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I'm a Comin ' ") [3] is a song first recorded in 1966 by soul duo Sam & Dave, issued in the same year on the Atlantic-distributed Stax label. It was written by the songwriting team of Isaac Hayes and David Porter , who came up with the title of the song spontaneously when Hayes was trying to get Porter to hurry out of the Stax Studios restroom ...
"Theme from Shaft", written and recorded by Isaac Hayes in 1971, is the soul and funk-styled theme song to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film Shaft. [1] The theme was released as a single (shortened and edited from the longer album version) two months after the movie's soundtrack by Stax Records' Enterprise label.
"I Thank You" is a song written by David Porter and Isaac Hayes originally recorded by Sam & Dave, released in early 1968. [1] The single was Sam & Dave's final release on Stax Records, reaching No. 9 on the Billboard Pop singles chart and No. 4 on the R&B chart. [2]
Isaac Lee Hayes Jr. (August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008) was an American singer, songwriter, composer, and actor. He was one of the creative forces behind the Southern soul music label Stax Records in the 1960s, [4] serving as an in-house songwriter with his partner David Porter, as well as a session musician and record producer.
Shaft is a double album by Isaac Hayes, recorded for Stax Records' Enterprise label as the soundtrack LP for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 1971 blaxploitation film Shaft.The album mostly consists of instrumentals composed by Hayes as score for the film.
"Today our family was granted an injunction against @realdonaldtrump from playing @IsaacHayes3 music ever again," Hayes' son Isaac Hayes III wrote on X. "We are please(d) with the decision by the ...
Isaac Hayes released a cover version of "Walk on By" in 1969 on the album Hot Buttered Soul, transforming the song into a twelve-minute funk vamp. A single edit reached number 30 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. Hayes' version was ranked No. 312 in the 2021 edition of Rolling Stone ' s "Top 500 Songs of All Time". [21]
Isaac Hayes had written the tune for "Déjà Vu" in 1977 while touring with Warwick on the A Man and a Woman Tour: Warwick would recall then hearing Hayes play the tune – which he had entitled "Déjà Vu" without writing lyrics – and as she and Barry Manilow began preparing for the January 1979 recording sessions for the Dionne album, Warwick solicited a tape of "Déjà Vu" from Hayes to ...