This is one of the songs my mom played on a Saturday morning clean ups. When everyone in the neighborhood was your aunt or uncle. The neighbors can whip you if you done bad, even teachers. The community was tight and right. Wouldn't change it for nothing.
This is the difference between a real musician and this stuff that people are doing today on the computers. back then they put their hearts and souls and it was real.
I'm 60 years old now, and I will never forget, I was working with a Caucasian guy who was younger than me when Isaac was at the second wave of his Fame (CHEF)on South Park. When I had told my coworker about Isaac Hayes back in the day, and went to RUclips and played this he couldn't believe it, and found such much more admiration for Isaac after finding out his real claim to fame.😁
Sorry to bother you, but perhaps you know the title of a song I’m looking for. I wonder if it exists as a single piece on yt. In the A-Team episode titled The Heart of Rock n’Roll S04 E06 Isaac Hayes is singing this song and I fell in love with it. I’ve written down the lyrics from hearing and ‘ve been googling them, I’ve been listening to his music available on yt but cannot find it - ‘what do you do when the one you love is gone how do you face each day all alone how do you smile when the pain is growing inside’ Regards to You from a random Caucasian girl.
My step father used to play Ike 90% of the time he played music. Mama did him bad for 10 years before he left. I turned 21 and realized what we had put this great man through. I got in front of him, begged him to forgive me and got on my knees and cried and thanked him. By then he had a new wife, three children who loved him and secretly had six months to die of pancreatic cancer. Never told anybody about the cancer except his wife and mama. I still love him, he was there when I needed to see what a man does. Mama will never admit she messed up, but like the Afrakan spiritualist say, a woman is never wrong. Still and always will love Daddy, yet my step father did what a man should do, for ten kids he did NOT bring into this world and he did it for ten years. By the time I get to Phoenix was one of his favorites.
Too All the Unsung Fathers who are the TRUE HEROES out there! I miss the man who raised me as his own ...and Fight you about him today..! Much love to all.
How COURAGEOUS of YOU to share your story!!! Especially admitting the things you felt you were responsible for as a Son...YOU ARE ONE HELLUVA MAN IN YOUR OWN RIGHT! Never forget that! Peace & Gods Bessings upon you in your LIFE ALWAYS!
Today is the first time I’m hearing this. Strangely enough, it reminds me of my Mom and Dad… My Dad was from Kentucky. He moved out to Las Vegas where he met my Mom who was 15 years younger than him. It’s strange how things happen. He was working in Vegas and my Mom went there just for a few days to get away with my Great Grandma. My parents were 2 heartbroken people from complete opposite sides of the country who never would’ve met had they both not been in Vegas at that precise moment in time. My Dad flew to LA and drove to the San Fernando Valley every weekend to see my Mom. They finally got married and he moved to Los Angeles. 2 years later, I was born… Much like the story in this song, my Mom cheated on him. He drank and gambled a lot though. They had their problems and divorced when I was still a baby but they always loved each other until the day he died, despite him eventually remarrying. My Dad died from cancer in 2008 and today marks 47 years since he and my Mom got married. As I was listening to this and thinking about my parents, my Mom text to tell me today would’ve been their 47th wedding anniversary, just as I was thinking of it. How very strange. Sometimes we hear a song at a precise moment in time for a reason… I love this man’s music. I often play ‘Walk On By’ and ‘Joy’ back-to-back when I go on my walks around the parks… They just don’t make music with soul like this anymore. RIP Isaac Hayes. 🌹
And Lord God we appreciate all of our Vietnam veterans service, male and female!!!!! NONE of you guys got the thanks and recognition that you all so richly deserved. Even though l was a little girl in the late 1960's and mid 1970's when y'all came on back home, l STILL see the difference between how people talked about the WWII and Korean vets and the Nam vets. It was painful to see my cousin l adored come back home.... DIFFERENT. There was a sadness that he carried. A pain that couldn't be eased by anyone. I still miss his smiling eyes before he was drafted. Thanks again for your comment regarding your brothers and you, as well as your service to this ungrateful nation. Peace and continued BLESSINGS to you and your family.
I WAS IN IN vietNam also my brother, this song is one of my favorites we used to smoke the pipe and listen to Issac. those were the good times for some
ISSAC HAYES AND BARRY WHITE MADE SOME OF THE BEST LOVE SONGS EVER, NOBODY COULD TOUCH THEM. TODAYS SINGERS COULD NOT TOUCH THEM IN SINGING OR WRITING MUSIC. RIP BLACK MOSES & THE MAESTRO
I met Isaac outside of the Chicago theatre in 1980 , and he could not have been nicer. I was a 19 yr old white kid , and it suprised me how kind he was to me (and everyone else) I don't know why it suprised me. He was a class act to be sure , and a giagantic talent !.
Me too, met him at Madison Square garden in new York when I first came to the United states. What a concert it was. My neighbor from Liberia took me. Yes.
I am 66 years old and I remember when this came out it catches your soul and all these years later it still does. I come in and listen to it whenever I'm in the mood. I even love listening to the lingo of that time
@@robertsmith8728 Somehow I got onto a video from the movie superfly from back in the day. Oh my goodness talk about memories Curtis Mayfield was incredible and way ahead of his time.
@@patriciadavis1393 I listen to Issac Hayes and Barry White, The Maestro, whenever I get that nostalgic feeling. It literally makes me cry, a good cry. Too bad they are both gone on.
