Theme from Shaft
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Who's the black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks? --"Theme from Shaft" (1971) |
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"Theme from Shaft", written and recorded by Isaac Hayes in 1971, is the soul and funk-styled theme song to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film Shaft.
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Personnel
- Isaac Hayes – lead vocals, keyboards, lyrics, arrangements
- Pat Lewis – backing vocals
- Rose Williams – backing vocals
- Mitchell Butler – backing vocals
- Telma Hopkins – backing vocals
- Lester Snell – electric piano
- David Becker – viola
- Charles Pitts – guitar
- Michael Toles – guitar
- Marc "Dr. Love" Davis – guitar solo
- James Alexander – bass guitar
- Richard "Johnny" Davis – trumpet
- John Fonville – flute
- Gary Jones – congas
- Willie Hall – drums
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