RIP Richard Roundtree (July 9, 1942 - October 24, 2023), aged 81 And RIP Isaac Hayes (August 20, 1942 - August 10, 2008), aged 65 You both will be remembered as legends.
I saw this film when I was 30. Back then UK cinemas still had continuous performances and I sat through the show twice just to hear Isaac Hayes' score all over again. Now I'm 82 and it still gets my blood fizzing. I hear the opening notes and wow! I'm 30 again!
Thank you for your service! My cousin was in Vietnam too, said he was a "river rat" (navy). Again, thank you. I know you didn't and don't hear that enough. Rock on!
Can you believe this wonderful track is 51 years old.........my goodness....and it still sounds as fresh as the day it was released in 1971.........long live Isaac.....a musical genius
Word!!! I was 12 when this hit the stage. dayuummm. awesome. YOU can thank Jimi Hendrix for that wha-wha-chucka-chucka..trheres where the guitarist on this song got that 'vibe' !! Play on Jimi...Shaft is a Bad Mutha.... and still is.. Like James Bond, Sean Connery there will ONLY ever ever be one shaft and that is Mr.Richard Round Tree. samuel Hell Jackson couldn't hold a damn, acting candle to him. Shaft is Top Shelf Class, Jackson is ghetto as hell!!
@@purplesamurai5205He means the legendary Charles "Skip" Pitts on Guitar. That famous Wah Wah intro and rhythm was his. Up there with Voodoo Chile as the first thing you think of when you hear wah pedal to this very day...!! Glad to hear it, Derrell. You should be..!!! th-cam.com/video/w-ytse0J0u8/w-d-xo.html
This was the first record I ever bought . I was 9 years old and I didn't understand half the words, but I thought it was the most amazing thing I'd ever heard. I'm 63 now and I still love it...❤
❤ Lol, I use to sneak a play records until I got my first radio lol we used to try to always win concert tickets.. Always close but never won❤ it was always about the beat never about the words..I had a country accent that I lost from running from the crazy people who murdered those whom I love...I'm dealing with a lot of mental craziness I cant explain ❤
62 and loving it!! My lifetime favorite song from when I was about 9 and still to this day is Papa Was a Rolling Stone! Look up the "longer" version and turn it up!!
I saw Isaac Hayes perform this song live at a FREE concert at the Overton Park Shell in Isaac's hometown, Memphis, TN. That night, he performed for two and a half hours...FREE OF CHARGE! Best concert ever! Thank you, Isaac Hayes. You showed up and showed out for your hometown.❤
@@charlenemitchell1499 that’s nothing she’s met HUNDREDS of celebrities at her old job which was being the head chef at the commissary where the performers ate at the Greek theater in Los Angeles and even before that she got to meet not one not two not three but ALL FOUR of The Beatles in fact when she met Paul and Ringo again when they performed they were quite upset when she was laid off
Or we could just appreciate all of the incredible season musicians who have gifted us with tracks like these. We don't have to make "special categories."
My Dad played this me nearly 50 years ago.....i remember it like it was yesterday. It started my long love affair for soundtracks. Thanks for the memory Dad. Playing this today as a tribute to Richard Roundtree and to my Dad.
My Hero, I was 10 years old, and didn't know what racism was. We had a Black Family in our Neighborhood and as kids we looked up to Mr Thompson, he dress like nothing we'd seen before, he was the epitomy of KOOL. I know the mothers in our neighborhood secretly dreamed of him. RIP Mr Thompson
True classic , stands on its own regardless of time And usually cultivates new listeners when they hear it way down the road Exciting listeners every time they hear it Side note: iconic intro into a movie, with great music, camera work
Oh still sounds classic 47 years later, cannot explain the high this gives me to listen. Classic, class, class track and the film is gold. RIP Isaac Hayes.
After having been sick for a long time I coincidentally started listening to Shaft. I had already lost my faith in ever regaining my energy, love for life and fun, but I started dancing, felt like being reborn! and full of fun and positive energy. Thanks, Isaac,! ❤
As a fan of the movie and the Actor, Richard Roundtree, I am very sad to learn of his passing away yesterday! His playing Shaft thrilled us all and we all felt that the genius of Isaac Hayes fit perfectly in SHAFT!
That opening scene with this tune playing.....Shaft crosses the street, full black leather jacket, cuts in front of a taxi, Cabbie honks and Shaft turns and flips him the bird...Classic.
Mr.O'brien this particular score saved many lives with it's unusual optimism. As to myself I enjoyed this in my dentists waiting room ,after a long break in listening. How it ended, cannot Tell, perhaps my dentists wife would.Wojciech z Obornik.
