I can just see these two legends reuniting in heaven. With Isaac welcoming Richard in while singing this song. RIP Mr Roundtree thanks for being the coolest private detective ever.❤
Richard was Shaft, no doubt about it. Whoever chose him for that role was spot on. He played the hell out of that role. Another exceptional actor has left us and he'll be missed. RIP, Richard.
This song still sends shivers down my spine. Talk about grown folk music, this was it. When the album Shaft was released in 1971, it sold out at the Soul Shack in DC so many times. When Isaac appeared at Constitution Hall, the tickets were sold out within a couple of days. I did get 2 opportunities to see him live, once at the Carter Barron in DC and at the Hollywood Bowl in LA. Isaac was a beautiful man and so talented. RIP.
It sure will. I was only 14 when I saw Shaft for the first time. I was so impressed! Back then theaters showed double features. I had to sit through 2 hours of a rock and roll movie called "Joe Crocker, Mad Dogs and Englishmen." And I'm still bored 49 years later. The movie wouldn't have been so bad if I was on drugs. Unfortunately I had not discovered drugs yet. I was a late bloomer.
This is one of the earliest tracks I remember hearing on the radio back in 1971. I was 5 years old. Dig that smokin' guitar riff that permeates this track!!! Bravo, Isaac Hayes!!! R.I.P., Black Moses. :'(
@@BetterqQoL totally wrong with that,, I played it yesterday (Sunday) to one of my nieces,, obviously she has been watching the Mcd,s advert but she got the "proper 'version and she wants my LP,,, mmm no chance even though I love her, I've had the Issac album since 73a and I have looked after it but I'm sorry to say she's literally loving my soul, reggae,tsop stuff that's because most music now is crap or if it is good it's sampled off the guid old stuff ❤️👍🌈🎹🎸🥁🥰
ICONIC SONG on so many levels, the MOVIE crossed so many barriers. It made ISAAC HAYES and RICHARD ROUNDTREE household names..❤️.70s AWARD WINNING MUSIC & MOVIE ❤️
Saw Shaft yesterday and just had to come here and find the original song by Isaac Hayes....just classic, love that sound 💜....Samuel L. Jackson is a joy to watch as Shaft ~
Great song. Remember the 1st scene. Shaft , with his long black leather struts across the street disregarding traffic. Cabbie gotta slam his breaks on and honks. In a classic scene Shaft turn to the Cabbie and flips him the bird Great stuff.
There is nothing to say. I saw him perform this live...come up through the stage from below...Like he said crescendo!! I met him, he was fine and nice!!..To see him in the chains and come from out of the cover was wonderful. I had a lot of hair, I wanted to shave my hair like his backup singer, Helen Washington...omg....he was just excellent...
Awe thanks very much and a couple of a wee drams a guid malt whisky when I met you 🥰👍 and Jimi Hendrix was the master of all axe men and no one will match him either but my real heroes are Stevie and Ray,,,,, blind they are but you try and make music and write perform and "produce" I haven't seen any full sighted person who can hold a candle for their music that gives me chill and happiness when I get home and have a wee malt whisky and press play on the hi fi,,,mmmm ❤️👍👌🌈🍺🥂🎹🎹🎸🥁
At the time of the early '70s, the wah wah pedal had been so overused that much of the listening public was sick of the cliche it had become in recordings. But, in retrospect, a few songs like this one, were good examples of where the wah wah guitar was a fun integral part of the song.
