ISAAC HAYES - Hot Buttered Singles Volume 2 (1972-1976) - 2LP - Vinyl [APR 25]

2LP - Black Vinyl

The wonderfully favourable response to our first CD and double vinyl volume of the original A and B sides of the singles of the late, great Isaac Hayes—as originally released on Stax’s Enterprise subsidiary between 1969 and 1972—has forced us to bring forward, this month, the release of Hot Buttered Singles 2 to cater for what Ace is sure will be just as great a level of popular demand.

This volume picks up where Hot Buttered Singles Vol. 1 left off with Hayes’ final 45 of 1972 and carries his seven-inch story through to 1976—by which time Stax was defunct, and Hayes was on his own Hot Buttered Soul label via ABC Records. It features eight US R&B chart hits, including the much-sampled Hung Up On My Baby and Chocolate Chip, Hayes’ biggest hit of this period, Joy, and the ever-popular 1976 instrumental Disco Connection, which finally gave Hayes his second UK Top 20 hit after Shaft.

All tracks match the original single edits and, wherever possible, are taken from digital transfers of the original Enterprise singles masters. Where the original 45s came in two parts, they also do so here. And where original singles masters no longer exist, as was the case for two tracks, Ace’s engineers have re-created them beat for beat from the longer album versions. (Have fun guessing which two they were…)

Tracklist: 

1.THEME FROM THE MEN (Instrumental)
2.TYPE THANG
3.ROLLING DOWN A MOUNTAINSIDE
4.(IF LOVING YOU IS WRONG) I DON'T WANT TO BE RIGHT
5.JOY PT 1
6.JOY PT 2
7.WONDERFUL
8.SOMEONE MADE YOU FOR ME
9.TITLE THEME
10.HUNG UP ON MY BABY (Instrumental)
11.CHOCOLATE CHIP
12.CHOCOLATE CHIP (Instrumental)
13.COME LIVE WITH ME
14.BODY LANGUAGE
15.DISCO CONNECTION
16.ST. THOMAS SQUARE
17.ROCK ME EASY BABY PT 1
18.ROCK ME EASY BABY PT 2
19.JUICY FRUIT (DISCO FREAK) PT 1
20.JUICY FRUIT (DISCO FREAK) PT 2