All 19:00 of The Black Moses' grooved-out cover of the Jimmy Webb classic. From the quietly chilling 9-minute long backstory all the way through to the epic organ and horn solo finish, it's all here.
Marvell Thomas (Carla Thomas' brother and Rufus Thomas' son) played the hell out of that organ. In the beginning of the song, he held that note for over eight minutes. RIP Marvell Thomas, Rufus Thomas, and Isaac Hayes
But here the thing ain't nothing in this 2020 202 can't to artists touch it what Isaac Hayes have don't and the other artists none of could even dream the the tablet that these guys had
Yea, Deborah, me too...I'm still listening. Like "Ground Hog Day" I'm stuck in a time gone by when the lyrics and the music really were of a higher quality. This song along with "Walk on By" was the standard chill and cuddle "turn off the Lights" music back in my day and I'm 65...
See Isaac could tell a story. Love can make you laugh or cry! The power of love. In my opinion Isaac took this song beyond so far no one can match this one! The Storyteller.
Miss Isaac & his ability to explain the HURT of leaving a piece of your heart but having to go on...prisoner of love. Too hurt to cry but kept us hanging on. RIP Black Moses
EPIC! So many people only identify Isaac Hayes with "Theme from Shaft", by my goodness, the man had so much more than that. The entire "Hot Buttered Soul" album is a totally unbelievable landmark achievement.
I really wanna Thank TH-cam, if it weren't for them, much of the music of my young life would be lost. They have basically taken away my R&B, My Jazz, My true soul. But I know I can come to this site and find and listen to the rhytmns of my youth......
+Rory Roberts how true Rory!! especially from days past man music was music, you could kick back and put and album on and listen for days it seemed like, and music then had a positive message.
One of the greatest love ballads in soul music history. Thank you mama. I never understood why this song made you so emotional when I was a young child. But now, I get it. Mr. Hayes poured his heart and soul into this masterpiece!! RIP King Isaac
@bf0189 I'm not sure if your comment is in response to mine, but I agree with you. It's definitely one of the greatest ballads in ALL of music. I mentioned the genre of soul music because only the true lovers of soul music really know this song. When I was a child, my mom would get so emotional about this song, and I didn't understand until I became an adult and went through my own painful experiences with love. Also, my mother was rotten to my father. Reluctantly, he finally left her. So now I understand why this song meant so much to her. She was wrong, and she lost a good man because she refused to be a good woman. I'm approaching 50, so I'm no spring chicken. I've been married twice, and I have 5 daughters. I know a thing or two about love and loss. Unfortunately, a lot of younsters don't respect or listen to old school music. Fortunately, my girls do. I exposed them to the good stuff early on. Marvin Gaye, Stephanie Mills, The Isley Brothers, Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, Earth, Wind, and Fire, The Ohio Players, The Emotions, Cameo, The Temptations, Parliament, Teddy Pendergrass, Luther Vandross, Betty Wright, Bobby Womack, Natalie Cole, The Chi-Lites, Al Green, The Dells, The Delphonics, Zapp, and so many more. Soul music is food to my soul, and I am fed very well. My compliments to the chefs for the most satisfying feast ever....soul music💯👏🏾🫶🏾
The emotional gravitas conveyed by legendary soul man Isaac Hayes is visceral in the delivery of this classic , a true moment in time is created when feeling the impact is grounding often reducing the listener to tears ,few artists ever came this close to absolute perfection .
The long intro, with all the explanation, is so EPIC! He was really a great orator! Another thing that i particularly love are his orchestrations. Moses was a great artist!
No one has ever done"By the time I get to Phoenix" as deep as he did it in my opinion. This is a EPIC musical depiction of the power of love. I truly believe that the power of love is....
You should know the pain of a man when he is in Love .... to educate you .... we give our heart only to God our Father.. and when a woman comes in to only. End up destroying the the fragility of trust. Its like our mothers letting a lesser man rape the forgoing masculine nature that God jas Put in man .... to protect provide. Nuture. And commit to that 1 lady who has spoken to the God in Him.. .. why ... OOOH. Why would a fool play with the power of the God that the Father has placed in the Earth . Only. A fool will try to contemplate. Please forgive me for infighting the truth.
You know it. I went in that bag just like my man tyrone davis and said,mama mama mama can I change,,uhhh,,my mind. I was 12yo when this came out. I had a girlfriend,but,you know. As I got older I went in that bag like tyrone davis many a time. Mama,can I change,,,uhhh,,,my mind
I remember the first time I heard this. That station that use to play soul music all nite from Tennessee (we lived in Milwaukee) I couldn't BELIEVE THIS SONG OMG Next day at school it was a RAPP. Everybody knew abt it. Record stores had lines around the CORNER!! ALL CARS playing it going down the street and hear it from houses as you walked thru the WHOLE NORTHSIDE. LEGEND....
This artist’s tracks average time is 10 minutes. He gave his listeners everything and doing so right now. This week for me is nothing but Black Moses. Great story telling.
White college kid with an apartment during the free love movement. a date, a bottle of wine with a cork, a J and some Hot Buttered Soul. That was a 100%er! this shit is awesome! Glad Shaft came on tv tonight made me start looking around, Ike was AWESOME!! RIP Black Moses
This song will literally bring tear to your eyes. if you have ever been in love and got to a point that you were not going to take the mess no more but was still frighteningly in love- this is your song. when we tell our friends what happened, we are tough, but when we get by our self at night- that is when the weakness and the tears show up. ooooooo by the time I get to Phoenix...that was so sad but sometimes life will take you down that road and you have to decide " what you gonna do."
+Jeanett Ballentine You are so right. It's the life of the broken-hearted. It's a tough decision, but sometimes one is left with no choice. How much I relate to this song.
