The Untold Truth of the Isley Brothers

The Untold Truth of the Isley Brothers | Motown Legends

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We tell the story of the iconic successful career of the The Isley Brothers.
They are a legendary R&B and soul group that started in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the late 1950s. The group was founded by four brothers: O'Kelly Isley Jr., Rudolph Isley, Ronald Isley, and Vernon Isley.
The Isley have enjoyed one of the longest, most influential, and most diverse careers in the music industry and have spent over the course of nearly a half-century of performing.
#isleybrothers #unsung #motownrecords
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@lexdee523 8 ай бұрын

The Isley Brothers are unmatched. Ron's voice (and we all know Ron has the voice) could NEVER be duplicated. You hear him blindfolded and automatically know it's him. He was definitely the VOICE of the group. R.I.P to all the Isley brothers we has lost.

@URBANTVOndemand 8 ай бұрын

Definitely 💯

@darlenejohnson1721 10 ай бұрын

Isley Brothers ruled the 70s ☝️

@URBANTVOndemand 10 ай бұрын

facts 🙌🏾

@deanpagon143 10 ай бұрын

Whispers and Isley Brothers are long standing bands. A test of greatness.

@URBANTVOndemand 10 ай бұрын

💯💯💯

@paulhue86 9 ай бұрын

but The Whispers are not a band, just a singing group.

@psackbrown1 9 ай бұрын

❤

@darrylpowell8247 4 ай бұрын

Don't forget Frankie & Maze. Up until 2024 when Frankie started a new band using scale musicians Maze was a force to be reckoned with.

@michaelmitchell5098 10 ай бұрын

The Isleys owned every summer from 1973 to 1983 with those albums! Every single summer.

@URBANTVOndemand 10 ай бұрын

this is facts

@Walidx-gq3hz 10 ай бұрын

They robbed Chris Jasper

@michaelmitchell5098 10 ай бұрын

@@Walidx-gq3hz And how!!!🤨!

@rebasmith2518 10 ай бұрын

Yes sir 😊

@APHinchen 10 ай бұрын

The Isley brothers sound lost its soul after Chris left

@jamesnadell1998 10 ай бұрын

Let us never forget that in addition to their cutting edge, enduring roots music legacy, the Isleys took a young guitar phenom into their home and hearts. They fed him physically and emotionally and he went on to become the single most talented and revolutionary figure in roots music who stood astride the entire music scene from 1967-1970. He was so advanced that we still have not caught up to him. Bless the Isleys for all they did for Jimi Hendrix, The Son of Music. Ernie Isley keeps that legacy alive and is to be respected and appreciated for that and for being a brilliant player in his own right.

@URBANTVOndemand 10 ай бұрын

Definitely! That part of the story was surprising for us because we didn't know how instrumental he was in helping Jimi's career💯🙌🏾

@margaretstockton5281 10 ай бұрын

Love the Isley brothers they’re always on my playlist

@URBANTVOndemand 10 ай бұрын

Same 🙌🏾🙌🏾

@dwaynejordan6750 10 ай бұрын

Isley the Name alone is Nuff said!!!!! Outstanding for Six Decades!!!! GOD is Good 👍👍👍👍👍

@camshottea 10 ай бұрын

Facts 🙌🏾💯

@annamartin3489 10 ай бұрын

Ronald Isley has a great voice and nobody sounds like him. I admire him for never leaving his group to go solo.

@apprentessjgooden2263 10 ай бұрын

His older brother O'Kelly Isley sounds just like him, he's on songs you probably would've thought was Ronald singing

@annamartin3489 10 ай бұрын

@@apprentessjgooden2263 that may be true but I never knew of him singing solos or a lead part but I know that no other solo artists ever sounded similar to him!

@apprentessjgooden2263 10 ай бұрын

@@annamartin3489 O'Kelly sings lead and solo on a few Isley Brothers songs, he sounds exactly like Ronald, or Ronald sounds like him because O'Kelly was the oldest.