@@muffs55mercury61 I don't remember that time as I was just a toddler in the pushchair then. The music was played on 4 Tel on View years later, when I first heard it. 4 Tel is the equivalent of BBC Ceefax, by the way.
Shaft song is almost as old as me, because I would have been just 17 months old and in the pushchair. My friend Windy (Gail) was born in November 1971, around the Shaft release date!
I was a white 10 year old boy from Liverpool at the time, 1971 I got into pop music in a big way. I.loved this and still do. Isaacs Hayes, the man!!!😂😂
The best era to me in music no matter what category appeal to you. From Isaac Hayes, to John Denver, to Lynrd Skynd, to the Allman Brothers, Al Green, the Main Ingredients, Barry White, the Temptations, Spinners, and list goes on...Damn, thank you 70's era for everything!
You should check out knee deep by Parliament / Funkadelics ; arguably one of the greatest funk productions ever composed - compliments of known other than The Lengendary George Clinton. lol
Man that brings back memories, I was born in 58, so I got to live the 60's 70's and 80's at the perfect time, I am so lucky, there was no racism where I grew up, didn't even know what it was, we were just people back then, I don't know why there seems to be so much now, but still non where I live.
At age 60 and being an offspring of father that majored in music at an HBCU ( North Carolina Agricultural & Technical University)AggiePride. My father was the Band Director of a predominantly white school( Wake Forest Sr. Highschool in Wake Forest N.C . That being said he arranged this for the band who was about 100 members including flag girls and majorettes They put on a show at a Friday night football game playing the theme from shaft in 1972. I was only 10 at the time but I'll never forget that performance and the musicianship. Thank you Issac Hayes for the original composition and thanks to my father Robert Winston for transitioning into the Director that you became!
That beat,that syncopated wah-wah guitar,the orchestration,& of course, Issac Hayes.You can't beat it.One of the most well-crafted songs of the time.Those were some cool times.No doubt.
I lived it, it was at its best time a few years after the war was over. Good music, lids were $20, Boonsfarm Wine and 3.2 beer was sold to 18 yr. old's, concerts at parks and baseball stadiums with big name bands, sorry, I tend to run on. People danced and then the music died...……..
RIP Richard Roundtree aka John Shaft. Both you & the late great genius Isaac Hayes aka Black Moses made & continue to make us African Americans proud. Not to mention Mr. Roundtree could pass as my beloved Daddy's twin. ❤❤❤
I remember hearing this for the first time on the radio 1 and all these year later it's my favourite theme song. I can not explain how but it takes you there even if you've never seen the film, you can feel it, taste it, smell and touch 1971.
Damn, I just heard about Richard Roundtree's passing from all of you. I loved watching this show alongside Starkey and Hutch growing up, I'll have to give it a rewatch. Rest in Paradise sir!
Richard Roundtree, Rest In Peace knowing you made a difference in people's lives on and off stage. You made us stronger...you taught us to stand in our own power and strengh. Condolences to your family, sir. 🙏🏼
HAHAHA!!!!! *THE JOKE'S ON YOU, JACK!* This IS NOT EVEN THE ORIGINAL!!! This is the 2000 version from the John Singleton-directed adaptation with Samuel L. Jackson.
Isaac was DIALED IN on this. Totally in the groove. Owning it. This is BAD ASS. This is when music was made. I am as white as sour cream and I absolutely love this.
What a classic. This theme (and soundtrack) continues to mesmerize, as it has for 49 years. As a wet-behind-the-ears 18 year old sitting in a Hartford, WI movie theater in 1971, I was permanently "urbanized" by Isaac Hayes and built a John Shaft-like career in Milwaukee.
An incredible song from an extremely talented man for another extremely awesome man, and actor RIP Richard and Isaac, but you both live on forever cause of this amazing song and movie. Godspeed.
All of 66 years old and boy was I rocking when I stumbled across this masterpiece while searching Papa was A Rollin' Stone and all the great hits of yesteryear. Awesome classic!
"...they say this cat Shaft is a bad mother...SHUT YOUR MOUTH!....I'm talking about Shaft!...". Hahaha! This is the GREATEST spoken break of ANY song EVER. This line alone immortalized Isaac Hayes in the annals of Soul music forever.
One of the absolute best and most iconic movie theme tunes ever written. Isaac Hayes rightly won a host of Academy Awards for this track in 1972 including Best Original Song, Original Score. The opening bars with the one deep note lying down the whole track is atmospheric and moody and tense. Just fabulous and talent personified.