The stars in the galaxy aligned when they recorded this song. Issac sung and the musicians played their instruments like they knew what this situation was truly like.
A really nice way to describe Ike's music. The musicians of his era were so talented and the period they came from was filled with pain and strife but it gave them the foundation to create great music like this song.
My father Robert LeeJr. Loved to play Issac Hayes when hey had the weekend an I want to say I love you a single father in the 1960 may he rest in PEACE 😎😎
As a child I thought the Black Moser stuff was a bit over the top, however as I approach my 59th year I understand that Ike's vision and production was from the heavens and he was truly a latter-day Moses of rythym and love.
Was privileged to see Ike perform this in 1970 as a student at Univ. of Houston. I was one of the few white guys in the audience. I was so proud because some of my brothers did not come back from Nam and they turned me on to Ike. He was a master and I will forever remember his impact on my life. RIP Ike.
One of the saddest love songs ever. Glen Campbell wrote the song, but the addition of Isaac singing his version of the song took this to another level. The musical instruments were the hallmark of the Hayes era..So High. Real music
Well, Campbell actually didnt write the song, Vee. Jimmy Webb did and it became a hit for Campbell before Ike's version . " Black Moses" was just in another vibration when he did his arrangement. lke made the song PERSONAL, TIMELESS, and UNFORGETTABLE!
I was a kid growing up somewhere in Africa. I had the sleeve of this album “Black Moses” on my wall. Best rapper, story teller and poet that ever lived.
Issac Hayes is one of the greatest of all time. He could do it all. I feel privileged to have grown up in the 60s and 70s. He did the music for the original Shaft movie with Richard Roundtree..still a classic album.
Amen bro... I only discovered the great man in 2012, I'm in my 50s, love all music, this is up there with every other masterpiece. From All and any genre's. ✌️
This song takes you there and brings you back! 7 times he left this woman and 7 time he came back! The power of love was upon him! Until his heart caught up with his mind!... by the time I get to phoenix.....
I listen to this song EVERY day. Isaac Hayes ' ability to tell this heartbreaking event through a song is sheer brilliance. I've been listening to his records since the 70's. I wish there was footage available showcasing Mr. Hayes and his fantastic second- to- none musicians during this recording session .
I I first heard this song in Trinidad when when i was about 16 years old. I am now 69 and it sounds just as rich and meaningful as it did then. You need not personally experience the pain expressed in the rap, to empathize with the suffering of the broken heart. Still brings tears to my eyes.
I was working the summer 1969 in New York city.when I heard this song. My girlfriend whose name was Nelly, introduced me to it. I am from Charleston, SC. Brought the album back to Charleston. No one had ever heard of Issac Hayes. When they heard "by the time I get to Phoenix," everybody wanted to keep my album. Many tears were cried that year. Keep listening to the classics.
I was born in 1969,I fell in love ❤with this Masterpiece as a youñg girl,my brother had a 8track tapé on his radio,I would go in his room to listen to this Song,when he wasn't home he would fuss at me and say don't touch my thing's and stay outta my room,I know you've been playing my 8track deçk because I know which tape and track I left it on,needless to say I learned how to Work his radio Very well,this is my most favorite Song 🎉 ❤,Black Moses laid this dowñ,4real no Cappin,and he kept it 100 😢
I remember riding wit my dad at the age of 10, sitting in the back seat, going to visit my aunt in new york, I cried because I felt so bad for Isaac, it's amazing how a ten-year-old can relate to such a beautifully Written song without having experienced love yet it was equivalent to watching a movie
Derrick, I had the PURE PLEASURE OF MEETING ISAAC HAYES, the day after I attended his concert in Akron, OHIO. I must say he was very polite, dressed from head to toe in white. You could have brought me for a penny.
I loved the way he held the one chord throughout the entire set-up. When he started singing and changed the chord, it was the most powerful release of tension. Beautifully done. Isaac was a the man.
I heard that! I have my copy on mint condition vinyl as well. There's just something about the poignancy and depth of the sound that can only be found within those grooves.
Stax Records, thank you.....I used to play this song every Saturday while cooking. Great to see that some artists were actually poets, songwriters, and singers. Isaac Hayes will always be remembered. This is definitely a MASTERPIECE!
PI didn't even think about that look like DJ would know better. Today i just want to SCREAM I am SO DISCUSSED WITH EVERYTHING. TIRED OF THE PROBLEMS IN THIS APARTME NT AS IF I AM RESPONSIBLE FOR. I CAN'T HAVE NO PEACE i am afraid to even have a relationship. No privacy. After ALL these years i still can't have company
The Black Moses for sure. I put him in the same class as all the the great composer, like Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin and Bach. Make music in heaven for God my brother.✨🎟🎆
I met Isaac Hayes when this album came out, the day I met him I were a young girl living near 51st and South State Street in Chicago. He were on the corner of 51st and South State sitting outside in a chair in front of a folding table selling his Hot Buttered Soul record albums. My auntie Alberta Phelps-Wolfe who use to be a professional undefeated wrestler in the early 1960's was with me that day. She brought an album from him, I like, and I love this album. Isaac Hayes the "Black Moses" was a musical genius. 😀😀😀💞
This song is just so deep...it really only could have been composed in the era it came from,late 60's-early 70's, when so much of the greatest music ever recorded expressed the promise of this country ( and the world)... Motown, Philly International, Stax, and others. It was just a truly awesome time for recording artists to shine brilliantly!