In a 1974 educational film by Film Communicators, "It's Your Life," the Shaft theme was played when a woman entered her house, and went to her bedroom using hair spray. Afterwards, she tried to light a cigarette with a lighter. When the song stopped playing, and all of a sudden, the woman's head and hair caught fire and suffered severe burns to her scalp, as a result of her carelessness. She screamed in pain and tried to put the fire out. In 1974, it was used as a theme song for the unsold game show pilot Big Spenders hosted by Pat Harrington. The song has been played or parodied in television shows, including The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990-1996), The Simpsons (1989-), Family Guy (1999-), Sesame Street (1969-), Scrubs (2001-2010), The X-Files (1993-2002), Mystery Science Theater 3000, The Fast Show (1994-2000), Father Ted (1995-1998), ER (1994-2009), The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2002-2006), Histeria! (1998-2000), The Wire (2002-2008) and Ashes to Ashes (2008-2010). On Sesame Street a parodied version of the song, "Cookie Disco", was about Cookie Monster, dressed as Isaac Hayes, who ends up eating the set. The song was featured in the Friends episode titled: "The One Where the Monkey Gets Away" (Season 1, Episode 19) to spoof 70s style action movies with slow-motion sequences. The song was featured in the 1988 film I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, where one of the characters, John Slade, is a parody on Shaft (Isaac Hayes was in the film in a different role). In the film, Slade counsels a young black action hero named Jack Spade on the importance of theme music: "Every good hero has one." At the end of the film, we find that Spade has followed Slade's advice, exiting the movie to his own theme song, performed by Boogie Down Productions. The 1989 comedy film UHF (co-written by and starring "Weird Al" Yankovic) featured a mock trailer segment on television parodying the 1982 movie Gandhi called Gandhi II, set to music meant to resemble the Shaft theme. A 1998 Burger King marketing campaign featured Hayes singing a retooled version of the song, with lyrics now alluding to Mr. Potato Head, who is seen dancing on the piano that Hayes plays. Another Burger King commercial from 2002 promoted the Shaq Pack, where the lyrics alluded to Shaquille O'Neal. Hayes also parodied "Theme from Shaft" with "Two Cool Guys", the opening theme song for the 1996 film Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1993-1997), in which Hayes adapts the Beavis and Butt-Head television theme as a rhythm guitar line for a "Shaft"-esque song about the title characters. In the series Two and a Half Men (2003-2015), there were occasional references to the song, including one episode where Alan, Herb, Gordon, and Jerome are seen singing the song as a barbershop quartet. Since very early in the 1970s, the Swedish national television network Sveriges Television sports show on Sundays, Sportspegeln (Sports Mirror), has used different variations of the end of "Theme from Shaft" for its opening theme; roughly the same samples have also been used for daily sports news bulletin Sportnytt. Also since the early 1970s, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's radio current affairs show As It Happens has used the theme as bumper music. An instrumental version of the song served as the news theme for Memphis television station WMC-TV for a time in the 1970s. In Australia, an edited instrumental version was used as the theme for "Seven's Big League" rugby league broadcasts hosted by Rex Mossop in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as preview music for upcoming scenes from the Network Ten serial series Number 96 ( 1972-1977). The song was considered very racy for its time. As late as 1990, censors at the Fox Network thought it too risqué to be sung on The Simpsons (until it was pointed out that the song had been played on television before). When John Singleton directed an updated version of Shaft in 2000, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Hayes re-recorded the theme for the new film.
Remake of this movie not a chance which came out in 2000 starring Samuel L Jackson didn't fare much for movie buffs but the original from the year 1971 by Issac Hayes as lead singer and Richard Roundtree as Detective John Shaft
*Shaft:* _Got any idea who grabbed her?_ *Bumpy:* _Lot of cats hate my guts._ *Shaft:* _Sweet...Lovin' dude like you? Sweet talkin' a man's old lady while you're beatin' her old man out of his paycheck in the backroom of a horse parlor...Feeding his kid shit to shoot in his arm...Who could hate you, Bumpy?_
💔 Rest In peace 🙏 🕊 Richard Shaft Roundtree. You will be missed 😢.
To Richard Roundtree and Isaac Hayes two soul brothers like no other. You maybe gone but you'll never be forgotten. RIP.
Isaac Hayes Voice Of Chef From South Park.
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✨🎶🍫🟤🟤🤣Funny we went from Shaft to Chocolate Salty Balls!
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@@XI_Daisy_XI Yep , Chocolate 🍫 Salty 🧂 Balls.
As a 70 year old white Scottish guy, I can honestly say this is one of the highlights of my youth. Loved the whole Blaxploitation scene.
I can just see these two legends reuniting in heaven. With Isaac welcoming Richard in while singing this song. RIP Mr Roundtree thanks for being the coolest private detective ever.❤
Richard was Shaft, no doubt about it. Whoever chose him for that role was spot on. He played the hell out of that role. Another exceptional actor has left us and he'll be missed. RIP, Richard.
Rest In Heaven to both Richard Roundtree and Isaac Hayes.
People are not immortal. But songs are. We'll never forget you, Richard.
This is the sound of "True Classic Music". 60 years proves it!!
I don't care what bs the history books say, no one knew how to use the wah -wah pedal until jam broke in 72. Changed music and ushered in disco.
