Isaac Hayes - Shaft
Isaac Hayes nel 1971 compose il tema musicale del film Shaft il detective; la colonna sonora, come del resto il film (punta di diamante del genere Blaxploitation), ebbe un successo planetario ed ottenne anche il premio Oscar per la migliore canzone, il primo per un compositore nero.
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"Theme from Shaft", written and recorded by Isaac Hayes in 1971, is the soul- and funk-styled theme song to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film Shaft. The theme was released as a single (shortened and edited from the longer album version) two months after the movie's soundtrack by Stax Records' Enterprise label. "Theme from Shaft" went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States in November 1971. The song was also well-received by adult audiences, reaching number six on Billboard's Easy Listening (later Adult Contemporary) chart.
The following year, "Theme from Shaft" won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, with Hayes becoming the first African American to win that honor (or any Academy Award in a non-acting category). Since then, the song has appeared in numerous television shows, commercials, and other movies, including the 2000 remake of Shaft, for which Hayes re-recorded the song without making any changes to it.
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Lyrics:
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Shaft
Who's the black private dick
That's a sex machine to all the chicks?
(Shaft)
You're damn right
Who is the man
That would risk his neck for his brother, man?
(Shaft)
Can ya dig it?
Who's the cat that won't cop out
When there's danger all about
(Shaft)
Right on
You see this cat, Shaft is a bad mother
(Shut your mouth)
But I'm talking about Shaft
(Then we can dig it)
He's a complicated man
But no one understands him but his woman
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