Close Isaac Hayes - To Be Continued (1970/2016) FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz| Time - 42:04 minutes| 1,71 GB Studio Master, Official Digital Download| Artwork: Digital booklet To Be Continued was the fourth album in three years from Isaac Hayes and his second release of 1970. The record peaked at number 11 in the US and also reached the top spot on the jazz albums chart. Hayes is backed on these tracks by the Bar-Kays, the Memphis Horns and the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. Released in late 1970 on the heels of two chart-topping albums, Hot Buttered Soul (1969) and The Isaac Hayes Movement (also 1970), Isaac Hayes and the Bar-Kays retain their successful approach on those landmark albums for To Be Continued, another number one album. Again, the album features four songs that span far beyond traditional radio-friendly length, featuring important mood-establishing instrumental segments just as emotive and striking as Hayes' crooning. Nothing here is quite as perfect as 'Walk on By,' and the album feels a bit churned out, but To Be Continued no doubt has its share of highlights, the most notable being 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'.' The album's most epic moment opens with light strings and horns, vamping poetically for several minutes before Hayes even utters a breath; then, once the singer delivers the song's orchestral chorus, the album hits its sentimental peak – Hayes elevating a common standard to heavenly heights once again. This page includes ISAAC HAYES To Be Continued's: cover picture, songs / tracks list, members/musicians and line-up, different releases details, buy online: ebay and amazon, ratings and detailled reviews by some experts, collaborators and members. Elsewhere, 'Our Day Will Come' features a nice concluding instrumental segment driven by a proto-hip-hop beat that proves just how ahead of his time Hayes was during his early-'70s cycle of Enterprise albums. It's tempting to slight this album when holding it up against Hayes' best albums from this same era, but a comparison such as this is unfair. Even if Ike isn't doing anything here that he didn't do on his two preceding albums – Hot Buttered Soul, The Isaac Hayes Movement – and isn't quite as daring as he is on his two successive albums – Black Moses, Shaft – To Be Continued still topples any Hayes album that came after 1971. It didn't top the R&B album chart for 11 weeks on accident – this is quintessential early-'70s Isaac Hayes, and that alone makes it a classic soul album. Tracklist: 01 - Monologue: Ike's Rap I 02 - Our Day Will Come 03 - The Look Of Love 04 - Monologue: Ike's Mood / You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' 05 - Runnin' Out Of Fools. When he first made his name in the second half of the 60s, was known as one half of the mighty songwriting partnership with David Porter that created Stax classics such as Sam & Dave’s ‘’ and ‘Hold On, I’m Comin’’. But by 1969, Hayes had started down a solo career path that made him one of the biggest R&B superstars of the era. That sequence was still in full effect around Christmas 1970 with his fourth album, Isaac had failed to make the desired impact with his 1968 solo debut, Presenting Isaac Hayes, but returned a year later with an awesome new sound on the album. The jazzy flavours of the first LP were superseded by an ultra-romantic, dead-slow soulfulness, spread over just four songs, including expansive covers of ‘Walk On By’ (12 minutes) and ‘By The Time I Get To Phoenix’ (an extraordinary 18). The album was a turning point in late 60s soul and a crossover smash, topping the R&B chart for ten weeks and reaching No.8 in the pop charts. It was followed in the spring of 1970 by The Isaac Hayes Movement, which hit the same pop peak and ruled the R&B bestsellers for seven weeks. Then, towards the end the year, the man from Covington, Tennessee, delivered another dose of the deepest soul in the world with To Be Continued, and the album lived up to its name. Even without the aid of big singles this time, the album took precisely two weeks to top the R&B survey, moving to No.1 on the chart for 26 December 1970. It spent an aggregate of 11 weeks there, contesting the top spot from February onwards with Curtis, by the other champion of the sophisticated new soul for the decade just dawned, Curtis Mayfield. This time, Isaac reached No.11 in the pop market. To Be Continued had Hayes returning to the -David songbook for an 11-minute take on ‘The Look Of Love’. He opened with his own ‘Ike’s Rap’ to the recipe, on a record that also included his take on ‘Our Day Will Come’ and a 15-minute medley blending his own ‘Ike’s Mood’ with ‘You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’’. Two more consecutive R&B No.1s would follow in 1971, and another two by 1975. America’s loving feeling for Isaac Hayes was abundant.
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