OMG by the time I get to Phoenix I ever get there again I'm going to think of Isaac I already been to Oklahoma that's my hometown Oklahoma City but every time I hear this song brings back memories rest in peace Isaac God got your back now thank God for bringing you in this world your music will live on manya songs we can learn from I know I don't know what to do with myself black Moses by the time I get to Phoenix shaft I can go on and on you talk to love you talking about some music anyway thank God that you gave us good music amen 🙏
Praise God! You're still enjoying decent music. I hope when I get 72 I still have the thirst for this music. I don't think I will out grow my Music. I come from a music family 👪
My daddy loved my mom the same way,no matter what she did wrong he just couldn't leave her. I just couldn't love someone that much. Right now today I remember the things she did to hurt him. Their both gone now,but I haven't forgotten the hurt she did to my dad. And I still feel his pain I will never love a man that much.
Move on Dan, I did TWICE. As I posted earlier my first bailed in '81 for a pretty boy type, second wife was a real con artist so I let her go my current and last wife has been with me for 30 years. We have a number of kids and grandkids all doing well. My beloved is still very pretty to me and I love the ground she walks on and so do our kids. Bro take you troubles to the BOSS and keep on steppin;' later bro so stop hurting and live! live! live! Peace out.
hey bro how about loving a woman for 50 yrs and she leaves you for a man in the church and yes we were Young sweet hearts in 1967heart broken yes but you have to move on i did get 4kids and grandkids
I remember when I bought this album so many years ago, I could not believe how great his baritone voice was, great range and feeling. A genius who was so creative in his music.
This song reminds me of my youth with my oldest sister introduced me to Isaac Hayes. She played this song to the max. Over and over again. So it grew on me. As one of the most beautiful songs ever. A Masterpiece. Dammm. Did he ever get to Phoenix. ❤️
I can listen to this album all day and never get tired of it. Listen to the instruments in the background. I was able to attend his first concert in Chicago, thanks to Robert G. Robert left and never came back. Oh, how my heart ached!! I went on a vacation to Phoenix, Az., because of this song. A little MERCY is in order. Robert purchased this album for me as a gift, oh, how I treasured it.
Love is an emotional ride up and down sometimes forward sometimes backward , but no doubt "love "is very powerful and we humans crave it sooo much ... ❤️
This song bring back some memories good and bad I remember my mom and dad dance together break up to make up I love to see them dance together go memory 😘😘😘💯
Happy recent birthday Joe and stay well ! Music like Ike's, good friends and family to share your life with should only make your life longer and more enjoyable!
I saw Issac Hayes in concert in the mid 70s, full orchestra and it was fantastic. We were very fortunate to have lived during that time, the so called music today can not hold a candle to the music then. I am 75 years old and I always play music from that era.
Love is blind! It can break your heart and step on it! Isaac Hayes was super talented artist! Poet, singer, actor, and songwriter, author! He is being deeply missed! Still listening to his music!!!💞💞💞💞💞💞💞
When I was a little girl I thought this song was thirty minutes long. My family would dance to this song what seemed like forever 😊I learned to love this song!!
Back when you put an album on and just played the whole thing!!! Classic shit!! Music meant something was about some kind of a message, about Love, about the way you treated each other, about the way you Lived. Miss those days 😏
THIS. First song of Isaac Hayes I ever heard. Fell in love with his music at 12 years old! I couldn't stop crying because it touched my heart as I listened to THIS arrangement, from beginning to the end. R.I.P. to the GENIUS of music.💞💞💞💞
To Mimi : out of the midst of sorrow and a heart longing not for sadness nor tears but love and the joy many only dream of sprang the genius of Hayes and his music.
Had me crying and longing for those days of real music. This hit to the core of your soul. And it still does in 2020. You could feel it when he said, "Whyyyyy?"
This man was so imaginative and original! To redo the music he did and make them so different,like they were his own,NEW songs,which they became--just a brilliant,SOULFUL musician!
THAT ORGAN THO, How He Kept That Organ At 1 Note/Level?? Issac Hayes is A Genius..
This is one of the songs my mom played on a Saturday morning clean ups. When everyone in the neighborhood was your aunt or uncle. The neighbors can whip you if you done bad, even teachers. The community was tight and right. Wouldn't change it for nothing.
Life was good
Yo, that's how I came up! Those days are the reason why I'm still here.
Yes! ❤
And, Walker on By… ❤🎉
I love it. We're from the same era. Peace and Love
This is the difference between a real musician and this stuff that people are doing today on the computers. back then they put their hearts and souls and it was real.
I'm 60 years old now, and I will never forget, I was working with a Caucasian guy who was younger than me when Isaac was at the second wave of his Fame (CHEF)on South Park.
When I had told my coworker about Isaac Hayes back in the day, and went to RUclips and played this he couldn't believe it, and found such much more admiration for Isaac after finding out his real claim to fame.😁
Sorry to bother you, but perhaps you know the title of a song I’m looking for. I wonder if it exists as a single piece on yt.
