This week in 1971: Isaac Hayes started a two-week run at #1 on the - TopicsExpress



          

This week in 1971: Isaac Hayes started a two-week run at #1 on the US singles chart with Theme From Shaft (backed with Cafe Regios), on Stax Records; the soul & funk-styled theme song to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film, Shaft peaked at #4 in the UK; the following year, it won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, with Isaac not only becoming the first African American to win that honor (or any Academy Award in a non-acting category) but also becoming the first recipient of the award to both write & perform the winning song…
Posted on: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 04:43:10 +0000

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