Theme From Shaft by Isaac Hayes from Shaft (Music From The Soundtrack) 

RIP Isaac Hayes & Richard Roundtree. SHAFT! You're damn right!

I remember Quincy Jones saying they didn't want to give Issac the Oscar because he sang hummed the soundtrack instead of sitting down and writing notes on paper. But he and others told by the Academy what difference did it make how it was manifested, it still came out of his mind, so technically he wrote it. The Man was trying to keep a brother down.

In 2021, you still are bobbing your head to this iconic song.

No better film score anywhere. Timeless....strings wah-wah electric lead, horns & brass, percussion....composition. Artistic! Immortal!

I am 57 so I remember This song and movie when I was 9 was a fan then and still am RIP MR.HAYES LOVE 💘 ❤ AND MUCH RESPECT

The introduction: Best 2 minutes and 43 seconds of recorded sound.

Loved the movie and soundtrack, they don’t make music like this anymore!

Who ever you are God and Jesus Christ loves you

The motion picture Sound Tracks of Shaft by Isaac Hayes and Superfly by Curtis Mayfield are monuments to the creative genius of Black Musicians.

I was born in 1976, my great uncles would play this and I would go nuts! Stax Records, Philadelphia International Records, SOLAR Records, and that Minneapolis Sound are my favorite sounds. 💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿

One of the best soundtracks ever

This song brings back my days in high school when the pep band played this and I can still see the cheerleaders' routine even 50 years later!

This is always my opening on my playlist everyday for work and I’m 33

Quintessential '70s Jazz/R&B Funk Classic music from a great composer. Will not see this again soon...

To me this was Isaac Hayes FINEST performance hands down !! Every time I hear this song it takes me back to October of '71, I was a young 13yr old adolescent experiencing my first year of Jr Hi school. As usual during that time I was wrapped up in my favorite sport, Baseball. It was the October fall classic, the world series. It was the the defending world champs the Baltimore Orioles vs the Pittsburgh Pirates. The heavily favorite Orioles were a CONFIDENT team with a pitching staff that produced four 20 game winners and to this day, NO team has since been ABLE to achieve. The series went the full 7 games, there wasn't a dull moment through out the entire series. "Mr Humanitarian" Roberto Clemente put on a CLINIC show casing his skills on how the game was to be played...... hitting, throwing, running the bases catching etc.... Also, the nation would witness for the first time a series game being played at night, I WATCHED that very game on a black & white TV, it was game 4 at Three Rivers Stadium. Roberto Clemente would help his team go on to defeat the Orioles and be named the MVP, in addition, the Pirates had a young rookie relief picture named Bruce Kison from Pasco WA who performed well when he was called on to help keep the Orioles in check.

1971 damn 50 years ago best soundtrack ever

My #1 favorite soundtrack of all time from 1971 written,produced,& performed by the late Black Moses Isacc Hayes

How Could We Ask for Better? Mr. Ernest Tidyman who wrote the series of Shaft novels, said that Isaac deserved the Oscar for his composition. I conveyed this to him (Mr. Hayes) personally. . Such a brilliant person: Mr. Isaac Hayes. And may I mention? Ms. Chris Clark, Mr Tidyman's widow. was there with me. Such a gracious moment.

Growing up on movies & music like this ,awesome times than ,not like today

No autotune or synthesizers, real musicianship.

Two of the greats! This music is timeless.

Nine years old, living on Howard Street, the Northern edge of Chicago. My fro is enormous. My mom gives me a $10 dollar bill to get her a pack of cigarettes. A pack cost something like $1.50 or something, and, yeah, your kid could buy them for you. Problem was, there was a record store on the way, and the radio had been playing the Theme to Shaft, and I needed that double album. It cost $7+ dollars. Come back home and quickly pass my mom her cigarettes and like $1.20 in change from her ten, and hurry to my room with a big flat paper bag under my jacket. Needless to say, I am busted about a minute later putting my new LP on the player and told I better return it and get the rest of her change back. After a devastating emotional breakdown, I get to keep it as my advance Christmas present. It was October. 1971. By Christmas I had memorized and analyzed the entire arrangement of the opening track and could mimic each part. Best Christmas present I ever got.

the 70s will never be able to be re created the way it was then wish i could have experienced it by being there was born 84 just missed it

Isaac Hayes scored a 👒 trick with this soundtrack, after 50 years, it still the 💣.

Still freakin' Awesome!

I am a kid of the 1950's. I am currently 73 years old and like others I remember this cartoon having a profound effect of sadness on me that lasted a few days. It was in black and white when I saw it which was probably 1956 . Through the years I wondered about this cartoon and it popped up in my head to Wiki THE LEGEND OF JOHN HENRY today. And oh boy! A swell of Good Feeling overcame me as I viewed this video. What made me sad as a kid made me happy today as I read comments that this film impacted others in the same manner that it impacted me.

