Sunday, August 10, 2008
Isaac Hayes
My two favorite Isaac Hayes albums.
Sam & Dave: Double Dynamite. Loaded with snappy Isaac Hayes/David Porter songs. Hits "You've Got Me Hummin' " & "When Something Is Wrong with My Baby."
Isaac Hayes: Truck Turner. Movie is a1970's hoot. Because Isaac starred in his "Black Moses" phase, he put a lot of effort into the soundtrack music. Better cut for cut than Shaft. But no hit theme song.
For Isaac at his shaven, waxed, chain mail vest best, it's Isaac Hayes Live at the Sahara Tahoe.
I've always believed that Isaac's lugubrious, extended versions of pop songs were directly inspired by the late Sixties band Vanilla Fudge, which was quite famous for just that thing. His 1969 Hot Buttered Soul LP, with the 12 minute "Walk On By" & 19 minute "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," almost certainly sold stronger among white pothead college students than it did with singles-oriented black listeners. In any case, Hayes improved on Vanilla Fudge.
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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
In my younger days, I used to try and stretch my 3-songs-for-one-dollar at the jukebox in the Waiting Room. Two of those songs would be from Hot Buttered Soul: "Walk on By" and "Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic."
The third song would be Neil Young's "Down by the River" which clocks in at 9:13.
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The third song would be Neil Young's "Down by the River" which clocks in at 9:13.
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