@ashleypetty9704 9 ай бұрын

You must be super young 😂😂😂😂😂

@leanester-rn5zh 9 ай бұрын

@@apprentessjgooden2263 9

@tevonailes-oh5sk 10 ай бұрын

They need to make an autobiographical movie on them,Like they did with temptations and 5 heartbeats

@URBANTVOndemand 10 ай бұрын

We agree!

@hardingirls12 10 ай бұрын

The five heartbeats was a fictional group. Sorry to break it to you.

@rubydawnintl 10 ай бұрын

@@hardingirls12 based on a real group like Dream Girls.

@lisamonet1516 10 ай бұрын

@@rubydawnintlthe Five Heartbeats was loosely based on the Temptations & Dream Girls was loosely based on The Supremes.

@jamespittman1884 10 ай бұрын

@dawnsurgest114 and the Dells also.

@godiva1955 10 ай бұрын

To this day, I can listen to the isley’s brothers all day long.

@tamikalee4441 7 ай бұрын

Me too❤

@shirleyjones8953 11 күн бұрын

Me too ❤

@wesleymitchellrealtor9919 10 ай бұрын

They need to do a movie on them

@genelaue8154 10 ай бұрын

Why?

@rachelj110 6 ай бұрын

@@genelaue8154They were better than Beetles and those guys have hundreds of movies about them

@Mr921kevin 10 ай бұрын

The BEST R & B GROUP EVER!!!

@URBANTVOndemand 10 ай бұрын

Facts!!

@dowjones702 6 ай бұрын

They're definitely in my top 5, probably #2. EWF is my #1 but Isley's right there. OHIO PLayers, Kool & The Gang, are among my top 5 Funk/R&B bands.

@CoachSherri 10 ай бұрын

I’m from Teaneck, NJ and grew up with Ronald Isley’s daughter. They are one of many that put Teaneck on the map.

@URBANTVOndemand 10 ай бұрын

oh wow!

@tymiahaigler2279 10 ай бұрын

yes their mom lived in englewood

@markwilliams955 9 ай бұрын

Wow , my Grandmother,aunts and cousins lived in Teaneck down the road from the Isley's Off of Ressler Rd. I would listen to them practicing in their basement. I have everyone of their Albums.

@CoachSherri 9 ай бұрын

@@markwilliams955 I grew up a couple blocks over on Voorhees St

@Mimi-zg2bh 10 ай бұрын

I need to mention how the Isley's breathed new life into Bob Dylan songs and other artists. 🎉🎉🎉🎉 They have been phenomenal in bringing versions of other artists' music a rebirth. ❤

@URBANTVOndemand 10 ай бұрын

🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

@RonaldWilliams-qh7zc 10 ай бұрын

Lay Lady Lay all 10 minutes and 23 seconds of it

@SoCo_11207 10 ай бұрын

💯

@leniebabe44 9 ай бұрын

They could remake a song..❤❤

@vincentbrown1872 10 ай бұрын

The Isley Brothers deserve a lot more credit for being the only group that has produced hits that became part of common language and sayings as long as the long-running group producing their own music for over 60 years! Hit songs like " It's Your Thing, Twist and Shout, Love The One You With, and so many others, For The Love of You, and so many others far exceed the work of all other groups including the Beatles. The Soul Train Music Awards dishonored their long history of phenomenal music produced by the Isley Brothers by singling out the songs of Ron instead of the group. Not dissing the Soul Train Awards that were the best one for our music, but that was what happens when young people who don't know about music history make musical decisions. You hear things like " Marvin Gaye's " What's Going On was a hit " instead of What's Going On was " revolutionary "! When it comes to musical art and understanding the impact a song or artist had you really have to be around to know.

@URBANTVOndemand 9 ай бұрын

Great Point!

@sheilapalmer224 9 ай бұрын

You are so sosososo fine

@sheilapalmer224 9 ай бұрын

You are so sosososo superb

@QueenLeesa-mq4zu 8 ай бұрын

@mimi7434 10 ай бұрын

Lol somebody looking mighty sassy in that thumbnail.

@tinachambers1376 10 ай бұрын

I love them so much 😊

@URBANTVOndemand 10 ай бұрын

Yes they are legends!!!

@kerryeberrie6587 10 ай бұрын

'Bout time a video was done on the Isleys...thank you!!!

