This was the first record I ever bought . I was 9 years old and I didn't understand half the words, but I thought it was the most amazing thing I'd ever heard. I'm 63 now and I still love it...❤
❤ Lol, I use to sneak a play records until I got my first radio lol we used to try to always win concert tickets.. Always close but never won❤ it was always about the beat never about the words..I had a country accent that I lost from running from the crazy people who murdered those whom I love...I'm dealing with a lot of mental craziness I cant explain ❤
Word!!! I was 12 when this hit the stage. dayuummm. awesome. YOU can thank Jimi Hendrix for that wha-wha-chucka-chucka..trheres where the guitarist on this song got that 'vibe' !! Play on Jimi...Shaft is a Bad Mutha.... and still is.. Like James Bond, Sean Connery there will ONLY ever ever be one shaft and that is Mr.Richard Round Tree. samuel Hell Jackson couldn't hold a damn, acting candle to him. Shaft is Top Shelf Class, Jackson is ghetto as hell!!
@@purplesamurai5205He means the legendary Charles "Skip" Pitts on Guitar. That famous Wah Wah intro and rhythm was his. Up there with Voodoo Chile as the first thing you think of when you hear wah pedal to this very day...!! Glad to hear it, Derrell. You should be..!!! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-w-ytse0J0u8.html
I saw Isaac Hayes perform this song live at a FREE concert at the Overton Park Shell in Isaac's hometown, Memphis, TN. That night, he performed for two and a half hours...FREE OF CHARGE! Best concert ever! Thank you, Isaac Hayes. You showed up and showed out for your hometown.❤
@@charlenemitchell1499 that’s nothing she’s met HUNDREDS of celebrities at her old job which was being the head chef at the commissary where the performers ate at the Greek theater in Los Angeles and even before that she got to meet not one not two not three but ALL FOUR of The Beatles in fact when she met Paul and Ringo again when they performed they were quite upset when she was laid off
Can you believe this wonderful track is 51 years old.........my goodness....and it still sounds as fresh as the day it was released in 1971.........long live Isaac.....a musical genius
Thank you for your service! My cousin was in Vietnam too, said he was a "river rat" (navy). Again, thank you. I know you didn't and don't hear that enough. Rock on!
My Hero, I was 10 years old, and didn't know what racism was. We had a Black Family in our Neighborhood and as kids we looked up to Mr Thompson, he dress like nothing we'd seen before, he was the epitomy of KOOL. I know the mothers in our neighborhood secretly dreamed of him. RIP Mr Thompson
My Dad played this me nearly 50 years ago.....i remember it like it was yesterday. It started my long love affair for soundtracks. Thanks for the memory Dad. Playing this today as a tribute to Richard Roundtree and to my Dad.
That opening scene with this tune playing.....Shaft crosses the street, full black leather jacket, cuts in front of a taxi, Cabbie honks and Shaft turns and flips him the bird...Classic.
Mr.O'brien this particular score saved many lives with it's unusual optimism. As to myself I enjoyed this in my dentists waiting room ,after a long break in listening. How it ended, cannot Tell, perhaps my dentists wife would.Wojciech z Obornik.
As a fan of the movie and the Actor, Richard Roundtree, I am very sad to learn of his passing away yesterday! His playing Shaft thrilled us all and we all felt that the genius of Isaac Hayes fit perfectly in SHAFT!
Or we could just appreciate all of the incredible season musicians who have gifted us with tracks like these. We don't have to make "special categories."
@@muffs55mercury61 I don't remember that time as I was just a toddler in the pushchair then. The music was played on 4 Tel on View years later, when I first heard it. 4 Tel is the equivalent of BBC Ceefax, by the way.
Shaft song is almost as old as me, because I would have been just 17 months old and in the pushchair. My friend Windy (Gail) was born in November 1971, around the Shaft release date!
At age 60 and being an offspring of father that majored in music at an HBCU ( North Carolina Agricultural & Technical University)AggiePride. My father was the Band Director of a predominantly white school( Wake Forest Sr. Highschool in Wake Forest N.C . That being said he arranged this for the band who was about 100 members including flag girls and majorettes They put on a show at a Friday night football game playing the theme from shaft in 1972. I was only 10 at the time but I'll never forget that performance and the musicianship. Thank you Issac Hayes for the original composition and thanks to my father Robert Winston for transitioning into the Director that you became!