In the A-Team episode titled The Heart of Rock n’Roll S04 E06 Isaac Hayes is singing this song and I fell in love with it. I’ve written down the lyrics from hearing and ‘ve been googling them,
I’ve been listening to his music available on yt but cannot find it -
‘what do you do when the one you love is gone
how do you face each day all alone
how do you smile when the pain is growing inside’
Regards to You from a random Caucasian girl.
Damn, Moses don't hurt nobody. This is grown folk music.
What about Walk on By 🎉🎉🎉
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My step father used to play Ike 90% of the time he played music. Mama did him bad for 10 years before he left. I turned 21 and realized what we had put this great man through. I got in front of him, begged him to forgive me and got on my knees and cried and thanked him. By then he had a new wife, three children who loved him and secretly had six months to die of pancreatic cancer. Never told anybody about the cancer except his wife and mama. I still love him, he was there when I needed to see what a man does. Mama will never admit she messed up, but like the Afrakan spiritualist say, a woman is never wrong. Still and always will love Daddy, yet my step father did what a man should do, for ten kids he did NOT bring into this world and he did it for ten years. By the time I get to Phoenix was one of his favorites.
Too All the Unsung Fathers who are the TRUE HEROES out there! I miss the man who raised me as his own ...and Fight you about him today..! Much love to all.
You know, this is a really inspiring comment!
How COURAGEOUS of YOU to share your story!!! Especially admitting the things you felt you were responsible for as a Son...YOU ARE ONE HELLUVA MAN IN YOUR OWN RIGHT! Never forget that! Peace & Gods Bessings upon you in your LIFE ALWAYS!
I love you!!!!! A real one
Brother that piece if your life story brought tears 2my eyes.
Today is the first time I’m hearing this. Strangely enough, it reminds me of my Mom and Dad… My Dad was from Kentucky. He moved out to Las Vegas where he met my Mom who was 15 years younger than him. It’s strange how things happen. He was working in Vegas and my Mom went there just for a few days to get away with my Great Grandma. My parents were 2 heartbroken people from complete opposite sides of the country who never would’ve met had they both not been in Vegas at that precise moment in time. My Dad flew to LA and drove to the San Fernando Valley every weekend to see my Mom. They finally got married and he moved to Los Angeles. 2 years later, I was born… Much like the story in this song, my Mom cheated on him. He drank and gambled a lot though. They had their problems and divorced when I was still a baby but they always loved each other until the day he died, despite him eventually remarrying. My Dad died from cancer in 2008 and today marks 47 years since he and my Mom got married. As I was listening to this and thinking about my parents, my Mom text to tell me today would’ve been their 47th wedding anniversary, just as I was thinking of it. How very strange. Sometimes we hear a song at a precise moment in time for a reason… I love this man’s music. I often play ‘Walk On By’ and ‘Joy’ back-to-back when I go on my walks around the parks… They just don’t make music with soul like this anymore. RIP Isaac Hayes.
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This is the Album that got me and my brothers through Vietnam!!!
Yes, got me and my brothers through Vietnam.
Beautiful!
And Lord God we appreciate all of our Vietnam veterans service, male and female!!!!! NONE of you guys got the thanks and recognition that you all so richly deserved. Even though l was a little girl in the late 1960's and mid 1970's when y'all came on back home, l STILL see the difference between how people talked about the WWII and Korean vets and the Nam vets. It was painful to see my cousin l adored come back home.... DIFFERENT. There was a sadness that he carried. A pain that couldn't be eased by anyone. I still miss his smiling eyes before he was drafted. Thanks again for your comment regarding your brothers and you, as well as your service to this ungrateful nation. Peace and continued BLESSINGS to you and your family.
I WAS IN IN vietNam also my brother, this song is one of my favorites we used to smoke the pipe and listen to Issac. those were the good times for some
It got me through basic training for the Air Force in Sept 1969. Still getting me through life! Best ever. Thanks, Isaac.
ISSAC HAYES AND BARRY WHITE MADE SOME OF THE BEST LOVE SONGS EVER, NOBODY COULD TOUCH THEM. TODAYS SINGERS COULD NOT TOUCH THEM IN SINGING OR WRITING MUSIC. RIP BLACK MOSES & THE MAESTRO
His awesome voice along with the great musical instruments had a way of sending one to outer limits.
Amen cant touch the oldies..Idk what that stuff is they listen to now awf
TWO WORDS....... LUTHER VANDROSS!!!!!!
What can you add to greatness.Nothing.Old Folks.Soon past away.Greatness never.
Songs made from the 70s-80s were made with soul, true feelings, emotion.
18 minutes and 45 seconds of pure musical genius.....
I met Isaac outside of the Chicago theatre in 1980 , and he could not have been nicer. I was a 19 yr old white kid , and it suprised me how kind he was to me (and everyone else) I don't know why it suprised me. He was a class act to be sure , and a giagantic talent !.
S H ❤️
He was intelligent, not ignorant... understand the real deal.
Me too, met him at Madison Square garden in new York when I first came to the United states. What a concert it was. My neighbor from Liberia took me. Yes.
Class
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I am 66 years old and I remember when this came out it catches your soul and all these years later it still does. I come in and listen to it whenever I'm in the mood. I even love listening to the lingo of that time
There were NONE better !!!! The memories I have of that time in my life are totally brought back in the music...... as if it is now !!!!!!!!
@@robertsmith8728 Somehow I got onto a video from the movie superfly from back in the day. Oh my goodness talk about memories Curtis Mayfield was incredible and way ahead of his time.
