Theme from Shaft is a masterpiece, Issac’s finest work by far, not just one of the black greats of all time, but one of the all time greats. Outstanding music.
He was only the 3rd person of color to win by that time - Haddie McDaniel, Sidney Portier, and Issac. It's a crime that in all that time and all that talent ... they were the only three. But they were and are remarkable!
@@levonpoe The other nominees were not lightweights at all and were well-known as is the music they wrote. His competitors previously won Oscars (some more than once), Grammys. Composed songs, musical scores for Broadway shows, movies, Disneyworld. The fact that he won against them only highlights what an accomplishment he achieved. He beat out some giants in the industry. Well deserved Oscar.
Yes. Someone please post the performance. I remember it so well as a teen, cheering like so many fans, hoping for a watershed moment. Not because Issac Hayes was black. But because 'Shaft" was just such a bad ass tune that transcended not only the Academy and its in the box thinking, especially in performance that night, but opened the door for a new music sensibility that had long before taken over popular music culture
Heavy competition that year, Carpenters (Bless the Beasts and the Children) Marvin Hamlisch and Henry Mancini, aside from Dennis Coffey (Scorpio), the right person came out on top, very humble how Mr Hayes gives thanks to Stax Records.
He also should have thanked Gordon Parks, as well, who had more to do with developing the Shaft score than he was ever given credit for. And never sought it either, was willing to stand in the shadow of Issac Hays adulation. No accident, Shaft was the best thing Issac ever did in his career. Still, Issac is was a bad brother in his own right.
@Tyrome Coleman, he's not the first Black Man to win an Oscar. In 1964, Sidney Portier became the first Black man to win an Oscar. After Sidney, then it was Isaac Hayes (1972), Louis Gossett (1982), Prince (Best Original Score for Purple Rain, 1984), Stevie Wonder (Best Original Song, "I Just Called to Say I Love You", 1984), Lionel Richie, (Best Original Song for "Say You, Say Me", 1985), Herbie Hancock (Best Original Score, 1986), Willie D. Burton (Best Sound Mixing for "Bird", 1988), Russell Williams II (Best Sound Mixing for "Glory", 1989 AND Best Sound Mixing for "Dances with Wolves", 1990), (Denzel Washington (1989), Cuba Gooding Jr. (1996), Denzel Washington (2001), Jamie Fox (2004), Morgan Freeman (2004), Frayser Boy , Juicy J, & DJ Paul (Best Original Song for "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp", 2005), Forest Whitaker (2006), Willie D. Burton (Best Sound Mixing for "Dreamgirls", 2006), Roger Ross Williams (Best Documentary Short Subject, 2009), Geoffrey Fletcher (Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) for "Precious", 2009), T.J. Martin, (Best Documentary Feature, 2012), Steve McQueen (Director of Best Picture, 12 Years a Slave", 2013), John Ridley (Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) for "12 Years a Slave", 2013), Common & John Legend (Best Original Song for "Glory", 2014), Barry Jenkins (Director, Best Picture for "Moonlight", 2014), Barry Jenkins & Tarell Alvin McCraney (Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) for "Moonlight", 2014), Mahershala Ali (2016 & 2018), Ezra Edelman (2016), Kobe Bryant ("Dear Basketball", 2017), Jordan Peele (Best Writing (Original Screenplay) for "Get Out", 2017), Kevin Willmott & Spike Lee (Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) for "BlacKkKlansman", 2018), and Matthew A. Cherry (Best Short Film, Animated for "Hair Love", 2019). These are just the Black men that won Oscars...
Truly deserved... This was before my time, but I had even heard the theme song from 'Shaft' a good 10 years before I ever saw the movie. RIP Isaac Hayes
This is so cool on so many level. It's 1971 and all the other nominees were total whitebreads, though all very talented people. Then he saunters up from the back in his flamboyant outfit and thanks his grandmother. What a moment.
