Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifty years ago this month, Isaac Hayes changed the course of movie music with his score for "Shaft." Not only did Hayes, 29 at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's hard to remember what came first: Catching the 1971 detective story Shaft one late night on a UHF station, or listening to my ...

Like its slow-building title song, Isaac Hayes' Shaft soundtrack took a while to achieve its reputation as a symphonic-funk masterpiece. He had broad access to the film's creative process, as director ...

Isaac HayesShaftStax Records1971 “Who's that black private dick who's a sex machine with all the chicks? Shaft! Damn right!... The opening lines to Isaac Hayes' score for the seminal 1971 movie, Shaft ...

Hayes made history as the first Black winner of best original song for the Gordon Park film — as well as the first Black winner in any Oscar category outside of acting. By Gregg Kilday Freelance ...

The film Shaft was released 50 years ago this week and heralded what came to be known as Blaxploitation cinema. The genre has a checkered legacy — and inspired Oscar-winning music. SHAPIRO: The film ...

From FoxNews.com’s Roger Friedman: “Kudos to Isaac Hayes. The great writer-producer-performer was back in form on Saturday night at B.B. King’s (New York), one year after suffering a debilitating ...

With its riveting orchestration, definitive guitar playing and signature sensual baritone vocals, Isaac Hayes' theme song for the 1971 movie "Shaft" not only became one of pop music's iconic songs but ...

Pivotal 1971 soundtrack was one of soul music’s best sellers of all time and earned Isaac Hayes a Grammy, Oscar and Golden Globe. LOS ANGELES, Calif. — In 1971, the song was everywhere. “Who is the ...

Grammy-winning musician Isaac Hayes, pictured here around 1970, died in Tennessee on August 10 at 65Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images Isaac Hayes packed a lot of achievement into his 65-year life, ...

Fifty years ago this month, Isaac Hayes changed the course of movie music with his score for “Shaft.” Not only did Hayes, 29 at the time, become the first Black man to win a music Oscar for his title ...

Fifty years ago this month, Isaac Hayes changed the course of movie music with his score for “Shaft.” Not only did Hayes, 29 at the time, become the first Black man to win a music Oscar for his title ...