It's called soul music
@@danielspikes9534 Duh really thanks for telling me captain obvious. I forgot more about soul music and R and B and blues than you'll ever know
@@patriciadavis1393 I listen to Issac Hayes and Barry White, The Maestro, whenever I get that nostalgic feeling. It literally makes me cry, a good cry. Too bad they are both gone on.
The stars in the galaxy aligned when they recorded this song. Issac sung and the musicians played their instruments like they knew what this situation was truly like.
Sho u right...awesome!!
A really nice way to describe Ike's music. The musicians of his era were so talented and the period they came from was filled with pain and strife but it gave them the foundation to create great music like this song.
Yesssssssssss
My father Robert LeeJr. Loved to play Issac Hayes when hey had the weekend an I want to say I love you a single father in the 1960 may he rest in PEACE 😎😎
He was playing the organ, I think
As a child I thought the Black Moser stuff was a bit over the top, however as I approach my 59th year I understand that Ike's vision and production was from the heavens and he was truly a latter-day Moses of rythym and love.
Damn... this hurt my soul for ol' boy! I listened to this going to work one day 5am, I was so deep into it I drove right past my exit.
😀😀😀😀😀
I doubt if ike made it to Phoenix. ..no way he could steady his nerves driving with so much emotion pouring thru his heart!
Been there, done that.
@@adaiyah-zerahbahtyahudah7860(respect) wow, you have got a fly name!
It’ll do it… mind deep fo real!!!!!
Was privileged to see Ike perform this in 1970 as a student at Univ. of Houston. I was one of the few white guys in the audience. I was so proud because some of my brothers did not come back from Nam and they turned me on to Ike. He was a master and I will forever remember his impact on my life. RIP Ike.
Saw him in Ft Collins, CO at Homecoming CSU. It's predominantly white but there was a Black invasion that night!! It was great!
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One of the saddest love songs ever. Glen Campbell wrote the song, but the addition of Isaac singing his version of the song took this to another level. The musical instruments were the hallmark of the Hayes era..So High. Real music
Well, Campbell actually didnt write the song, Vee. Jimmy Webb did and it became a hit for Campbell before Ike's version . " Black Moses" was just in another vibration when he did his arrangement. lke made the song PERSONAL, TIMELESS, and UNFORGETTABLE!
The Power of LOVE IS EMOTIONAL!!!
@@leonardcharles59 YEEEESSS INDEED!°°
This actually happened to me 1972, military Las Vegas, sad times. Her loss, even to this day she says I’m the best man she ever had
Good
Never too late to learn.
Too bad she didn't realize til it was too late!
N-E-X-T!
Sorry
@@candacetyndall6142 yes
Been there, done that! 1979 was the end and I love him more today than I did then.
I was a kid growing up somewhere in Africa. I had the sleeve of this album “Black Moses” on my wall. Best rapper, story teller and poet that ever lived.
He Embodied Black Manhood back in the day as young girl!
One word you have missed.... GENIUS
Thank You Ken
This is what rap should sound like we miss you Ike. R.I.P.
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Issac Hayes is one of the greatest of all time. He could do it all. I feel privileged to have grown up in the 60s and 70s. He did the music for the original Shaft movie with Richard Roundtree..still a classic album.
True true true 💯 true
Amen
He's Numero Uno!!
Amen bro... I only discovered the great man in 2012, I'm in my 50s, love all music, this is up there with every other masterpiece. From All and any genre's. ✌️
Not not only was he a great songwriter and a composer and a singer
This song takes you there and brings you back! 7 times he left this woman and 7 time he came back! The power of love was upon him! Until his heart caught up with his mind!... by the time I get to phoenix.....
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I felt this song...I was in this position....😔
I listen to this song EVERY day.
Isaac Hayes ' ability to tell this heartbreaking event through a song is sheer brilliance. I've been listening to his records since the 70's.
I wish there was footage available showcasing Mr. Hayes and his fantastic second- to- none musicians during this recording session .
Yes
"HE LEFT! HER 7 TIMES! & CAME BACK! SPEECHLESS!🙏💞😷🙏💞😷🙏💞😷🙏
I I first heard this song in Trinidad when when i was about 16 years old. I am now 69 and it sounds just as rich and meaningful as it did then. You need not personally experience the pain expressed in the rap, to empathize with the suffering of the broken heart. Still brings tears to my eyes.
So true
I was working the summer 1969 in New York city.when I heard this song. My girlfriend whose name was Nelly, introduced me to it. I am from Charleston, SC. Brought the album back to Charleston. No one had ever heard of Issac Hayes. When they heard "by the time I get to Phoenix," everybody wanted to keep my album. Many tears were cried that year. Keep listening to the classics.
I was born in 1969,I fell in love ❤with this Masterpiece as a youñg girl,my brother had a 8track tapé on his radio,I would go in his room to listen to this Song,when he wasn't home he would fuss at me and say don't touch my thing's and stay outta my room,I know you've been playing my 8track deçk because I know which tape and track I left it on,needless to say I learned how to Work his radio Very well,this is my most favorite Song 🎉 ❤,Black Moses laid this dowñ,4real no Cappin,and he kept it 100 😢
AMEN ❤ Black Moses
🎉I'm 68 and this has always been an emotional song for me. So many wonderful memories ❤
I remember riding wit my dad at the age of 10, sitting in the back seat, going to visit my aunt in new york, I cried because I felt so bad for Isaac, it's amazing how a ten-year-old can relate to such a beautifully Written song without having experienced love yet it was equivalent to watching a movie
That must have been a very powerful, intuitive experience bro.