Knew he got an Oscar for best movie music score . It was a phenomenal achievement for An African American musician/composer/song writer. The news of the oscar was promoted when shaft Was distributed world wide
I love you Mr Isaac Hayes you are my favorite Singer and actor of all time ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️❤️♥️❤️♥️❤️♥️❤️♥️❤️♥️❤️♥️❤️♥️❤️💋❤️💋❤️💋❤️❤️❤️❤️💗💗❤️💗❤️
It was agreat moment as I think he was only the 3rd African American to win at that time. Also the dance # from Shaft was really spetacular that night.
It's no wonder that Isaac Hayes won an Oscar for this terrific movie as it's just awesome. Love the movie and music. Robert Bridgend Wales 🏴🏴
Isaac Hayes was da man! Shaft theme, Gandolf Fitch in The Rockford Files and all else he did. Just an iconic dude who gave us so much and not appreciated enough imo.
It would be very cool to see the segment where Isaac Hayes sang Shaft at the Oscars. I remember he was wearing a lot of gold necklaces, then came up from the floor in a fog. I could be wrong, though I'd love to see it.
When he rose up on that platform, this very white boy in a very white town just laughed in sheer delight and wonder. How could anything be that cool! With “Goldfinger”, the best movie themes I can think of.
MUSIC A N D LYRICS FROM AN ABSOLUTE GREAT TRIPPLE THREAT*** SINGER/COMPOSER/SONGWRITER, {MR. ISAAC HAYES🕶R.I.P.} "WE ARE AWARDED YOUR PHENOMENAL LEGACY OF TALENTED IMPACT...WHAT A GIFT🎁WHAT A LOOKBACK💫 🎤🎼🎶....❣🖤❣YOU'VE LEFT AN A M A Z I N G FOOT 👣PRINT ETERNALLY!"
@nicktidyman Even though I haven't seen it in 40 yers (since my early teens), I have a vivid memory of that performance and would love to see it again. I remember it as an opulently-staged production, infinitely more lavish and spectacular than any rendition currently available on TH-cam, and I think that visitors to this site would marvel at it. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that I, for one, would be willing to pay to own it on DVD...and I suspect that many others would, as well.
The Oscars used to be far more laid back. Heck, I think there are even a few empty seats shown on this particular telecast, & the hall itself was neither as big or as lavish as its current digs at the Dolby Theatre. They sure didn’t start the coverage at noon, and no one asked anyone who designed their outfit. It’s become a huge CF these days.
This was when we as a black community could get up and behave like everyone else with dignity. Talent spoke more than the color of our skin and we didn’t need to mention it every five minutes.. I remember how stupid Halle Berry’s acceptance speech was, she was screaming and crying saying she was the first black person to win. Emmm nope, many others had before her but she was so wrapped in that stupidity she blew her speech. Isaac and other black champions back then had way more class than the basket case generation does now.
Although it may seem nonsensical to some, I simply will not, simply cannot watch a movie with her in it anymore (although I may give CB4 another look, as I haven't seen that movie in years, and she's in it only briefly). The reason? That speech. Seems like I'm not the only one who feels that way. Ever since her Oscar win, her career has been in free fall mode. Since that time, she hasn't appeared in a hit movie that wasn't part of an existing franchise. She was better known _before_ her Oscar win. She claimed to have opened so many doors, yet with her idiotic ranting, she closed the door on her own career. Within three years or so of her Oscar win, she was accepting a Razzie.
@@markv1274 Agree 100% and what you’re saying is not nonsensical. I think the reason for her career downslope after her acceptance speech was because before then, people saw her as a talented actress, but after, because the ONLY thing she ranted about in her acceptance speech was the fact that she was black: directors then only saw her as a black woman with secret entitlement. It caused division, and she forgot that the award was given to her by a bunch of white people 🤣 Also, she was NOT the first black person to win the award, as she claimed: Sidney Poitier was up there way before her, and many others, the whole thing looked a bit ridiculous, and female. Sorry, I am a black woman, so am not casting harsh judgement. That whole speech was bad for blacks and women.
