...To Be Continued is the fourth studio album by American soul musician Isaac Hayes, issued in 1970 on Stax Records' Enterprise label. The LP includes Hayes' cover of the Burt Bacharach/Hal David composition "The Look of Love", which was issued as a single in an edited form, peaking at #79 on the Billboard Hot 100. Hayes had covered Bacharach/David songs on his previous albums Hot Buttered Soul ("Walk On By") and The Isaac Hayes Movement ("I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself").

The ...To Be Continued album as a whole peaked at #1 on the Billboard Black Albums and Jazz Albums charts, and at #11 on the Billboard 200.Bowman, Rob (1997). Soulsville U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records. New York: Schirmer Trade. . Pg. 213–214

Track listing

Personnel

Isaac Hayes - vocals, producer, arranger, piano, electric piano, bongos, timpani, vibraphone Dale Warren - arranger Pat Lewis - backing vocal arranger The Bar-Kays: instrumentation James Alexander - bass guitar Cliff Acred - bass guitar Ben Cauley - trumpet Michael Toles - guitar Ronnie Gordon - keyboards Harvey Henderson - saxophone Roy Cunningham - drums Willie Hall - drums Hot Buttered Soul Unlimited - backing vocals William Brown, Henry Bush, Ron Capone - engineers Joe Tarantino - mastering David Krieger - art direction Herb Kole - art supervisor Joel Brodsky - photographyThe Memphis Horns and the Memphis Symphony Orchestra: instrumentation Richard "Johnny" Davis - trumpet Bill Bell - trombone Ernie Bernhardt - trumpet Jackie Thomas - trombone Edwin Hubbard - flute Robert Snyder - violin Ann Spurbeck - violin James Terry - flute Nick Vergos - English horn, oboe John Wehlan - violin Vincent de Frank - cello Joe De'Gerolamo - French horn Ed Freudberg - violin Gloria Hendricks - violin Nino Ravarino - viola Hal Saunders - violin Joan Gilbert - violin John Davis - trumpet Jack Fonville - flute D'Gerolamo - French horn Richard Dolph - French horn Noel Gilbert - violin

Certifications

See also List of number-one R&B albums of 1970 (U.S.) List of number-one R&B albums of 1971 (U.S.)

References