I was in high school when we saw it first time. My sisters and I were some Shaft dancers in pretend and loved it. Good, Good memories. Love to your art Mr Roundtree.❤ Bless your family.❤
I absolutely LOVE this song. it was the first 45 record I ever bought when I was like, seven years old. Decades later I was living in Atlanta and working for one of the major film studios in distribution. One night Isaac Hayes showed up at one of our screenings and I got to sit right next to him. There he was eating popcorn and drinking his soda and enjoying the film like everyone else. He was a very warm and nice person and I'll never forget him. A few years later I was working in production with a new band that came to Atlanta to do a video for their cover version of "Let's Do It Again" by Curtis Mayfield. He was a complete quadriplegic and could no longer travel but he sang a verse with the band. Like Hayes he was a wonderfully sweet and kind man who I could see was dying. It was the last recording he ever made. I feel blessed to have worked with both of these musical giants of the early 70's and to take part in one of their last works.
In the early 2000's, coming home after work, I ran into the great man in Midtown. He had his flowing gear on, leather kufi cap & the inimitable sunglasses. I couldn't believe it-the icon himself! I smiled & nodded at him & he returned the gesture with a smile. RIP Genius aka Black Moses aka Isaac Hayes ❤
If you got to grow up in the 50's through the 90's with all of the golden classic cars, movies, music & concerts from the greatest pop culture eras ever, YOU were VERY blessed!
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RIP Richard Roundtree (July 9, 1942 - October 24, 2023), aged 81
And
RIP Isaac Hayes (August 20, 1942 - August 10, 2008), aged 65
You both will be remembered as legends.
Greatest theme to anything, ever.A masterpiece
And also Richard Roundtree
Richard Roundtree is/was/is Badass
Jeez ,younger than me.
seriously two greatest of all time come together
RIP Richard Roundtree. You were one of the first fictional Black male heroes I looked up to.
Why? Because he was taller than you?
@@LoneLee2022 No. Because I was young when I first saw his movies. Your futile attempts at roasting are wack, so just stop.😒
Richard Roundtree.... Excellent Actor! And... like several others I can think of, very under-rated by Hollywood. Which is very sad.
@@LoneLee2022bro shut it up...
@@LoneLee2022Non plus petit, pourquoi ?
I saw this film when I was 30. Back then UK cinemas still had continuous performances and I sat through the show twice just to hear Isaac Hayes' score all over again. Now I'm 82 and it still gets my blood fizzing. I hear the opening notes and wow! I'm 30 again!
Keep going friend 👍🙂😂🙂😊😁😉🙏👌👍🙏
I'm 68 next month. Saw the film in my late teens. It is still magnificent
You too?🙂
Bloody magic sir 🙏
love this!
Saw this with my family before heading back to South Vietnam in 1970 for a second tour. At 75 years old still feel the beat and am rocking!
🙏🙏🙏 💯💯 ✊✊ 🇬🇧🇬🇧. 🙏🙏
Thank you for your service! My cousin was in Vietnam too, said he was a "river rat" (navy). Again, thank you. I know you didn't and don't hear that enough. Rock on!
This movie came out in '71, did you get to see it early?
70!? I wasn’t born until 76. Thank you for your service sir 😎💪🏽🙏🏽
Heading back to Vietnam for a second tour makes you more powerful than Shaft ❤
Even after all these years, this song still kicks ass.
shut your mouth!
@@jamescress 🤣🤣
That's why I came.
exactly
@@jamescress I'm just talkin' about Shaft!
Can you believe this wonderful track is 51 years old.........my goodness....and it still sounds as fresh as the day it was released in 1971.........long live Isaac.....a musical genius
It's everlasting!!!!!!
That’s when you know you were born to do what you do. RIP to the great one, Isaac Hayes!
This time i hear it while i wait to Party with my girlfriend in my Living room .Every time.
Very very true of what you said. The picturisation of this number in the movie along the streets of New York was a classic.
Isaac Hayes wow, I first knew him as Gandy on the Rockford files. That man could compose.
Anyone who says they do not like this song, is not to be trusted.
Word!!! I was 12 when this hit the stage. dayuummm. awesome. YOU can thank Jimi Hendrix for that wha-wha-chucka-chucka..trheres where the guitarist on this song got that 'vibe' !! Play on Jimi...Shaft is a Bad Mutha.... and still is.. Like James Bond, Sean Connery there will ONLY ever ever be one shaft and that is Mr.Richard Round Tree. samuel Hell Jackson couldn't hold a damn, acting candle to him. Shaft is Top Shelf Class, Jackson is ghetto as hell!!
