@Barbara Guest Black people live in your mind rent free that's why TF you're on here watching everything we say and do....you wish you could be us and at the same time you hate that you wish you could be us
As someone who was born a decade after this I still believe this must have been the golden era of modern music. soul, funk and Rock converging beautifully.
See 'y'all, back in the day, you can tell by their facial expressions, them boys LOVED their music...dob't see that so often today...but I bet today's audience would appreciate it as much as my generation did (does).
There are still a lot of bands around that are underground that have the same facial expressions as they did back then they're just not properly known pull up delvon lamarr organ trio they're from Seattle Washington and they are bad ass very funky and very rockish the delvon lamarr organ trio
Love this! The Isley Brothers are underrated for their impact on American Music. Take a look at the orchestra in the back ground. The string players are bored. Not even tapping their toes. On the other hand, on the right side, the 3 trombone players in the horn section are really feeling it! The one in the back looking as if he’s back in his marching band days 😎
How you gonna be "underrated" and you been killin' it for the last 60 plus years? LOL. From day ONE, the Isleys have NEVER, EVER been "underrated." LOL.
I'm a 20 yr old female love old music & I love the Isley Brothers Ron seemed so smooth, Rudolph seemed so cool, and O' Kelly seemed so nice I want to hug him like a teddy bear he makes me smile anytime I see an Isley Bro video rest in peace O' Kelly Isley
This is incredible. Great to see a real live TV performance from the 60s and in color! For such a legendary band that's been around for so long there isn't a lot of footage that shows them performing either on TV or in concert
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Amazing! I have long thought that the cape is an underrated item of clothing and I think this clip proves it as well as showing what a fantastic band the Isleys were.
Just seen this for this for the first time (11.12.17). This is a hidden treasure. The whole family (without Chris Jasper) rocking the stage, my favourite the underrated amazing bassist Marvin in pink! Rudy was king in that outfit. Good times made me smile. We need to see more of these old films. Please keep uploading.
I like Its your thing @ Brown eyed Girl. Some of the 60's hits from the Isley Brothers. But it was really in the 70's when Ernie, Marvin @ Chris joined the band, That it got real funky and soulful.. From the 60's until now, This band is legendary. My favorite Isley Brothers album are: Between the Sheets, Smooth Sailing Tonite, Mission to Please @ Eternal.
I was never a fan of the brass in these funk/soul songs, and Prince did them without the brass later which gave me what I love in a great funk number, but the TALENT and genuine soulful feeling from the Isleys is just so great. Love these guys, and their pop music was even better with Behind A Painted Smile amongst my favourites of the era.
When I was a kid, the Isley Brothers appeared on a show, I think it was "Halabaloo", a show that came on every week and it had all the groups. Well it had "Jimi and the Brothers" all together playing "IT'S YOUR THANG!" Put that one up, or is it still being banned, cause the camera man was showing "JIMI" PLAYING THE SONG RIGHT ALONG WITH THEM, AND HE WAS DIGGIN IT AND GETTING DOWN! AND THIS THIS IS GODS TRUTH, IF ITS DENIED!🙏🏼✝️👊😇
"It's Your Thing" for you none believers, is one of our "Funkateers" most beloved song from one of the founders of the rhythm bonanza called funk. THE ISLEY BROTHERS and a handful other funk pioneers could do the impossible, the three-decade streak being "funky"! This is a JAMES BROWN, KOOL & THE GANG, EARTH WIND AND FIRE, THE BAR-KAY'S and of course (the best of the best) THE METERS thing! Regarding the song "It's our thing"? This is nothing than pure EARLY funk with the "no problem, no over-production" that the sixties gave us. THE ISLEY BROTHERS with their two first album for "T-Neck" was all like "It's Our Thing". ...The later years are EVEN as great, believe me! The T-Neck years are present with a more "oomph" and a more direct "funk" especially the next album "Get into Something"!!!!
the guitar player on the record (perhaps on this film, but i don't know him by face) is charles pitts. he's also the guitar player on isaac hayes' shaft.
standingbeark laboration with Isaac Hayes that yielded his greatest legacy, including the immortal guitar riff on the Academy Award-winning "Shaft" soundtrack.Mr. Pitts' use of the wah-wah effect pedal on "Shaft" resonated for several generations
TODAY IN MUSIC HISTORY 50 YEARS AGO TODAY (February 16, 1969): The Isley Brothers (Ronald, Rudy, Kelly) released “It’s Your Thing,” their first single off their resurrected record label T-Neck - just one year after leaving Motown. It peaked at #1 on the R&B singles charts and #2 on the pop singles charts. The song later helped the Isleys win a Grammy Award for Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group. [02/16/2019]
THE LINE FOR THE Q3 BUS LINE WAS PULSATING TO THE INFECTIOUS RYTHYM OF THIS AMAZING AMERICAN MUSICAL FAMILY /ITS YOUR THING /DO WHAT YOU WANNA DO AMERICAN MUSICAL GREATNESS
Count me among those who smiled as a result of watching this video. Never gets old.
