Black Moses (album)

Black Moses
Studio album by Isaac Hayes
Released	November 1, 1971
Recorded	March – October 1971
Genre	Progressive soul
Length	93:38
Label	Enterprise
Producer	Isaac Hayes
Isaac Hayes chronology
Shaft (1971) Black Moses (1971) Live at the Sahara Tahoe (1973)
Singles from Black Moses
"Never Can Say Goodbye" Released: April 1971

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Never Can Say Goodbye"	Clifton Davis	5:07
2.	"(They Long to Be) Close to You"	Burt Bacharach, Hal David	8:58
3.	"Nothing Takes the Place of You"	Toussaint McCall, Alan Robinson	5:29
4.	"Man's Temptation"	Curtis Mayfield	4:59
Total length:			24:33

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
5.	"Never Gonna Give You Up"	Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff, Jerry Butler	5:47
6.	"Medley: "Ike's Rap II" / "Help Me Love"	Hayes, Johnny Baylor, Mickey Gregory, Luther Ingram, Tommy Tate	7:31
7.	"Need to Belong to Someone"	Curtis Mayfield	5:15
8.	"Good Love 6-9969"	Gregory, Hayes	5:15
Total length:			23:48

Side three

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
9.	"Medley: "Ike's Rap III" / "Your Love is So Doggone Good"	Hayes, Difosco Ervin, Rudy Love	9:15
10.	"For the Good Times"	Kris Kristofferson	5:20
11.	"I'll Never Fall in Love Again"	Burt Bacharach, Hal David	5:02
Total length:			19:37

Side four

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
12.	"Part-Time Love"	Clay Hammond	8:30
13.	"Medley: "Ike's Rap IV" / "A Brand New Me"	Isaac Hayes, Kenneth Gamble, Thom Bell, Jerry Butler	9:40
14.	"Going in Circles"	Jerry Peters, Anita Poree	7:02
Total length:			25:12

Note: Some of the vinyl pressings (and all CD releases) have a non-standard arrangement of the sides: sides 1 and 4 are pressed on one disc along with sides 2 and 3 on the other. This practice, known as "automatic sequence", was intentional on vinyl. ^[11]

Personnel

• Isaac Hayes - lead and background vocals
• "Hot", "Buttered", and "Soul": backing vocals
• The Bar-Kays, instrumentation: "(They Long to Be) Close to You" and "Going in Circles"
• Instrumentation on all other tracks by The Isaac Hayes Movement:
  • Piano, vibraphone, organ, electric piano - Isaac Hayes
  • Bass - Ronnie Hudson
  • Bongos, congas - Gary Jones
  • Drums, tambourine - Willie Hall
  • Electric piano - Lester Snell
  • Guitar - Charles "Skip" Pitts
  • Piano - Sidney Kirk
• Arranged by Isaac Hayes & Johnny Allen, except "(They Long To Be) Close to You" by Isaac Hayes & Dale Warren
• Engineers: Ron Capone, William Brown, Henry Bush, Eddie Marion, Dave Purple
• Remix engineers: Ron Capone, Dave Purple and Isaac Hayes

Covers and samples

• Portishead used a sample from "Ike's Rap II" in the song "Glory Box". That same year (1995), artist Tricky used the same sample on his song "Hell Is Round The Corner".
• Brazilian hip hop group Racionais MC's sampled "Ike's Rap II" on the first track "Jorge da Capadócia" from its 1997 album Sobrevivendo no Inferno .
• Canadian singer Alessia Cara sampled "Ike's Rap II" on her debut single "Here".
• English-Irish singer Maverick Sabre sampled "Ike's Rap II" on his single "Let Me Go".
• The sample was also used in Snoh Aalegra's song "Nothing Burns Like The Cold".
• Isaac Hayes covered the song "Good Love" as his Chef character in the 1999 film South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut .
• American rapper Cormega sampled "Medley: "Ike's Rap III"/"Your Love is So Doggone Good" in the song "Love in, Love Out" on his second album, The True Meaning .

See also

• List of number-one R&B albums of 1972 (U.S.)

References

1. Jason Ankeny. "Joel Brodsky | Biography". AllMusic . Retrieved 2015-08-29.
2. Planer, Lindsey (March 3, 2008). Review: Black Moses. Allmusic. Retrieved on 2010-12-28.
3. Product notes – Black Moses. Muze. Retrieved on 2010-12-28.
4. Columnist (April 2, 2009). Review: Black Moses. Paste . Retrieved on 2010-12-28.
5. Deusner, Stephen M. (March 4, 2009). Review: Black Moses. Pitchfork Media. Retrieved on 2010-12-28.
6. Gersten, Russell (January 20, 1972). Review: Black Moses. Rolling Stone . Retrieved on 2010-12-28.
7. Hultkrans, Andrew (May 2009). "Review: Black Moses". Spin : 95.
8. Spencer, Neil (March 2009). Review: Black Moses. Uncut . Retrieved on 2010-12-28.
9. Bowman (1997), p.237–240
10. Morgan Neville, Robert Gordon, and Mark Crosby [directors, writers, producers] (2007). Great Performances - Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story (TV documentary). New York City: Tremolo Productions, Concord Music Group, Thirteen/WNET New York.
11. "Isaac Hayes - Black Moses". Discogs.com. 1971. Retrieved 18 December 2021.

Notes

• Bowman, Rob (1997). Soulsville U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records. New York: Schirmer Trade. ISBN   0-8256-7284-8