Who would even dare to say that? You can never go wrong with an Isaac Hayes song, especially with such lush guitar licks as this has.
i am noreen from the UK i heard this at high school when i was 13 yrs old i totally revere it and isacc hayes
Ben, I say the naysayers are running FROM Shaft! The criminals are scared, brother!!!
Anyone who says they do not like this song is wrong.
Rest in absolute power Richard Roundtree (Shaft). You've now joined the incomparable Isaac Hayes as an ancestor... 🕊
❤fantastica
Rip Ricchard roundtree😢
Together again.
Iconic American legends indeed!🙏
100 %
Who is listening in 2021 . I’ll never forget the TV show when I was a kid and always listening to it on the radio. The 1970s are gone forever.
Spot on George, spot on 👍
This was the only song our High School Band could play right.
@@levonwolf1291 right on
I was 12 in 71 begged my mom to watch shaft I loved the music ♥️
I am listening too
Proud to say my uncle is behind this master piece 💯
Isaac Hayes is your uncle?
@@purplesamurai5205He means the legendary Charles "Skip" Pitts on Guitar. That famous Wah Wah intro and rhythm was his. Up there with Voodoo Chile as the first thing you think of when you hear wah pedal to this very day...!! Glad to hear it, Derrell. You should be..!!! th-cam.com/video/w-ytse0J0u8/w-d-xo.html
@@Guitarsthatkill Ah okay thanks
🌹
May your uncle rest in peace bro
The body dies. The accomplishment live on. RIP Isaac and Richard.
@@tomstarwalker No pretend gods needed. Just human inspiration and talent.
This was the first record I ever bought . I was 9 years old and I didn't understand half the words, but I thought it was the most amazing thing I'd ever heard. I'm 63 now and I still love it...❤
61 here and I agree, this music takes ya to another place away from earth
We can dig it!
❤ Lol, I use to sneak a play records until I got my first radio lol we used to try to always win concert tickets.. Always close but never won❤ it was always about the beat never about the words..I had a country accent that I lost from running from the crazy people who murdered those whom I love...I'm dealing with a lot of mental craziness I cant explain ❤
"Shut yo mouth!"
62 and loving it!! My lifetime favorite song from when I was about 9 and still to this day is Papa Was a Rolling Stone! Look up the "longer" version and turn it up!!
I saw Isaac Hayes perform this song live at a FREE concert at the Overton Park Shell in Isaac's hometown, Memphis, TN. That night, he performed for two and a half hours...FREE OF CHARGE! Best concert ever! Thank you, Isaac Hayes. You showed up and showed out for your hometown.❤
That would have been awesome for sure!
🦾🌈⚡️
My grandmother met Isaac Hayes before at her old job
@@matthewboyd68 l know that was a great time!!They got to meet each other ,God bless them and you too!
@@charlenemitchell1499 that’s nothing she’s met HUNDREDS of celebrities at her old job which was being the head chef at the commissary where the performers ate at the Greek theater in Los Angeles and even before that she got to meet not one not two not three but ALL FOUR of The Beatles in fact when she met Paul and Ringo again when they performed they were quite upset when she was laid off
Can we have just take a moment and appreciate all of the incredible black session musicians who have gifted us with tracks like these?
Or we could just appreciate all of the incredible season musicians who have gifted us with tracks like these. We don't have to make "special categories."
Ok...
Though I'm just giving props where props are due...take care of yourself...live learn and love...hard...
I think in this case it's fair enough to specially emphasize black, but of course appreciate everybody else too
@@Laceykat66 Thank you!
Love the slow buildup, the suspense. A composer w/ lots of patience, plays with emotions. Quite astonishing.
I admire his composition. He really plays with your ear drums.
It's funk and the big band sound combined!
@@chrisomondi4633 😆
👍
@@chrisomondi4633 omg yassss🎶🪩🎶💃🏽❤️🔥
My Dad played this me nearly 50 years ago.....i remember it like it was yesterday. It started my long love affair for soundtracks. Thanks for the memory Dad. Playing this today as a tribute to Richard Roundtree and to my Dad.
I was 22 years and a danz too this music😂
My Hero, I was 10 years old, and didn't know what racism was. We had a Black Family in our Neighborhood and as kids we looked up to Mr Thompson, he dress like nothing we'd seen before, he was the epitomy of KOOL. I know the mothers in our neighborhood secretly dreamed of him. RIP Mr Thompson
yeah thats speaking the truth,,,different but all good!
50 years old, and this score is still ahead of the game.
Definitely.
Kin brilliant!!!
So so far ahead...👊
Over 50 years old and still as good to hear as when it was first released
Damn right......😎
@@steve20664 can you dig it?
Yeah and He had coolness the New shaft couldnt bring over He wuz harder
Better .
