The Isaac Hayes Movement
The Isaac Hayes Movement is the third studio album by the American soul musician Isaac Hayes. Released in 1970, it was the follow-up to Hot Buttered Soul, Hayes' landmark 1969 album. Marvell Thomas had come up with "The Isaac Hayes Movement" as a name for Hayes' backup ensemble. He modeled the name after the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Similar in structure to Hot Buttered Soul, The Isaac Hayes Movement features only four long tracks, all with meticulous, complex and heavily orchestrated arrangements. However, unlike the previous album, this time all four songs are reworked covers of others' material. This includes Jerry Butler's "I Stand Accused", which features a nearly five-minute long spoken intro that precedes the actual song, and The Beatles' "Something", which features violin soloing by John Blair. The other two songs included on the album were the Bacharach-David song, "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself" and Chalmers and Rhodes' "One Big Unhappy Family".
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| Released | April 1970 | |||
| Genre | Progressive soul | |||
| Length | 36:18 | |||
| Label | Enterprise | |||
| Producer | Isaac Hayes | |||
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Released in November 1970, The Isaac Hayes Movement spent a total of seven weeks at #1 on Billboard's Soul Albums chart and remained in the top ten until the last week of November in that year. The album also reached #1 on the Jazz Albums chart and spent 75 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart, peaking at #8. An edited version of "I Stand Accused" was released as a single in July 1970. It reached #23 on the Soul Singles chart and #42 on the Pop chart.
Stax Records reissued The Isaac Hayes Movement in SACD format in 2004.
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Christgau's Record Guide | C[2] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide |  [3] |
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "I Stand Accused" | Jerry Butler, William Butler | 11:39 |
| 2. | "One Big Unhappy Family" | Charles Chalmers, Sandra Rhodes | 5:54 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 3. | "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself" | Burt Bacharach, Hal David | 7:05 |
| 4. | "Something" | George Harrison | 11:45 |
Personnel
- Isaac Hayes – arrangements, keyboards, vocals, producer
- The Bar-Kays – rhythm section
- Dale Warren - arrangements
- Pat Lewis – vocal arrangements
- Technical
- Joel Brodsky – photography
- Henry Bush – engineer
- Ron Capone – engineer, remixing, remix engineer
- George Horn – mastering
- Herb Kole – art supervisor
- David Krieger – art direction
- Joe Tarantino – mastering
- Ed Wolfrum – engineer
References
- Lindsay Planer. "The Isaac Hayes Movement – Isaac Hayes | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved August 28, 2015.
- Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: H". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 26, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 312.