There was this fella called Jimi Hendrix who.... ah, forget it.
@@ab77blues Jimmy wasn't using the wah like that.
This song still sends shivers down my spine. Talk about grown folk music, this was it. When the album Shaft was released in 1971, it sold out at the Soul Shack in DC so many times. When Isaac appeared at Constitution Hall, the tickets were sold out within a couple of days. I did get 2 opportunities to see him live, once at the Carter Barron in DC and at the Hollywood Bowl in LA. Isaac was a beautiful man and so talented. RIP.
Such a song from 1971. The guitar work is beautiful with the wah wah pedal. The horns are there and Issac is what he should be! Very tight!
Whoknothewawapedal
Thanks, see you soon
1st African American walking proud with class in movies and real life rip peace Mr Roundtree 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
From New Rachelle
This song will out last us all
Right on
It's just two years younger than I am and it's still going and will keep going till s**t hits the fan.
Damn Right!
It sure will. I was only 14 when I saw Shaft for the first time. I was so impressed! Back then theaters showed double features. I had to sit through 2 hours of a rock and roll movie called "Joe Crocker, Mad Dogs and Englishmen." And I'm still bored 49 years later. The movie wouldn't have been so bad if I was on drugs. Unfortunately I had not discovered drugs yet. I was a late bloomer.
Truth
RIP Richard Roundtree - You was a bad mother......
Shut your mouth!
🎤Shut your mouth🎶
@@charlesnkanga638You're both ..... damn' right ...!
This is one of the earliest tracks I remember hearing on the radio back in 1971. I was 5 years old. Dig that smokin' guitar riff that permeates this track!!!
Bravo, Isaac Hayes!!! R.I.P., Black Moses. :'(
The guitar is awesome with the wah wah pedal.! Damn right! Can can ya dig it?
CheckHorns
This song never gets old🎼🎸🎹
no it don't....
Ok brother this use to be my theme tune on the disco
REST PEACEFULLY RICHARD ROUNDTREE..SHAFT 😇 🙏
❤😊THANK YOU MR. SOUL MAN SONG WRITER ISAAC HAYES. THANKS FOR SHAFT MOVIE SCORE!
the best theme song....period
Yes indeed
Still loving this in 2024
@@BetterqQoL totally wrong with that,, I played it yesterday (Sunday) to one of my nieces,, obviously she has been watching the Mcd,s advert but she got the "proper 'version and she wants my LP,,, mmm no chance even though I love her, I've had the Issac album since 73a and I have looked after it but I'm sorry to say she's literally loving my soul, reggae,tsop stuff that's because most music now is crap or if it is good it's sampled off the guid old stuff ❤️👍🌈🎹🎸🥁🥰
Many people were introduced to Isaac Hayes' music through this song.
ICONIC SONG on so many levels, the MOVIE crossed so many barriers. It made ISAAC HAYES and RICHARD ROUNDTREE household names..❤️.70s AWARD WINNING MUSIC & MOVIE ❤️
Shaft . Isaac Hayes
Shaft Soundtrack
1971 Stax Records.
Hayes and Roundtree two cool 😎
Every hero has to have a great theme song so rest in power t black jesus isacc hayes and shadt himself mr roundtrèe 💯👍
Right on
We used to raise the right one and say "right arm."
praise the lord , I've been SHAFTED
Great song.
All time classic ! My late brother loved this song !
So do i
The greatest song of all time shut your mouth shaft love it thank you Isaac
Saw this flick in 1971, when I was eleven years old!
Black Moses Isaac Hayes, baby!!!!
Omg....I want to listen again and again. Classic
Saw Shaft yesterday and just had to come here and find the original song by Isaac Hayes....just classic, love that sound 💜....Samuel L. Jackson is a joy to watch as Shaft ~
Actually Richard Roundtree was the original "Shaft".
Did you see the third one that came out?
Need to see the original movie of Shaft .with Richard Roundstree makes Samuel Jackson slow boat.
Prefer the original with Richard Roundtree
Remember this as a kid, my sisters were older than me. So heard this from the start, said shut
Your mouth a lot.got me in loads of trouble, still does
Wear headphones, it will blow your mind!
Yes!! Thank you!!! 1Nation4Life
Great song. Remember the 1st scene. Shaft , with his long black leather struts across the street disregarding traffic. Cabbie gotta slam his breaks on and honks. In a classic scene Shaft turn to the Cabbie and flips him the bird
Great stuff.
dieser song übersteht die Zeit!