True classic , stands on its own regardless of time
And usually cultivates new listeners when they hear it way down the road
Exciting listeners every time they hear it
Side note: iconic intro into a movie, with great music, camera work
This will forever be a classic 👍🏾💯
Exactly
Yes .. a timeless classic.. this one no doubt.
Oh still sounds classic 47 years later, cannot explain the high this gives me to listen. Classic, class, class track and the film is gold. RIP Isaac Hayes.
We played this on band. I am 58 and it still sounds awesome.
I'm like you !!
Not a soy boy.
Sounds even better after a cone or three!
He is still alive
IN OUR HEARTS
This has to be the coolest movie theme song of all time. A true classic!
EVER!
I remember buying the cassette of the soundtrack and listening to it constantly on headphones. Music has barely been as cool since.
Bonanza?
Hawaii five-0?
Brady Bunch?
Ok, now I'm just having a laugh with you ;-)
I can't believe writing the theme to The Brady Bunch could elude anyone as being a joke
@@NeillR amen brother!
After having been sick for a long time I coincidentally started listening to Shaft. I had already lost my faith in ever regaining my energy, love for life and fun, but I started dancing, felt like being reborn! and full of fun and positive energy. Thanks, Isaac,! ❤
I love that for you. 🙂
I hope you regain your strength and live a long, loving life, Lucy! Prayers and ((big hugs))
As a fan of the movie and the Actor, Richard Roundtree, I am very sad to learn of his passing away yesterday! His playing Shaft thrilled us all and we all felt that the genius of Isaac Hayes fit perfectly in SHAFT!
Moi aussi ils me manquent autant que toute cette epoque !
Isaac Hayes and Curtis Mayfield were the best! ;)
Both classic soundtracks.
You can say that again my Brother, and don't forget the Mistro Big Brother Barry White from that era!!!
@@ericwashington4470 Maestro White! :)
Yo check out this freestyle to tha song
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in the 70's we used to play this in marching band and the audience would sing along. it was a blast.
We played it in marching band in the early 2000s too! Classic marching band number!
Awesome
Good times.
Omg so did we for halftime. This and The Horse.
@@jeansenn7536 and the "Stripper".
This is a masterpiece.
Yup
Agreed
Yes I agree 💯😊🌺🌼☸️👍
Right on!!!! And I mean it bad assss!!!!
No really .
I was 10 years old when this song was released and, of course, my friends and I loved it. Still do. R.I.P. Richard Roundtree! You were COOL!!!
That opening scene with this tune playing.....Shaft crosses the street, full black leather jacket, cuts in front of a taxi, Cabbie honks and Shaft turns and flips him the bird...Classic.
In deed.
Brown!😂
Sounds to me like Rose Royce ripped a little Shaft off for "Car Wash". Didn't notice at the time, but now seems obvious.
Mr.O'brien this particular score saved many lives with it's unusual optimism. As to myself I enjoyed this in my dentists waiting room ,after a long break in listening. How it ended, cannot Tell, perhaps my dentists wife would.Wojciech z Obornik.
@@illadrobici Norman Whitfield surely did
Before black panther,before blade,before django,John shaft was the first black superhero to hit the big screen. This movie revolutionize cinema.
Yes, so true.
@@conradford7493 Chadwick Boseman would have been perfect to play this ' 70s character.
Undeniably larger than life, but does Shaft really qualify as a "superhero"?
Fun fact: Quentin Tarantino intended Django and Hildi von Shaft to be John Shaft's ancestors.
good song by gandolph finch, hayes character in the Rockford files, did ,the movie revolutionize cinema, ? no
This song still sounds as great as it did when it was released in November of 1971.
Given what today passes as 'music', this sounds even better now than it did then.
I remember that time. Song never gets old or dated.
@@muffs55mercury61 I don't remember that time as I was just a toddler in the pushchair then. The music was played on 4 Tel on View years later, when I first heard it. 4 Tel is the equivalent of BBC Ceefax, by the way.
Shaft song is almost as old as me, because I would have been just 17 months old and in the pushchair. My friend Windy (Gail) was born in November 1971, around the Shaft release date!
j avais 2 ans
😂😂😂
terrible morceau
The best groove guitar performance..with a background orchestra . Never such a beautiful thing was done from those days = THE MUSIC ..for real.
Yes, "Real music." Very little sounds touches me these days. Maybe too much politics in the business, or very little talent. God forbid Swift.
There will never a piece of music like that ever again.......ever.......brilliant
I'm so glad they didn't redo the song for the remake. You just don't get better than this.
peter withers I totally agree.
The 70's music will always be around for eternity
Isaac Hayes knew that nature of John Shaft and defined him in song.
