The Stax Story of Isaac Hayes

Many of the people involved in Stax were making music as what we would now call a side hustle. Isaac Hayes was taken on as a second session keyboard player to cover for Booker T when he was off at university. Mr Pitiful was the first collaboration between Reading and Steve Cropper, and was primarily Cropper's idea. Instead of a solo, the instrumental break is played by the horns as an ensemble. The last Stax single of 1964 took the security sound and refined it, becoming the template for every big Stax hit to follow.