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Isaac Hayes Songs

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Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. (August 20, 1942 - August 10, 2008) was an American soul singer, actor, and producer. Hayes was one of the creative forces behind the southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served both as an in-house songwriter and as a session musician and record producer, teaming with his partner David Porter during the mid-1960s. Hayes, Porter, Bill Withers, the Sherman Brothers, Steve Cropper, and John Fogerty were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2005 in recognition of writing scores of notable songs for themselves, the duo Sam & Dave, Carla Thomas, and others. Hayes is also a 2002 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Below is a list of Isaac Hayes songs, sorted by the most popular first. Place mouse on to see information about song. Click song title to play song and to read details about the song including lyrics (if available). Click year to list all songs from that year. Click label to list songs from that record label. Songs with chart position "---" either never made it into the US top 100 R&B or UK charts or we have no details of their highest chart positions if they did.

(Song are sorted in highest US R&B Top 100 and/or UK Top 100 chart position order)


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1 record label: Enterprise 9038
chart position: RandB #2, US #1, UK #4, US AC #6
written by: Isaac Hayes
album: Shaft: Music from the movie / Stax Greatest Hits
Isaac Hayes Theme from Shaft
1971 Enterprise
2 record label: Polydor 2011
chart position: RandB #11, US #18, US dance #3
written by: Jesse Stone
album: Don't Let Go
comments: [disco dance]
Isaac Hayes Don't Let Go
1979 Polydor
3 record label: Enterprise 9031
chart position: RandB #5, US #22, US AC #19
written by: Clifton Davis
album: Black Moses
comments: [ballad]
Isaac Hayes Never Can Say Goodbye
1971 Enterprise
4 record label: Enterprise 9042
chart position: RandB #3, US #30
written by: Isaac Hayes
album: Shaft
Isaac Hayes Do Your Thing
1972 Enterprise
5 record label: Enterprise 9003
chart position: RandB #13, US #30
written by: Burt Bacharach & Hal David
album: Hot Buttered Soul
comments: [ballad]
Isaac Hayes Walk On By
1969 Enterprise
6 record label: Enterprise 9058
chart position: RandB #19, US #38, US AC #12
written by: Isaac Hayes
comments: [instrumental] (from the ABC TV series 'The Men')
Isaac Hayes Theme from the Men
1972 Enterprise
7 record label: ABC 12171
chart position: RandB #60, UK #10, US dance #7
written by: Isaac Hayes
album: Disco Connection
comments: [disco instrumental]
Isaac Hayes Disco Connection
1976 ABC
8 record label: Enterprise 9085
chart position: RandB #7, US #30, UK #52, US AC #34
written by: Isaac Hayes
album: Joy
Isaac Hayes Joy
1973 Enterprise
9 record label: Enterprise 9003
chart position: RandB #37, US #37
written by: Jimmy Webb
album: Hot Buttered Soul
Isaac Hayes By the Time I Get to Phoenix
1969 Enterprise
10 record label: Polydor 2090
chart position: RandB #49, US dance #8
written by: Isaac Hayes
album: And Once Again
Isaac Hayes I Ain't Never
1980 Polydor
11 record label: HBS 12118
chart position: RandB #13, US #92
written by: Isaac Hayes
album: Chocolate Chip
Isaac Hayes Chocolate Chip
1975 HBS
12 record label: Columbia 06363
chart position: RandB #9
written by: Isaac Hayes, Gerry Goffin and Carole King
album: U Turn
Isaac Hayes Ike's Rap -- Hey Girl
1986 Columbia
13 record label: Enterprise 9017
chart position: RandB #23, US #42
written by: Billy Butler and Jerry Butler
album: The Isaac Hayes Movement
comments: [ballad]
Isaac Hayes I Stand Accused
1970 Enterprise
14 record label: Enterprise 9095
chart position: RandB #18, US #71
written by: Isaac Hayes
album: Wonderful
Isaac Hayes Wonderful
1974 Enterprise
15 record label: Enterprise 9045
chart position: RandB #25, US #48, US AC #21
written by: Al Green, Willie Mitchell and Al Jackson Jr.
comments: [instrumental]
Isaac Hayes Let's Stay Together
1972 Enterprise
16 record label: Enterprise 9065
chart position: UK #51
written by: Homer Banks, Carl Hampton and Raymond Jackson
Isaac Hayes If Loving You Is Wrong (I Don't Want to Be Right)
1973 Enterprise
17 record label: Polydor 14521
written by: Isaac Hayes
album: For the Sake of Love
Isaac Hayes Zeke the Freak
1979 Polydor
18 record label: ABC 12138
chart position: RandB #20