As a young boy this song was very painful to hear for I knew exactly what the words meant and the length it took for the song to end. The only thing I didn't know decades later is that this song has a greater meaning now. lf you every been played a fool in a relationship you will know why it took 18:51 minutes. I will say this, When it's time to go, it's really time to go and don't look back.
I learned this song at 16,word for word,and sung it every Sunday on our way to bowling.A car lied of friends grooving on Black Moses.My Training ground for retaining lyriccs
I had a young lady, she was 23, I was 46! She broke my heart, after all the love shown to her. But as I look back it was really me not seeing, or ignoring the tell-tale signs. And one day I gathered the inner courage to leave. Just to think after 10 years in a USP, I would need courage....the power of love!!
we might not remember the event but the song opens the door for you to walk through and heal that hurting part by touching it with acceptance, with self-love. Just honor that part within you when you feel it. I'm glad y'all posted because I feel it too.
Okay I'm an old lady and I admit it but I end up buying this album back in the day because I had no clue who Isaac Hayes was but I liked the cover and the title Hot Buttered Soul❤❤❤❤ and as the great Isaac Hayes says let's bring this down to soulsville😊😊😊
I was blessed to see the Geniuses of Isaac Hayes live in concert numerous times. Mostly at the Apolo, and the Beacon theater in NYC, and a few years before he passed in Jackson, Mississippi. Wow! The live concerts were even at another level which will never be duplicated, R.I.P. "Genius"... you've earned it brother, you enlightening all of our lives.
The vocals in this song are absolutely AMAZING! I'm so glad I got to witness my father with his 8 track and coil corded earphones singing off beat, 2 sheets to the wind lol. I'm glad they showed me REAL music!!!
The longest intro to a soul song at that time.and a nice throbbing Organ.. Light the strawberry incense. Fire up a bowl.Turn the Blacklight on and just relax.and enjoy the trip.😇🚬🎸🍷
I first heard this song when some brothers played it for their white boy -- with a Red Light Bulb burning!!! Do they even still make blacklights? Gotta get me a redlight too!
To take Dionne's and Glens hits and completely turn them inside out, upside down, and add some hot butter to the mix you have two of the finest refined hottest "SOUL SONGS." Isaac Hayes rad-own!
Aye SmoothdaHustla, I was a big fan of your song, "Broken Language". The delivery and flow of that song was rare and it was so savage....breaking crosses savage!
Tragically, l can really relate to this song. It brings back vivid painful memories whenever I hear it. It's genius the way Hayes expresses this nightmare experience of the unrequited love of a betraying wife. But I can look back at it now with no pain. However, that experience of a broken heart literally almost killed me. It was like a bad LSD trip that I couldn't come down from that lasted for years. Thank God Almighty that time heals all such wounds. It's been about 23 years ago now. But I truly almost didn't make it. I will NEVER allow myself to go through that horror again. NEVER AGAIN! I look back at it now and I can't even fathom how I could allow myself to be so emotionally attached to a woman. My God, she was just another human being. And believe it or not I still dream about her regularly even though I no longer consciously think about her. I never had another relationship after her. Actually I'm not capable of being in love like that again. Romantic love is too scary. I was only married to her for about 7 years but knew her since we were children. We lived together for about 5 years before we got married. Goodness I loved her. Way too much. Lol. Crazy! But look, I can even laugh about it now. Something niether me or anyone else thought would ever be possible. Rest in peace Mr Isaac Hayes. You were truly a man of wisdom, compassion, empathy and understanding.
Darren let me tell you....I am in the exact same boat. Some years ago, my soon to be exwife shattered me to pieces when I caught her with another man. I almost died, literally due to all of the pressure. I tried to reconcile but....well you know the rest. I will say I do believe I can love again one day.....but she'll have to be a phenomenal woman.
She wasn't just another human being, but she was your One Flesh; that is what God has done: the joining of one man and one woman in holy matrimony as One Flesh. The one flesh of you and wife was TORN ASUNDER by Adultery. Thus the insufferable, unfathomable, incredible, gruesome, pain. I speak from the other end as a woman who has endured that agony. Without God, it is Impossible to truly heal. Am so happy, so thankful, and so glad, that with God, All Things are Possible. Even restoration and reconciliation. I am a witness.
I've literally done this... Cried so bad... Loved my ex wife so much. Unspeakable pain... I miss my daughter, still, after our dissolution. But i had to do it, for my personal health.
The 70's .Will NEVER Be Duplicated. It Was ah Time Of Peace. People Would Go Out To Have FUN... The War Was Coming To An END. We Trusted Each Other, We LOVED one Another.... that's what the LORD wanted for us to do, LOVE one ANOTHER......
Woke up this morning from a dream, in it Isaac Hayes was singing You got me going in circles. Had to hear it again, now I am hooked on all these great songs. Back in the early 70's I would play them over and over. So much soul. This old white woman is still listening and grooving to this beautiful voice.
My daddy had this album. I first fell in love with this album at the age of 4 years old in 1971. I had never heard anything like this ever and at an impressionable age, this album made me so aware of all instruments being played and all arrangements. Now that I'm 49 years old, I never get tired of listening this historic album. I approach my band with the idea of being creative and thing deeper in to the meaning of performing songs from a different angle. Isaac Hayes is my ultimate musical mentor.
Drums, Hammond organ, bass & Mr. Hayes' baritone...and Lawd have mercy...when those strings and reeds introduce themselves....you've experienced "Hot, buttered soul y'all"!