@URBANTVOndemand 10 ай бұрын

You're welcome🙌🏾

@jayhooks6031 10 ай бұрын

A lot of people don't realize that after they became "3+3", Chris Jasper wrote nearly all, if not all of their music.

@URBANTVOndemand 10 ай бұрын

Right on 🙌🏾

@uniqueorganicshaircare9880 10 ай бұрын

Chris Jasper need to get his flowers...

@APHinchen 10 ай бұрын

I thought so because once Chris left , they sounded so different

@dme1016 9 ай бұрын

He's been their hard-working music guy since he joined. He'd spend hours in studio production, whike the singers would eventually show up in their limos, lay the vocals, & split, while he continued to work.

@paulhue86 9 ай бұрын

Chris was a formally trained musician who studied music at a top conservatory.

@KevinCurtisBarr 9 ай бұрын

I love the music of this band!

@sharoncook5883 9 ай бұрын

Isley brothers a power house, A super group, So much talent, Fantastic voice's, The greatest, The best, The Legend, The IsIey brothers I love the IsIey brothers 🌹🌹❤️❤️

@maximusindicusoblivious180 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for this video. The Isley's are a band that deserves so much as suviors and teachers of how it's done, to everybody from the Beatles to Elvis to Hendrix. Many of you were born because some couples had a Isley Brothers record on.

@bettycarr6599 10 ай бұрын

" What you said is true.Made romance real"!!! 💘 Never noticed the feminine look at all"!! Their Music is good"!!

@gary8654 10 ай бұрын

The Isley Brothers, I remember them back in the day. What a band, a tremendous band.

@URBANTVOndemand 10 ай бұрын

Definitely are 🙌🏾

@Jerseylance1 10 ай бұрын

My favorite group AllTime 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

@camshottea 10 ай бұрын

6 decades of hits!!!

@darlenejohnson1721 10 ай бұрын

That tied shirt, is giving me 🌈 😊

@brendathompson2288 10 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@rhoward0006 10 ай бұрын

Wow 😂

@darrylpowell8247 4 ай бұрын

That was the look of that era. Check a few of the big hair rock bands of that time. Everybody looked suss.

@kayrobbie5840 10 ай бұрын

Oh that was so sad about their brother Vernon. I like their music. I never knew Jimi Hendrix was the lead guitar with this group for a little while!! Thanks for this info.

@camshottea 10 ай бұрын

You're welcome ❤❤❤

@apprentessjgooden2263 10 ай бұрын

Actually he wasn't, Ernie taught him how to play

@gregoryingram7561 8 ай бұрын

What's even sadder now is when Rudolph Isley died at 84 years of age he was in a civil law dispute suit against his brother Ronald, he literally died not speaking to his brother over money as well as use of the family name, He's received criticism for doing it considering at 84 years of age and failing health, what could money do to help him, he had already lived a glorious life, what he was suing for shouldn't have mattered, loving his brother to his ending day's should have been priority, another issue for me when hearing about it was I always wished that me and my brothers were like them, on their album covers their pictures showed closeness, love for one another as well as when you see them performing on stage, because I haven't spoken to neither of my brothers in over 16 years because of our tremendous differences and lifestyles, just to find out the Isley Brothers had their flaws to, just shocking looking at it from the outside in, what Rudolph should have realized is that he retired in 1989 Ronald continued on traveling and recording making a living for himself and his family, I felt that's what Rudolph should have considered before suing his brother.😮

@camshottea 8 ай бұрын

@@gregoryingram7561 Good point! We also have a video up here on the lawsuit.

@pmcclaren1 10 ай бұрын

along with EWF they are the COOLEST CATS ever! '70s were their best decade, as Ernie added his guitar genius along with Ronald's vocals to have some of the greatest R&B & rock ever!!!

@jeromegold3216 10 ай бұрын

Great content. They've been my favorite male group since 1969.