I hear you, brother.
I was a white 10 year old boy from Liverpool at the time, 1971 I got into pop music in a big way. I.loved this and still do. Isaacs Hayes, the man!!!😂😂
Just wondering: Are you STILL a White 10 year-,old boy?
Right on ❤
@@dme1016😂😂😂
RIP Issac Hayes. Your music will always live on, and NEVER be forgotten.
Long live chef
@@paulk.794 -Hello, children!
--Hi, Chef!
Damn Right
Masterpiece 👍👍👍👍💯💯💯❤ .... Salutations from Paris France 🇨🇵
As a 120lb, 5’3” woman, when I play this, I feel like I’m 6’2”, 180 and full of power.
Love the symphony.
How heavy are you in stones? We weigh in stones AND pounds.
1971👍💥🍒👌
Don’t forget the thick puffy Afro
you need to loose weight
@@angelacooper2661 8 1/2 stone.
The 1970s officially began five seconds into this track.
Check out this freestyle to it
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@@johnmatthews425 🔥🔥
Be nice to relive that decade or live it for the first time. It was my childhood but I would have liked to see how it would unfold as my 20's.
@@kevincampbell5785 yes I relate to this comment
50 years - and this still rocks!!
I always loved this song
Personally I don't care what anyone else thinks
Personally, I don't care what you love but just thought it was vitally important to let you know..
Yu DAMN right.
Be loud and proud..there’s only one you..🇨🇦
Está música le encuentras sentido solo si la llevas en las venas
The best era to me in music no matter what category appeal to you. From Isaac Hayes, to John Denver, to Lynrd Skynd, to the Allman Brothers, Al Green, the Main Ingredients, Barry White, the Temptations, Spinners, and list goes on...Damn, thank you 70's era for everything!
You can't beat the seventy for all music.
70's rap was trash compared to now
@@conradford7493 70's country music was trash compared to the 90's & 2000's
70's rock n roll was nice but its got nothing on 80's rock n roll
Hell yeah great music never gets old or goes outta style
In 1971, I remember getting into a friend's car. He had a new cassette play & it was blaring! With this tune! It sounded GREAT!!
71 was an awesome year
I was born in the year 1971
I had the 8-Track....lol
This song is a masterpiece!!!
Too bad he was a wife beater and Scientologist.!
@@richardwhite4067
Issac Hayes was a music Maestro.
😘
an Oscar winner
Marcos Noriega RIGHT ON
I'm a white boy.......but I love this song and always liked Richard Roundtree and Issac hayes RIP guys, we didn't forget ya.
you black ,now!! lol
You don't have to be black to like this song!
@@kristianwilley7289 just gotta have soul....:O)
I loved growing up in the ’70'S. The music was the best!!
+Jenny Corridori I agree. They just don't make 'em like that anymore.
The 1970,s we're not only fun, but you could listen and do anything you wanted.
Wasn't that a great time to grow up??? Such a different time than now.
Me, too. I'm one seriously pale dude... and I love funk!
You should check out knee deep by Parliament / Funkadelics ; arguably one of the greatest funk productions ever composed - compliments of known other than The Lengendary George Clinton. lol
This kicked my ass when I was 11 now that I'm 60 it's still kicking it!!!!!
Man that brings back memories, I was born in 58, so I got to live the 60's 70's and 80's at the perfect time, I am so lucky, there was no racism where I grew up, didn't even know what it was, we were just people back then, I don't know why there seems to be so much now, but still non where I live.
Das freut mich sehr für sie und ihre Familie so soll es sein🙏💓🕊️liebe Grüße aus Germany
Shaft, He was a black private dick for hire! DIG IT 😂
BrianMooney, ty for that. I am only 65. But this music is so fantastic. How can you not listen to it over and over!!
This will never be surpassed, a truly epic piece of music, given to us through the genius of Mr Issac Hayes!
Outfuckingstanding music. No it's, ands, or buts. Top ten in every way
Absolutely!!👏🏾👏🏾
Who is the man that would risk his neck for his brother, man? (Shaft)
Can ya dig it?
tres tres bon very good
Damn Right
Damn Right
Diane Wiegel. SHAFT
They say he's a bad motherfucker.
This Theme will never grow old; This is SHAFT.
Nearly 50 years, and Shaft remains a bad mother...….
Damn Right!!!!!!!!!!!!
Shut yo mouth. ..lol.
Always😎.Where's the transmission?
