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Today's topic is the Issley Brothers.
I'm Gayal Nobles and you're listening to Eagle

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Harp celebrity and music news. I'm
going to talk to you today about a

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family musical group originally from Cincinnati,
Ohio, that began as a vocal trio

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consisting of brothers O'Kelly, Issy Junior, Rudolph Osley, and Ronald Eisley.

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Do you remember the Issley Brothers popular
song Shout? For a long time,

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I didn't know they were the same
group that I heard in nineteen eighty five

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singing Caravan of Love. Shout was
a popular song written and originally recorded by

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American vocal group the Osley Brothers in
nineteen fifty nine. The Isley Brothers had

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a different sound and style back then. Shout was their fourth single, which

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became their first single to chart on
the Billboard Hot one hundred and sold over

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a million copies. In the nineteen
sixties, the group recorded songs for a

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variety of labels, including the top
twenty single Twist and Shout, and motown

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single This Old Heart of Mind Is
Weak for You, before recording and releasing

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the Grammy Award winning hit It's Your
Thing on their own label, t Neck

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Records. Today, those record singles
are still spinning. Radio stations are still

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playing those songs. And what about
the Osley Brothers in the nineteen seventies?

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Do you remember the top hit single
That Lady and the UK top ten cover

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of Summer Breeze? What about hits
like Fight the Power and for the Love

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of You? Before music videos in
the eighties, I only remembered hearing all

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those songs from radio, and I
never knew what the Osley Brothers really looked

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like. When the eighties came along, I became interested in watching music videos

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and began to see more of the
faces of music. But before seeing the

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Osley Brothers on video, I first
heard Caravan of Love from radio in nineteen

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eighty five. It was a nineteen
eighty five R and B hit originally recorded

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by Osley Jasper Isley after breaking away
from the family group. The group,

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notably Chris Jasper, wrote and produced
this single, intending to reach audiences by

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presenting Christian beliefs in his music.
The song became the trio's biggest hit,

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going to number one on the Billboard
R and B Singles Chart and number fifty

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one on the Billboard Pop Chart in
nineteen eighty five. The Osley Brothers has

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a long career in music. In
nineteen eighty five, the original Issley's trio

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of O'Kelly, Rudy and Ronnie signed
with Warner Brothers Records and recorded and released

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the album Masterpiece. Shortly a year
after its release, Kelly Iisley died from

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a heart attack while battling cancer in
March nineteen eighty six. The remaining duo

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of ron and Rudy released the Angela
Winbush produced albums Smooth Sailing in nineteen eighty

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seven and Spend the Night in nineteen
eighty nine, and do you remember ron

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Eisley. In the nineteen nineties,
he recorded solo material. He gained popularity

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as video villain ranked Biggs or Mister
Biggs in the music video for R.

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Kelly's hit down Low. There was
a lot of past members of the Isley

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Brothers, Rudolph, O'Kelly, Bernon, Marvin, and Chris Jasper. The

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members now are Ronald and Ernie Eisley. Will I Hope you have a joy

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today's topic. To find out more
about the group and what they are doing

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today, go to Official Isisley brothers
dot com