ISSAC HAYES WINS AN OSCAR FOR THE THEME FROM "SHAFT" -- WRITE STUFF TV

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On April 10, 1972, singer-songwriter Issac Hayes made history becoming the first African-American to win an Academy Award (Oscar) in a non-acting category for "Best Music - Original Song" for the theme from the movie 'SHAFT.'
Hayes joined Hattie McDaniel, who won a "Best Supporting Actress" Oscar in 1939 for "Gone with the Wind" and Sidney Poiter who was honored as "Best Actor" in 1963 for the movie "Lilies of the field" as the only black Oscar winners.
Black History was also made the night Hayes won his statuette with Sammy Davis Jr. becoming the first black person to be a host of the Oscar awards show.
This video will be part of a non-commercial series of journalistic reports on great moments in American TV history.
The copyrighted material used here is courtesy of NBC-TV, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, MGM motion pictures, and Stax Records.

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@solovoyager 2 ай бұрын

I remember watching this as a teen. When his name was announced as the winner, my entire family screamed. It was a big deal back then.

@shirleyzimmerman6527 Ай бұрын

Not a big f ----ing deal, A BIG DEAL!!

@solovoyager Ай бұрын

@@shirleyzimmerman6527 ooophs.......my bad!

@leonardodalongisland Ай бұрын

You really needed the "f**king"??? Classy-very classy.

@solovoyager 29 күн бұрын

@@leonardodalongisland It's been removed. Feel better?

@CuirPhotodotNet 2 күн бұрын

.....we just had NEVER....SEEN or HEARD such black EXCELLENCE....that was so FUNKY on THAT LEVEL BEFORE...and when it WON....it just was a GAME CHANGER for POP CULTURE and BLACK CULTURE...

@alcd6333 2 жыл бұрын

RIP Mr. Isaac Hayes.Well-deserved win here!

@beatricewoods8377 23 сағат бұрын

Sammy Davis reason Hayes won

@chrismitsos6817 Ай бұрын

The way people dressed in the 70's ❤ what a crazy outrageous but innovative decade

@GennaroGambino 12 күн бұрын

Now that's a hellified outfit Mr Isaac Hayes be sporting! Velour, velvetine, and satin were the order of the day in the early 1970s! Rest in peace, hot buttered soul!

@pamelamitchell154 2 жыл бұрын

I remember watching this and thought it was the coolest thing ever. He deserved to win that Oscar.

@drssexy2142 24 күн бұрын

Rumour has it that grandmother kept it in her outhouse as a toilet roll holder.

@Mandi7882 2 ай бұрын

Even all these decades later, the orchestration of this is a phenomenal undertaking, a perfect choice and the entire soundtrack broke ground IMO.

@AirForceFalcons_9922 Ай бұрын

FACTS!!

@ernestgamez9794 7 ай бұрын

Both Friends have reunited in heaven. God Bless Issac Hayes and Richard Roundtree.

@tinaharris9403 7 күн бұрын

I was never fortunate enough to meet Issac! But I was blessed to meet Richard, and he was one of the nicest people that you would ever want to meet...

@dingb473 2 жыл бұрын

One of the baddest piece of music ever

@hudeasy 27 күн бұрын

This music is just a MASTERPIECE!!

@kerigridley6195 5 ай бұрын

Unfortunately Richard Rountree, who played "Shaft" in the movie passed away in 2023. If you like this, you will like Issac Hayes' 2002 Induction into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame performance.

@gussiewilliams7712 9 сағат бұрын

I remember this and couldn’t stop screaming because Isaac Hayes won Oscar for Shaft. He deserved that Oscar…❤

@alfredrodriguez7106 2 жыл бұрын

When shows...were shows... And talent was rewarded for being talented.... And those days are long gone....Salute to you Mr Hays....!!!

@definitedoll 3 жыл бұрын

My mother made me go out and buy her the 45 version of shaft which I still own to this day, in the original jacket. It was the spring of 72 in March that is and I was in downtown Hartford with my girlfriend for the day we were shopping we had never done anything like that. I popped into a little record store on asylum Street in Hartford and purchased it for a whopping 89 cents oh my God. I almost broke the bank there...

@evonza4858 6 ай бұрын

I'm from NNNEEEWWW YYYOOORRRKKK specifically New Rochelle, New York where Richard Roundtree who is Shaft is from 🥰👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾❤️🖤💚✊🏾❤️🖤💚it was Shaft theme song day everyday in OUR City 🥰👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 bless both Richard and Issac's souls🙏🏽😘

@quincycooper79 2 ай бұрын

@@evonza4858When did Richard Roundtree die?

@kaydee3349 Ай бұрын

Yes, 10-24-23. May he rest in Heavenly Peace 🙏

@williamchappell9858 8 күн бұрын

The most funky song I ever heard bar none!

@kaithomas7920 2 жыл бұрын

This track was so innovative then. And it influenced so many other soundtracks of crime movies and tv shows of the Seventies.