You’re damn right❗️
This is so groovy ,bring it on that funky music i just love
At age 60 and being an offspring of father that majored in music at an HBCU ( North Carolina Agricultural & Technical University)AggiePride. My father was the Band Director of a predominantly white school( Wake Forest Sr. Highschool in Wake Forest N.C
. That being said he arranged this for the band who was about 100 members including flag girls and majorettes
They put on a show at a Friday night football game playing the theme from shaft in 1972. I was only 10 at the time but I'll never forget that performance and the musicianship. Thank you Issac Hayes for the original composition and thanks to my father Robert Winston for transitioning into the Director that you became!
RIP Richard Roundtree and Isaac Hayes
You both will remembered as a legends
Thank you for everything
Enjoy in heaven 🙏🏾🕊️❤️
5.8 million viewers we all have something in common, THIS MASTERPIECE
Good Music is timeless , as is the theme from SHATF & Isaac Hayes.
8.5 now :D
Over 10 million now!
Rest in Peace Shaft. I always loved this theme. Still have it on a 45.
I quite Cafe Regio on the B side as well !
This is real music; genius, never gets old.
That beat,that syncopated wah-wah guitar,the orchestration,& of course, Issac Hayes.You can't beat it.One of the most well-crafted songs of the time.Those were some cool times.No doubt.
I lived it, it was at its best time a few years after the war was over. Good music, lids were $20, Boonsfarm Wine and 3.2 beer was sold to 18 yr. old's, concerts at parks and baseball stadiums with big name bands, sorry, I tend to run on. People danced and then the music died...……..
Issac H. won the Oscar for this theme..
Rita Anne Yes he did this along with SUPERFLY was the best musical soundtrack of the ' 70s
RitaAnne As he should have!
Isaac Hayes won the Oscar... Everyone else got the SHAFT! 🤣
He also should have won for best original score. But he did not.
IT DESERVES 10 OSCARS
RIP Richard Roundtree aka John Shaft. Both you & the late great genius Isaac Hayes aka Black Moses made & continue to make us African Americans proud. Not to mention Mr. Roundtree could pass as my beloved Daddy's twin. ❤❤❤
One of the greatest theme songs ever!
IT is the greatest theme song.
The best
It's Autumn of 2022, I'm drinking wine 🍷 at home and Isaac is giving me goosebumps yet again 👍
Every good hero needs a theme song.
I’m a get you Sucka! lol 👍🏾
J'adore cet air! Cette année là, j'allais danser au Thiffany's à Canet Plage. Souvenirs, souvenirs d'un autre temps.
I remember hearing this for the first time on the radio 1 and all these year later it's my favourite theme song. I can not explain how but it takes you there even if you've never seen the film, you can feel it, taste it, smell and touch 1971.
It was a different world back then. Different indeed.
I was 11 when this was in the charts brilliant but like you have never seen the series but the music just sums up everything about the 70's for me
Liz Preston I have to confess also that it's the best song to get up with in the morning, you go to work feeling like a boss lol.
reminds me of NYC IN 70s ...42 ST ....HARLEM
This is an absolute classic and deserved the academy award it got. Richard Roundtree was perfect in this movie.....
............It remains a big mother.....
@@juliaflo3172 Shutcho mouth......SHAFT!
Damn, I just heard about Richard Roundtree's passing from all of you. I loved watching this show alongside Starkey and Hutch growing up, I'll have to give it a rewatch. Rest in Paradise sir!
Richard Roundtree, Rest In Peace knowing you made a difference in people's lives on and off stage. You made us stronger...you taught us to stand in our own power and strengh.
Condolences to your family, sir. 🙏🏼
Timeless, no remix will ever beat this original. Truly fantastic. So many memories.
Yes
That' true, but gotta love this too - th-cam.com/video/NlMT-oEIQuo/w-d-xo.html
HAHAHA!!!!! *THE JOKE'S ON YOU, JACK!*
This IS NOT EVEN THE ORIGINAL!!! This is the 2000 version from the
John Singleton-directed adaptation with Samuel L. Jackson.
@@DLCOrganization Thank you for pointing that out.
Isaac was DIALED IN on this. Totally in the groove. Owning it. This is BAD ASS. This is when music was made. I am as white as sour cream and I absolutely love this.
I was 11 years old when this song came out I'm 63 now and this mash hit classic steal sounds awesome!!
after all these years, i still love this song.
Incredible outpouring of pure funk. And after 50 years has stood the test of time, 😎👍👍
What a classic. This theme (and soundtrack) continues to mesmerize, as it has for 49 years. As a wet-behind-the-ears 18 year old sitting in a Hartford, WI movie theater in 1971, I was permanently "urbanized" by Isaac Hayes and built a John Shaft-like career in Milwaukee.