I was very young in the back seat of my parent's 66 Chevy caprice, speakers 🔊 next to my ears going to L.A ...the song 🎵 Did something to me. I still listen now. My brother took his life i believe over a woman maybe thier was more...However 💘 is real if you're sincere God is love
Who is here because they know that in the old days of terrestrial radio, D.J.’s used to play the long version of this song so that they could go to the “baffroom”?Yep…absolutely true. Here’s to Washington D.C.’s WOL, WOOK, WKYS and Mr. Hot Buttered Soul Himself, Issac Hayes!!!!! And I forgive you for play the voice of Chef on South Park. You are still “a bad mother-shut-your-mouth!”. And a complicated man. R.I.P.
Love this song!!! Has brought tears to my eyes everytime I listen to it. This was me when I left my first wife. Cried so much I couldn't see the road as I was driving away.
♥️I was 14 when this came out, now 74, and this is as awesome now as to then‼️♥️ The goosebumps “ STILL” come and memories overflow‼️♥️👏🏽🥰♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
I remember this 70's song. Didn't like it much then. Now that we're in the midst of covid - 19, I have so much more time on my hands. I love the song now and have taken the time to listen to each individual instrument. This is probably not all the instruments but this is what I found: The violins were sangin, trumpets on point, piano resonating, organ on blast, flutes oscillating and the drums on target. The musicians and singers were truly genius back then.
This is how i got me a copy of Isaac Hayes... Was with my dad to buy some cd's at a local music store, and as we walked in this song was playing. I immediately told my dad that we are adding The Hayes to our collection! My my my, you'd drive a distance of about 110km just playing only 2 songs👌🏾💯
My Mom just loved this man, she was the one who hooked all of her child’s on Great Music and Mr Isaac Hayes were our genius. Thanks Mom and Mr Hayes RIP❤
Every time I hear this, reminds of those overnight hauls my father used to have. He would play this in his truck. The song put me at ease. Mr. Hayes and my Pops are gone now. Born in the same year. R.I.P. To BOTH of them. I miss them dearly. Also, it would've been Isaac's birthday today. Happy Earth Day, Mr. Isaac Hayes. Rest well, sir...
i normally hate remakes, i really do... Issac Hayes is the only artist i appreciate & love to hear his version... he puts alot heart & soul in the song
Willie Gordon you must worked for Motown during this time, still hating on big Uncle balling on y'all with soul vibration instead of blue eyed soul dreams
My brother was a quadriplegic. After a car accident. So I went back to school to take care of him. it was 1993. He stayed in the hospital a couple of years when he got out I went back to school and took care of him. I remember he wanted to hold the joint on his lips to smoke it as to let him be a man. It was a very sad and hard times for me to get over the fact that my brother couldn't move nothing but his head. So I had my own TV show at that time. One day I was listening to this song by the time I get to Phoenix by the late Isaac Hayes and it brought back so many beautiful memories growing up in the 70s. So it took me 1 year to make this song the way I wanted it to be on VHS. That was the biggest surprise I gave to my brother. I put him in the driver's seat on TV. For one year I had drove my car with the camcorder in the dashboard through the rain the thunder lightning the snow the fall the winter the spring the summer. On the highway you could see the signs such-and-such 14 miles such-and-such 90 miles such-and-such 22 MI. And then I put those videos all together and I played by the time I get to Phoenix. I put this song to those videos and line them all up the way I wanted it for my brother. My brother loved it and actually felt like he was driving again after so many years of not being able to do nothing. I still have this VHS tape. It was a gift to my brother who passed away in 2000. I just wanted to share this with you to let you know just how much I valued the late Issac Hayes. As a matter of fact I played Shaft on TV back in the 70s. And the song was shaft. I had my daddies black hat black leather coat black pants black shoes and black cane and I played that part to the fullest. Thank you Isaac Hayes for so much great memories you will always be a legend in my heart. God bless you for so much you've done for so many people. Music and Joy. Carry on
Thanks for your memory. You memorialize your brother so well. This song brings me to tears when I have the courage to listen to whole 18min. Got alcohol poisoning while suffering one of my first breakups with a live in gf. Was tipsy when I called late one night after she moved out. A guy answered and heard her speak disparaging of me . She used me because her folks hated me . Gave her and apartment in west village nyc, tuition to nyu and stipend to leave me. I lost it and drank 2 quarts of zebrovka vodka in 12 hours. Woke 48 hours later in vomit Took 3 days to recover. Never regretted her leaving again. Thanks for the venting. It has been 50 yrs.
This brother is deep! My brother, Isaac Hayes, is one of the brothers that I idolized as a child. From his bald head to his singing, he and Barry White, are two brothers, whose music had a profound influence on my life, especially when it came to matters of the heart. (GOD -BLESS-YOU-BOTH). R.I.P. Isaac Hayes.
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He turned 2 and a half minutes into 18and a half minutes and created an absolute. masterpiece
BB BB BB
Well if Jesus can turn water into wine. Issac said he can turn a tune in less the time into a masterpiece!
@@Vonnies1929 ❤👍✌️ 🏴
Yes love him
💯💯💯 the drum brake.. awesome 🔥🔥🔥with the horn's..love the 70's
2024: Been listening to this for over 50 years. What a masterpiece. What a legacy. Thank you Isaac Hayes for having lived.
That's my favorite song
42 years old and will listen to this song on repeat! It’s a CERTIFIED CLASSIC MASTERPIECE!!!! Sir Isaac was a true musical genius!!!!
Marvell Thomas (Carla Thomas' brother and Rufus Thomas' son) played the hell out of that organ. In the beginning of the song, he held that note for over eight minutes. RIP Marvell Thomas, Rufus Thomas, and Isaac Hayes
Please give the band some love too. They are awesome ❤
I broke up with my wife and I was driving from Springfield Connecticut back to Reading Pennsylvania. This song came on the radio and I almost lost it.
I hear you blood
Hope you are doing well
Nothing in the flesh lasts forever Sir. Carry on and stay blessed 🙌
Damn.