@gracehinds6283 10 күн бұрын

Issac Hayes was a brilliant composer and arranger. Thank you for sharing this clip with us.

@sandradale1647 20 күн бұрын

Ahh the summer of '72...... I actually saw the great man perform in a small bar/club venue decades later and heard that epic opus in a different stylee. Moments in my life to treasure. Nuff Z

@beverlyclark2466 Ай бұрын

I went to Morris Brown college in Atlanta and the band played the hell of his song. I will never forget that. The year was 1970's. We had the best band in the world.

@sharpgirlsSerious 2 жыл бұрын

Look at Gorgeous , Issac Hayes and Richard Roundtree ! ❤ 🤗❤

@Robeirt315 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this post. It was (would have been) Isaac Hayes' 79th birthday yesterday (born August 20, 1942 - August 10, 2008).This is a great moment in history. (Judy Dixon Gabaldon)

@Johnny.G7 3 жыл бұрын

Classic piece of music. Incredible arrangement. Powerful performance. And the chain vest was serious.

@tonyrossodivita9180 3 жыл бұрын

I remember watching this as it happened and being in utter awe.

@wendellbatts2477 2 жыл бұрын

I was a kid but remember it too. Folks today don't realize, but this sound was totally new. Post 60s, pre disco/rap..... Jazzier than funk or traditional R&B. No one knew what to do with the wah wah pedal until this song. Haha, a few years later Peter Frampton took it to another level with the mouth harp. But at the time It changed music.

@dixienormous6969 2 жыл бұрын

You're a very lucky man, Tony 🗿

@pamelamitchell154 2 жыл бұрын

Me too.😀

@aprilstanley8708 Ай бұрын

Me too

@joancarlestomas Ай бұрын

Do you remember the other song performances?

@user-tz9cn4lg6u Ай бұрын

Wowee those costumes and 70s colors and his chains. I can dig it in 2024

@sisterdiggins 3 жыл бұрын

Best Oscar ceremony ever ! I saw this when I was a kid.

@barbaramelville6940 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely agree

@marcellinejackson3826 2 жыл бұрын

I had just turned 13 6 days before this performance.

@aprilstanley8708 Ай бұрын

Me too

@audreyguadagno1008 2 жыл бұрын

What a brilliant composer and singer when I first heard the song on the radio I knew he would win many years ago wow! Bless him.

@cynthiaarrington8368 3 жыл бұрын

Black Moses !!!🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿

@wendellbatts2477 3 жыл бұрын

Great stuff. Look at how funkier America was back then. The talent was better, the music more pure. As great as Issac was, Gordon Parks had a a huge unsung influence on how that historic soundtrack was shaped. For example, the iconic High Hat cymbals opening to the Theme of Shaft was Gordon's idea and so on. But thanks for an awesome upload.

@chrisutley2859 2 жыл бұрын

The high hat was lifted from the breakdown at the end of “Try A Little Tenderness.” Issac Hayes stated so in interviews about the crafting of the song. But, yes, you’re right. I have the Blu-Ray with features the 10 minute documentary about the making of the film including Parks’s direction to Ike and his crew about the type of driving rhythm he wanted as Shaft’s theme.

@rebeccaself7390 3 жыл бұрын

I was 11 yrs old I love watching award shows

@drssexy2142 24 күн бұрын

11? or 11 and a half? Come on, i really need to know. Everyone needs to know.

@tennisdoc1 4 жыл бұрын

I just watched the movie last night and this song immediately drew a smile to my face-especially seeing that the Bar Kays part of the "rhythm" section!--now to see this performance from 72!!!

@garyaugustus1009 2 жыл бұрын

The exquisite Mr. Willie Hall on traps...

@qwj68boots 3 жыл бұрын

I don't know what was more surreal, the dance, the smoke, Sammy Davis, Jr. Or Ike's wardrobe during the lip synched song or when he got the statue. I could only imagine the AMPAS stalwarts tapping their feet and rattling their jewelry. Isaac Hayes, you are missed!

@barbaramelville6940 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful this is may be rip

@garyhunt8067 25 күн бұрын

I was gobsmacked that he won an Oscar. Well deserved

@joekurtz8303 2 жыл бұрын

Watched this live that night, still a vivid memorable moment , and the Gold , the gold did it that night..

@joancarlestomas Ай бұрын

Do you remember the other song performances?

@williamchappell9858 8 күн бұрын

I was 6 yrs old when Shaft the song and movie was released in 1971

@caragraham6285 25 күн бұрын

Miss those days Everthing was so much fun Even miss that peacock

@whogoes 15 күн бұрын

Good times! We were young!

@bjwilliams Күн бұрын

@@whogoes.....so so young!!!😅

@PamVega-bm7ms Ай бұрын

Get down Isaac !! 💗🙋‍♀️

@peggysimpson7605 19 күн бұрын

Love that song, my sister performed in a talent show for this song. Won 2nd place.

@antoinethomas3696 2 ай бұрын

Very gracious by Isaac

@alejandrogutierrez703 5 жыл бұрын

Great Isaac hayes thanks

@CG-gp2gc 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting this!

