The Very Best of Isaac Hayes [2007]

by Isaac Hayes

Overview

This is not a bad start, at least as far as single-disc representations of Isaac Hayes' Stax years are considered. The Very Best of Isaac Hayes contains many of the necessities -- his reinventions of "Walk on By," "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," and "Never Can Say Goodbye," alongside originals like "Theme from Shaft," "Do Your Thing," and "Joy, Pt. 1" -- but since it contains a total of 18 tracks, there's no room left for the original full-length album versions, so you get the single edits. Ultimate Isaac Hayes: Can You Dig It?, a two-disc/one-DVD set released in 2005 by Stax, is easier to recommend because it is more expansive, allowing enough room for all 12 minutes of "Walk on By" and a few essential cuts that couldn't fit here -- such as "Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic" and "I Stand Accused." ~ Andy Kellman

Product Details

Release Date:	06/19/2007
Label:	Fantasy / Stax
UPC:	0888072302945

Tracks

1. Precious, Precious
2. Walk on By
3. By the Time I Get to Phoenix
4. I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself
5. I Stand Accused
6. The Look of Love
7. Never Can Say Goodbye
8. Theme from Shaft
9. Do Your Thing
10. Let's Stay Together
11. Soulsville
12. Ain't That Loving You (For More Reasons Than One)
13. Theme from The Men
14. (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right
15. Rolling Down a Mountainside
16. Joy, Pt. 1
17. Wonderful
18. Title Theme

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Isaac Hayes   Primary Artist
David Porter   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Cheryl Pawelski   Compilation Producer
Stuart Kremsky   Project Assistant
Al Jackson, Jr.   Composer
Al Green   Composer
Burt Bacharach   Composer
Willie Mitchell   Composer
Hal David   Composer
William E. Butler   Composer
Larissa Collins   Art Direction
Arthur Nakata   Design
Rikka Arnold   Project Assistant
Jennifer Peters   Project Assistant
Allen Jones   Composer
Kirk Felton   Remastering
Isaac Hayes   Composer
Chris Clough   Project Coordinator
Jimmy Webb   Composer
Carl Hampton   Composer
Clifton Davis   Composer
Homer Banks   Composer
Leon Ware   Composer
David Gorman   Design
Rob Bowman   Liner Notes,Compilation Producer
Jerry Butler   Composer