written by: Isaac Hayes
album: Chocolate Chip
Isaac Hayes Come Live with Me
1975 ABC
19 record label: Polydor 14464
chart position: RandB #96 US #16
written by: Isaac Hayes
album: New Horizon
comments: charted as Moonlight Lovin' (Ménage à trois) / Stranger In Paradise in US dance charts
Isaac Hayes Moonlight Lovin (Menage A Trois)
1978 Polydor
20 record label: Enterprise 9028
chart position: Cashbox R&B #49, US #79
written by: Burt Bacharach and Hal David
album: To Be Continued
Isaac Hayes The Look Of Love
1971 Enterprise
21 record label: Virgin 18950
chart position: UK #79, R&B #116
written by: Sting
album: Branded
Isaac Hayes Fragile
1995 Virgin
22 record label: Enterprise 9049
chart position: RandB #37, US #86
written by: Allen Jones and Homer Banks
Isaac Hayes & David Porter Ain't That Loving You (For More Reasons Than One)
1971 Enterprise
23 record label: AandM 5021 8748
chart position: RandB #29
written by: Barry White
album: Put Me in Your Mix
comments: [slow jam]
Barry White & Isaac Hayes Dark and Lovely (You Over There)
1992 A&M
24 record label: Spring 2036
chart position: RandB #30
written by: Peter McCann
album: Royal Rappin's
Millie Jackson & Isaac Hayes Do You Wanna Make Love
1980 Spring
25 record label: Enterprise 9065
chart position: US #104
written by: Leon Ware and Jacqueline Hilliard
album: Wattstax Motion Picture Soundtrack
Isaac Hayes Rolling Down a Mountainside
1973 Enterprise
26 record label: HBS 12206
chart position: US #102
written by: Isaac Hayes
album: Juicy Fruit (Disco Freak)
Isaac Hayes Juicy Fruit (Disco Freak)
1976 HBS
27 record label: Polydor 14446
chart position: RandB #42, US #107
written by: Isaac Hayes
album: New Horizon
Isaac Hayes Out of the Ghetto
1978 Polydor
28 record label: Polydor 2102
chart position: RandB #86 US #107
written by: Carl Sigman and Charles Dawes (as Charles G. Dawes)
album: And Once Again
Isaac Hayes It's All in the Game
1980 Polydor
29 record label: Columbia 07978
chart position: RandB #40
written by: Isaac Hayes
album: Love Attack
Isaac Hayes Showdown
1988 Columbia
30 record label: Columbia 06655
chart position: RandB #43
written by: Isaac Hayes
album: U Turn
comments: [beat ballad]
Isaac Hayes Thing for You
1987 Columbia
31 record label: ABC 12176
written by: Isaac Hayes
album: Groove A Thon
Isaac Hayes Rock Me Easy Baby (Pt. I)
1976 ABC
32 record label: ABC 12253
chart position: RandB #65
written by: Jimmy Webb, Burt Bacharach and Hal David
Isaac Hayes & Dionne Warwick By the Time I Get to Phoenix -- Say a Little Prayer
1977 ABC
33 record label: Warlock 2720
chart position: RandB #71
album: All Because of You
comments: [beat ballad]
Kim Waters & Isaac Hayes Just Be My Lady
1990 Warlock
34 record label: Enterprise 9104
chart position: RandB #72
written by: Isaac Hayes
album: Tough Guys Soundtrack
comments: [from the movie Three Tough Guys]
Isaac Hayes Title Theme
1974 Enterprise
35 record label: Spring 2063
chart position: RandB #78
written by: Rafe VanHoy (as Rafe Van Hoy), Curly Putman and Curly Putman
album: Royal Rappin's
Millie Jackson & Isaac Hayes You Never Cross My Mind
1980 Spring
36 record label: Polydor 2068
chart position: RandB #89
written by: Isaac Hayes
album: Don't Let Go
Isaac Hayes A Few More Kisses
1980 Polydor
37 record label: Pointblank
chart position: RandB #108
album: Branded
comments: [ballad]
Isaac Hayes Thanks To The Fool
1995 Pointblank
-- record label: Spring 87 (UK)
written by: M. Jones
album: Royal Rappin's
Millie Jackson & Isaac Hayes Feels Like The First Time
1979 Spring
-- record label: Spring 3048
written by: R. Goodman
album: Royal Rappin's
comments: [ballad]
Millie Jackson & Isaac Hayes You Needed Me
1986 Spring
-- record label: Enterprise 1001
written by: Charles Chalmers
album: Hot Buttered Soul
comments: [album cut]
Isaac Hayes One Woman
1969 Enterprise
-- record label: Enterprise 1001
written by: A. Isbell, I. Hayes
album: Hot Buttered Soul
comments: [album cut]
Isaac Hayes Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic
1969 Enterprise
-- record label: Enterprise 5002
written by: Weitten and produced by Isaac Hayes
album: Shaft Soundtrack
comments: (Full Album)
Isaac Hayes Shaft (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
1971 Enterprise
-- record label: Polydor
written by: J.R. Bailey, K. Williams, M. Kent
album: Royal Rappin\'s
comments: [album cut]
Millie Jackson & Isaac Hayes Sweet Music, Soft Lights, And You
1979 Polydor




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