Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the year-long series Sounds Of Blaxploitation, Craig D. Lindsey plays the hits that defined a genre, drawing connections ...
When the singer and musician Isaac Hayes met MGM executives in 1970, the conversation turned to the Ernest Tidyman novel Shaft, to which the studio had just acquired the film rights. Hayes thought he ...
Staff at Stax Records’ headquarters, at 926 East McLemore Avenue in South Memphis, were elated. Released on Stax’s Enterprise subsidiary, Isaac Hayes’ soundtrack to the movie Shaft had become their ...
In the year-long series Sounds Of Blaxploitation, Craig D. Lindsey plays the hits that defined a genre, drawing connections between the music of the moment and the films that gave it a platform. It’s ...