Shaft! (Shut your mouth)
"Who's that black private dick who is like a sex machine to all the chicks?" John Shaft of course. The movie Shaft from 1971 is one of the most famous blaxploitation films of all time, not only because of its ultra cool black superhero but also for the award winning score by Isaac Hayes. The main theme for the movie is a guitar driven funk piece with Isaac's hot buttered soul voice driving it forward. There are countless covers and variations of the theme and today I give you fifteen of the best ones. The styles range from psychedelic organs to disco to reggae, there's something for everyone in the family. This compilation is not up to the usual standards and style that visitors of this blog might be used to, but I wanted to share it with you anyway. Feedback and comments are as always greatly appreciated, can you dig it?
01. Ray Conniff - Theme From Shaft
02. Hollyridge Strings - Theme From Shaft
03. Decimo - Theme From Shaft
04. Alan Hawkshaw & His Orchestra - Theme From Shaft
05. Joe Bataan - Theme From Shaft
06. Prophets Of Soul - Theme From Shaft
07. Sammy Davis Jr - John Shaft
08. Eddy And The Soul Band - Theme From Shaft
09. Birds N Brass - Theme From Shaft
10. The Chosen Few - Shaft
11. Bernard Purdie - Theme From Shaft
12. Isaac Hayes - Shaft II
13. Jimmy Mcgriff - The Theme From Shaft
14. Maynard Ferguson - Theme From Shaft
15. The Ventures - Theme From Shaft
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Posted at 3:09 PM | 14 comments | links to this post 
My name is Chris and I live in Sweden. I love the 50s and 60s lifestyle and design. I am very fascinated by the architecture of the period too, for instance googie, modernism, the work of Joseph Eichler, John Lautner and Arne Jacobsen's international style. I have a large archive with space-age, library, bossa, cocktail, retro soundtracks and exotica music. I also believe that things were better in the old days.
14 Comments:
Are you insane? LOL! This has fun written all over it! I grinned from ear to ear as I read the play list. I cannot wait to hear The Ventures version. I seriously cannot wait to download it and I will make sure the folks that read my blog know about it too. You're quite clever. Just stop the torture already and get the link up. Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeease!
October 14, 2007 3:29 PM
i love this funky mix. thanks for sharing it! i just discovered your blog yesterday and within minutes of reading, i declared myself a fan. you have great taste! :)
October 14, 2007 7:27 PM
No Malik Adouane?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nMqX1RS8-Q
Brilliant, otherwise.
October 15, 2007 12:41 AM
Downloaded it. Listened to it. GREAT as usual!
October 15, 2007 3:41 AM
Oh, man, what a super idea but it fails totally due to your use of suh a poor and SLOW download service.
Move over to Rapidshare, PLEASE.
Harry
October 17, 2007 11:21 AM
I was able to download reasonably quickly. Besides, Chris's work is definitely worth waiting a few additional seconds for. The collection is wonderfully fun and it hardly fails because of the choice of download service.
October 17, 2007 2:19 PM
Need to mention the best parody - the theme to the Jewsploitation film Hebrew Hammer. "No one understands him but his mother..."
October 18, 2007 6:16 PM
I love this one ! Great choices, love the variety.
Thanks !
October 19, 2007 7:21 AM
Yeah, happy happy birthday!
:D
October 20, 2007 6:38 AM
Hope you don't mind me mentioning this and linking to it on my blog.
Great collection and great artwork (as always).
My CD copies of your Space Age Lounge collections are only half as thick as my other discs because the laser has worn them down with all the playing they get :)
When's volume 4 coming?
All the best
Jay The Crime Lounge
October 20, 2007 5:34 PM
Hi, Just found your blog whilst scouring for a few different things to listen to. Looks like a great selection of versions of 'Shaft'. It took me back to 1972 when I worked with a guy who was such a huge fan of the tune, that he recorded the Isaac Hayes 45 version continuously onto two sides of a 90 minute cassette - 36 separate recordings! So whenever he played the tape, it played Shaft!!
October 26, 2007 5:53 PM
Thank you for all your praises and comments! Didn't expect that you would like this compilation as much as my others to be honest.
Many people have requested that 'Retro Christmas' to be uploaded again, and yes I will make sure it is reposted in around November :)
October 26, 2007 9:08 PM
Yeah, this one is a keeper.The only problem is that after listening to it two or three times last weekend, I still have the Theme from Shaft stuck in my head.ARRRRGGGGH! Oh well, listening to it a few more times will make it go away, right? Right?
Regards,
Robert
P.S. I was sort of wondering about Space Age Lounge IV myself.
November 1, 2007 11:01 PM
I'm sure Chris has some tricks up his sleeve. I did a training for two days for 50 people and during the lunch break I played Music to Buy Toasters By as the Muzak and the folks loved it.
November 3, 2007 1:59 PM
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