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Isaac Hayes: Dead At 65
Black Entertainment, Money, Style and Beauty Blogs - Black Voices —
By Karu F. Daniels, BlackVoices.com [image] Just one day after Bernie Mac died , another black entertainment icon has passed away. Academy Award-winning soul music legend Isaac Hayes died in Memphis today at age 65. His former manager Onzie Horne confirmed to media outlets that relatives found Hayes unconscious in his home next to a still-running treadmill. Paramedics attempted to revive him and took him to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly after 2 p.m., Steve Shular, a spokesman for the Shelby County Sheriff's Department, said. Hayes, a Covington, Tennessee native, made history by winning an Oscar for ...
Isaac Hayes walks on by
CelebStoner —
The great Memphis soulman Isaac Hayes died at his home on Sunday. He was 65. Hayes will be remembered mostly for "The Theme from Shaft," Isaac Hayes by Joel Brodsky his No. 1 Academy Award winning single in 1971, and for his role as Chef on South Park . But he accomplished so much more. The bald-headed singer co-wrote R&B classics "Soul Man" and "Hold On, I'm Comin'," and his extended versions of "Walk On By" and "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" on Hot Buttered Soul broke new ground at the end of the turbulent 1960s. After suffering a stroke in 2006, Hayes cut back on live performances. CelebStoner attended his final New York show in ...
Isaac Hayes (1942-2008)
SOULBOUNCE.COM —
Soul Legend Isaac Hayes Dies [CNN] Isaac Hayes [Official]
R.I.P. Isaac
Straight Bangin' —
An all-time classic. Man, does this hurt.
Why not Bil Keane? I mean, the weekend's not over yet.
Radosh.net —
Isaac Hayes R.I.P.
The Fertile Crescent —
[image] How come all the cool brothas keep dying? In just 24 hours Bernie Mac died of Pneumonia (he was only 50) and Isaac Hayes was found dead in his home next to a treadmill. Both losses were sudden and unexpected, but since this is a music blog I will choose to focus on Mr. Hayes' too short life. Most people remember Isaac Hayes as the man who created one of the greatest movie soundtracks of all time, Shaft . In 1972 his work on the Shaft soundtrack earned him the Academy Award for Best Song and three Grammys, as well as the #1 album and song ("Theme From Shaft ") on the Billboard charts. While Shaft was ...
Isaac Hayes, 1942 - 2008
Termite Art —
Isaac Hayes - A Legend Who Will Be Missed
Music2Nite —
Isaac Hayes was an incredibly talented soul and funk singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, arranger, composer, and actor. He is mostly famous for creating the music of "Shaft" for which he earned an academy award for Best Original Song (the first Academy Award received by an African-American in a non-acting category). He also ...
Video: Isaac Hayes: Various Songs
Pitchfork Media - Today —
Isaac Hayes, who passed away this weekend, may be best known to some for playing Chef and scoring Shaft, and no disrespect whatsoever to South Park and wakka-chikka guitars, but his legacy extends much deeper than that. Shortly after graduating from high school, he started working at Stax Records in Memphis, where, as a member of the Mar-Keys, he played sax and keys on many of the label's biggest hits, including much of Otis Redding's discography. With David Porter, he co-wrote numerous hits, including "Soul Man", "When Something Is Wrong with My Baby", "Hold On! I'm Comin'" (this is how it's done), ...
ISAAC HAYES (R.I.P.) 1942 - 2008
THE SKY REPORT —
"Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. (August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008)[1] was an American soul and funk singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, arranger, composer, and actor. Hayes was one of the main creative forces behind southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served as both an in-house songwriter and producer with partner David Porter during the mid-1960s. In the late 1960s, Hayes became a recording artist, and recorded successful soul albums such as Hot Buttered Soul (1969) and Black Moses (1971) as the Stax label's premier artist. ...
Isaac Hayes on YouTube and DailyMotion
Moon In The Gutter —
I thought posting a collection of some of my favorite Isaac YouTube and DailyMotion clips was in order so here we go: Up first we have a splendid performance of his legendary cover of Bacharach and David's "Walk On By" from 1969: A killer live performance of another classic Bacharach-David tune, "The Look of Love" from 1973: Another clip from 73, this time a performance of "Never Can Say Goodbye": A spirited 1997 performance of "Don't let Go", the song which Isaac opened ...