@@Salaam71 Yes he did, BUT not every five minutes whereas now, all of our black stars are just known for being black instead of their talent, because they just cant stop mentioning it in every sentence. Isaac did not do it in every sentence, there was MUCH more to him. I lived through that period, and this one too, you don’t need to be insulting, everyone can have an opinion.
Does any one know where to get a copy of the PERFORMANCE? Isaac Hayes performed that piece with the gold and the lights and it was great. I would even be willing to buy it as a separate thing. It's just something I've wanted for a while.
Haha that tux was something. Shame he did not give a nod to the great Gordon parks, who inspired much of the sound of that legendary album, and never looked for an ounce of credit. Rest in peace to both geniuses.
![Isaac Hayes - interview [July 1994]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/d9PRXTy0sbQ/mqdefault.jpg)
RIP Isaac Hayes (August 20, 1942 - August 10, 2008), aged 65
You will be remembered as a legend.
He died before my 10th birthday. 😢
Theme from Shaft is a masterpiece, Issac’s finest work by far, not just one of the black greats of all time, but one of the all time greats. Outstanding music.
Every track on that album rocks. Still play it today,
This soundtrack is one of the greatest albums ever!!!
billyboylb absolutely and you can hear it’s influence in many film scores and TV shows that followed in the 70s
Never knew he won a Oscar, that’s dope
me neither, he really deserved it, mans a legend!
I was 8 it was the biggest song in the world. Goosebumps at 58
He was only the 3rd person of color to win by that time - Haddie McDaniel, Sidney Portier, and Issac. It's a crime that in all that time and all that talent ... they were the only three. But they were and are remarkable!
In 1972, they didn't come any cooler than Isaac Hayes.
They don’t come cooler than Isaac Hayes, period.
It was no contest really. That theme is STILL cool.
I concur.
Who remembers the other nominees today?
Everyone remembers SHAFT!
@@levonpoe The other nominees were not lightweights at all and were well-known as is the music they wrote. His competitors previously won Oscars (some more than once), Grammys. Composed songs, musical scores for Broadway shows, movies, Disneyworld. The fact that he won against them only highlights what an accomplishment he achieved. He beat out some giants in the industry. Well deserved Oscar.
Very, very well deserved, this theme will always stand the test of time.
Soulsville is one of the best songs on the Shaft soundtrack, too. So goddamn good.
Again what a genius how did he do it? love you Isaac!
Thank you to the late and legendary Isaac Hayes for opening the doors.
ISAAC HAYES !!!!!! THE GREATEST !!!!!!!
yes!
that is incredibly badass. Isaac Hayes. a true soul brotha
He deserved to win more than one Oscar.
This song followed the childhood of many people, like mine. More than deserved award
Yes. Someone please post the performance. I remember it so well as a teen, cheering like so many fans, hoping for a watershed moment. Not because Issac Hayes was black. But because 'Shaft" was just such a bad ass tune that transcended not only the Academy and its in the box thinking, especially in performance that night, but opened the door for a new music sensibility that had long before taken over popular music culture
Mr. Hayes, you had me at “her prayers kept my feet in the path of righteousness..”. That’s ALL that matters....The ONLY THING!
Amen ! Inspiring 🙌
Chef what an hero !!!! sorely missed , rest in peace Isaac Hayes .
That was a breaktrough moment for us, as the people!!
This soundtrack is beautiful!!!!
Heavy competition that year, Carpenters (Bless the Beasts and the Children) Marvin Hamlisch and Henry Mancini, aside from Dennis Coffey (Scorpio), the right person came out on top, very humble how Mr Hayes gives thanks to Stax Records.
Coolest Bow tie ever.
Alpha song !
Humble guy,well deserved!! RIP Isaac🙏🙏
120% deserved.
