Presenting Isaac Hayes

Infobox Album |
Name = Presenting Isaac Hayes
Type = Album
Artist = Isaac Hayes


Released = 1968
Recorded = Stax Studios, Memphis, Tennessee, January 15–17, 1968
Genre = Soul/jazz
Length = 33:25
Label = Enterprise/Atlantic
S 13-100
Producer = Alvertis Isbell
Al Jackson, Jr.
Donald "Duck" Dunn
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:jxfoxq95ldhe link]
Last album =
This album = "Presenting Isaac Hayes"
(1968)
Next album = "Hot Buttered Soul"
(1969)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Reissue cover
Type = album


Lower caption = Atlantic reissued "Presenting Isaac Hayes" as "In the Beginning" in 1972.

"Presenting Isaac Hayes" was Soul musician Isaac Hayes' debut album, issued in 1968. The LP was the first release on Stax Records' Enterprise label; Hayes had for several years served as one of Stax's key songwriters, producers, and studio musicians.

Recorded to appease Stax vice president Alvertis Isbell (Al Bell), " [http://www.contactmusic.com/new/home.nsf/webpages/isaachayesx18x10x05 Ultimate Isaac Hayes (Can You Dig It?), Audio] ". "Contactmusic.com". Retrieved March 15, 2008.] "Presenting" features Hayes recording with Booker T. & the MGs members Al Jackson, Jr. and Donald "Duck" Dunn as a jazz trio. No material was prepared for the sessions, so the three musicians improvised an album's worth of material.

"Precious, Precious", recorded as an eighteen-minute jazz piece, was edited to under three minutes for release as a single. Both the 45 and the album underperformed, and Hayes would only continue his recording career after Stax lost its entire backlog to Atlantic Records during the process of breaking away from Atlantic. The lack of material necessitated all Stax artists - Hayes included - to record albums for release, resulting in Hayes' successful and groundbreaking "Hot Buttered Soul".

Following Hayes' success with "Hot Buttered Soul", "Black Moses", and the "Shaft" soundtrack, Atlantic reissued "Presenting Isaac Hayes" under the title "In the Beginning".

Tracklist

ide one

# "Precious, Precious" (Isaac Hayes) - 2:45
# "When I Fall in Love" (Edward Heyman, Victor Young) - 3:28
# Medley: "I Just Want to Make Love to You" / "Rock Me Baby" (Willie Dixon, Joe Josea, Carole King) - 9:04

ide two

# Medley: "I'm Going to Chicago Blues" / "Misty" (Count Basie, Jimmy Rushing, Erroll Garner, Johnny Burke) - 6:45
# "You Don't Know Like I Know" (Hayes, David Porter) - 8:30

1995 CD reissue bonus track

# "Precious, Precious" [Long Version] - 19:07

Credits

*Isaac Hayes - vocals, piano
*Donald "Duck" Dunn - bass guitar
*Al Jackson Jr. - drums
*Arif Mardin, Steve Cropper - mixing
*Alvertis Isbell - supervision
*Bill Kington, API Photographers - photography
*Loring Eutemey - cover design

Notes