ISSAC HAYES WINS AN OSCAR FOR THE THEME FROM "SHAFT" -- WRITE STUFF TV
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ธ.ค. 2018
- On April 10, 1972, singer-songwriter Issac Hayes made history becoming the first African-American to win an Academy Award (Oscar) in a non-acting category for "Best Music - Original Song" for the theme from the movie 'SHAFT.'
Hayes joined Hattie McDaniel, who won a "Best Supporting Actress" Oscar in 1939 for "Gone with the Wind" and Sidney Poiter who was honored as "Best Actor" in 1963 for the movie "Lilies of the field" as the only black Oscar winners.
Black History was also made the night Hayes won his statuette with Sammy Davis Jr. becoming the first black person to be a host of the Oscar awards show.
This video will be part of a non-commercial series of journalistic reports on great moments in American TV history.
The copyrighted material used here is courtesy of NBC-TV, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, MGM motion pictures, and Stax Records.
![ISAAC HAYES - SHAFT @ WATTSTAX 1973 [feat. Richard Pryor]](/img/n.gif)
I remember watching this as a teen. When his name was announced as the winner, my entire family screamed. It was a big deal back then.
Not a big f ----ing deal, A BIG DEAL!!
@@shirleyzimmerman6527 ooophs.......my bad!
You really needed the "f**king"??? Classy-very classy.
@@leonardodalongisland It's been removed. Feel better?
.....we just had NEVER....SEEN or HEARD such black EXCELLENCE....that was so FUNKY on THAT LEVEL BEFORE...and when it WON....it just was a GAME CHANGER for POP CULTURE and BLACK CULTURE...
RIP Mr. Isaac Hayes.Well-deserved win here!
The way people dressed in the 70's ❤ what a crazy outrageous but innovative decade
This music is just a MASTERPIECE!!
Unfortunately Richard Rountree, who played "Shaft" in the movie passed away in 2023. If you like this, you will like Issac Hayes' 2002 Induction into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame performance.
One of the baddest piece of music ever
Even all these decades later, the orchestration of this is a phenomenal undertaking, a perfect choice and the entire soundtrack broke ground IMO.
FACTS!!
Both Friends have reunited in heaven. God Bless Issac Hayes and Richard Roundtree.
I was never fortunate enough to meet Issac! But I was blessed to meet Richard, and he was one of the nicest people that you would ever want to meet...
I remember watching this and thought it was the coolest thing ever. He deserved to win that Oscar.
Rumour has it that grandmother kept it in her outhouse as a toilet roll holder.
My mother made me go out and buy her the 45 version of shaft which I still own to this day, in the original jacket. It was the spring of 72 in March that is and I was in downtown Hartford with my girlfriend for the day we were shopping we had never done anything like that. I popped into a little record store on asylum Street in Hartford and purchased it for a whopping 89 cents oh my God. I almost broke the bank there...
I'm from NNNEEEWWW YYYOOORRRKKK specifically New Rochelle, New York where Richard Roundtree who is Shaft is from 🥰👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾❤️🖤💚✊🏾❤️🖤💚it was Shaft theme song day everyday in OUR City 🥰👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 bless both Richard and Issac's souls🙏🏽😘
@@evonza4858When did Richard Roundtree die?
Yes, 10-24-23. May he rest in Heavenly Peace 🙏
Now that's a hellified outfit Mr Isaac Hayes be sporting! Velour, velvetine, and satin were the order of the day in the early 1970s! Rest in peace, hot buttered soul!
When shows...were shows... And talent was rewarded for being talented.... And those days are long gone....Salute to you Mr Hays....!!!
Classic piece of music. Incredible arrangement. Powerful performance. And the chain vest was serious.
I went to Morris Brown college in Atlanta and the band played the hell of his song. I will never forget that. The year was 1970's. We had the best band in the world.
Look at Gorgeous ,
Issac Hayes and
Richard Roundtree ! ❤ 🤗❤
This track was so innovative then. And it influenced so many other soundtracks of crime movies and tv shows of the Seventies.
The most funky song I ever heard bar none!
I remember watching this as it happened and being in utter awe.
I was a kid but remember it too. Folks today don't realize, but this sound was totally new. Post 60s, pre disco/rap..... Jazzier than funk or traditional R&B. No one knew what to do with the wah wah pedal until this song. Haha, a few years later Peter Frampton took it to another level with the mouth harp. But at the time It changed music.
You're a very lucky man, Tony 🗿
Me too.😀
Me too
Do you remember the other song performances?
Wowee those costumes and 70s colors and his chains. I can dig it in 2024
Best Oscar ceremony ever ! I saw this when I was a kid.
Absolutely agree
I had just turned 13 6 days before this performance.
Me too
Ahh the summer of '72......
I actually saw the great man perform in a small bar/club venue decades later and heard that epic opus in a different stylee. Moments in my life to treasure. Nuff Z
Miss those days Everthing was so much fun Even miss that peacock
Good times! We were young!
What a brilliant composer and singer when I first heard the song on the radio I knew he would win many years ago wow! Bless him.
Very gracious by Isaac
Black Moses !!!🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
Great Isaac hayes thanks
I just watched the movie last night and this song immediately drew a smile to my face-especially seeing that the Bar Kays part of the "rhythm" section!--now to see this performance from 72!!!
The exquisite Mr. Willie Hall on traps...