That's when you love someone yet you know it aint working... a deep song.
Who’s still listen to Isaac Hayes in 2020 I am I am 62 years old and I’m having a concert tonight with Isaac Hayes tonight.. LOL
CLASS OF’ ‘77 (or your case maybe’ ‘ 76 )
But here the thing ain't nothing in this 2020 202 can't to artists touch it what Isaac Hayes have don't and the other artists none of could even dream the the tablet that these guys had
@@tcwhigham1 class of 77.
Yea, Deborah, me too...I'm still listening. Like "Ground Hog Day" I'm stuck in a time gone by when the lyrics and the music really were of a higher quality. This song along with "Walk on By" was the standard chill and cuddle "turn off the Lights" music back in my day and I'm 65...
I do luv old school
Horns.. woodwind.. piano..percussion his hot buttered rythm. .. his voice and interpretation. .. gold. Masterpiece
Love "his hot.buttered rhythm" great!
Who's grooving with Isaac in 2023! I know that I still am!
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2024 ❤❤❤
Actually I'm here februari 2024 blessings from Toronto😊😊
He's timeless
2024
83 year old white guy. Love Sir Issac and his great music.
Saw him in concert at Hara Arena. Dayton Ohio about 1971.
I’m 73yrs old and this music hits me in my soul. The Orchestra and score is absolutely outstanding.
They don't make this kind of music now beautiful true story 💜 ❤
@@ElaineButler-e9w😊😊
don't forget that vivid rap !
73 too. Agreed. It's a classical masterpiece
@debbiej8006 I’ll be 70 in June and it still hits me the same way! The sweet horn section and that voice. So smooth like velvet. ❤
I am 73 years young the song still sounds good 👍
I'm 66
See Isaac could tell a story. Love can make you laugh or cry! The power of love. In my opinion Isaac took this song beyond so far no one can match this one! The Storyteller.
Miss Isaac & his ability to explain the HURT of leaving a piece of your heart but having to go on...prisoner of love. Too hurt to cry but kept us hanging on. RIP Black Moses
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True Dat
Like he said, he did it his way.
Godfathers of story telling.
I bought this album in my teens. Now I'm 70 and still listening to this masterpiece. Thanks for the music.
Me too
Me too!
22 and now 72 for me. Blew me away and it still does and I bought all his albums and even met him briefly early 80's when I saw him play live
quality music is (timeless).
Same here. I bought this in '69 when I was 17 and I am 70 now and nobody does it better than Isaac/Black Moses!
I'm 53. I grew up with Black Moses. I'm trying to teach these youngsta about love music.
This is a Black Tragedy with beautiful pain on a human level.....beautiful.
EPIC! So many people only identify Isaac Hayes with "Theme from Shaft", by my goodness, the man had so much more than that. The entire "Hot Buttered Soul" album is a totally unbelievable landmark achievement.
Judson Hair Facts.I Totally Agree.
Judson Hair ...."HOT BUTTERED SOUL"
Worse, Chef from South Park :(
Yessir!
My Sentiments Exactly. As A Musician.
Finally a song that truly speaks of the pain and suffering some brothers go through.
I agree, but a lot of women aren't ready for this conversation Bro. They sometimes don't know, understand, or realize that we men have feelings too.
Females will destroy you
It’s love but like he says they will take your kindness for weakness that’s how your brought up to it’s a cold world…
Not just black bros. All brothers
La souffrance n'a pas de couleurs
I remember my dad playing this song what a beautiful song RIP to a great singer-songwriter Isaac Hayes and my Dad
Show you right my friend
Rip Issac he was truth ! This masterpiece was a tearjerker!!
He sure did make it a masterpiece
This man was a musical genius.
Karen McCallop yes he was!
+Cynthia H, The best ever did it
this man sing rap enjoyed listening to his music,, throw back ,love me some him
Don't forget those musicians who laid that music down.
Karen McCallop I taught him everything he knew baby, thank you very much!
I really wanna Thank TH-cam, if it weren't for them, much of the music of my young life would be lost. They have basically taken away my R&B, My Jazz, My true soul. But I know I can come to this site and find and listen to the rhytmns of my youth......
+Rory Roberts you're right, chuck 79 age
I think this is pretty dope. I just turned 23 the other day and I love me some Isaac Hayes. My favorite song of his is "Hung Up On My Baby."
+Rory Roberts how true Rory!! especially from days past man music was music, you could kick back and put and album on and listen for days it seemed like, and music then had a positive message.
Issac taught me in the 70's that I could love but be cautious because there is a power to love.
so true
One of the greatest love ballads in soul music history. Thank you mama. I never understood why this song made you so emotional when I was a young child. But now, I get it. Mr. Hayes poured his heart and soul into this masterpiece!! RIP King Isaac
Isaac Hayes started a trend with this song and with "Shaft" as movie music.
Disagree.....it's one of the greatest love ballads in all of music...
If you can't feel this you're either too young or have no soul.
@bf0189 I'm not sure if your comment is in response to mine, but I agree with you. It's definitely one of the greatest ballads in ALL of music. I mentioned the genre of soul music because only the true lovers of soul music really know this song. When I was a child, my mom would get so emotional about this song, and I didn't understand until I became an adult and went through my own painful experiences with love. Also, my mother was rotten to my father. Reluctantly, he finally left her. So now I understand why this song meant so much to her. She was wrong, and she lost a good man because she refused to be a good woman. I'm approaching 50, so I'm no spring chicken. I've been married twice, and I have 5 daughters. I know a thing or two about love and loss. Unfortunately, a lot of younsters don't respect or listen to old school music. Fortunately, my girls do. I exposed them to the good stuff early on. Marvin Gaye, Stephanie Mills, The Isley Brothers, Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, Earth, Wind, and Fire, The Ohio Players, The Emotions, Cameo, The Temptations, Parliament, Teddy Pendergrass, Luther Vandross, Betty Wright, Bobby Womack, Natalie Cole, The Chi-Lites, Al Green, The Dells, The Delphonics, Zapp, and so many more. Soul music is food to my soul, and I am fed very well. My compliments to the chefs for the most satisfying feast ever....soul music💯👏🏾🫶🏾
The emotional gravitas conveyed by legendary soul man Isaac Hayes is visceral in the delivery of this classic , a true moment in time is created when feeling the impact is grounding often reducing the listener to tears ,few artists ever came this close to absolute perfection .