One of the best movie soundtracks of all time 1971
Love the song and the movie too
Yes! Another music artist bits the dust .love shift movie with Richard Roundstree. By Issic Hays RIP..miss you .I can DIG At
Brings back lots of memories. Thanks Stax Records.
Right on The Original SHAFT Movie was still better than the Remake Period
One of the coolest Funk guitar lines ever
2019 & my mind is still in the past listening to this and other Great Music, Thank God for UA-cam Etc.
Timeless. Found this in my uncle's collection when I was 10 years old in the early 90s and listened to it constantly. Masterpiece
Stax Records.
Can you dig it?
RIP Issac you are sadly missed by all of your Fans etc
Fue mi mayor spectaculaire à amar à CHAFT.MI LOCURAVPOR ETE MUSICO ISAAC HAYES.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Baddest fuckin song ever!!!
There is nothing to say. I saw him perform this live...come up through the stage from below...Like he said crescendo!! I met him, he was fine and nice!!..To see him in the chains and come from out of the cover was wonderful. I had a lot of hair, I wanted to shave my hair like his backup singer, Helen Washington...omg....he was just excellent...
Was the theme music for football matches in India in the 70s. Guaranteed to set your pulse racing!
Rip Bro Ledgend 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 🔥 Hot can you dig it ?
You are definitely missed love all your music RIP guy
Great!
This song is still sooo classy 🇦🇺
Codesta e musica x le mie orecchie grande isaac
RIP Richard Roundtree
I remember hearing this song at a club in NYC called Jimmies on 52nd st. Among other clubs.
The master waz cooool lots of love John James Fae bonnie Scotland ❤❤✅
Awe thanks very much and a couple of a wee drams a guid malt whisky when I met you 🥰👍 and Jimi Hendrix was the master of all axe men and no one will match him either but my real heroes are Stevie and Ray,,,,, blind they are but you try and make music and write perform and "produce" I haven't seen any full sighted person who can hold a candle for their music that gives me chill and happiness when I get home and have a wee malt whisky and press play on the hi fi,,,mmmm ❤️👍👌🌈🍺🥂🎹🎹🎸🥁
Very cool.
Memories.......
Maravilhosa trilha sonora 🤩! Shaft !
The whole song is right on point including the bass outstanding power too thanks to blaxplotation films like this one
la più bella colonna sonora dopo quelle di Ennio Morricone.
I remember hearing a listener call up and request this song but instead of playing this one, the DJ mistakenly played the Theme from S.W.A.T.
That's a riot.
At the time of the early '70s, the wah wah pedal had been so overused that much of the listening public was sick of the cliche it had become in recordings. But, in retrospect, a few songs like this one, were good examples of where the wah wah guitar was a fun integral part of the song.
won a oscar
Best Original Song!
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Isaac Hayes "Theme From Shaft" was heard featured in the film soundtrack to I Got The Hook Up in 1998.
I think strains of it could be heard on "I'm Gonna Get You Sucka".
In a 1974 educational film by Film Communicators, "It's Your Life," the Shaft theme was played when a woman entered her house, and went to her bedroom using hair spray. Afterwards, she tried to light a cigarette with a lighter. When the song stopped playing, and all of a sudden, the woman's head and hair caught fire and suffered severe burns to her scalp, as a result of her carelessness. She screamed in pain and tried to put the fire out.
In 1974, it was used as a theme song for the unsold game show pilot Big Spenders hosted by Pat Harrington.
The song has been played or parodied in television shows, including The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990-1996), The Simpsons (1989-), Family Guy (1999-), Sesame Street (1969-), Scrubs (2001-2010), The X-Files (1993-2002), Mystery Science Theater 3000, The Fast Show (1994-2000), Father Ted (1995-1998), ER (1994-2009), The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2002-2006), Histeria! (1998-2000), The Wire (2002-2008) and Ashes to Ashes (2008-2010).
On Sesame Street a parodied version of the song, "Cookie Disco", was about Cookie Monster, dressed as Isaac Hayes, who ends up eating the set.
The song was featured in the Friends episode titled: "The One Where the Monkey Gets Away" (Season 1, Episode 19) to spoof 70s style action movies with slow-motion sequences.