I saw this when it was aired and I screamed!!! when he won.
The only song of the 5 still remembered today.
He's also the first black man to win an Oscar for a non-acting category.
BIG UP RESPECT !!!
And thats why we celebrate Black History Month.Issac Hayes is a genius.May him Rest in Peace.
He also should have thanked Gordon Parks, as well, who had more to do with developing the Shaft score than he was ever given credit for. And never sought it either, was willing to stand in the shadow of Issac Hays adulation. No accident, Shaft was the best thing Issac ever did in his career. Still, Issac is was a bad brother in his own right.
@Tyrome Coleman, he's not the first Black Man to win an Oscar. In 1964, Sidney Portier became the first Black man to win an Oscar. After Sidney, then it was Isaac Hayes (1972), Louis Gossett (1982), Prince (Best Original Score for Purple Rain, 1984), Stevie Wonder (Best Original Song, "I Just Called to Say I Love You", 1984), Lionel Richie, (Best Original Song for "Say You, Say Me", 1985), Herbie Hancock (Best Original Score, 1986), Willie D. Burton (Best Sound Mixing for "Bird", 1988), Russell Williams II (Best Sound Mixing for "Glory", 1989 AND Best Sound Mixing for "Dances with Wolves", 1990), (Denzel Washington (1989), Cuba Gooding Jr. (1996), Denzel Washington (2001), Jamie Fox (2004), Morgan Freeman (2004), Frayser Boy
, Juicy J, & DJ Paul (Best Original Song for "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp", 2005), Forest Whitaker (2006), Willie D. Burton (Best Sound Mixing for "Dreamgirls", 2006), Roger Ross Williams (Best Documentary Short Subject, 2009), Geoffrey Fletcher (Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) for "Precious", 2009), T.J. Martin, (Best Documentary Feature, 2012), Steve McQueen (Director of Best Picture, 12 Years a Slave", 2013), John Ridley (Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) for "12 Years a Slave", 2013), Common & John Legend (Best Original Song for "Glory", 2014), Barry Jenkins (Director, Best Picture for "Moonlight", 2014), Barry Jenkins & Tarell Alvin McCraney (Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) for "Moonlight", 2014), Mahershala Ali (2016 & 2018), Ezra Edelman (2016), Kobe Bryant ("Dear Basketball", 2017), Jordan Peele (Best Writing (Original Screenplay) for "Get Out", 2017), Kevin Willmott
& Spike Lee (Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) for "BlacKkKlansman", 2018), and Matthew A. Cherry (Best Short Film, Animated for "Hair Love", 2019). These are just the Black men that won Oscars...
i realize Im kinda randomly asking but does anybody know of a good place to watch newly released series online?
Truly deserved... This was before my time, but I had even heard the theme song from 'Shaft' a good 10 years before I ever saw the movie. RIP Isaac Hayes
Sometimes the Oscars get it right =)
R.I.P Isaac you will be remembered
This is so cool on so many level. It's 1971 and all the other nominees were total whitebreads, though all very talented people. Then he saunters up from the back in his flamboyant outfit and thanks his grandmother. What a moment.
Just Beautiful
Knew he got an Oscar for best movie music score . It was a phenomenal achievement for
An African American musician/composer/song writer.
The news of the oscar was promoted when shaft
Was distributed world wide
I love you Mr Isaac Hayes you are my favorite Singer and actor of all time ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️❤️♥️❤️♥️❤️♥️❤️♥️❤️♥️❤️♥️❤️♥️❤️💋❤️💋❤️💋❤️❤️❤️❤️💗💗❤️💗❤️
I recognize Sammy Davis jr voice in the background saying yeah I told you ❤❤❤ mr hayes did his thing… great music composer
BEST...TUXEDO...EVER!
What a delightful tuxedo, R.I.P. to a music legend
Soul Men is a great dedication for him! R.I.P Isaac Hayes...