@URBANTVOndemand 10 ай бұрын

Thank you 🙏🏽🙏🏽

@bieassialaw6832 10 ай бұрын

The Isley Guys is what I call them and I thank God our ears were blessed to hear their silky smooth songs 🤎🤎🤎🤎

@URBANTVOndemand 10 ай бұрын

🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

@emerycurry29 9 ай бұрын

Very informative condensed compilation of a tremendously talented group I grew up loving!

@URBANTVOndemand 9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@dontelindsey5846 9 ай бұрын

I thought they would have sold a lot more records. They are so amazing.

@URBANTVOndemand 9 ай бұрын

Yes they are 🙌🏾

@latashawalker6801 8 ай бұрын

I love me some Isley Brothers

@crackavelli2978 9 ай бұрын

Isley Bros are iconic & needs to be honored as such. 💪🏾

@MikeFisher67 10 ай бұрын

Awesome video on my favorite group 😎👍

@URBANTVOndemand 10 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@blakebrown84 4 ай бұрын

The Isley Brothers are a dynamic group that continues to make great music and nobody can sing like Ronald Isley

@URBANTVOndemand 4 ай бұрын

All facts! Thanks for watching!

@blakebrown84 4 ай бұрын

Likewise

@letitiacooper98 10 ай бұрын

I love them and their music to this very day ❤❤❤❤2023😊❤❤❤❤

@DJPACMANN 10 ай бұрын

Isley Brothers & One Sister!!!

@rhoward0006 10 ай бұрын

Noooooo 😂😂😂😂

@kerryeberrie6587 9 ай бұрын

Stop!!!!☺

@davey6022 8 ай бұрын

Oh no you didint😂

@user-kf5uf5xd7h 8 ай бұрын

I absolutely ❤ them ! ..Oh the childhood memories ❤

@URBANTVOndemand 8 ай бұрын

❤️❤️❤️

@sheilapalmer224 9 ай бұрын

I love your voice

@trueempiretv4751 10 ай бұрын

Giving me Raz B and crew vibes 😂 Ronald your still my boi 😮😅

@URBANTVOndemand 10 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@sheilapalmer224 9 ай бұрын

You are so sosososo gifted

@pdxfun4888 10 ай бұрын

Legends with decades of hits

@leogolive 10 ай бұрын

Everybody in the thumbnail looks like a player. Except Ernie. He looking like Men On Film.

@rhoward0006 10 ай бұрын

Y'all so wrong 😂

@dianeshea4192 9 ай бұрын

RIP Rudolph Isley. Just found out that he passed away. Gone at the age of 84 from unknown reasons.

@sheilapalmer224 9 ай бұрын

You are so sosososo underrated

@carolharris1236 10 ай бұрын

Ron is my favorite, but Chris was gorgeous! They were all handsome, though, and fiercely talented!

@brittanymosley3649 2 ай бұрын

A series of their bio is needed. A movie not enough.

@URBANTVOndemand 2 ай бұрын

Agree 💯

@slicfangas3283 10 ай бұрын

She forgot voyage to atlanta by xplicit that sampled Voyage to Atlantis and had Ron on the remix

@sheilapalmer224 9 ай бұрын

You are so sosososo amazing

@sheilapalmer224 9 ай бұрын

This is a master piece

@keiththomas111 10 ай бұрын

#703 This is what music is about making music that stands the test of time

@URBANTVOndemand 10 ай бұрын

❤️❤️

@bobbie143bc 10 ай бұрын

I know the shirt tie was the style back then but Ernie took it wayyyy too far LMBO 😂😂😂😂😂

@URBANTVOndemand 10 ай бұрын

lol 😂

@DK-wr5wx 10 ай бұрын

It was a style for women not men, maybe cut off shirts but not tied up. We know what Ernie was and is

@oliviapearson7856 10 ай бұрын

That hand on the hip said it all😂

@DK-wr5wx 10 ай бұрын

@@oliviapearson7856 LOL

@ElderHarryLJackson 9 ай бұрын

@@DK-wr5wx Notwithstanding, anybody who can play a guitar like that can wear whatever the hell he wants to...😎

@aubreywhaley7729 10 ай бұрын

Pops and Ronald look so much alike

@phillipbrown7655 10 ай бұрын

The Beatles would be nowhere if they didn’t record “Twist and Shout” which paid them more in royalties than any other song they wrote. That wasn’t mentioned. PB

@URBANTVOndemand 10 ай бұрын

Good point

@edwesby5752 10 ай бұрын

Great Video, BUT I still cannot tell which brother is which and who the others are on their Teaneck Years album, which I love .. Especially "Take Me to The Next Phase". I can listen to that one over and over and its a great tune to play as you put the petal to the metal on the road.