The long intro, with all the explanation, is so EPIC! He was really a great orator!
Another thing that i particularly love are his orchestrations. Moses was a great artist!
Not black Moses
Just Moses
I'll be damned if the worlds not a better place because Issac Hayes was here.
memeexclusive You got that right!!!!!
memeexclusive right on :)
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memeexclusive. Yes,yes,yes !!!💞💕💘💞🎵🎶💖💓💋
The best Rapper of All time we miss U so much. But Glad U were here, miss you!!! BLACK MOSES RIP.
No one has ever done"By the time I get to Phoenix" as deep as he did it in my opinion. This is a EPIC musical depiction of the power of love. I truly believe that the power of love is....
Composed by a master storyteller!!!
Soulman to the core.
You should know the pain of a man when he is in Love .... to educate you .... we give our heart only to God our Father.. and when a woman comes in to only. End up destroying the the fragility of trust. Its like our mothers letting a lesser man rape the forgoing masculine nature that God jas Put in man .... to protect provide. Nuture. And commit to that 1 lady who has spoken to the God in Him..
.. why ... OOOH. Why would a fool play with the power of the God that the Father has placed in the Earth . Only. A fool will try to contemplate. Please forgive me for infighting the truth.
Absolutey agree and a nice gentleman in every sense so i undrstand!
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Many years later and many listens later, this song still makes me cry. To give someone your heart and have that happen is truly heartbreaking.
Of all the versions that I heard of this song, this version is MY ALL-TIME FAVORITE!!! I LOVE THE WAY ISAAC TELLS THE STORY!!! 💜❤️💙
This is my first time listening to this version.... It's Beautiful & Raw. Just Beautiful....!!!
He really told the story--so well.
You know it. I went in that bag just like my man tyrone davis and said,mama mama mama can I change,,uhhh,,my mind. I was 12yo when this came out. I had a girlfriend,but,you know. As I got older I went in that bag like tyrone davis many a time. Mama,can I change,,,uhhh,,,my mind
I remember the first time I heard this. That station that use to play soul music all nite from Tennessee (we lived in Milwaukee) I couldn't BELIEVE THIS SONG OMG Next day at school it was a RAPP. Everybody knew abt it. Record stores had lines around the CORNER!! ALL CARS playing it going down the street and hear it from houses as you walked thru the WHOLE NORTHSIDE. LEGEND....
CANNOT BE DUPLICATED
This artist’s tracks average time is 10 minutes. He gave his listeners everything and doing so right now. This week for me is nothing but Black Moses. Great story telling.
Powerful only one man could lay it down like that!🔥🔥
White college kid with an apartment during the free love movement. a date, a bottle of wine with a cork, a J and some Hot Buttered Soul. That was a 100%er! this shit is awesome! Glad Shaft came on tv tonight made me start looking around, Ike was AWESOME!! RIP Black Moses
lol
before Netflix & chill, there was Isaac & chill
Ike laced us with that soul that came from the soil
This song will literally bring tear to your eyes. if you have ever been in love and got to a point that you were not going to take the mess no more but was still frighteningly in love- this is your song. when we tell our friends what happened, we are tough, but when we get by our self at night- that is when the weakness and the tears show up. ooooooo by the time I get to Phoenix...that was so sad but sometimes life will take you down that road and you have to decide " what you gonna do."
+Jeanett Ballentine You are so right. It's the life of the broken-hearted. It's a tough decision, but sometimes one is left with no choice. How much I relate to this song.
so very true
So True....
Jeanett Ballentine, been like that for over 4 years now. can't even believe how it happened to me. tried so hard to be careful too.
when its time to, its time to go...
One of the most brilliant compositions ever.
Carol Smith Yes, yes, yes....
Carol Smith: This interpretation to it is diamond brilliant: the prologue is the killer and the crescendo
of it
Yes yes emphatically YES
He brings a whole knew view to Jimmy Webb’s imagery
As a young boy this song was very painful to hear for I knew exactly what the words meant and the length it took for the song to end. The only thing I didn't know decades later is that this song has a greater meaning now. lf you every been played a fool in a relationship you will know why it took 18:51 minutes. I will say this, When it's time to go, it's really time to go and don't look back.
I learned this song at 16,word for word,and sung it every Sunday on our way to bowling.A car lied of friends grooving on Black Moses.My Training ground for retaining lyriccs
Little drops of water under my chin, you could look at me and tell the bag I’m in, oh yea,
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful line.....
This song is so ahead of it's time...and it's such a fantastic cut by a genius. "Isaac Hayes" R.I.P., we all miss you down here brother.
It is not over until you don't look back!!!!!!!!!!!
You are so right I had to say good bye a time or two and it was just as hard as he is saying.
It is so HARD, but for peace of mind u got to do what you got to do it can't get no badder
TRUTH!
Roger that !🤔
Yes.
He was a musical genius because could sing and play music. It was his gift from God.
Yeah god made him so good
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@@carlilsetisdale41 hUh
Love ❤️ By the time I get to Phoenix. The 60 s in Up town Kingston best time ever in the Universe .That where Bob Marley had his FUN .