Picks up Oscar and reels close to the microphone...
*"Thank you, children."*
Smile892011
“You’re welcome, Chef!”
STILL one of the best!!!! ❤💓❤
Isaac was a great person and a musical genius 😊
Hi, Chef!
Emanuella Gomes
Hello there Children!
Theme from Shaft is a classic!!!!
Classy acceptance speech!!!!!!
The Greatest Soundtrack ❤
R.I.P, Issac Hayes!
"Cabaret" was in wide release in the U.S. in February 1972. The ceremony, for films released in 1971, was held April 10, 1972.
Rip Mr Isaac Hayes 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿👑👑👑👑👑🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
Thanks to your dad (MHSRIP) for giving us the character of Shaft altogether. I love that movie. RIP Ike.
I had no idea he won this. I couldn’t be prouder.
It was agreat moment as I think he was only the 3rd African American to win at that time. Also the dance # from Shaft was really spetacular that night.
Best tux ever.
RIP Isaac Hayes
It's no wonder that Isaac Hayes won an Oscar for this terrific movie as it's just awesome. Love the movie and music. Robert Bridgend Wales 🏴🏴
Actually got a chance to see this Os at this weekend. It is on display at The Stax Museum in Memphis, TN👏🏻👏🏻
Isaac Hayes was da man! Shaft theme, Gandolf Fitch in The Rockford Files and all else he did. Just an iconic dude who gave us so much and not appreciated enough imo.
"..Monsters...there's monsters in the gelatin...!!"
"Who is the man who would risk his neck for his brother man". "SHAFT" Can you dig it!
Coolest song , ever... 🙋
proud
Very cool to see that.
🎊🎊🎊 " Congratulations " 🎊🎊🎊
That outfit! Only in the 70s!
R.I.P. Issac Hayes
RIP ISAAC!
Isaac Hayes le magicien de nos belles années 70/80 grâce a ses musiques
My main man Isaac Hayes love ya Isaac R.I.P
44 Oscar ceremonies and he was only the third black person to win one. Legendary song from a great film!
DISRESPECTFUL, THEY GOT ISAAC SITTING WAYYYYYYY IN THE BACK
That way he can have a BOMBASTIC VICTORY PARADE getting to the stage when he wins
I'd sit outside the arena if I could win an Oscar
wasn't disrespectful, he had just performed the song and had costume change
You can hear Sammy Davis Jr screaming " I told you!" From backstage!
LOVE "Shaft"!
In 1971, Isaac won an Oscar for The Theme Song, Shaft. His on stage PERFORMANCE, with dancers, WAS AWESOME!.
It would be very cool to see the segment where Isaac Hayes sang Shaft at the Oscars. I remember he was wearing a lot of gold necklaces, then came up from the floor in a fog. I could be wrong, though I'd love to see it.
I'm thinking that outfit was outrageous even in the 70s.
What a genius died too young imagine what he could have left us with if he had lived longer so sad.
Essa música acompanhou a infância de muitas pessoas, como a minha. Prêmio mais do que merecido
When he rose up on that platform, this very white boy in a very white town just laughed in sheer delight and wonder. How could anything be that cool!
With “Goldfinger”, the best movie themes I can think of.
Great talent, look at his cool outfit, I remember men dressing like that,make a great Halloween costume
If they would show the Isaac Hayes performance of Shaft at the Academy Awards. That was very memorable.
The Real Kinggggggggg!
Did you hear the people included in the category, pretty impressive
RIP my brother
MUSIC A N D LYRICS FROM AN ABSOLUTE GREAT TRIPPLE THREAT***
SINGER/COMPOSER/SONGWRITER, {MR. ISAAC HAYES🕶R.I.P.} "WE ARE AWARDED YOUR PHENOMENAL LEGACY OF TALENTED IMPACT...WHAT A GIFT🎁WHAT A LOOKBACK💫
🎤🎼🎶....❣🖤❣YOU'VE LEFT AN A M A Z I N G FOOT 👣PRINT ETERNALLY!"
