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The Brothers: Isley

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Released
  
October 18, 1969

Artist
  
The Isley Brothers

Producer
  
The Isley Brothers

Genres
  
Soul music, Funk

Length
  
30:36

Release date
  
18 October 1969

Label
  
T-Neck Records

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Recorded
  
A&R Studios, New York City

The Brothers Isley (1969)
  
Live at Yankee Stadium (1969)

Similar
  
Ronald Isley albums, Soul music albums

The Brothers: Isley is the seventh album released by The Isley Brothers on their own T-Neck label on October 18, 1969. After years with other labels and fresh off the success of the It's Our Thing album, which included the hit title track, "It's Your Thing", the Isley Brothers celebrated their newfound independence by releasing another new album that year with this LP. The album yielded the Billboard Top 40 pop hit, "I Turned You On" and subsequent charters, "Was It Good to You?" and "Black Berries". It was also their second full venture into funk music, a genre they would dominate in the coming years. The album was remastered and expanded for inclusion in the 2015 released CD box set "The RCA Victor & T-Neck Album Masters, 1959-1983".

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by Rudolph Isley, O'Kelly Isley and Ronald Isley, except where noted.

Personnel

  • Ronald Isley: lead vocals
  • O'Kelly Isley, Jr.: background vocals, co-lead vocals on "Black Berries"
  • Rudolph Isley: background vocals, lead vocals on "I Got to Get Myself Together"
  • Ernie Isley: guitars, drums
  • Marvin Isley: bass
  • Chris Jasper, Everett Collins: piano, keyboards
  • Other instrumentation by assorted New York City musicians
  • Songs

    1I Turned You On2:38
    2Vacuum Cleaner2:56
    3I Got to Get Myself Together3:38

    References

    The Brothers: Isley Wikipedia