Shaft (album)

Shaft
Soundtrack by Isaac Hayes
Publication (s)	July 1971
Label (s)	Stax Records
Format (s)	LP , CD , MC , SACD
Genre (s)	Soul , funk , soul jazz
Title (number)	15th
running time	1:14:12
occupation	Isaac Hayes - piano , organ , electric piano , vibraphone Lester Snell - electric piano James Alexander - bass Ronald Hudson - bass Michael Toles - guitar Charles Pitts - guitar Willie Hall - drums , tambourine Gary Jones - bongos , congas Sidney Kirk - piano David Becker - viola John Fonville - flute The Bar-Kays - wind instruments The Memphis Horns - wind instruments
production	Isaac Hayes
Studio (s)	Stax Recording Studios, Memphis
chronology To Be Continued (1970) Shaft Wattstax - The Living World (1972)

Shaft is a 1971 soundtrack album by the American soul musician and composer Isaac Hayes . With this album he achieved his worldwide breakthrough. He won several awards for the score for the classic Blaxploitation film of the same name, Shaft (1971):

• 1972: Oscar - Best Film Song for Theme from Shaft , nominated in the category Best Film Music
• 1972: Golden Globe - Best Film Music , nominated in the Best Film Song category ( Theme from Shaft )
• 1972: Grammy Award - Best Original Music - Film and Best Instrumental Arrangement ( Theme from Shaft )

The album is one of the 1001 albums You Must Hear Before You Die and the title track was entered into the National Recording Registry in 2013 .

In addition, the album was so successful that it reached platinum status. Isaac Hayes was the first African American artist to do this.

title

All songs are written by Isaac Hayes .

1. Theme from Shaft (Vocal Version) - 4:39
2. Bumpy's Lament - 1:51
3. Walk from Regio’s - 2:24
4. Ellie's Love Theme - 3:18
5. Shaft's Cab Ride - 1:10
6. Cafe Regio’s - 6:10 am
7. Early Sunday Morning - 3:49
8. Be Yourself - 4:30
9. A Friend's Place - 3:24
10. Soulsville (Vocal Version) - 3:48
11. No Name Bar - 6:11
12. Bumpy's Blues - 4:04
13. Shaft Strikes Again - 3:04
14. Do Your Thing (Vocal Version) - 7:30 pm
15. The End Theme - 1:56

Individual evidence

1. ↑ “Theme from 'Shaft'” —Isaac Hayes (1971) on loc.gov (PDF) (accessed June 24, 2018)