The Soul of Stax - ACE286.7

Hayes describes how he was engaged to write the score for Shaft (1971). Hayes performing the title song at Wattstax. Stills of Hayes. Wayne Jackson talking about the security staff employed to guard Hayes at the studio (photograph of Johnny Baylor and. Dino Woodard) whose "strong-arm tactics" Jackson believes changed the previously warm atmosphere. Photographs of Hayes; he talks about the changing image of black men. Al Bell on the Wattstax event. Aerial view of the stadium. Crowds, etc. Jesse Jackson introducing the event and talking about "shifting from ‘burn, baby, burn’, to ‘learn, baby, learn’". Hayes describing the event. Rufus Thomas performing Do the Funky Chicken; audience jumping barriers and dancing in the arena. Al Bell says that Stax music was finally "being heard all across America" and that the company wanted to expand its album sales (covers for Wattstax: The Living Word (1973), Rufus Thomas Crown Prince of Dance (1972), Isaac Hayes Live at the Sahara Tahoe (1973), The Bar-Kays Cold Blooded (1974), Albert King, Chico Hamilton, Little Milton, from the Montreux Blues and Jazz Festival, 1974, The Staples Singers Be What You Are (1973)). They eventually brought an anti-trust suit against CBS through whom they were distributing. Stewart talks about going bankrupt and trying, unsuccessfully, to regain financial backing after the case. Caption: "Stax was closed down on January 19th 1975. The studio building was demolished in 1989." Jones and Cropper walking over the site. Credits, with Booker T. & The MG’s Time is Tight (1969) over.