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Isaac Hayes – Black Moses Vinyl Me, Please. Essentials – E138

For all the name Black Moses conjures, for all that it confers, it was not a name Isaac Hayes gave himself; that title was bestowed by a radio DJ sermonizing an intro to one of his songs. It was not a name Isaac Hayes — raised by his god-fearing grandparents in a former sharecropper’s shed after his parents died before he turned two years old — thought was even appropriate. It seemed sacrilegious to him. But that name, it meant something that even Hayes had to acknowledge. He had ascended to a plane that no Black performer before him had ever reached before. He topped the R&B charts and, eventually, the pop charts without ever having to compromise who Isaac Lee Hayes Jr. was. He had shown his people that James Brown’s “I’m Black and I’m Proud” edict was possible. He dripped in gold chains inside his album gatefolds and drove cars literally trimmed in it. Unapologetically. 
Black Moses towers as Hayes’ crowning solo achievement. Its 14 songs stand as a 90-plus-minute testament to Hayes’ nonpareil greatness, songwriting ability, singing, and arranging. A monument to authenticity, Black Moses projects a self-confidence so mammoth it feels like receiving the stone tablets of swagger down from the mountain of cool.
A1Never Can Say Goodbye Written-By –  5:07A2(They Long To Be) Close To You Arranged By –  Written-By – * 8:57A3Nothing Takes The Place Of You Written-By – *, * 5:29A4Man's Temptation Written-By –  5:02B1Never Gonna Give You Up Written-By – *, *, * 5:42MedleyB2aIke's Rap II Written-By –  2:10B2bHelp Me Love Written-By – *, *, *, * 5:21B3Need To Belong To Someone Written-By –  5:15B4Good Love 6-9969 Written-By – *, * 5:15MedleyC1aIke's Rap III Written-By –  1:35C1bYour Love Is So Doggone Good Written-By – *, * 7:40C2For The Good Times Written-By –  5:20C3I'll Never Fall In Love Again Written-By – * 5:02D1Part-Time Love Written-By –  8:30MedleyD2aIke's Rap IV Written-By –  2:10D2bA Brand New Me Written-By – *, *, * 7:30D3Going In Circles Arranged By –  Written-By – *, * 7:02