Isaac Hayes - "Shaft" | 2002 Induction 

Fabulous - I was 17 when I heard this for the first time, I’m 68 now and it still sounds just as good.

Those musicians deserve a big round of applause 👏 brilliant

The rhythm of music in the 70s - unmatched ever since.

Believe or not, that is one of the most recognizable sounds of the century in music.

I'm 70 now, but Isaac Hayes makes me feel like the 70s all over again. These were music makers.

This track won the Oscar for best soundtrack. Genius.

Isaac Hayes was the man who taught me that conducting could be performance. I've missed him.

Mr Hayes was born in Covington Tennessee. He made quit a name for himself in the 70s . His family should really be proud of him. I am!

Every musician is having a great time, the joy just beams through.

After all these years, it's still as cool as the other side of the pillow.

Isaac was a singer musician musical director stage performer actor absolute legend! Will be sadly missed ! Rip big fella!!!!

This song is a masterpiece. One of the best instrumental pieces ever composed. 🔥🔥🔥👍🏿

One of the greatest instrumentals of all time Isaac Hayes was a musical genius..

Talk about iconic. Anyone who was alive in the 1970's fondly remembers this song. P.S.: He looks great in this video.

Just right off the charts. I’m 72 and. So happy I grew up with such awesome music. Wow, never grows old.

Musical masterpiece

Whoever gave this a thumbs down should have their ears removed. This is a classic!!🎤🎶🎶🎵🎵

Brought a tear to my eye man. Watching the late great Isaac Hayes. 31 years prior he had completed this MASTERPIECE film score for the film SHAFT. My Mum bought this album in 1971. It got played out by all of us, even my brother's friends. BRILLIANT PIECE OF SOULFUL FUNK. RIP Issac Hayes. 👍🏼👍🏾👍🏽👍🏿💜🧡💛

The drummer deserves so much credit

This must be one of the finest modern/contemporary musical orchestration written!

Issac Hayes was one of the more underrated musical geniuses of all time.

Isaac Hayes....a legendary composer, singer, producer, conductor, performer !!! He wrote some baddass shyt !!!

Classical, funk, jazz, rock. Shaft has it all. This is one of the greatest videos on youtube. Simply amazing, legendary.

It is now 2024, this chronicle piece directed, produced, and recorded by the late Issac Hayes will resonate thru History, no joke😊Call on the Newbies and see if they can match. Shaft, the movie, one of the greatest in the '70s

50 years and I STILL dig it..................RIGHT ON>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!..........Issac Hayes.......the planet Earth NUMBER ONE soul brother......YEAH

The man, the myth, the legend: ISAAC HAYES!

This is the smoothest coolest, composition ever! I grew up in the 1970's; this epitomizes the decade. Isaac Hayes transcends all boundaries and gets right to the core of all people.

Isaac Hayes was a genius. This performance was mind blowing, and is still so.

This was FABULOUS to watch Issac Hayes conduct.

Issac Hayes was a musical maestro. His music will always be appreciated and loved. All the musicians on stage are incredible.

It is so nice to see musicians enjoying themselves while performing. I love 💘 it. Shalom DT

A stellar performance of this song (orchestra/band really pulled it off) after 40 years!!!!!!

Orchestral funky soul. Man, the Black Moses was ahead of his time.

An everlasting Masterpiece. This will never age for me. Outstanding! The Oscar for this theme song was very well deserved. RIP legend

Absolutely fantastic. Superb performance of a Genius Composer and musician. Isaac Hayes.

I have no further words here... This is the greatness we've lost, but were privileged to have in his earthly time. RIP Forever, Isaac Hayes!!! #RARHOF #OnlyTalkingBoutShaft! #DamnRight!!! #WeStillDigIt!!!

I like how much the band was feeling this track

my god it still gives me goosebumps!! Great Isaac!! Unforgettable!

The way Isaac understands every tiny nuance of the arrangement, a real funk master conductor, such great timing, and when he finally comes in with he voice, oh man!,,,,,What a great performance! & what a guitarist too,,,,,,,,,,,

The man known as Black Moses ...RIP ISAAC HAYES

Issac was a musical genius!

Whew! after All of these years....this piece still sounds SO good.

This is the first time I see musicians performing a song with so much joy.😊

Just fantastic. Its 2021 and all doom and gloom, and that's just the music. Wish I could go back to the seventies when I bought this record.

He is a musical genius that directed an entire orchestra!! In the early 70's my college band played "Shaft" behind him in the Atlanta! It was so memorable! Isolated loved his amazing voice!

Back in the day this song rocked, the 70's Baby, and it still DOES. Thank You Sir.

Wow! The sheer joy in this performance. And Ike's conducting is the coolest thing you'll ever see.

when I was a kid, there was so much great music that I was immune to greatness like Isaac. This is an incredible song and arrangement, the man was Shaft.

PARENTS!!!!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE GIVE YOUR CHILD OR ANY CHILD AN INSTRUMENT. THIS IS ONE REASON WHY.

Wow! I ♥️ this song! Nobody like Isaac Hayes! One of the best songs ever recorded!! So talented, sure do miss you Isaac!

It’s 20 years after this was done, and it just goes to show that great music never dies! It sounds as good today as it did back then, and while many of the talented artists from the past have passed away, thanks to the technology we now have, we’re still able to watch the videos of the performances! It’s a shame that many of the ‘younger’ generation doesn’t seem to appreciate this type of music.

I watched Shaft when I home from work. The theme song I can never get tired of listening to this classic masterpiece

I am stunned. That was the most perfect live version of any song I've ever heard.

Fantastic with all the musicians playing together. So beautifully written by a master, Isaac Hayes. You and your talent are missed by all!