@patoni860 10 ай бұрын

You ain't old enough to remember that harvest for the world was there first really superhit...

@keiththomas111 8 ай бұрын

Can't say nothing about Ernie dressing he was the musical genius on all the 70's records along with the master keyboardist Chris Jasper

@ednhouston835 10 ай бұрын

Damn 😮 Dude sweeter than a Chick-O-Stick

@1MChantye 9 ай бұрын

No that I am older, still loving the music of the Isley Brothers, looking at the fellow on the picture/thumbnail of the guy with the girly looking shirt and his hip twisted up, is giving what its giving, oh my. Funny looking at it back then and now.

@URBANTVOndemand 9 ай бұрын

😭😭

@honeybee86-os7yv Жыл бұрын

that thumbnail aint right.. ernie idk what he was thinking even in those times

@camshottea Жыл бұрын

Everybody keep saying that 😂😂😂

@honeybee86-os7yv Жыл бұрын

@@camshottea yes he looking a little sweet no lie and even on the other album covers he look a little sweeeeet ... smh

@blairturner139 Жыл бұрын

Most those guys back in the day wore sht like that from super tight latex pants to big high top boots

@honeybee86-os7yv Жыл бұрын

@@blairturner139 YES, they did ive seen the cover albums and videos but its also the way he posing he seem more feminine then the other men in his pics.

@rlee2651 10 ай бұрын

Call a spade a spade somebody had to get it done to em

@Mr921kevin 10 ай бұрын

THE usa NEED THIS GROUP BACK in 2024.

@URBANTVOndemand 10 ай бұрын

Agree🙌🏾

@Dalija1979 10 ай бұрын

His Waistline is SNATCHED in that picture!!!! And he know it!!!😅😅

@camshottea 10 ай бұрын

Absolutely snatched!!!

@nancyconyers5802 9 ай бұрын

I sang and danced to their many summer songs.

@idcook 10 ай бұрын

‘It’s your thing’ - used to indicate a person’s right to do as they please despite others disagreements - has since remained in use throughout the nation. Often expressed mimicking the original song.

@didi33333 10 ай бұрын

🙌🙌🙌🙌

@ronaldterry2234 10 ай бұрын

We gonna fight the power

@URBANTVOndemand 10 ай бұрын

yes indeed🙌🏾

@ef3371 3 ай бұрын

No mention of Chris Jasper writing their most beautiful songs yet sharing the credit with the rest of the band - Harvest for the World, Highways of My Life, Summer Breeze, etc...

@farshimelt 11 ай бұрын

We use to have a joke about getting stoned, sitting on the couch, watching cartoons, and listening to the Isley Brothers.

@URBANTVOndemand 11 ай бұрын

🙌🏾🙌🏾

@Reddberry41510 10 ай бұрын

They Also Won An American Music Award In 2003

@worldtraveler134 10 ай бұрын

Rudolph Isley was one fine ass man! ❤😂

@URBANTVOndemand 10 ай бұрын

😂😂

@jahleillewis1743 10 ай бұрын

The thumbnail is crazy 😂😂😂😂😂

@lyndiablack9098 8 ай бұрын

Write Me, was one of their early hits.

@URBANTVOndemand 8 ай бұрын

💯💯

@aimee-lynndonovan6077 9 ай бұрын

Really ! They spoke to me in Teaneck N J in the 70s. I was walking down my street , minding my own business!🙄I basically brushed them off.😜anyway I’ll finish watching the video. Maybe they were recording at Sylvia s studio in Englewood N J.

@GoneBallistik658 10 ай бұрын

After leaving Motown, The Isley Brothers would have gone back to Cincinnati, but they knew how conservative Cincinnati was. So, they relocated to Teaneck instead, and of course the rest is history.

