368 The Isley Brothers “Shout (Parts 1 and 2)” 1959

“The first incarnation of this family band sprouted as a gospel group in their native Cincinnati in the mid-‘50s, but in 1957, the singing brothers Ronnie, Rudi and O’Kelly (later just Kelly) Isley relocated to New York to be a part of the burgeoning East Coast doo-wop and R&B scene…Though not exactly a smash, ‘Shout’ and revenues from the group’s exhausting touring regimen allowed the brothers to move the entire Isley clan to Teaneck in northern New Jersey” (Blair Jackon, Mix, 2003). 

The Isley Brothers “Shout (Parts 1 and 2)”