The Isley Brothers

Shout!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL9xOLpwI0I

Twist & Shout
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPivnegGtgg

This Old Heart of Mine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGyszX-Hs30

It's Your Thing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v2-DSKx3Eg

Love the One You're With
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1y4OatoR6s

Pop That Thang
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0UemPDkGww

I'll Always Come Back to You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ66GVuIPc4

That Lady
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1DDgNCLD84

Hello It's Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHp1Tr_4_A8

Summer Breeze
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl0g1y7irKk

Fight the Power
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmAkHRK2pI8

For the Love of You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd2sOqbIcaM

Harvest for the World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz_OsEISBGo

Footsteps in the Dark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DLnUwUpnb8

It's a Disco Night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyLptdeApq8

I Wanna Be With You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE8KsX5fqiI

Don't Say Goodnight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl2v9GrU35U

Between the Sheets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glhdcJ7K3XM

Smooth Sailin'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFW3TtBh6kE

Caravan of Love
(by Isley-Jasper-Isley)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ARl3dUyAyc

The Isley Brothers are a Grammy-winning American R&B/soul group who are one of the few groups to have long-running success on the Billboard charts placing a charted single in every decade since 1959 and as of 2006 was still charting successful albums performing under a repertoire of doo-wop, R&B, rock 'n' roll, soul, funk, disco, urban adult contemporary and hip-hop soul in the last six decades with a variation of lineups ranging from a quartet to a trio to a sextet to finally a duo.

Originally raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, the original group consisted of the four elder sons of O'Kelly Isley, Sr. and Sally Mae Isley: Kelly, Rudy, Ronnie and Vernon Isley originally singing nothing but gospel music starting in 1954.
The group disbanded in 1955 shortly after a road accident claimed the life of Vernon Isley and reformed in 1957 with Kelly, Rudy and Ronnie, who recorded with small labels singing doo-wop and rock 'n' roll.
After modest success with singles such as "Shout", "Twist and Shout" and the Motown single, "This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)", and a brief tenure with Jimi Hendrix as a background guitar player, the group settled on a brand of gritty soul and funk defined by the Grammy-winning smash "It's Your Thing", in 1969.
After reforming the group as a six-member lineup in 1973 featuring younger brothers Ernie and Marvin and brother-in-law Chris Jasper, they became known to fans as 3 + 3 and charted gold and platinum success with albums such as 3 + 3, The Heat Is On, Go For Your Guns and Between the Sheets, while charting a succession of hit singles such as "That Lady", "Fight the Power", "For the Love of You", "Don't Say Goodnight (It's Time For Love)" and "Between the Sheets", between 1973 and 1983.
After the younger brothers splintered from the group in 1984, the remaining trio continued recording until Kelly's death from a cancer-related heart attack in 1986.
Rudy left the group for a career in the ministry in 1989 disbanding the group once again with Ron releasing solo records, sometimes performing under the Isley Brothers name.
In 1991, Ron reformed the group with Ernie and Marvin returning to the lineup.
In 1992, the group was inducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Since 1997, after diabetes forced Marvin into retirement, the lineup has been Ron and Ernie, now on hiatus due to Ron's current prison sentence after a tax evasion conviction in 2006.

During his court case, it was revealed Ron Isley, now 66, has kidney cancer and failing organs. Isley's lawyers have tried pleading with the judge to give leniency to the singer, who was sentenced to serve 37 months (at least three years) in prison but have been denied. Isley is currently serving his sentence and will be released on a tentative date of April 2010.

In 2000 Michael Bolton unsuccessfully tried to buy the Isley Brothers' catalogue after the Isleys won a lawsuit alleging that Bolton's song "Love Is a Wonderful Thing" plagiarized their 1966 Motown track of the same title.

The Isley Brothers were inducted to the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2003.

Much like The JB's, Parliament-Funkadelic, DeBarge and Zapp, the Isleys are among one of the most sampled groups in hip-hop history with their recordings sampled by the likes of 2Pac, The Notorious B.I.G.,Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Ice Cube and Snoop Dogg among others.

(Wikipedia)