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Last summer in Watts, the Stax records organization sponsored a free concert for 100,000 black citizens, who came to Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for a day of soul and solidarity. The performers were under contract to Stax, so their appearances were in the nature of command performances. They all showed substantial enthusiasm, however, and judging from this film, the crowd responded with easy joy-and with pride in being there and being black...
...last album, Live at Fillmore West (Atco), was his best by far, despite the questionable inclusion of such songs as "Whole Lotta Love" and "Whiter Shade of Pale." With a phenomenal rhythm section driving him along, Curtis displays his prodigious control of the instrument in the essential Stax-Volt rhythm and blues vein...
...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 four years Hayes and Porter turned out enough hits, like Soul Man, Baby and Hold On, I'm Coming, to guarantee them a respectable place in the history of songwriting...
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, a Hayes LP takes months to prepare-but, then, Stax is no longer presenting a singer, it is presenting a cult hero. Hayes' latest, the just-released
...three overwhelmingly strong influences in black Rock and Roll. Foremost, of course, is Motown. For breadth of talent, monetary and technical resources, cross-cultural impact and sheer volume of sales, Berry Gordy's corporation is IT. In second place and trying harder is Atlantic, the parent company of the Stax-Volt labels. And all by himself, James Brown, the Culture-Hero Who Walks Like A Man, occupies a discrete, if not always discreet, position that for our purposes can be labeled number three...