Wish we had more bands like this... the 70's blew up with so many amazing bands who were extremely talented and gifted playing variety of musical instruments

This man Isaac Hays and Barry White had the sexiest vocals of my time deep and sincere 🌹🌹🌹🎼

To see all the pieces that went into making this great track...Amazing

The greatest intro ever . It's chilling how good the song is, how it starts with that guitar picking and builds into waves of sound from horns, flutes, strings, percussion and engulfs the listener in energy. Just great.

All these years later and this old man (74) is still livin in the lost reality of what LIFE is all about, that today's broken children will never experience like WE DID. Well Done ISAAC.

The coolest guitar riff without playing a riff and only using the wah-wah pedal!

I got the *CHILLS* & *FEELS* whilst listening to and viewing this stellar performance of an iconic masterpiece of 20th-century, American music. Rest in Peace and Power, Maestro Isaac Hayes (20 August 1942 - 10 August 2008).

Fantastic performance by everyone.

The LEGENDARY Mr. Isaac Hayes

When that song came out it was so far ahead of it's time! It still sounds fresh! Mr. Hayes I SALUTE! RIP!

That was just SPECTACULAR! Definitely the best Movie Theme every composed, it was the biggest song in the World in 1971. Isaac Hayes was a force of Nature.

Absolutely brilliant, so atmospheric, and so fulfilling, you can't beat real music' wonderful'

Beyond sublime, this song and the instrumentals behind Isaac are brilliant. Australia November 2022.

This performance of Isaac Hayes was great! I really enjoyed it! All that talent! And Isaac conducted the orchestra and sang! He was great!😊❤

Awesome to see everyone performing enjoying themselves. They know they are part of an amazing orchestrated song

Just incredible musianship here. A song that never gets old.

To compose a tune like this you are from another dimension. God bless you isac.

Now this is live music. Bands of today need to listen 🎵🎵🎵

EXCELLENT.........BEAUTIFUL.......EXCITING......VIBRANT........SOULFUL........🙂🙂🙂😍😍😍😍

The coolest, one of the best of that Era SHAFT! Was a hit from the start and a great motion picture.

Artists were really artists back in the day. A classic for the ages.

Masterpiece of aesthetic artistry. This is simple genius at its best. More lovely than the "mona lisa" herself.

As a young black man in the east coast inner city, this made me feel wonderful!

So lucky to see Isaac Hayes my only first time live back in 1975 when he and his orchestra did a show at Ocean Shores, Washington. A nice little ocean side resort on the coast of Washington State. So Mr. Hayes and all arrive on stage and with all that huge overflow audience and he calmly and graciously immediately says something like 'oh yes, we're here at an ocean side resort, but where are the curvacious swinging palm trees to be at this ocean side resort?" The overflow audience howled with laughs because we knew exactly what he was talking about. This is the Washington State Coast. Haha. Man. What a show, what a show Mr. Hayes and his crew did. Forever Isaac Hayes Dean Seattle

Never expected to find a Funk or Disco song like this in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Best Movie Soundtrack song of all time.

This is a masterpiece ,well arranged by a man with great musicians.

Yo the build up and breakdown to this song are literally perfect it’s insane

This was in the charts in the UK, the year I joined the RAF. Wonderful.

Wow! I remember when this came out in 1971, I loved it then and I still do. This performance is awesome, everyone there is having an absolute blast. RIP Mr. Hayes, gone but never forgotten!

Great performance. So strange to think Isaac Hayes has been gone for 14 years. I remember when he made a guest appearance in the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air as an Isaac Hayes impersonator. He was pretty good at it.

Watching on the 14th anniversary of Isaac Hayes death. He is a legend who is sorely missed.

The great Isaac Hayes composed many masterpieces, but if this was the only song he composed it would still make him an ICON!!!!

As unforgettable as Mozart's 40. One of the all time greats.

Still gives you Goosebumps

This was so great. Interesting to watch the band sit somewhere between fun and serious over a song that became a parody back in the day. Oh… and just love the bass player gettin’ his groove on as bass players do.

HOW Much fun were those musicians having ! SO MUCH!

That was so cool. Issac, you were the man and you still are. I remember when that song first came on the radio. I was so smitten by it. I loved it. Hearing this live performance brings back great memories of songs from this era. They did it right back then. The Theme from Shaft will always be the number one hit from that same era. R.I.P Issac Hayes.

1 was born to late I would of loved to have been in the 70' era wow and this performance was crazy wow I enjoyed loved watching this when that base kicks In an he starts singing I love that part such warm feeling you get inside much respect to the band and Mr Isaac Hayes Bravo

One of the great and immediately recognizable movie theme songs!

A masterful performance of a classic. Your soul has just been musically entertained by one of this worlds greatest composer, musician, & performers, Mr. Isaac Hayes...

Awesome. Eargasm. Still sounds absolutely amazing.. Give the guitar man a cigar. Standing ovation to the entire band and orchestra etc.

Isaac Hayes was a genius who wrote so much great music for other artists also!

I'm in the midst of reading Odie Henderson's book on Black films, and remember vividly the impact of the movie SHAFT on America. I was working at the Paramount Theater in Denver, and it was HUGE! And we weren't even showing the movie! This was the one everyone was talking about, and one of the biggest things that had everyone buzzing was Isaac Hayes! What a theme! What an entrance for John Shaft! It was on everyone's radio, all the time! It was on everyone's record player, all the time! Everyone I knew had the foldout cover for BLACK MOSES on their wall! Hayes deserves every accolade he ever got for his work, and it's so sad that he left us too soon. God Bless you, Isaac, for all the brilliance you gifted us with.

Doesn't get much more funky than this, epic!

Awsome...this when the music was a real music...