Released October 18, 1969 Artist The Isley Brothers Producer The Isley Brothers | Length N/A Release date 18 October 1969 Label Legacy Recordings | |
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Recorded Yankee Stadium, New York City, 1969 Live at Yankee Stadium
(1969) Get Into Something
(1970) Genres Soul music, Rhythm and blues, Funk, Gospel music Similar The Isley Brothers albums, Soul music albums | ||
Live at Yankee Stadium is an October 18, 1969 live album by The Isley Brothers, released on their own T-Neck imprint. While the Isleys appear in this live album, it's actually a live showcase by the group to conjoin artists that signed to their T-Neck label and Buddah Records-associated acts including Judy White, the girl group Sweet Cherries, the gospel group the Edwin Hawkins Singers and the family soul group the Five Stairsteps. All the guest artists except for the Edwin Hawkins Singers sang songs that were written and produced for them by the Isleys. The Isleys performed their then-current hits "It's Your Thing", "I Turned You On" and the 1959 classic, "Shout", bringing in audience members alongside them as they ended the performance. The album was remastered and expanded for inclusion in the 2015 released CD box set "The RCA Victor & T-Neck Album Masters, 1959-1983". The expanded CD only features additional performances by The Brooklyn Bridge, there are no additional Isley Brothers tracks.
Contents
Live at Yankee Stadium was independently filmed and was funded by the Isley Brothers in a documentary entitled "It's your Thing", directed by Mike Gargiulo. The UCLA Film & Television Archive has a non-circulating "research and student center" copy of this film on VHS and 35 mm reels.
Notes
The version of "It's Your Thing" heard here appears on the Isley Brothers' career-spanning 1999 boxed set It's Your Thing: The Story of the Isley Brothers, the liner notes to which say the concert took place on June 21, 1969.
Songs
1Introduction (Live)1:54
2I Know Who You Been Socking It To (Live)3:03
3I Turned You On (Live)4:47