Isaac Hayes - lead vocals, keyboards, lyrics, arrangements Pat Lewis - backing vocals Rose Williams - backing vocals Mitchell Butler - backing vocals Telma Hopkins - backing vocals Lester Snell - electric piano David Becker - viola Charles Pitts - guitar Michael Toles - guitar Marc "Dr. Love" Davis - guitar solo James Alexander - bass guitar Richard "Johnny" Davis - trumpet John Fonville - flute Gary Jones - congas Willie Hall - drums

5-4-2024. SAW THE MOVIE STILL GREAT COMPLETE ALBUM

Baddest instrumental funk arrangement ever. Thank you Isaac.

Isaac Hayes showed out on this soundtrack.

To me, this is the beginning of True Disco. Starting with the top-notch super-polished production.

Today in the 21th century we ain't got nobody or allies. In some cases we're attacking each other for the obvious reasons. Our constriction has been broken down and we don't have anyone who wants to repair it.

I can't unhear Chef from South Park singing this song. 🎶

Amen to this!!!😅 Isaac Hayes...TRUTH!! Curtis Mayfield's soundtrack to Superfly...TRUTH!!! I'm a seasoned lady now who was a young girl back then. Trust, I know. Thank you for sharing this wonderful 🎼🎶🎵😏👌🏽💖😁

Love this music. I was a kiddo back then.

Un des meilleurs disque de tous les temps ! BERNARD PUDIE //DRUMS ! i love your music !

Perfect music and perfect performance.

thats my godfather, Isaac "BUBBA Hayes, rest my brother!

ANTHEM OF THE MILLENNIUM!!!! - AND WE CAN DIG IT!!!!!

Who's the grooviest cat on the street, Shaft! Love the music and soundtracks to both 'Shaft' and 'Shaft's Big Score'.

Chef layin it down for us! \o/

Honestly People tell me, how many of you cannot hear this song without saying "Shut ya mouth!" I'm talking about Shaft!!!

This is good music

They can't make music like this anymore. No one can play instruments.

Absolute brilliance

I still think of this as Ultra Cool......Right on...

This is one of the greatest songs ever recorded - it's as inspiring as the theme from Rocky

"They Tell Me That Cat 'SHAFT' Is A Bad Mutha……..SHUT YO MOUTH!"

Long live Richard Roundtree, you will live always in every heart

The greatest song of all time. For every Black man of a certain age, this is our unofficial national anthem!

RIP Chef.

BADASS

Ça m'a marqué j'avais 15 ans et demi à l'époque lui et Curtis un époque extraordinaire fier de l'avoir vécu

The extended version of this favorite movie theme song of mine is better than the single version

Hello there, children. For lunch today it's Salisbury steak with buttered noodles, and a choice of green bean casserole, or vegetable medley.

😢Rest in heaven Richard Roundtree/John Shaft

You already know his great hits

Isaac Hayes and Sam Jackson, unbeatable!

The best soundtrack ever

...che classe e che forza allo stesso tempo...B R A V O...

RIP Richard and Isaac 😢😢🙏🙏

Best intro. Know the song immediately!🥰

Excelente tema

THIS PRETY MUSIC OF MOVIE SHAFT WAS BEFORE I WAS BORN BUT ( I HEAR THIS MUSIC IN FILM MIYBY IN 1982 OR 86 ) BY M'Y BROTHERS COZ WAS LITTLE BOY, BUT HIS MUSIC SHE TOUCHED ME AND I WAS LITTLE BOY

Straordinaria gran bella musica forse sottovalutata..❤

Baddest Album soundtrack!!!!?

everyone acting gangster till you walk round the corner ready to lay the law down while this soundtrack plays

So cool!

See the RU-vid interview with Charles Pitts, who created the Wah-Wah guitar part. He gives interesting behind the scenes tid-bits about the recording of the theme from Shaft

I remember when ten year-old me first heard this song I was like _"What the f___k is this?!"_ Fifty years later, it still blows me away.

éternel!!!

RIP Richard Roundtree! 😢

ONE OF THE BEST POLICE FİLMS EVER...AND FİLM SOUNDTRACK TİMELESS

Bassie en Adriaan: Het Geheim van de Sleutel!

Showmanship!

Now this is good riding music 🎶 🎵 when you on a long trip

Maravilhoso

the best

RIP Richard Roundtree

Best ringonte ever

Rest in peace Richard .

..... classic DJ's call it Old Dirty Disco... the nascent disco era.

Cool

When you about to get into a fight play this song loud to get you hyped!

Rip Richard roundtree Isaac Hayes legends

I might TAKE you down, but I'll never LET you down. Now, what's my name?

RIP R Roundtree

R. I. P. Richard Roundtree.

RIP Mr.Hayes🙏

l'm playing this in memory of Richard Roundtree. . .

RIP Richard Roundtree job well done

🙌🏼😏

R.I.P. Richard Roundtree

Hello there children

Only music please 🙏 thk you.💁🤷🙋

John Shaft!!!.John M Guinto

Hello there Childre.. Oh wait wrong line.

❤️👏🔥

The recent death of Richard Roundtree at the fairly ripe old age of eighty-one from pancreatic cancer occurred precisely thirty-seven years after the original release of the 1986 Steve Miner film 'Soul Man.' As a matter of fact, a snippet of the late ISSAC HAYES' 'Theme from Shaft' is featured in a scene from 'Soul Man.'

The begin intro ( know how ) 0:00