Both a commercial and critical success, it remains Isaac Hayes’ best-known
and best-selling LP released by Stax Records, winning Hayes multiple Grammy®
Awards in 1972 and an Oscar® for “Best Original Song.” The album reached
#1 on the Billboard 200 and spent 60 weeks on the chart. In 2014, it was
inducted into the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress in
2014 for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”
The album contains the ubiquitous #1 chart-topping hit “Theme From Shaft”
and top-40 smash, “Do Your Thing.” This new 2-LP reissue from Craft
Recordings showcases newly remastered audio cut at Elysian Masters under the
supervision of Dave Cooley and pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Memphis
Record Pressing.