I was a white 10 year old boy from Liverpool at the time, 1971 I got into pop music in a big way. I.loved this and still do. Isaacs Hayes, the man!!!😂😂
Richard Roundtree, Rest In Peace knowing you made a difference in people's lives on and off stage. You made us stronger...you taught us to stand in our own power and strengh. Condolences to your family, sir. 🙏🏼
Isaac was DIALED IN on this. Totally in the groove. Owning it. This is BAD ASS. This is when music was made. I am as white as sour cream and I absolutely love this.
RIP Richard Roundtree (July 9, 1942 - October 24, 2023), aged 81 And RIP Isaac Hayes (August 20, 1942 - August 10, 2008), aged 65 You both will be remembered as legends.
That beat,that syncopated wah-wah guitar,the orchestration,& of course, Issac Hayes.You can't beat it.One of the most well-crafted songs of the time.Those were some cool times.No doubt.
I lived it, it was at its best time a few years after the war was over. Good music, lids were $20, Boonsfarm Wine and 3.2 beer was sold to 18 yr. old's, concerts at parks and baseball stadiums with big name bands, sorry, I tend to run on. People danced and then the music died...……..
What a classic. This theme (and soundtrack) continues to mesmerize, as it has for 49 years. As a wet-behind-the-ears 18 year old sitting in a Hartford, WI movie theater in 1971, I was permanently "urbanized" by Isaac Hayes and built a John Shaft-like career in Milwaukee.
One of the absolute best and most iconic movie theme tunes ever written. Isaac Hayes rightly won a host of Academy Awards for this track in 1972 including Best Original Song, Original Score. The opening bars with the one deep note lying down the whole track is atmospheric and moody and tense. Just fabulous and talent personified.
HAHAHA!!!!! *THE JOKE'S ON YOU, JACK!* This IS NOT EVEN THE ORIGINAL!!! This is the 2000 version from the John Singleton-directed adaptation with Samuel L. Jackson.
I remember hearing this for the first time on the radio 1 and all these year later it's my favourite theme song. I can not explain how but it takes you there even if you've never seen the film, you can feel it, taste it, smell and touch 1971.
"...they say this cat Shaft is a bad mother...SHUT YOUR MOUTH!....I'm talking about Shaft!...". Hahaha! This is the GREATEST spoken break of ANY song EVER. This line alone immortalized Isaac Hayes in the annals of Soul music forever.
Damn, I just heard about Richard Roundtree's passing from all of you. I loved watching this show alongside Starkey and Hutch growing up, I'll have to give it a rewatch. Rest in Paradise sir!
56 yrs of age now listening to the sound track and movie brings back to a time and place i still remember so vividly, the hair styles, cars and slang. Shaft was our 'James Bond'
In the early 2000's, coming home after work, I ran into the great man in Midtown. He had his flowing gear on, leather kufi cap & the inimitable sunglasses. I couldn't believe it-the icon himself! I smiled & nodded at him & he returned the gesture with a smile. RIP Genius aka Black Moses aka Isaac Hayes ❤
You should check out knee deep by Parliament / Funkadelics ; arguably one of the greatest funk productions ever composed - compliments of known other than The Lengendary George Clinton. lol
I just saw on the news That Actor Richard Roundtree who played Shaft passed away .🥺I grew up with this theme song played it in school bands. I am very sad to get this news. I always remember Issac Hayes for this award winning song. RIP Richard Roundtree & Issac Hayes . 😭
One of the most important songs of my life the strings ..the wah wah .that orchestra sound ..listen to that beat riding through the streets of Harlem and the wind blowing through my afro it was a beautiful thing .
Loved this song since I was a kid. I still love this song! All these years later. Wished my Dad would've taken me to see this. StepMother was a hater so I couldn't go.
Iconic Masterpiece one of the greatest Soundtracks ever Isaac hayes was Extraordinarly Talented his Music will Live forever as will Shaft!!!!!! Right On!!