I had a young lady, she was 23, I was 46! She broke my heart, after all the love shown to her. But as I look back it was really me not seeing, or ignoring the tell-tale signs. And one day I gathered the inner courage to leave. Just to think after 10 years in a USP, I would need courage....the power of love!!
Isaac Hayes was the only dude who could pull of 20-minute songs! An absolute legend! RIP my man you are missed every day. Love from Munich!
Then you haven't heard the old Genesis songs.
My Father use to play Issac Hayes when I was young. I never new it would grow on me. He was great!
This is so beautiful. Almost made me cry for no reason. A very emotional song only Isaac Hayes could sing. Beautiful.
friend of my cries every time she hears this song :)
Danny Mack
It packs an emotional punch for sure.
Exactly my feeling, eye-watering every time.
we might not remember the event but the song opens the door for you to walk through and heal that hurting part by touching it with acceptance, with self-love. Just honor that part within you when you feel it. I'm glad y'all posted because I feel it too.
this song shows you when its time to go just go, no shooting , cutting, hot water , just leave that will hurt more
Your heart got to catch up with your mi nd!
@@samuelmahmud1909 Yes. Otherwise it will not change.
You Tube is the best thing that could be for music.
Andre Brown You got THAAAT right!!!!!!!! I found many a song on here, that couldn't be found anywhere else...youtube is my....WHEW!
Joan C. Thank you. 😊 enjoy.
Joan C. That's real life history
Sterling Martin The Bar Kays playing Live! Instruments for Issac Here!
Andre Brown its not that good for low budget alive musicians but yeh its kewl
Okay I'm an old lady and I admit it but I end up buying this album back in the day because I had no clue who Isaac Hayes was but I liked the cover and the title Hot Buttered Soul❤❤❤❤ and as the great Isaac Hayes says let's bring this down to soulsville😊😊😊
This version slays me every time I hear it. I go to another planet.
63 YEARS OLD OUR MUSIC 1960 - 1990 HAD GREAT LYRICS AND THE INSTRUMENTALS WERE AWESOME
yes sister!! testify!! Our Generation was the REAL shit!! so glad i was there.
ladymakini Yes sister testify!! Pretty Good....Put a smile on my face...
clay3play Amen 63
I was blessed to see the Geniuses of Isaac Hayes live in concert numerous times. Mostly at the Apolo, and the Beacon theater in NYC, and a few years before he passed in Jackson, Mississippi. Wow! The live concerts were even at another level which will never be duplicated, R.I.P. "Genius"... you've earned it brother, you enlightening all of our lives.
@@ladymakini for ever.
The vocals in this song are absolutely AMAZING! I'm so glad I got to witness my father with his 8 track and coil corded earphones singing off beat, 2 sheets to the wind lol. I'm glad they showed me REAL music!!!
That’s right real music 🎶!
That has withstood the test of time 🕰 !
The longest intro to a soul song at that time.and a nice throbbing Organ.. Light the strawberry incense. Fire up a bowl.Turn the Blacklight on and just relax.and enjoy the trip.😇🚬🎸🍷
YOU KNOW WHAT TO SAY MY BROTHER!
I first heard this song when some brothers played it for their white boy -- with a Red Light Bulb burning!!! Do they even still make blacklights? Gotta get me a redlight too!
My Man sounds like a plan !!!!
70's in Europe with Isaac Hayes & Al Green...Magical
To take Dionne's and Glens hits and completely turn them inside out, upside down, and add some hot butter to the mix you have two of the finest refined hottest "SOUL SONGS." Isaac Hayes rad-own!
I've heard many many Renditions of this song but to me this was the best one of them all he was the greatest
Fred Kitchen
Best version.
Fred Kitchen 4Sure Black Moses Laid It Down In Beast Mode.N Rap Music was Born Facts.
YES YES YES MY BROTHER!!!
No Question,The Greatest of All Time
Damn this song just stirred up things I thought were gone.
Aye SmoothdaHustla, I was a big fan of your song, "Broken Language". The delivery and flow of that song was rare and it was so savage....breaking crosses savage!
This song and a little gin and juice will make you want to move around.
You ain't EVER LIE!!!
Good driving down the highway music Take me back about 30 years
Black Moses is the fucking G.O.A.T.......LIKE IF U AGREE
Even Glen Campbell, who first sang it, even gave Isaac kudos for doing this great remake of this song.
IM 64 NOW THIS SONG WOULD BE GREAT TODAY ISAAC THE MASTER AN PPL RECOGNIZE THE BACK UP BAND THE BOMB GREATEST ORGAN AN HORNS NOTHING MORE CAN BE SAID
The tears were meeting at his chin - DAMN, that was some pain right there!!
Yes
I listened for it! Thanks! How 'bout when you laying in bed and the tears roll into your ears? That's some blue-eyed soul power pain!
Hell yeah dam
@@elilley6486 You are so right😣
@@khaalis9385 been there.just went through it again
Tragically, l can really relate to this song. It brings back vivid painful memories whenever I hear it. It's genius the way Hayes expresses this nightmare experience of the unrequited love of a betraying wife. But I can look back at it now with no pain. However, that experience of a broken heart literally almost killed me. It was like a bad LSD trip that I couldn't come down from that lasted for years. Thank God Almighty that time heals all such wounds. It's been about 23 years ago now. But I truly almost didn't make it. I will NEVER allow myself to go through that horror again. NEVER AGAIN! I look back at it now and I can't even fathom how I could allow myself to be so emotionally attached to a woman. My God, she was just another human being. And believe it or not I still dream about her regularly even though I no longer consciously think about her. I never had another relationship after her. Actually I'm not capable of being in love like that again. Romantic love is too scary. I was only married to her for about 7 years but knew her since we were children. We lived together for about 5 years before we got married. Goodness I loved her. Way too much. Lol. Crazy! But look, I can even laugh about it now. Something niether me or anyone else thought would ever be possible. Rest in peace Mr Isaac Hayes. You were truly a man of wisdom, compassion, empathy and understanding.
