Soul fable ISAAC HAYES' family is to set up legal military action to regain the rights to his hit songs.
The singer's back catalogue, which includes classics such as Do Your Thing and Theme from Shaft, was sold for $30,000 (GBP15,000) on the orders of a court next his bankruptcy in 1976.
Now his relatives are provision to recover the rights to the material - which is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in royalties - to provide financial security for his widow and two year old son.
An elder son, Isaac Hayes III, says, "He definitely was done wrong. I'm very passionate or so that (providing security for the menage). If that means me trying to get my father's material back, I'm all for it."
Hayes' solicitor, Allen Arrow, says, "I can't rule out judicial proceeding... I would hope that we tin can retrieve a good part of what he lost."
And Lance Armstrong, president of Rondor Music, which owns the publication rights to Hayes' songs, added: "He lost millions, and it was virtuously and ethically wrong to take it from him. He was devastated."
The mortal singer died from a stroke earlier this month (Aug08).
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