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Released
  
May 29, 1976

Length
  
37:54

Release date
  
29 May 1976

Label
  
T-Neck Records

Recorded
  
1975–1976

Artist
  
The Isley Brothers

Producer
  
The Isley Brothers

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Studio
  
The Record Plant (Los Angeles, California)

Harvest for the World (1976)
  
Go for Your Guns (1977)

Genres
  
Soul music, Funk, Funk rock, Smooth soul

Similar
  
Get into Something, Winner Takes All, Go All the Way, Showdown, Go for Your Guns

The isley brothers harvest for the world


Harvest for the World is the fourteenth album released by The Isley Brothers on their T-Neck imprint in May 29, 1976.

Contents

The album was remastered and expanded for inclusion in the 2015 released CD box set "The RCA Victor & T-Neck Album Masters, 1959–1983".

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Reception

The album included the successful socially conscious title track and the top three R&B record, "Who Loves You Better?" While not released as singles, the ballads "(At Your Best) You Are Love" and "Let Me Down Easy" were also hits. The album sold over 500,000 copies in the first three weeks of release, making it one of the fastest-selling records ever (it passed the million sales mark in the early 2000s). It topped the Billboard R&B Albums chart; the Isleys third straight album to do so.

Track listing

All tracks written by Ernie Isley, Marvin Isley, Chris Jasper, Rudolph Isley, O'Kelly Isley and Ronald Isley.

Personnel

  • Ronald Isley – lead vocals
  • O'Kelly Isley, Jr. – background vocals, lead vocals on "Let Me Down Easy"
  • Rudolph Isley – background vocals, lead vocals on "You Still Feel The Need"
  • Ernie Isley – guitars, drums, percussion, congas, timbales, maracas
  • Marvin Isley – bass, cowbell, woodblock, percussion
  • Chris Jasper – piano, keyboards, ARP synthesizer, clavinet, tambourine, percussion

    • Samples and covers

  • Power Station covered "Harvest for the World" on their album The Power Station in 1985.
  • Aaliyah covered "(At Your Best) You Are Love" on her album Age Ain't Nothing but a Number in 1994.
  • Jewell covered "Harvest for the World" on the soundtrack album Murder Was the Case in 1994.
  • Vanessa Williams covered "Harvest for the World" on her album Everlasting Love in 2005.
  • Ronnie Laws covered the entire album of "Harvest for the World" titled Portrait of the Isley Brothers' Harvest for the World in 1998.
  • Mike Francis covered "Il Mio Amore Libero per Te" on his album Misteria in 1998.

    • The Christians famously covered "Harvest for the World" in 1988. The song reached #8 in the charts.

    Songs

    1Harvest for the World (Prelude)2:11
    2Harvest for the World3:54
    3People of Today4:42

    References

    Harvest for the World Wikipedia
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