It most definitely was Leonard 💪💪
A real rap song mixed with the blues.
Derrick, I had the PURE PLEASURE OF MEETING ISAAC HAYES, the day after I attended his concert in Akron, OHIO. I must say he was very polite, dressed from head to toe in white. You could have brought me for a penny.
Damn Kathy, you just showing off now 🤣🤣😘😘
I loved the way he held the one chord throughout the entire set-up. When he started singing and changed the chord, it was the most powerful release of tension. Beautifully done. Isaac was a the man.
That part RIGHT THERE!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
That's Issac for yah
I feel it
😍it's *soul power* Isaac *REALLY* has me feelin it❣🌞🕊
Yes i love the one chord that was the best.
I mean who does that! One chord for 11 minutes. And sounds good for every second
Issac Hayes was Truly A Geniuses That Black Moses Was Right Name For Him He Gave Blacks So Much Hope For The Future
no disrespect to Glen Campell, this is the best redone ever,for it is Isaac Hayes and that is it a true Genius
Dwayne Rose Glen Campbell did this song first I always thought it was Isack song
@@ramoncscott797 It is Isaac Hayes song
Either way they got my respect, for the foundation
Isaac gave it that touch of Soul.
I love Glen Campbell's version . But this is different. This is raw emotion. I agree with you too. One word. Only one GENIUS
One of America`s greatest singers of all time. Isaac, you are missed by the world at large!
Yes Black Moses is Truely Missed.Well Appreciated.
This was music, This is music and this will be music, Wow!!!
@@christinezaza39 Yes A Real Masterpiece
Pure Brilliance!!!!
Great Music 🎤🎷🎸🎹🎺🎻🥁
The message is just as powerful today as it was when it first came out. RIP Issac Hayes. A Master of his music.
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Bass, organ. piano, drums, horns and Isaac WOW I've been enjoying this for 50 yrs
Always from the Beginning to now
......and loving this masterpiece too😍
hawkman4828 Isaac Hayes always had an orchestra with him!!
I have always loved this song. 50yrs later there's still a deep meaning to this tune, & it's still
#1 in my book!!!!!
Yes the bass , organ,the drums u can feel it in ur head ur hreat and soul that makes good music and real music and I can say this is music 😘😘
I was a teenager when this classic was released. Proud to say that I have my vinyl copy in mint condition purchased in 1969.
I heard that! I have my copy on mint condition vinyl as well. There's just something about the poignancy and depth of the sound that can only be found within those grooves.
My dad played this over and over. NOW I Do. One. Of the greatest man songs of all time. Before it was these young cats. , There was ISSAC.
Stax Records, thank you.....I used to play this song every Saturday while cooking. Great to see that some artists were actually poets, songwriters, and singers. Isaac Hayes will always be remembered. This is definitely a MASTERPIECE!
This is a really nice , down- to -earth, honest comment!
same thing here every sunday my dad played this while we got haircuts
And then we asked him for a mirror and he gave his Isaac Hayes album and say look at that
Cheers ✌️
Es y será infinito y grande esto es música.
Simply a masterpiece from beginning to end....
Yes it is!😊
Still listen to Issac Hayes I was listening to Issac Hayes one day my 18yr old grandson ask me grandma what you know about that slap
PI didn't even think about that look like DJ would know better. Today i just want to SCREAM I am SO DISCUSSED WITH EVERYTHING. TIRED OF THE PROBLEMS IN THIS APARTME NT AS IF I AM RESPONSIBLE FOR. I CAN'T HAVE NO PEACE
i am afraid to even have a relationship. No privacy. After ALL these years i still can't have company
Definitely & in,2021 it still has the same effect as in, 1968
ISSAC HAYES IS WAS, AND ALWAYS WILL BE KING. BLACK MOSES YOU ARE ADORED
One of the greatest love songs ever recorded. ♥️
Christopher Lange yup
The truth
I totally agree ..there is no one today who can transmit the feeling and emotion of Isaac Hayes. His voice is velvet.
I agree! I also love 💕 Glenn Campbell ’s version too!!!!
One of the greatest albums ever recorded, it's a masterpiece.
This song is deep....Young people nowadays are missing out ...
Song is still here! Maybe they can still get hit by it!
Nope! We witnessed chocolate balls from South Park
A chick explained this song to me right before she kicked me to the curb
@@THESUPERDOOLEY Wow...
I remember shaft and his tone so powerful kept me mesmerized to think on life at the time a genius whose music lives on for those who know
The Black Moses for sure. I put him in the same class as all the the great composer, like Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin and Bach. Make music in heaven for God my brother.✨🎟🎆
It is IMPOSSIBLE to listen to this Masterpiece and not be moved deeply. A True Genius was Mr. Hayes!!! This will be a Classic greater than Mozert.
