The Isaac Hayes Movement (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = The Isaac Hayes Movement
Type = studio
Artist = Isaac Hayes


Released = March 1970
Recorded =
Genre = Soul
Length = 36:18
Label = Enterprise
1010
Producer = Isaac Hayes
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://wm10.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:aifuxq85ld6e~T0 link]
*Robert Christgau (C) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=isaac+hayes link]
*Yahoo! Music (favorable) [http://music.yahoo.com/read/review/12040777 link]
Last album = "Hot Buttered Soul"
(1969)
This album = "The Isaac Hayes Movement"
(1970)
Next album = "...To Be Continued"
(1970)

"The Isaac Hayes Movement" was the third studio album released by Isaac Hayes. Released in 1970, it was the follow-up to "Hot Buttered Soul", Hayes' landmark 1969 album. Marvell Thomas had come up with "The Isaac Hayes Movement" as a name for Hayes' backup ensemble. He modeled the name after the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Similar in structure to "Hot Buttered Soul", "The Isaac Hayes Movement" features only four long tracks, all with meticulous, complex and heavily orchestrated arrangements. However, unlike the previous album, this time all four songs are reworked covers of others' material. This includes Jerry Butler's "I Stand Accused", which features a nearly five-minute long spoken intro that precedes the actual song, and George Harrison's "Something", which features violin soloing by John Blair. The other two songs included on the album were the Bacharach-David song, "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself" and Chamlers-Rhodes' "One Big Unhappy Family".

Released in March of 1970,"The Isaac Hayes Movement" spent a total of six weeks at number one on "Billboard's" Soul Albums chart and remained in the top ten until the last week of November in that year. The album also reached number one on the Jazz Albums chart and spent seventy five weeks on the Billboard 200 chart, peaking at number eight. An edited version of "I Stand Accused" was released as a single in July of 1970. It reached number twenty three on the Soul Singles chart and number forty two on the Pop chart.

Audiophile label Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab reissued "The Isaac Hayes Movement" in SACD format in 2004.

Track listing

ide one

# "I Stand Accused" (Jerry Butler, William Butler) – 11:39
# "One Big Unhappy Family" (Charles Chalmers, Sandra Rhodes) – 5:54

ide two

# "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – 7:05
# "Something" (George Harrison) – 11:45

Personnel

* Isaac Hayes - Arranger, Keyboards, Vocals, Producer
* The Bar-Kays - Rhythm Section
* Joel Brodsky - Photography
* Henry Bush - Engineer
* Ron Capone - Engineer, Remixing, Remix Engineer
* George Horn - Mastering
* Herb Kole - Art Supervisor
* David Krieger - Art Direction
* Pat Lewis - Vocal Arrangement
* Joe Tarantino - Mastering
* Dale Warren - Arranger
* Ed Wolfrum - Engineer

References

*"The Isaac Hayes Movement" [http://wm10.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:aifuxq85ld6e album review] on the AllMusic website.
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