One of the greatest funk/rock tunes ever done. These guys were super talented.
Just look how lovely n talented these brothers were. Us black folks, we r truly extraordinary in every way possible.
Truth!
💯
“You are totally unique, just like everybody else.
@Barbara Guest Oprah is a big hypocritical phony. Never did like that bitch.
@Barbara Guest Black people live in your mind rent free that's why TF you're on here watching everything we say and do....you wish you could be us and at the same time you hate that you wish you could be us
As someone who was born a decade after this I still believe this must have been the golden era of modern music. soul, funk and Rock converging beautifully.
Rudy Isley always rocked the look!
BIG BIG Facts! Every time I saw them on stage I say the same thing! He was always pimped out to the maximum
THE ISLEY BROTHERS.
FOREVER NUMBER ONE
SUPER STARS.
Love the way Rudolph is moving and grooving in this video, lol!
See 'y'all, back in the day, you can tell by their facial expressions, them boys LOVED their music...dob't see that so often today...but I bet today's audience would appreciate it as much as my generation did (does).
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There are still a lot of bands around that are underground that have the same facial expressions as they did back then they're just not properly known pull up delvon lamarr organ trio they're from Seattle Washington and they are bad ass very funky and very rockish the delvon lamarr organ trio
I still remember the first time I heard this on my tiny AM transistor radio....I was mesmerised , and still are !
I think that Marvin Isley is underrated as a bassist! He was amazing!
Thats not Melvin this is 1969 he didnt join till 1971
@@utahsilvey5930 That is a young Marvin isley on the bass and that's Ernie on the drums.
@@lonelyman1967 That's Isley fam.
@@utahsilvey5930 Marvin: Ernie; and Chris were all playing with the 3 older brothers BEFORE they became "3 + 3".
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Love this! The Isley Brothers are underrated for their impact on American Music. Take a look at the orchestra in the back ground. The string players are bored. Not even tapping their toes. On the other hand, on the right side, the 3 trombone players in the horn section are really feeling it! The one in the back looking as if he’s back in his marching band days 😎
The Isley Brothers are far from underrated
How you gonna be "underrated" and you been killin' it for the last 60 plus years? LOL. From day ONE, the Isleys have NEVER, EVER been "underrated." LOL.
@@demetriushill9852 Under-rated as in under-appreciated.
I'm a 20 yr old female love old music & I love the Isley Brothers Ron seemed so smooth, Rudolph seemed so cool, and O' Kelly seemed so nice I want to hug him like a teddy bear he makes me smile anytime I see an Isley Bro video rest in peace O' Kelly Isley
Bless you.
Rudolph and Kelly was so Xtra on this one. 😩😖🙄😂😂😂😂😂I love watching them sing. Love the music.
It's called getting DOWN!
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Underrated band. These guys sound jusy like the record, amazing
@lukerossi8676 IB`s t R N R HOFers. Jimi Hendrix played in their band. The BEATLES covered. played & revered them.
One of THE COOLEST BANDS! Smooth threads.
Man those dudes were jammed up and jelly tight!
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Rudolph Isley was fly as hell
Is that the one dressed like Dr. Strange?
@@Igaveyoumyfakename Rudolph is the tall brother with the gold medallion on
@@Igaveyoumyfakename you wrong for that 💀💀
@@Jsimm100 : Yes, that's him, Doctor Strange: Master of the Mystic arts. (And backup singer in the Isley Brothers.)
who u tellin
RIP RUDOLPH ISLEY 2023🎵🎶🌎
Amazing, the song primarily only has 8-17 words repeated over and over with soul, emotion and joy.
i SO love Kelly Isley.. He's rocking' out here great upload Thanks.. Bless.
So talented and I love how they ‘feel’ the music and just ‘let go’.
That shit was funky. And "live". For real live, not today's pre-recorded live.
They also made Rousing songs well before Funk. 1962 song Twistin' with Linda. Brilliant. Too many great songs from Isley brothers to pick a fav.
Timeless... unreal talents... thank you Isleys! 😂
Oh wow this was the funk ! This was the pure funk !!! I remember hearing this when I was eight years old and I would dance my little fanny off!