I was 11 yrs old I love watching award shows
11? or 11 and a half? Come on, i really need to know. Everyone needs to know.
Issac Hayes was a brilliant composer and arranger. Thank you for sharing this clip with us.
Super.only 1 Issac Hayes
I like the floor model television.
Me to
They called them CONSOLES...and yeah it was frickin furniture ....they made a lot of heat too due to the GLASS TUBES in the back oh and don't forget THE HI FI big ole radio in furniture....PORTLAND OREGON SENDS GREETINGS
Thank you so much for this post. It was (would have been) Isaac Hayes' 79th birthday yesterday (born August 20, 1942 - August 10, 2008).This is a great moment in history. (Judy Dixon Gabaldon)
Watched this live that night, still a vivid memorable moment , and the Gold , the gold did it that night..
Do you remember the other song performances?
I don't know what was more surreal, the dance, the smoke, Sammy Davis, Jr. Or Ike's wardrobe during the lip synched song or when he got the statue.
I could only imagine the AMPAS stalwarts tapping their feet and rattling their jewelry. Isaac Hayes, you are missed!
Beautiful this is may be rip
Such a dynamic theme pure brilliance by Mr. Haynes.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Great stuff. Look at how funkier America was back then. The talent was better, the music more pure. As great as Issac was, Gordon Parks had a a huge unsung influence on how that historic soundtrack was shaped. For example, the iconic High Hat cymbals opening to the Theme of Shaft was Gordon's idea and so on. But thanks for an awesome upload.
The high hat was lifted from the breakdown at the end of “Try A Little Tenderness.” Issac Hayes stated so in interviews about the crafting of the song.
But, yes, you’re right. I have the Blu-Ray with features the 10 minute documentary about the making of the film including Parks’s direction to Ike and his crew about the type of driving rhythm he wanted as Shaft’s theme.
Get down Isaac !! 💗🙋♀️
Love this classic going back in time with the one & only Isaac Hayes!
Love this amazing dancers too
Was that a Bob Fosse choreography? Tell me that was Bob Fosse.
I was gobsmacked that he won an Oscar. Well deserved
Love that song, my sister performed in a talent show for this song. Won 2nd place.
I was 6 yrs old when Shaft the song and movie was released in 1971
Thanks for posting this!
Yes it's amazing
Sensacional!!!.
You reach a different level of appreciation for those that write compose for the screen! Thank you ! You made us proud !
I grew up with Isaac Hayes music loved him and his music. Big time I remember it this on TV.
I watched this live. I was 12. We always watched the Oscars back then.
Do you remember the other song performances?
Do you remember the other song performances?
GREAT FOOTAGE GREAT MOVIE, ISAAC HAYES BLACK MOSES , 1 OF MY FAVORITE MOVIES ALL TIME , LOVE THAT ERA , R.I.P MR HAYES BLACK MOSES
First time to see this performance.
Rip Richard Round tree and Issac Hayes ❤❤
🥰👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾❤️🖤💚✊🏾❤️🖤💚and my homeboy from NNNEEEWWW YYYOOORRRKKK specifically New Rochelle, New York Richard Roundtree was Shaft 😘🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽❤️🖤💚🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 bless his soul 🙏🏽😘
FANTASTIC 👏 👏 👏
beautiful memories. thank you for posting
Show, The Best Of Isaac Hayes
Still the coolest dude to grace the stage. Back when all skin colors could enjoy the essence of black music. Especially soul. Now it's hip hop, stupid rhymes and words that belittle blacks and their culture. All this while the forgotten greats musicians that were once the core of the black music experience. Marvin Gaye, Cool & the Gang, Glady's Knight an the Pips, and so so many others that I couldn't possibly name here, that are not excepted or played in public anymore.
WOW this is amazing & a true trip through the Time Machine. I absolutely love it🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Wow, this was three months before I was born.
nobody cares; move along, son
Awesome 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Legend !
A good hero always has his theme music. And is anyone since 1971 been as cool as Richard Roundtree in the OG Shaft?
This is the perfect place to wish black Moses Issac Hayes a happy birthday wish. His prize taught me what it meant to receive an Oscar
Wow, I'm glad he won. I use to like Bless the Beast and the Children.
Awesome
One of the best-all time songs but choreography and fashion in the '70's so horrendous (and I lived it).
Sucesso interessante até os dias de hoje !
Please i mean to offend no one. Issac Hayes , Sidney Poitier and Sadie.
Earnad their acadamy awards deservingly.!
Worked hard to show the whole world...that talent..knows no color.!
They are the most deserving intellectuals .!
1970s. Wow.....
❤🌹💫💞💗🌷💕🌟
Hello children!!!
BLACK MOSES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I believe the Academy woulnt allow the original artist perform the nominated song for awhile because the audience became unruly dancing in the aisles during Hayes performance.
5:17 "I got you...sucka!"- Bernie Casey in I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
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Mono áudio ?
Do you see that pose... ancient Kemet/Egypt. (0:56)
Eat your heart out Ryan Gosling. 😂
From a distance you can only say: >>My goodness, those clothes were ugly back then
RIP Richard Roundtree. Here's hoping you continue to be a bad mother...............
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You people like brass, and appliances.
Lip-syncing at the Oscars?
What is amazing is he didn't know how to read music.
Nor did Bach
Awesome