Soul pioneer Isaac Hayes was found dead at his Memphis home this morning. Hayes’ decades-spanning career began with a gig writing, arranging, and producing music at Stax Records, where he collaborated with David Porter on tracks for Sam & Dave and Carla Thomas, among others. His own recording career began in 1967, then really took off with 1969’s landmark Hot Buttered Soul; later, his work on the Shaft soundtrack would go on to garner worldwide acclaim and high sales, with both the album and its title track reaching No. 1 on the US charts and Hayes winning an Oscar for Best Original Song. Hayes later went on to act–he was perhaps most well-known among the generation born long after Shaft had left theaters for his role as the saucy Chef on South Park–and his official Web site notes that he recently playing himself in the upcoming film Soul Men, which will star Bernie Mac, who also passed away this weekend after complications from pneumonia. Hayes was 65. [AP]
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Isaac Hayes, R.I.P.
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South Park can fuck off; he’s always gonna be the Wattstax headliner to me.
Ain’t that the truth:
Oh man, and how could I forget?
‘One…rib?’
@natepatrin: @Ned Raggett: With God as my witness, I’d just finished watching Wattstax when my wife told me the news. Kind of a eerie moment for me.
isaac and b-mac were both very cool guys; sucks that they’re gone.
@NeverEnough: seriously, dude’s lucky to be alive! not so lucky, however, that he was caught with his “lady friend” in the car with him….
i wonder if samuel jackson is freaked out right now?? it looks like the curse of the iconic black man is far-reaching.
@loudersoft: I won’t mention outside of the 615, so I should be safe. Maybe…
@mommymash: Morgan Freeman dodged a bullet, didn’t he?
@loudersoft: Is it cool to make jokes about that, or is the entire westen half of our state going to kill me for it?
@BawstonSean: I’m not going to stand in your way, but if it backfires I’m not going to stand in theirs, either.
Even more eerie is that a new commercial for the Memphis Heart Clinic aired on Friday night during the Olympics opening ceremony which featured Ike running on a treadmill. Chew on that for a while.