Darren let me tell you....I am in the exact same boat. Some years ago, my soon to be exwife shattered me to pieces when I caught her with another man. I almost died, literally due to all of the pressure.
I tried to reconcile but....well you know the rest. I will say I do believe I can love again one day.....but she'll have to be a phenomenal woman.
She wasn't just another human being, but she was your One Flesh; that is what God has done: the joining of one man and one woman in holy matrimony as One Flesh. The one flesh of you and wife was TORN ASUNDER by Adultery. Thus the insufferable, unfathomable, incredible, gruesome, pain. I speak from the other end as a woman who has endured that agony. Without God, it is Impossible to truly heal. Am so happy, so thankful, and so glad, that with God, All Things are Possible. Even restoration and reconciliation. I am a witness.
I pray that you have found a love that is true in the name of JESUS CHRIST amen
@@teri7206 Amen 🙏
@@shirleystreet492 🙏🏼
classic Isaac Hayes, never gets old
Winnifred Meeks STOP AT LUNCH
Never!
I remember moms playing this, and I still love this, this was on my mind this morning!!!!!
I’m only 25 and my residents asked me to play this for them I’ve been hooked ever since I wish they still made music this good
Isaac had a way of rapping/talking through a song then singing the heck outta the tune. Oh, I love this song.
Savvynlady
THIS is Soul. Pure, quintessential, soul.
YesYesYes!
What you said!!!!!
It's rawest, purest most naked form. This man is unsurpassed. A genius. A genius at 27 as it proves here. Best music ever
deceased, 2008. he brought so much joy. Moses waited for him at St. Peters gate.
1969 - Hot Buttered Soul - 4 songs in 46 minutes = amazing - 2024 still in my STAX of records
I've literally done this... Cried so bad... Loved my ex wife so much. Unspeakable pain... I miss my daughter, still, after our dissolution. But i had to do it, for my personal health.
The 70's .Will NEVER Be Duplicated. It Was ah Time Of Peace. People Would Go Out To Have FUN... The War Was Coming To An END. We Trusted Each Other, We LOVED one Another.... that's what the LORD wanted for us to do, LOVE one ANOTHER......
Thanks for all the Aids - 80's kids
Edmund........Yep!
Times have changed. They got alot of meds for Aids. You 2 get together and go get Help🎉
Woke up this morning from a dream, in it Isaac Hayes was singing You got me going in circles. Had to hear it again, now I am hooked on all these great songs. Back in the early 70's I would play them over and over. So much soul. This old white woman is still listening and grooving to this beautiful voice.
I met my first love 1974 to his music.
The Man knew what he was talking about God bless him his soul forever amen
I’m feeling this as a story of a woman in pain also moving on from a relationship who didn’t realize she would really leave him goes both ways 💔😢
Funny, this song inspired me to write a leaving song to be sung by a woman.
Talks an sing at the same time a Masterpiece an so heart felt a true Glassic an the orchestra that comes in with his voice Out Standing💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
I heard it first in high school so many years ago. Little did any of us know the life lessons it held. Isaac Hayes was a great artist.
This song makes me want to cry. You can hear the hurt in this mans heart from the woman he truly loved. Good ole school song!! 💕💕
My daddy had this album. I first fell in love with this album at the age of 4 years old in 1971. I had never heard anything like this ever and at an impressionable age, this album made me so aware of all instruments being played and all arrangements. Now that I'm 49 years old, I never get tired of listening this historic album. I approach my band with the idea of being creative and thing deeper in to the meaning of performing songs from a different angle. Isaac Hayes is my ultimate musical mentor.
Looks like he's wearing an Air Force uniform in that pic...was in the AF as well!
PATRICK BICKERS
Black Moses...Unlimited-NO one else compares💖
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Drums, Hammond organ, bass & Mr. Hayes' baritone...and Lawd have mercy...when those strings and reeds introduce themselves....you've experienced "Hot, buttered soul y'all"!
I was very young in the back seat of my parent's 66 Chevy caprice, speakers 🔊 next to my ears going to L.A
...the song 🎵 Did something to me. I still listen now. My brother took his life i believe over a woman maybe thier was more...However 💘 is real if you're sincere God is love
One of the most innovative artists that ever lived...
www.theguardian.com/music/2018/feb/20/i-didnt-give-a-damn-if-it-didnt-sell-how-isaac-hayes-helped-create-psychedelic-soul
The lyrics to this song rips my heart out every time that I hear them....
Yes indeed
Powerful💣
Sei un essere umano
What ever this man made off of this record he earned every dime of it what a great song
It's hard riding this (F) train listening to this track. Issac will bring them emotions out of you big time!
Who is here because they know that in the old days of terrestrial radio, D.J.’s used to play the long version of this song so that they could go to the “baffroom”?Yep…absolutely true. Here’s to Washington D.C.’s WOL, WOOK, WKYS and Mr. Hot Buttered Soul Himself, Issac Hayes!!!!! And I forgive you for play the voice of Chef on South Park. You are still “a bad mother-shut-your-mouth!”. And a complicated man. R.I.P.
This is what happens when a man with great soul interprets a sad country song. This is what makes America great.
Well said.
Sure
Recognize the genius of the horn and string arrangement of Johnny Allen!
John Allen and listen too the organ click 3 times or more !
7 times he left that women and 7 times he came back ...that's some kind of love. ol' skool we knew how to tell a story!
I believe somebody actually cried during this studio session. It's that real.....
