The Isaac Hayes Movement

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The Isaac Hayes Movement
Studio album by
Isaac Hayes
ReleasedApril 1970
GenreProgressive soul
Length36:18
LabelEnterprise
ProducerIsaac Hayes
Isaac Hayes chronology
Hot Buttered Soul
(1969) 		The Isaac Hayes Movement
(1970) 		...To Be Continued
(1970)
Singles from The Isaac Hayes Movement
  1. "I Stand Accused /
    I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself
    "
    Released: August 1970

The Isaac Hayes Movement is the third

Jerry Butler's "I Stand Accused", which features a nearly five-minute long spoken intro that precedes the actual song, and The Beatles' "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 Chalmers and Rhodes' "One Big Unhappy Family".

Released in November 1970, The Isaac Hayes Movement spent a total of seven weeks at #1 on

Pop
chart.

Stax Records reissued The Isaac Hayes Movement in SACD format in 2004.

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Christgau's Record GuideC[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[3]

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."I Stand Accused"
Jerry Butler, William Butler
11:39
2."One Big Unhappy Family"Charles Chalmers, Sandra Rhodes5:54
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
3."I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself"Burt Bacharach, Hal David7:05
4."Something"George Harrison11:45

Personnel

  • Isaac Hayes – arrangements, keyboards, vocals, producer
  • The Bar-Kays
    – rhythm section
  • Dale Warren - arrangements
  • Pat Lewis – vocal arrangements
Technical
  • Joel Brodsky – photography
  • Henry Bush – engineer
  • Ron Capone – engineer, remixing, remix engineer
  • George Horn – mastering
  • Herb Kole – art supervisor
  • David Krieger – art direction
  • Joe Tarantino – mastering
  • Ed Wolfrum – engineer

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)[4] Gold 500,000^

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

See also

  • List of number-one R&B albums of 1970 (U.S.)

References

  1. ^ Lindsay Planer. "The Isaac Hayes Movement – Isaac Hayes | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved August 28, 2015.
  2. ISBN 089919026X
    . Retrieved February 26, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  3. ^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 312.
  4. ^ "Solid Gold Movement" (PDF).
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