The song was featured in the 1988 film I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, where one of the characters, John Slade, is a parody on Shaft (Isaac Hayes was in the film in a different role). In the film, Slade counsels a young black action hero named Jack Spade on the importance of theme music: "Every good hero has one." At the end of the film, we find that Spade has followed Slade's advice, exiting the movie to his own theme song, performed by Boogie Down Productions.
The 1989 comedy film UHF (co-written by and starring "Weird Al" Yankovic) featured a mock trailer segment on television parodying the 1982 movie Gandhi called Gandhi II, set to music meant to resemble the Shaft theme.
A 1998 Burger King marketing campaign featured Hayes singing a retooled version of the song, with lyrics now alluding to Mr. Potato Head, who is seen dancing on the piano that Hayes plays.
Another Burger King commercial from 2002 promoted the Shaq Pack, where the lyrics alluded to Shaquille O'Neal.
Hayes also parodied "Theme from Shaft" with "Two Cool Guys", the opening theme song for the 1996 film Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1993-1997), in which Hayes adapts the Beavis and Butt-Head television theme as a rhythm guitar line for a "Shaft"-esque song about the title characters.
In the series Two and a Half Men (2003-2015), there were occasional references to the song, including one episode where Alan, Herb, Gordon, and Jerome are seen singing the song as a barbershop quartet.
Since very early in the 1970s, the Swedish national television network Sveriges Television sports show on Sundays, Sportspegeln (Sports Mirror), has used different variations of the end of "Theme from Shaft" for its opening theme; roughly the same samples have also been used for daily sports news bulletin Sportnytt.
Also since the early 1970s, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's radio current affairs show As It Happens has used the theme as bumper music.
An instrumental version of the song served as the news theme for Memphis television station WMC-TV for a time in the 1970s.
In Australia, an edited instrumental version was used as the theme for "Seven's Big League" rugby league broadcasts hosted by Rex Mossop in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as preview music for upcoming scenes from the Network Ten serial series Number 96 ( 1972-1977).
The song was considered very racy for its time. As late as 1990, censors at the Fox Network thought it too risqué to be sung on The Simpsons (until it was pointed out that the song had been played on television before).
When John Singleton directed an updated version of Shaft in 2000, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Hayes re-recorded the theme for the new film.
SHAFTS For life
Chef!
Happy nappy birtday in heaven Isaac ;-)
"Shaft" was one bad mother 😮 in the early 70s I used to play this song every day. All the white people I knew loved , " Shaft"
Uno de los mejores en el mundo,eso digo yo con 72 anos.miguel jumilla
Best thing about the movie. Curtis Mayfield was awesome!
HaysAheadOfhisTime
Remake of this movie not a chance which came out in 2000 starring Samuel L Jackson didn't fare much for movie buffs but the original from the year 1971 by Issac Hayes as lead singer and Richard Roundtree as Detective John Shaft
Hope you have had a good week ,but please don't fuk with me ❤
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Thanks never grows old listening ti Issac & Shaft 's Theme etc.
Ride on
+@johnmilbourn8876: It's "Right on."
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✨🎶😆Rite!🎶✨
sho nuff
Shaft
Starring
Richard Roundtree.
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Mikey's Oldies But Goodies.
Thay say that cat Rick is a bad ...........!
Shut yo mouth!
Well I'm talkin but Rick!
Right on!
Can you dig it?
Cheech & Chong kind of made fun of this song on "The Wedding Album".
Shaft more like Chef singing
reservoir dogs by jay-z featuring the lox, beanie sigel, & sauce money, brought me here.
*Shaft:* _Got any idea who grabbed her?_
*Bumpy:* _Lot of cats hate my guts._
*Shaft:* _Sweet...Lovin' dude like you? Sweet talkin' a man's old lady while you're beatin' her old man out of his paycheck in the backroom of a horse parlor...Feeding his kid shit to shoot in his arm...Who could hate you, Bumpy?_
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Hayes was found dead near his treadmill. Beware, the machine
😂 that's hilarious
Yeşilçam aksiyon sahnesi intensifies
I was in middle school beg my mom to take me too seevthi
+@florentiabunn1269: Well, the last line of the trailer IS "If you want to see Shaft, ask your mama."
Gandhi 2
This song was parodied on Sesame Street as "Cookie Disco"
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Before there was chef there was shaft
What-?----
And it's for special purposes, and a bit of 😂😂 4 now..