Shaft (Isaac Hayes album)
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| Released | July 23, 1971 | |||
| Recorded | 1971 | |||
| Studio | Stax Recording Studios, Memphis, Tennessee | |||
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| Length | 69:29 | |||
| Label | Enterprise ENS-2-5002 | |||
| Producer | Isaac Hayes | |||
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Shaft is a double album by Isaac Hayes, recorded for Stax Records' Enterprise label as the soundtrack LP for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 1971 blaxploitation film Shaft. The album mostly consists of instrumentals composed by Hayes as score for the film. Three vocal selections are included: "Soulsville", "Do Your Thing", and "Theme from Shaft". A commercial and critical success, Shaft is Hayes' best-known work and the best-selling LP ever released on a Stax label.
In 2014, the album was added to the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."