A time when music was music. LOVE IT
Yes I Agree with You Handsome Guy
Fact's 💯
I met Isaac Hayes when this album came out, the day I met him I were a young girl living near 51st and South State Street in Chicago. He were on the corner of 51st and South State sitting outside in a chair in front of a folding table selling his Hot Buttered Soul record albums. My auntie Alberta Phelps-Wolfe who use to be a professional undefeated wrestler in the early 1960's was with me that day. She brought an album from him, I like, and I love this album. Isaac Hayes the "Black Moses" was a musical genius. 😀😀😀💞
Don't have singers like this anymore when songs meant something
This song is just so deep...it really only could have been composed in the era it came from,late 60's-early 70's, when so much of the greatest music ever recorded expressed the promise of this country ( and the world)... Motown, Philly International, Stax, and others. It was just a truly awesome time for recording artists to shine brilliantly!
Sho nuff I was just a kid man, when I heard this song. Dunbar Jr High School. 1969. Brings back so many memories
Deep to the core indeed. I'm 48 and can't get enough of this soul.
Monique, you're only a youngster!lol!
Also a time when the heart truly felt music....music was still our GO TO EMOTIONAL SECURITY BLANKET...
Wow a Chi-Town bro...thats when the Chi was on & poppin' for us lil grass hoppers. Go Kenwood...lol
"Oh, then she'll cry, just to think I would really leave her.."
OMG by the time I get to Phoenix I ever get there again I'm going to think of Isaac I already been to Oklahoma that's my hometown Oklahoma City but every time I hear this song brings back memories rest in peace Isaac God got your back now thank God for bringing you in this world your music will live on manya songs we can learn from I know I don't know what to do with myself black Moses by the time I get to Phoenix shaft I can go on and on you talk to love you talking about some music anyway thank God that you gave us good music amen 🙏
The type of song you don't complain about how long it is... Just #timeless
Awesome;Takes U back👏🏽☝🏽sleep on miestro
Always liked Isaac! He was truly a Soulful being!
R.I.P BlackMose thank u for leaving us the best music in the world.
I second that motion !!!
I 3rd that. ❤
I fourth that
@@shannonperry8827 I fifth that.
This piece really, really touches my soul when I hear it,wonderful best memories of the 70s.
Man when those strings come in .... goosebumps
He is one of the greatest.... a true entertainer.
Still here chilling in October 2019 72 years old and still getting down with this great music can't beat it.
Praise God! You're still enjoying decent music.
I hope when I get 72 I still have the thirst for this music. I don't think I will out grow my Music. I come from a music family 👪
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Amen to that bro
I'm here with you @ 68yrs. This is our music. Meaningful Music!!🎧📻🎶
@@sandicandie 63 holla back at yoh!
My daddy loved my mom the same way,no matter what she did wrong he just couldn't leave her.
I just couldn't love someone that much. Right now today I remember the things she did to hurt him.
Their both gone now,but I haven't forgotten the hurt she did to my dad. And I still feel his pain I will never love a man that much.
Simply amazing! I've been listening to this for over 45 years and each time I hear it, it touches my soul.
Straight up GREATNESS! RIP my brother..
THE BRO IS REALLY HURTIN. I REALLY DIG WHERE HE IS COMMING FROM.AFTER ALL THESE YEARS I STILL HURT.
Move on Dan, I did TWICE. As I posted earlier my first bailed in '81 for a pretty boy type, second wife was a real con artist so I let her go my current and last wife has been with me for 30 years. We have a number of kids and grandkids all doing well. My beloved is still very pretty to me and I love the ground she walks on and so do our kids. Bro take you troubles to the BOSS and keep on steppin;' later bro so stop hurting and live! live! live! Peace out.
hey bro how about loving a woman for 50 yrs and she leaves you for a man in the church and yes we were Young sweet hearts in 1967heart broken yes but you have to move on i did get 4kids and grandkids
and by the way i was no cheater
@@williamwatt7874 🥺😭
Did the inevitable
mama why.............this song and isaac hayes will survive us all and we meet him in heaven thank you stax records
this song is an eternal masterpiece it will last forever, thanks Isaac, june 14, 2019 !
Definitely a music genius. Listen to that arrangement. Not too many artists can do this.
yeah a lot can
The best rapper of all time!!!
Ike and gil-scot heron!
The best everything !
The greatest greatest artist of all time Isaac Hayes
R. I. P. Ike!! Love you so very much my dear friend.
I remember when I bought this album so many years ago, I could not believe how great his baritone voice was, great range and feeling. A genius who was so creative in his music.
Thats the "Trooth!" Just like ike said! Lol
This song reminds me of my youth with my oldest sister introduced me to Isaac Hayes. She played this song to the max. Over and over again. So it grew on me. As one of the most beautiful songs ever. A Masterpiece. Dammm. Did he ever get to Phoenix. ❤️
Oh YEAH!
How? That ole woman had Ike's heart broken in a million pieces!
Isaac and I were great friends spent lots of time together for many years I miss him and his music such an amazing talent. RIP Isaac
He will forever remain in your heart and mind.
I can listen to this album all day and never get tired of it. Listen to the instruments in the background. I was able to attend his first concert in Chicago, thanks to Robert G. Robert left and never came back. Oh, how my heart ached!! I went on a vacation to Phoenix, Az., because of this song. A little MERCY is in order. Robert purchased this album for me as a gift, oh, how I treasured it.
