The Isaac Hayes Movement
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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 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.
Stax Records reissued The Isaac Hayes Movement in SACD format in 2004.
Track listing
Side one
- "I Stand Accused" (Jerry Butler, William Butler) – 11:39
- "One Big Unhappy Family" (Charles Chalmers, Sandra Rhodes) – 5:54
Side 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" album review on the AllMusic website.
- Rob Bowman (1997). Soulsville U.S.A: The Story of Stax Records. Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0-8256-7284-8.