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Isaac Hayes, 1942-2008
1:14PM ON
08/11/2008
BY
Matthew Lawrence
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYmBTLpVDtA]
Isaac Hayes, musician, composer, bearded fellow, honorary king of Ghana, and the first non-acting black man to ever win an Academy Award, died yesterday at his home in Tennessee. He was 65, and apparently on a treadmill when it happened. I was never a huge fan–the Shaft Soundtrack is great, but then there was that whole dreadful Chocolate Salty Balls thing–but I thought it might be nice to watch him perform Walk On By in some sort of abstract mod laundromat.
His version of the song, of course, also provided the inspiration for Hooverphonic’s 2Wicky, a song which I happened to come across when I was alphabetizing my CDs today. It samples, quite liberally, Hayes’s version of the Bacharach standard. Here’s that video:
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wobu_4uASfE]
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