Love is an emotional ride up and down sometimes forward sometimes backward , but no doubt "love "is very powerful and we humans crave it sooo much ... ❤️
Truly soul food! So deep ... it feeds your soul and takes you to places deep within your heart ❤️
RIP,U WERE ONE OF THE BEST. I LOVE THIS SONG. SAW HIM N CINN,OHIO, HE DID SHAFT.
❤True Cindy!!
🎶the phone keeps right on ringing and ringing and ringing and ringing
oh, and ringing off the wall🎶.... I'm feeling you Ike. Oh yeah I do.
Lol! Smh
This is incomparable. Brilliant. Nothing like it today. What became of great black music? Hip Hop lined pockets but destroyed everything in its path.
11:30 is when it truly gets going, those string touched my core.
Bought this album when it was first released; still absolutely love this version
IMO this is the very best version of this song.
This is what I grew up on. Nobody like Isaac.!!!
I was introduced to him at the age of 16 by my cousin who was 21. The best gift he could have given me.
This song is on the money! The absolute BEST long song around.....I am so glad I was a kid who grew up in the 1970's.
Rest in Peace Mr Hayes. Thank You Sir
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Man the horns🎷🎺 and strings🎻🎸 on this jam🎼, you can’t touch them they go right to the 💔 The pain in this man’s ❤️
This song is out of this world!!
I was 15 when first heard this version by Isaac Hayes, its like the very first time , he was great!
Thank you Mr. Hayes. Stax Records Memphis Tennessee my hometown. We saw him alot in Whitehaven. He is a legend. Respect to him . RIP Mr Isaac Hayes.
THE ORIGINAL RAPPER! REAL MAN RAP! THE LATE GREAT ISSAC HAYES!
This song bring back some memories good and bad I remember my mom and dad dance together break up to make up I love to see them dance together go memory 😘😘😘💯
Right! Ike was a brilliant,creative and original storyteller!
the best soul sensation ever
I still have the blues from 1972, and I'm 72yrs old on the 19:03:2020
Happy recent birthday Joe and stay well ! Music like Ike's, good friends and family to share your life with should only make your life longer and more enjoyable!
I was a ten year old kid when my older sister introduced me to Issac Hayes. I loved the music then and now and I will love it forever.
Aàaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
My mom has played this this my hold life, now I'm 40 and am playing this for my kids.
Isaac's music is great Love all his music songs great voice he's missed a lot
Most definitely a musical God. Many have tried to emulate this genius!
The storyteller of life, love and heart break. Beautifully done.
Beautifully written too!
I saw Issac Hayes in concert in the mid 70s, full orchestra and it was fantastic. We were very fortunate to have lived during that time, the so called music today can not hold a candle to the music then. I am 75 years old and I always play music from that era.
Amen, No One could do it like Mr. Ike!!
He was so brilliant
Yes he was Sheila! Him and Al Green representing Memphis!901!!!
Classic Ike (Black Moses)! My Jam here! Played this one endlessly! Much Love!
Still listening to him all day. This is one that you play over and over.
This is a song that touches your soul and sees it on fure
Damn this brings back some really fond memories.. in my young daze.... lol I can’t believe it’s been over 45 years or more...
iKE DA TRUTH BRUH
Gatamona 1945 ... time flies like a bird in the wind.
Isaac took a song and took it to higher heights. His interpretation was always mind blowing and timeless!
What you know about this 🤔
This cat was awesome just what I needed when I needed it. Thanks Ike. RIP. Douglas Dunbar.
My Favorite Storyteller!
WOW...A Masterpiece!
Awesome Mr Hayes
Love is blind! It can break your heart and step on it! Isaac Hayes was super talented artist! Poet, singer, actor, and songwriter, author! He is being deeply missed! Still listening to his music!!!💞💞💞💞💞💞💞
Oh sweet memories of the 70s growing up listening to this icon of music...I am now in my late 60s...it seems like yesterday.
When I was a little girl I thought this song was thirty minutes long. My family would dance to this song what seemed like forever 😊I learned to love this song!!
Back when you put an album on and just played the whole thing!!! Classic shit!! Music meant something was about some kind of a message, about Love, about the way you treated each other, about the way you Lived. Miss those days 😏
Great song, great arrangement, and greatest PERSON to ever sing this song..His music will never fade....
THIS. First song of Isaac Hayes I ever heard. Fell in love with his music at 12 years old! I couldn't stop crying because it touched my heart as I listened to THIS arrangement, from beginning to the end. R.I.P. to the GENIUS of music.💞💞💞💞
Damn that is what music can do to a person it touches the soul
To Mimi : out of the midst of sorrow and a heart longing not for sadness nor tears but love and the joy many only dream of sprang the genius of Hayes and his music.
Had me crying and longing for those days of real music. This hit to the core of your soul. And it still does in 2020. You could feel it when he said, "Whyyyyy?"
This man was so imaginative and original! To redo the music he did and make them so different,like they were his own,NEW songs,which they became--just a brilliant,SOULFUL musician!
Yes, he was and he was an instrumentalist as well.
This is what you call a true-blue "cry in your beer" and get drunk to song.
Candace, if you do that you'll never be able to leave and the only thing youll have to show for it is a hangover the next morning ...lol
👑why am I all of a sudden getting this urge to gas up and head out to tour the west!🤔👈🏿
Brutha Isaac RIP. This is for all the women who think men are absolutely no good and heartless 😔
Thanks, I was there and it was the best time of my life! I saved the Troubadour!