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The Best Of Isaac Hayes

    'The Best of Isaac Hayes' brings together 10 soulful cuts from Stax Records’ incomparable creative force. As composer, producer, singer and multi-instrumentalist Isaac Hayes changed the face of music in the early 1970s and this collection is the perfect introduction to his music. Including the Academy Award Winning 'Theme From Shaft' with its distinctive wah-wah guitar intro, 'Walk on By', and 'Never Can Say Goodbye' all newly mastered by Paul Blakemore. 

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Theme From Shaft
    2. Walk On By
    3. Never Can Say Goodbye
    4. The Look Of Love
    5. Theme From The Men
    6. By The Time I Get To Phoenix
    7. Joy (Pt. 1)
    8. Do Your Thing
    9. I Stand Accused
    10. Wonderful 

    Isaac Hayes

    Hot Buttered Singles Volume 2 - 1972-1976

      • The wonderfully favourable response to our first CD and double vinyl volume of the original A and B sides of the singles of the late great Isaac Hayes – as originally released on Stax’ Enterprise subsidiary between 1969 and 1972 – has forced us to bring forward, this month, the release of “Hot Buttered Singles 2” to cater for what Ace is sure will be just as great a level of popular demand.

      • This volume picks up where “Hot Buttered Singles Vol 1” left off with Hayes’ final 45 of 1972, and carries his seven inch story through to 1976 – by which time Stax was defunct, and Hayes’ was on his own Hot Buttered Soul label via ABC Records. It features eight US R&B chart hits including the much sampled ‘Hung Up On My Baby’ and ‘Chocolate Chip’, Hayes’ biggest hit of this period ‘Joy’ and the ever-popular 1976 instrumental ‘Disco Connection’, which finally gave Hayes’ his second UK Top 20 hit after ‘Shaft’.

      • All tracks match the original single edits, and wherever possible are taken from digital transfers of the original Enterprise singles masters. Where the original 45s came in two parts, they also do so here. And where original singles masters no longer exist, as was the case for two tracks, Ace’s engineers have re-created them beat for beat from the longer album versions. (Have fun guessing which two they were…)

      • As with “Hot Buttered Singles Vol 1”, the LP inners and CD booklet are packed with label shots, copious other images and an extensive sleeve note that gives deep detail about the featured songs. It also makes the package look as good as it sounds.


      TRACK LISTING

      SIDE ONE
      1. THEME FROM THE MEN (Instrumental)
      2. TYPE THANG
      3. ROLLING DOWN A MOUNTAINSIDE
      4. (IF LOVING YOU IS WRONG)
      I DON'T WANT TO BE RIGHT
      5. JOY PT 1

      SIDE TWO
      1. JOY PT 2
      2. WONDERFUL
      3. SOMEONE MADE YOU FOR ME
      4. TITLE THEME
      5. HUNG UP ON MY BABY (Instrumental)

      SIDE THREE
      1. CHOCOLATE CHIP
      2. CHOCOLATE CHIP (Instrumental)
      3. COME LIVE WITH ME
      4. BODY LANGUAGE
      5. DISCO CONNECTION

      SIDE FOUR
      1. ST. THOMAS SQUARE
      2. ROCK ME EASY BABY PT 1
      3. ROCK ME EASY BABY PT 2
      4. JUICY FRUIT (DISCO FREAK) PT 1
      5. JUICY FRUIT (DISCO FREAK) PT 2 

      Isaac Hayes

      Truck Turner (Original Soundtrack) - Black Friday 2024 Edition

        THIS IS A BLACK FRIDAY 2024 EXCLUSIVE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE INSTORE ON FRIDAY NOVEMBER 29TH ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

        IF THERE ARE ANY REMAINING COPIES THEY WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT 8AM ON SATURDAY NOVEMBER 30TH).

        The Shaft-master is back! Varèse Sarabande’s Reel Cult series presents a new vinyl reissue of 1974’s Truck Turner, with the legendary Isaac Hayes pulling a double duty starring in the titular role and handling production duties for the groovy soundtrack. Back on vinyl after two decades, 2-LP set was cut from the original analog tapes, pressed on 180-gram Translucent Purple vinyl, and packaged in a tip on-jacket.



        Isaac Hayes And The Bar-Kays

        Do Your Thing

          The full 33-minute, unreleased, psychedelic funk jam session by Memphis rhythm kingpins the Bar-Kays, mixed directly from the original tapes. Contains bonus rhythm section instrumental and booklet detailing the history of this never-before-heard version of one of Isaac Hayes’ most famous songs by Hayes historian Bill Dahl.

          Hayes was already a cutting-edge funk master at Stax Records when he accepted the unprecedented assignment of creating a soundtrack for the 1971 action flick Shaft. At a time when R&B songs routinely timed out at three minutes and under, Hayes’ albums for Stax’s Enterprise imprint had been breaking new ground since 1969. His masterpiece Hot Buttered Soul consisted of only four tracks, two songs on The Isaac Hayes Movement clocked in at a hair under 12 minutes, and one selection on his …To Be Continued stretched to 15:33.

          But his epic “Do Your Thing,” one of the cornerstones of the two-LP Shaft soundtrack, outdid them all. Occupying nearly the entire last side of the set, it concluded after 19-and-a-half grooving minutes with the overdubbed sound of a needle scratching violently across a piece of vinyl. No one knew that jarring ending masked the existence of another 13 minutes of “Do Your Thing.” Consigned to the vaults, those improvisatory extensions—somewhere in between free-jazz and psychedelic rock—were seemingly destined never to be heard. Until now.


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