Those guys were amazing, had long career too, love the guitarist
The guitarist is Charles "Skip" Pitts more famous for his work with Issac Hayes on Shaft.
@@brendaolive2636 is he the guitar player for the Bar-Kays if I'm not mistaken because that's who played on Isaac Hayes shaft album The Bar-Kays
HAPPY 75TH BIRTHDAY RONALD "RON" (MR. BIG) ISLEY (MAY 21, 2016)
👑💙💜💚MIGHTY ISLEY BROTHERS
My heroes - make me feel 13 again! You could hear this all over the school on tiny transistor radios at Hampton and at Mumford High School in Detroit!
It was an honor to live in the Detroit area to hear the Mowtown hits come out first on CKLW before they went out nationally.
@@raybassman7536 I still think of CKLW when I reminisce
Anna Lyman
I bought this album at JL Hudson's in Detroit on Woodward Avenue.
@@wilmabetty2496
Korvettes....I forgot about that store.
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Man growin' up with brothers that love you and funk it up!
This is incredible. Great to see a real live TV performance from the 60s and in color! For such a legendary band that's been around for so long there isn't a lot of footage that shows them performing either on TV or in concert
A tier, top notch, among my favorite songs since back in the day. So damn good.
The FUNKIEST songs EVER! THE BEAT IS STILL KILLIN' !
My favorite Brothers doing their thang! Go Isleys! You're the best!
Great footage of the Isleys in '69. By the way, that's Ernie playing drums (I've never seen footage of Ernie playing drums, so that's a rarity)....
Ernie played bass on the original recording
👐🏼 Thank you for posting this song. It brings back great memories to this 70 yo, left the healthcare industry as a RN officially on Oct 31, 2023🤗👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I first heard of this song, when i heard "Fred Sanford "quote it on tv..
I really wish that Hip Hop and rap would die off and real black music would return.
Back when were beautiful✊🏿
Amazing! I have long thought that the cape is an underrated item of clothing and I think this clip proves it as well as showing what a fantastic band the Isleys were.
*Lawd yes* Get up and dance to this,and if you in your *Wheel chair* just roll it around lol
Urban Motion Picture on .. What would do if both of your legs were amputated ? September 21,2020
Roll on with your bad self!🎼🎶🎵
Damn that looks like a funky good time right there!
I remember buying this album in Detroit at the prodding of my brothers. What a great song.
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Real kool dudes that you wouldn't want to mess with!!!
So So Soulful and Funky!!
Just seen this for this for the first time (11.12.17). This is a hidden treasure. The whole family (without Chris Jasper) rocking the stage, my favourite the underrated amazing bassist Marvin in pink! Rudy was king in that outfit. Good times made me smile. We need to see more of these old films. Please keep uploading.
The younger brothers are not on that video the younger brothers didn't start playing with the isleys until 1970 this was in 1969
It gets no better!
Holy moly! These dudes get down!
One of my very personal favorites and one of the best records in their career
HAPPY 79TH BIRTHDAY
RONALD "RON" ISLEY
(MAY 21, 2020)
wow! at last I get to see and hear the Isley's perform live at their peak and they are AWESOME!
Amazing bass line! Love it!
God damn. No words to describe how sublime this is.
Please don't blaspheme the Lord's name.....
Love This Song !!!
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
2 - 26 - 24
Mother funkers of the world unite!
THIS is real music.
Thank you Isley Bros for boldly funkin the way you did
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I like Its your thing @ Brown eyed Girl. Some of the 60's hits from the Isley Brothers. But it was really in the 70's when Ernie, Marvin @ Chris joined the band, That it got real funky and soulful.. From the 60's until now, This band is legendary. My favorite Isley Brothers album are: Between the Sheets, Smooth Sailing Tonite, Mission to Please @ Eternal.
Three kings! 👑👑👑
Watching this made me smile big!!!
👑💛💚🤎✊🏿SO FUNKY *YEAH STONE GROOVE* ISHLEY BROTHERS
Excellent.
ISLEY BROTHERS: O'Kelly Isley, Ronald Isley, Rudolph Isley
BAND: The Midnight Movers w/Marvin Isley on bass and Ernie Isley on drums
I was never a fan of the brass in these funk/soul songs, and Prince did them without the brass later which gave me what I love in a great funk number, but the TALENT and genuine soulful feeling from the Isleys is just so great. Love these guys, and their pop music was even better with Behind A Painted Smile amongst my favourites of the era.
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@@cielbleu6519 Great songs and great performers.
@@bobinscotland I'm really happy to meet someone who loves real music and would love to get to know you better if you don't mind ??
