Word: hayeses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Into their songs, Hayes and Porter injected the whole experience of the black ghetto. Hayes' style, though, is much smoother than that of the ghetto blues shouters. In his throaty baritone, he sings with the cool, unruffled lyricism of a Lou Rawls. And the orchestrations provided for him are...
In 1964 Hayes teamed up with Lyricist David Porter and started composing songs for Memphis-based Stax Records. Then, as now, he could neither read nor write music; he hummed his melodies into one tape recorder, his rhythms into another, and left it to an arranger to combine them. In...
Hayes' most notable contribution to pop so far has been to introduce the "rap" into the top 40. While the organ holds a chord, Hayes talks for as much as ten minutes-or sermonizes, as in his preamble to Never Can Say Goodbye: "We as humans have a tendency...
Cult Hero. One night in 1967, Hayes and a Stax vice president got slightly looped at a party, and the next thing Hayes knew they were back in the studio. By the following morning, his LP debut as a singer, Presenting Isaac Hayes, was in the can. Nowadays, by contrast...
Black Moses, is a prime example. The jacket is an elaborate fold-out that pictures Hayes robed and sandaled against a cross-shaped background. The liner notes tell his life story in biblical language that begins, "And so it came to pass."