme From Shaft
Enoch Light & The Light Brigade - Theme from Shaft
Bert Kaempfert - Theme From Shaft
Mack Browne & The Brothers - Theme From Shaft
Ray Conniff - Shaft
Kashmere Stage Band - Shaft
Afro Cuban Dept.
Joe Bataan - Shaft
Polish Jazz Dept.
Henryk Debich - Shaft Theme
Funky Bahamas Dept.
Esquires LTD - Theme From Shaft
Kick Ass Algerian Version Dept.
Malik Adouane - Shaft
Oh So Indie Dept.
The Wedding Present - Theme From Shaft
Someone Made An Electro-Breakdance Version!?!?! Dept.
Van Twist - Shaft
Whoah, Moogs Are Kind Of Trippy Dept.
Synthesonic Sounds (Moog at the Movies) - Shaft
WTF? Dept.
David Lee Roth - Theme From Shaft
Sammy Davis, Jr. - John Shaft
Cabaret Voltaire - Theme From Shaft
Black Randy and the Metrosquad - (Theme from) Shaft
Jega - Shaft
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7 comments:
Cabaret Voltaire - Theme From Shaft
great......thanx
Amazing! Wonderful tribute.
Wonderful. Thank you.
Wearing gold chains and singing in a velvet voice, Isaac Hayes was a wondrous performer, a legend who influenced many. RIP.
Morgan
Nice tribute!!
Mr Double Down
You're all very welcome!
Fantastic Post!
I walked into a store on saturday hearing a great rocksteady version of Shaft and the stoned clerk couldn´ tell me what it was. Thanks to your great tribute I found more versions to shake a SHAFT at!
I only heard later that Hayes had died.
i once interviewed Mr Hayes for a magazine in the late 90's.
he had no idea that so many artists had covered "Shaft". So, I made him up a compilation (90% of which are here on your blog all these years later!) and sent to him in the U.S.
he loved them all.
particularly, the robo-vocoder voiced dutch electro version by Van Twist (green vinyl!).
r.i.p. mr hayes
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