Prince had Eric Leeds and he was a killer sax player
@@lauraveney1412 All great players when Prince works his magic with them... Maceo Parker even got a whole new lease of life.
That's just so f*&kin good.
When I was a kid, the Isley Brothers appeared on a show, I think it was "Halabaloo", a show that came on every week and it had all the groups. Well it had "Jimi and the Brothers" all together playing "IT'S YOUR THANG!" Put that one up, or is it still being banned, cause the camera man was showing "JIMI" PLAYING THE SONG RIGHT ALONG WITH THEM, AND HE WAS DIGGIN IT AND GETTING DOWN! AND THIS THIS IS GODS TRUTH, IF ITS DENIED!🙏🏼✝️👊😇
Them horns 🙌🏾
❤️❤️❤️
I LOVE THESE BROTHERS..LOVE ERM
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got the 60's written all over it, ha. one of the funkiest songs ever written. guy on left looks pretty toked up (but love the moves and swing!)
"It's Your Thing" for you none believers, is one of our "Funkateers" most beloved song from one of the founders of the rhythm bonanza called funk. THE ISLEY BROTHERS and a handful other funk pioneers could do the impossible, the three-decade streak being "funky"! This is a JAMES BROWN, KOOL & THE GANG, EARTH WIND AND FIRE, THE BAR-KAY'S and of course (the best of the best) THE METERS thing!
Regarding the song "It's our thing"? This is nothing than pure EARLY funk with the "no problem, no over-production" that the sixties gave us. THE ISLEY BROTHERS with their two first album for "T-Neck" was all like "It's Our Thing".
...The later years are EVEN as great, believe me! The T-Neck years are present with a more "oomph" and a more direct "funk" especially the next album "Get into Something"!!!!
insane guitar line bass.... funk a licious
the guitar player on the record (perhaps on this film, but i don't know him by face) is charles pitts. he's also the guitar player on isaac hayes' shaft.
standingbeark laboration with Isaac Hayes that yielded his greatest legacy, including the immortal guitar riff on the Academy Award-winning "Shaft" soundtrack.Mr. Pitts' use of the wah-wah effect pedal on "Shaft" resonated for several generations
yes indeed, charles pitts was a force.
It looks like Charlie Pitts.
TODAY IN MUSIC HISTORY
50 YEARS AGO TODAY (February 16, 1969): The Isley Brothers (Ronald, Rudy, Kelly) released “It’s Your Thing,” their first single off their resurrected record label T-Neck - just one year after leaving Motown. It peaked at #1 on the R&B singles charts and #2 on the pop singles charts. The song later helped the Isleys win a Grammy Award for Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group. [02/16/2019]
My dad was in Vietnam when this came out...
Pure classic sound.... there will never be another.... enjoy theme now, because when there gone that's it.....they are still doing concerts.😎
fantastic
Love me some Mr. Bigg go off Ron 😍😍
young marvin isley on the bass
Horton 16 years old and holdin' it down!!!
+Tony Houston +Horton Yeah he is!
The brothers used to JAM!
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Wow that band nice
You can't get better than this.....real music
Love this. Makes me want to drive a bright yellow volkswagon convertible that must be the squarest car body ever made.
THE LINE FOR THE Q3 BUS LINE WAS PULSATING TO THE INFECTIOUS RYTHYM OF THIS AMAZING AMERICAN MUSICAL FAMILY /ITS YOUR THING /DO WHAT YOU WANNA DO AMERICAN MUSICAL GREATNESS
The LEGENDARY Isley guys
HAPPY 74TH BIRTHDAY RONALD ISLEY (MAY 21, 2015)
This song was the first time I heard the great Isley brothers
Love it 💋💋
Back before bands lipsynched on TV Shows and actually played. Glad that some shows are keeping it alive and bringing it back.
Many groups and bands did lip sync during that time as well. Just look at any clip from American Bandstand from that period which featured a band.
Thanks a lot for uploading this rare find... love the Isleys, they're super cool!!!!!
scr3w PETA :P
Such a KILLER song - groovy, deep, horns, it's got it all. in my 60's music Top10 since I discovered it 15yrs ago. Thanks for posting!
👑👑👑❤️👑👑👑
a top 25 classic soul jam of all time...rivals james brown sexy machine!!
They only did the bridge one time but that was enough. That’s Marvin on Fender Bass but the guitarist is not Ernie who might be drumming here.
I love this
Must have been cold in that studio. I'm sweatin' just looking at them in those coats.
LOVE IT
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Funkalicious! Made my day. Thanks!
WOW!!!! This made youtube that much better!!! Thanks so, so much for posting this live classic!!!!!
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