Issac was fly at oscars
The outfit alone is cooler than every other tux in that room…
He came from the back of the theater....1972....
Hello there Children.
@nicktidyman Even though I haven't seen it in 40 yers (since my early teens), I have a vivid memory of that performance and would love to see it again. I remember it as an opulently-staged production, infinitely more lavish and spectacular than any rendition currently available on TH-cam, and I think that visitors to this site would marvel at it. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that I, for one, would be willing to pay to own it on DVD...and I suspect that many others would, as well.
ISAAC B PIMPIN'!
He should've won for Truck Turner too
One time the Oscar's did get it right. Too bad the AMAZING Soundtrack to Super Fly was completly ignored later on.
💜💜💜💜💜
My aunt lived in a shotgun house in Memphis across from his family.
The Oscars used to be far more laid back. Heck, I think there are even a few empty seats shown on this particular telecast, & the hall itself was neither as big or as lavish as its current digs at the Dolby Theatre. They sure didn’t start the coverage at noon, and no one asked anyone who designed their outfit. It’s become a huge CF these days.
This was when we as a black community could get up and behave like everyone else with dignity. Talent spoke more than the color of our skin and we didn’t need to mention it every five minutes.. I remember how stupid Halle Berry’s acceptance speech was, she was screaming and crying saying she was the first black person to win. Emmm nope, many others had before her but she was so wrapped in that stupidity she blew her speech. Isaac and other black champions back then had way more class than the basket case generation does now.
Although it may seem nonsensical to some, I simply will not, simply cannot watch a movie with her in it anymore (although I may give CB4 another look, as I haven't seen that movie in years, and she's in it only briefly). The reason? That speech. Seems like I'm not the only one who feels that way. Ever since her Oscar win, her career has been in free fall mode. Since that time, she hasn't appeared in a hit movie that wasn't part of an existing franchise. She was better known _before_ her Oscar win. She claimed to have opened so many doors, yet with her idiotic ranting, she closed the door on her own career. Within three years or so of her Oscar win, she was accepting a Razzie.
@@markv1274 Agree 100% and what you’re saying is not nonsensical. I think the reason for her career downslope after her acceptance speech was because before then, people saw her as a talented actress, but after, because the ONLY thing she ranted about in her acceptance speech was the fact that she was black: directors then only saw her as a black woman with secret entitlement. It caused division, and she forgot that the award was given to her by a bunch of white people 🤣 Also, she was NOT the first black person to win the award, as she claimed: Sidney Poitier was up there way before her, and many others, the whole thing looked a bit ridiculous, and female. Sorry, I am a black woman, so am not casting harsh judgement. That whole speech was bad for blacks and women.
@@morganwhite2176It's obvious that you don't know much about Isaac and what he stood for at all. He most definitely spoke on "race".
@@Salaam71 Yes he did, BUT not every five minutes whereas now, all of our black stars are just known for being black instead of their talent, because they just cant stop mentioning it in every sentence. Isaac did not do it in every sentence, there was MUCH more to him. I lived through that period, and this one too, you don’t need to be insulting, everyone can have an opinion.
@@morganwhite2176 What?
classy as always
Please check out Hayes' live performance of "Shaft" on the David Letterman show on TH-cam.
Does any one know where to get a copy of the PERFORMANCE? Isaac Hayes performed that piece with the gold and the lights and it was great. I would even be willing to buy it as a separate thing. It's just something I've wanted for a while.
hey you guys thats 'Chef' from South Park
CAN YOU DIG IT 💚🧡💛💙
Haha that tux was something. Shame he did not give a nod to the great Gordon parks, who inspired much of the sound of that legendary album, and never looked for an ounce of credit. Rest in peace to both geniuses.
Those are some fucking cheek bones
That's a great bowtie.