Inside Stax Studios! Isaac Hayes, Booker T & MGs, Brook Benton Memphis 1969

Stax Records and their Memphis studio. At work are Isaac Hayes, Booker T & the MGs, the Memphis Horns, Bettye Crutcher, and at Fame Studios Brook Benton and more. After a brief French commentary:- a horn arrangement for The Emotions' So I Can Love You is worked out around a table. House band Booker T & the MGs (Steve Cropper, Al Jackson & Donald 'Duck' Dunn) try out the original extended intro version of 'Time is Tight'. In-house songwriter Bettye Crutcher gets asked about the Memphis sound. Over at Fame Studios in nearby Muscle Shoals, Brook Benton is recording She Knows What To Do For Me for his Do Your Own Thing album, together with Eddie Hinton and Barry Beckett.

Wayne Jackson, Andrew Love and Bar Kay Ben Cauley have been identified as the horn section with Isaac Hayes (thanks to Thad Brown and Carousel Red!). Can anyone provide any more details? "We did something different on 'Everyday People'" refers to the Staple Sisters recording the Sly Stone song with these guys (thanks Peter McLennan). Thanks to the 'EP's Vaults 2' channel for pointing out that it is Bettye Crutcher being interviewed (not Carla Thomas as I mistakenly assumed).

The Stax Studio is now the Stax Museum of American Soul Music.
FAME (Florence Alabama Music Enterprises) Studios is still operating.

This clip was originally broadcast in France on 19.04.1969, as 'Le Blues de Memphis', as one of a series of mini-documentaries called 'À l'affiche du monde' often featuring contemporary music from USA, UK and elsewhere. Another studio session was captured - the debut album recording by the Flying Dutchman Records label with top musicians, 'Hollywood Blues', here:    • Plaster Caster Blues Band in the studio - ...  

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