@barbaramelville6940 3 жыл бұрын

Yes it's amazing

@spiderblackwidow8747 2 жыл бұрын

Super.only 1 Issac Hayes

@charlesirving4857 2 ай бұрын

You reach a different level of appreciation for those that write compose for the screen! Thank you ! You made us proud !

@victoriajohnson5461 Ай бұрын

Such a dynamic theme pure brilliance by Mr. Haynes.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@margaretgriffin3673 2 жыл бұрын

Love this classic going back in time with the one & only Isaac Hayes!

@tamarahines6975 3 жыл бұрын

I like the floor model television.

@barbaramelville6940 3 жыл бұрын

Me to

@user-cq2fk5dj6m 14 күн бұрын

They called them CONSOLES...and yeah it was frickin furniture ....they made a lot of heat too due to the GLASS TUBES in the back oh and don't forget THE HI FI big ole radio in furniture....PORTLAND OREGON SENDS GREETINGS

@barbaramelville6940 3 жыл бұрын

Love this amazing dancers too

@ShroomKeppie 2 жыл бұрын

Was that a Bob Fosse choreography? Tell me that was Bob Fosse.

@jeffreyprather5834 2 жыл бұрын

GREAT FOOTAGE GREAT MOVIE, ISAAC HAYES BLACK MOSES , 1 OF MY FAVORITE MOVIES ALL TIME , LOVE THAT ERA , R.I.P MR HAYES BLACK MOSES

@teressjacoby8563 2 жыл бұрын

I grew up with Isaac Hayes music loved him and his music. Big time I remember it this on TV.

@danielmchale9793 2 жыл бұрын

beautiful memories. thank you for posting

@humanforotherhumanst4619 Ай бұрын

First time to see this performance.

@anthonywhite2544 23 күн бұрын

Rip Richard Round tree and Issac Hayes ❤❤

@mbradleyc6165 2 жыл бұрын

I watched this live. I was 12. We always watched the Oscars back then.

@joancarlestomas Ай бұрын

Do you remember the other song performances?

@joancarlestomas Ай бұрын

Do you remember the other song performances?

@APG-fu6gk 2 жыл бұрын

FANTASTIC 👏 👏 👏

@joserobertosilva8543 3 жыл бұрын

Sensacional!!!.

@erickhendrix6446 3 жыл бұрын

Show, The Best Of Isaac Hayes

@reneefairley3765 Ай бұрын

Awesome 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

@vgrandy95 Ай бұрын

WOW this is amazing & a true trip through the Time Machine. I absolutely love it🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

@evonza4858 6 ай бұрын

🥰👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾❤️🖤💚✊🏾❤️🖤💚and my homeboy from NNNEEEWWW YYYOOORRRKKK specifically New Rochelle, New York Richard Roundtree was Shaft 😘🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽❤️🖤💚🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 bless his soul 🙏🏽😘

@reneehurt387 2 жыл бұрын

This is the perfect place to wish black Moses Issac Hayes a happy birthday wish. His prize taught me what it meant to receive an Oscar

@russellfernandes9607 17 күн бұрын

Legend !

@jonnybalz 2 жыл бұрын

Still the coolest dude to grace the stage. Back when all skin colors could enjoy the essence of black music. Especially soul. Now it's hip hop, stupid rhymes and words that belittle blacks and their culture. All this while the forgotten greats musicians that were once the core of the black music experience. Marvin Gaye, Cool & the Gang, Glady's Knight an the Pips, and so so many others that I couldn't possibly name here, that are not excepted or played in public anymore.

@Kevin-wr9um 20 күн бұрын

A good hero always has his theme music. And is anyone since 1971 been as cool as Richard Roundtree in the OG Shaft?

@malbourne805 Ай бұрын

Wow, this was three months before I was born.

@drssexy2142 24 күн бұрын

nobody cares; move along, son

@user-ig1ft2bl1o 8 күн бұрын

Please i mean to offend no one. Issac Hayes , Sidney Poitier and Sadie. Earnad their acadamy awards deservingly.! Worked hard to show the whole world...that talent..knows no color.! They are the most deserving intellectuals .!

@MrEhu3 12 күн бұрын

Wow, I'm glad he won. I use to like Bless the Beast and the Children.

@user-df1bv4se7l Ай бұрын

Awesome

@leonardodalongisland Ай бұрын

One of the best-all time songs but choreography and fashion in the '70's so horrendous (and I lived it).

@swissrioshow2846 3 жыл бұрын

Sucesso interessante até os dias de hoje !

@gerriepayne3811 13 күн бұрын

1970s. Wow.....

@user-rh1su5uk4r Ай бұрын

❤🌹💫💞💗🌷💕🌟

@vdoggydogg3922 2 ай бұрын

Hello children!!!

@MillerDJHawaii Ай бұрын

I believe the Academy woulnt allow the original artist perform the nominated song for awhile because the audience became unruly dancing in the aisles during Hayes performance.