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."

Product Details

Release Date:	06/19/2007
Label:	Stax
UPC:	0888072302945
catalogNumber:	30294
Rank:	28414

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

Technical Credits

Rob Bowman   Liner Notes
Larissa Collins   Art Direction