''The Isaac Hayes Movement'' is the third
studio album
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by the American
soul
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musician
Isaac Hayes
Isaac Lee Hayes Jr. (August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008) was an American singer, songwriter, composer, and actor. He was one of the creative forces behind the Southern soul music label Stax Records in the 1960s, serving as an in-house songwr ...
. Released in 1970, it was the follow-up to ''
Hot Buttered Soul
''Hot Buttered Soul'' is the second studio album by American Soul music, soul musician Isaac Hayes. Released in June 1969, it is recognized as a landmark recording in soul music. Recorded with The Bar-Kays, the album features four lengthy tracks ...
'', Hayes' landmark 1969 album.
Marvell Thomas
Ronald Marvell Thomas (August 22, 1941 – January 23, 2017) was an American keyboardist, record producer and arranger known for his work in Memphis Soul.
Biography
Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Thomas's studio career started at the age of 17. H ...
had come up with "The Isaac Hayes Movement" as a name for Hayes' backup ensemble. He modeled the name after the
Jimi Hendrix Experience. Similar in structure to ''Hot Buttered Soul'', ''The Isaac Hayes Movement'' features only four long tracks, all with meticulous, complex and heavily orchestrated arrangements. However, unlike the previous album, this time all four songs are reworked covers of others' material. This includes
Jerry Butler's "I Stand Accused", which features a nearly five-minute long spoken intro that precedes the actual song, and
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Something
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", which features
violin
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soloing by John Blair. The other two songs included on the album were the
Bacharach-
David
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I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself
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" and Chalmers and Rhodes' "One Big Unhappy Family".
Released in November 1970, ''The Isaac Hayes Movement'' spent a total of seven weeks at #1 on ''
Billboard's''
Soul Albums chart and remained in the top ten until the last week of November in that year. The album also reached #1 on the Jazz Albums chart and spent 75 weeks on the
''Billboard'' 200 chart, peaking at #8. An edited version of "I Stand Accused" was released as a single in July 1970. It reached #23 on the
Soul Singles chart and #42 on the
Pop chart.
Stax Records
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reissued ''The Isaac Hayes Movement'' in
SACD format in 2004.
Track listing
Personnel
* Isaac Hayes – arrangements, keyboards, vocals, producer
*
The Bar-Kays
The Bar-Kays is an American funk band formed in 1964. The band had dozens of charting singles from the 1960s to the 1980s, including " Soul Finger" (US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 number 17, R&B number 3) in 1967, "Son of Shaft" (R&B number 10) in ...
– rhythm section
*
Dale Warren – arrangements
* Pat Lewis – vocal arrangements
;Technical
*
Joel Brodsky – photography
* Henry Bush – engineer
* Ron Capone – engineer, remixing, remix engineer
* George Horn – mastering
* Herb Kole – art supervisor
* David Krieger – art direction
* Joe Tarantino – mastering
* Ed Wolfrum – engineer
Certifications
See also
*
List of number-one R&B albums of 1970 (U.S.)
References
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1970 albums
Isaac Hayes albums
Stax Records albums
Albums produced by Isaac Hayes
Albums with cover art by Joel Brodsky
Progressive soul albums