This is not only just a great song and movie theme, it's a masterpiece of music composition and arrangement and a National art treasure.
And production
If you ever heard it, you never forgot.
This marked my high school graduation year.
Good call Malcolm. I'm in agreement.
An incredible song from an extremely talented man for another extremely awesome man, and actor RIP Richard and Isaac, but you both live on forever cause of this amazing song and movie. Godspeed.
The #1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 on the day I was born.
secpd You're damn right.
Heard this song in hong Kong 1972
When did it come out?
I was in the last two years in high school, this was my coming out song, really my cherry had not been popped, but still a great song!
secpd Not bad.
An absolutely iconic film soundtrack
Masterpiece. Powerful instrumental and impressive vocals.
All of 66 years old and boy was I rocking when I stumbled across this masterpiece while searching Papa was A Rollin' Stone and all the great hits of yesteryear. Awesome classic!
"...they say this cat Shaft is a bad mother...SHUT YOUR MOUTH!....I'm talking about Shaft!...". Hahaha! This is the GREATEST spoken break of ANY song EVER. This line alone immortalized Isaac Hayes in the annals of Soul music forever.
yes.....yes....yes.........lol
Indeed!
agreed!
and done without the f-word!!
"...well, he can dig it!"
Real music, real instruments, and a real classic! 🙌
Black private dick on a mission, shaft 😜
One of the absolute best and most iconic movie theme tunes ever written. Isaac Hayes rightly won a host of Academy Awards for this track in 1972 including Best Original Song, Original Score. The opening bars with the one deep note lying down the whole track is atmospheric and moody and tense. Just fabulous and talent personified.
Timeless masterpiece! Condolences!💐
God Bless Issac Hayes and Richard Roundtree.👑👑🙏
Play this really loud. Let the neighbors call the cops. Then watch as the cops start to boogie in front of your house.
Damn right! Good idea. Iĺl try. Can U dig it?
@Antoine Gordon Hast du Blei gekifft, oda wat?
Facts LOOOL
They'll arrest the neighbor for complaining about this shit 🔥
LMAO WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
51 years old and this song, like the film and its soundtrack, remains timeless.
Looking at the comments on this makes me feel great, all nationalities enjoyed this track. Love you Isaac Hayes
I was in high school when we saw it first time. My sisters and I were some Shaft dancers in pretend and loved it. Good, Good memories. Love to your art Mr Roundtree.❤ Bless your family.❤
I absolutely LOVE this song. it was the first 45 record I ever bought when I was like, seven years old. Decades later I was living in Atlanta and working for one of the major film studios in distribution. One night Isaac Hayes showed up at one of our screenings and I got to sit right next to him. There he was eating popcorn and drinking his soda and enjoying the film like everyone else. He was a very warm and nice person and I'll never forget him.
A few years later I was working in production with a new band that came to Atlanta to do a video for their cover version of "Let's Do It Again" by Curtis Mayfield. He was a complete quadriplegic and could no longer travel but he sang a verse with the band. Like Hayes he was a wonderfully sweet and kind man who I could see was dying. It was the last recording he ever made. I feel blessed to have worked with both of these musical giants of the early 70's and to take part in one of their last works.
You DO realize that THIS is the 2000 version of the "Shaft" theme song, right?
This song will never get old! A true classic!
In the early 2000's, coming home after work, I ran into the great man in Midtown. He had his flowing gear on, leather kufi cap & the inimitable sunglasses. I couldn't believe it-the icon himself! I smiled & nodded at him & he returned the gesture with a smile. RIP Genius aka Black Moses aka Isaac Hayes ❤
The smile is how one's god sees another. RIP Black Moses.
I met him too! He was very cool.
If you got to grow up in the 50's through the 90's with all of the golden classic cars, movies, music & concerts from the greatest pop culture eras ever, YOU were VERY blessed!
Love all the films and music! Can’t get enough of it! Never gets old!!!
I'm only 36 but my mom used to play 70's/80's funk/soul music when I was a kid. I can't help but return listening to the real music!
Legendary! The percussion intro is so unique, and without equal; and that's before the lyrics even start. 🎼👏🏾🌟❤
That's past the 1/2 way point, it is SO good
The quintessential ‘70’s track - thank you. Still stands up as a great musical production piece. Love if. JaneR
I was 18 when I saw this in the UK. Next morning when straight to the record shop to buy the soundtrack. Absolutely superb
Richard Roundtree e Isaac Hayes, descansen en paz y gracias por haber inspirado a generaciones😢
Isaac hayes give to the mankind a masterpiece. From Perú, South America for share this.
Wow I love it. Cant believe its that old. I am 55 and this was my brother and sister time. What a movie