@URBANTVOndemand 10 ай бұрын

🙌🏾🙌🏾

@GoneBallistik658 10 ай бұрын

@@URBANTVOndemand not trying to insult your intelligence, but Buddha Records, it's pronounced "BOO-dah". Not "BUH-dah".

@camshottea 10 ай бұрын

@@GoneBallistik658ok

@johnbrown4949 10 ай бұрын

Yo, bruh look suspect

@keithclayton5255 10 ай бұрын

Pictures are not in chronological order!

@paulhue86 9 ай бұрын

How do you tell the story of the Isley Brothers without giving equal billing to the man behind "The Isley Sound": Chris Jasper? He is barely mentioned, yet he's as important as Ron & Ernie.

@URBANTVOndemand 9 ай бұрын

He was mentioned in the story and thanks for watching

@SanchoJohnson-sz7wt 10 ай бұрын

Checked comments to see if anyone noticed the blouse bro had on

@camshottea 10 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@beccasmith723 9 ай бұрын

That outfit with the crop top....wow

@NDC2018 10 ай бұрын

Sadly the background music spoiled all the hard work put into this video. Couldn't listen to the end😢

@URBANTVOndemand 10 ай бұрын

@bernardshropshire1814 10 ай бұрын

So who is that with that shirt knot and they hand on they hips??😂😂😂

@camshottea 10 ай бұрын

Ernie!

@BlessedandHighlyFavored4 10 ай бұрын

You have to be brave man to wear a shirt tied the way his friend did…

@travislatigue4957 4 ай бұрын

I had no idea Jimi Hendrix played with them..omg 😱

@URBANTVOndemand 4 ай бұрын

🙌🏾🙌🏾

@mercury4metal 10 ай бұрын

I'm sorry, I tried to finish this video, but that damn drum machine in the background made it impossible! 🤣🥁

@URBANTVOndemand 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the feedback we will take that into consideration when on future ones 🙌🏾

@cdh2og957 8 ай бұрын

Who did the guitar riff on "Voyage to Atlantis "? Was that Jimi Hendrix?

@URBANTVOndemand 8 ай бұрын

Ernie Isley! We also did a video on him! Check it out it's on our channel as well.

@cdh2og957 8 ай бұрын

@@URBANTVOndemand Okay, thank you so much. I'm enjoying your videos. Liked and subscribed 👏 👍

@cherokeegotti4903 9 ай бұрын

Omg😂😂😂😂😂 0:31 she was digging wasn’t she?🫠

@constancemwalagho335 Ай бұрын

They are better the than better whisper s

@qu3ll679 8 ай бұрын

Shirt is real hoochie daddyish

@URBANTVOndemand 8 ай бұрын

lol

@falanajerido875 10 ай бұрын

Great presentations. But your voice need enthusiasn

@URBANTVOndemand 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the feedback 🙌🏾

@cinnamonspice4389 5 ай бұрын

That whole first side of the 1983 between the sheets album is dangerous in the bedroom bebe choosy lover and so on. Hot to trot

@darlenejohnson1721 10 ай бұрын

Ron still doing concerts🤔 Time to retire Bruh😘

@keiththomas111 10 ай бұрын

He got a young wife and kids gotta make the dough 🤨

@neal6473 10 ай бұрын

Ron Isley help made you a less give that man some respect 🤨.

@BrowniethaDawg 10 ай бұрын

Why as long as it's still money to make and people that gonna pay why should he retire. See that's the difference between people like you who do what you do to get paid. And people like Godfather Ron isley who do what he get paid to do youngblood.

@dannydaniel8975 10 ай бұрын

Earnie l dont know about that shirt, brah.

@URBANTVOndemand 10 ай бұрын

😂😂

@camshottea 10 ай бұрын

lol

@atsylor5549 10 ай бұрын

Did Vernon the brother that died sound better than Ron Isley? I never heard any of their older music just the classic when the Isley Brothers became The Isley Brothers

@Imissyoulou 9 ай бұрын

Look up Write Me. It was my favorite, Your Old Lady and Shout, were great songs also.