Theme From Shaft
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Since then, the song has appeared in numerous television shows, commercials, and other movies, including the sequel Shaft , for which Hayes re-recorded the song. In , Hayes told National Public Radio that he had only agreed to write and record the Shaft score after Shaft producer, Joel Freeman, promised him an audition for the lead role which was taken by a then-unknown Richard Roundtree. He never got the chance to audition, but kept his end of the deal anyway. Hayes recorded the rhythm parts on the theme first, scored the entire rest of the film, then returned to the theme song.
As this was my first such undertaking, at the initial meeting I had with the producer and director in New York you could see the anxiety on their faces. They tested me by giving me the opening scene — footage of Shaft coming out of the subway — to take away and see how I got on. I remembered a guitar line I had in a tune I'd never used, got it off the shelf and had our guitarist play it exactly the same, but with a wah-wah.
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Then I got our drummer to play note sequences on the hi-hat and we had it. The core rhythm for the tune, the springboard for the whole soundtrack, we'd cut in under two hours. The synthesized keyboard is played by Hayes.
Even on the edited single version, the intro lasts for more than one and a half minutes before any vocals are heard. The arrangement was by Hayes and Johnny Allen. The lyrics describe John Shaft's coolness, courage and sex appeal and Hayes' lead vocals are punctuated by a trio of female backup singers.
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The song was considered very racy for its time. The song was not intended to be a single, but the success of the film and the popularity of the track in nightclubs led to a 45 record of the theme being released on Enterprise Records two months after the soundtrack. Within two months, it hit 1 on the Billboard Hot and stayed there a second week.
In , Isaac Hayes performed "Theme from Shaft " as part of the Academy Awards ceremony in his trademark chainmail vest, but accepted the Academy Award for Best Original Song later that night wearing a tuxedo. This was after the Academy tried to disqualify it too; saying, because I can't write music, it wasn't my composition. Quincy Jones got in there and argued my case; saying that, even if I didn't physically write it down, they were my ideas.
Later that year, Hayes performed "Theme from Shaft " live at the Wattstax concert in Los Angeles [12] Film footage of this performance was recorded for Mel Stuart 's documentary film of the concert, but was cut before the film's release due to legal complications with MGM, who would not allow Hayes to perform his Shaft songs in any other film until A remastered version of the Wattstax film reinstates Hayes' performance of "Theme from Shaft ".
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The comedy film UHF co-written by and starring "Weird Al" Yankovic features a mock trailer segment on television parodying the movie Gandhi called Gandhi II , set to music meant to resemble the Shaft theme. A Burger King marketing campaign featured Hayes singing a retooled version of the song, with lyrics now alluding to Mr.
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