Shaft (Isaac Hayes album)

Shaft
Soundtrack album by
Isaac Hayes
ReleasedJuly 1971
Recorded1971
StudioStax Recording Studios, Memphis, Tennessee
GenreProgressive soul[1]
Length69:29
LabelEnterprise
ENS-2-5002
ProducerIsaac Hayes
Isaac Hayes chronology
...To Be Continued
(1970) 		Shaft
(1971) 		Black Moses
(1971)
Singles from Shaft
  1. "Theme from Shaft"
    Released: September 30, 1971
  2. "Do Your Thing"
    Released: January 1972

Shaft is a double album by Isaac Hayes, recorded for Stax Records' Enterprise label as the soundtrack LP for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 1971 blaxploitation film Shaft. The album mostly consists of instrumentals composed by Hayes as score for the film. Three vocal selections are included: "Soulsville", "Do Your Thing", and "Theme from Shaft". A commercial and critical success, Shaft is Hayes' best-known work and the best-selling LP ever released on a Stax label.[2]

In 2014, the album was added to the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."

  1. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (August 11, 2008). "In Tribute: Isaac Hayes". AllMusic. Retrieved January 28, 2021.
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