No, that's just some good honey hole
A story and a lesson learned...
I think we all been there
7 is the number for completion as well.
Thank you Injury Reserve
Love this song!!! Has brought tears to my eyes everytime I listen to it. This was me when I left my first wife. Cried so much I couldn't see the road as I was driving away.
♥️I was 14 when this came out, now 74, and this is as awesome now as to then‼️♥️ The goosebumps “ STILL” come and memories overflow‼️♥️👏🏽🥰♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
I remember this 70's song. Didn't like it much then.
Now that we're in the midst of covid - 19, I have so much more time on my hands.
I love the song now and have taken the time to listen to each individual instrument. This is probably not all the instruments but this is what I found:
The violins were sangin, trumpets on point, piano resonating, organ on blast, flutes oscillating and the drums on target.
The musicians and singers were truly genius back then.
I'm in tears, listening in 2021 have always loved this version Thank you Mr. Hayes!
This is how i got me a copy of Isaac Hayes... Was with my dad to buy some cd's at a local music store, and as we walked in this song was playing. I immediately told my dad that we are adding The Hayes to our collection! My my my, you'd drive a distance of about 110km just playing only 2 songs👌🏾💯
My Mom just loved this man, she was the one who hooked all of her child’s on Great Music and Mr Isaac Hayes were our genius. Thanks Mom and Mr Hayes RIP❤
Every time I hear this, reminds of those overnight hauls my father used to have. He would play this in his truck. The song put me at ease. Mr. Hayes and my Pops are gone now. Born in the same year. R.I.P. To BOTH of them. I miss them dearly. Also, it would've been Isaac's birthday today. Happy Earth Day, Mr. Isaac Hayes. Rest well, sir...
i normally hate remakes, i really do... Issac Hayes is the only artist i appreciate & love to hear his version... he puts alot heart & soul in the song
Real music back in the day
When men respected women, love them
That close out cool down at the very end(piano)PURE GENIUS!❤
Raindrops of water meeting under my chin, you can look at me and tell all the pain I'm in!
Amen
Maybe Lenny williams expression of tears in the wells of my eyes measure up to the line you mentioned.
Pure Soul
That is too true, when he says “in the wells, in the wells of my eyes”
God bless you
I loved this track even when I was a child; my Uncle used to play this all the rime! Rest in Peace Isaac Hayes.
He was a genuis in his songs
I Love this song it brings out every emotion that I have. Makes you want to cry a truely beautiful song.
good
Mary Jones LoL!
Willie Gordon Said the tone death golem.
Willie Gordon you must worked for Motown during this time, still hating on big Uncle balling on y'all with soul vibration instead of blue eyed soul dreams
P Holmes I
Those HORNS, those strings, lawd Amercy!! it just CAN'T GET any better.!!
joycie, is that you?
Unbelievable!! Had no clue music could sound so good!
You are right, so much soul.
"I ..... LOVE MY BEAUTIFUL BLACK MUSIC!" 🙏💞🌏
Those Horns came in Strong!💪💪💪
My brother was a quadriplegic. After a car accident. So I went back to school to take care of him. it was 1993. He stayed in the hospital a couple of years when he got out I went back to school and took care of him. I remember he wanted to hold the joint on his lips to smoke it as to let him be a man. It was a very sad and hard times for me to get over the fact that my brother couldn't move nothing but his head. So I had my own TV show at that time. One day I was listening to this song by the time I get to Phoenix by the late Isaac Hayes and it brought back so many beautiful memories growing up in the 70s. So it took me 1 year to make this song the way I wanted it to be on VHS. That was the biggest surprise I gave to my brother. I put him in the driver's seat on TV. For one year I had drove my car with the camcorder in the dashboard through the rain the thunder lightning the snow the fall the winter the spring the summer. On the highway you could see the signs such-and-such 14 miles such-and-such 90 miles such-and-such 22 MI. And then I put those videos all together and I played by the time I get to Phoenix. I put this song to those videos and line them all up the way I wanted it for my brother. My brother loved it and actually felt like he was driving again after so many years of not being able to do nothing. I still have this VHS tape. It was a gift to my brother who passed away in 2000. I just wanted to share this with you to let you know just how much I valued the late Issac Hayes. As a matter of fact I played Shaft on TV back in the 70s. And the song was shaft. I had my daddies black hat black leather coat black pants black shoes and black cane and I played that part to the fullest. Thank you Isaac Hayes for so much great memories you will always be a legend in my heart. God bless you for so much you've done for so many people. Music and Joy. Carry on
Thanks for your memory. You memorialize your brother so well.
This song brings me to tears when I have the courage to listen to whole 18min. Got alcohol poisoning while suffering one of my first breakups with a live in gf. Was tipsy when I called late one night after she moved out. A guy answered and heard her speak disparaging of me . She used me because her folks hated me . Gave her and apartment in west village nyc, tuition to nyu and stipend to leave me. I lost it and drank 2 quarts of zebrovka vodka in 12 hours. Woke 48 hours later in vomit
Took 3 days to recover. Never regretted her leaving again. Thanks for the venting. It has been 50 yrs.
❤Both Ya'll
Wow that's pretty rough I am so sorry. But I'm so glad you're not in that relationship no more thank God. Thanks for sharing❤@@almiroff6949
You were a good Brother Stay Strong
@@almiroff6949You Stsy Strong My Brother
This brother is deep! My brother, Isaac Hayes, is one of the brothers that I idolized as a child. From his bald head to his singing, he and Barry White, are two brothers, whose music had a profound influence on my life, especially when it came to matters of the heart. (GOD -BLESS-YOU-BOTH). R.I.P. Isaac Hayes.
Well said!! I'm sure the guy who wrote this song, Jimmy Webb loved this version the best.