An appeals court upheld a three year jail sentence for old school R&B singer Ronald Isley today. Ron tried to get his jail time reduced due to his poor health and old age, but the law slapped that notion down. Isley suffered a stroke in 2004 and argued that the system could not adequately tend to his medical needs. A three judge panel considered his plea and ultimately chose to uphold the origi...
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www.lanier2.imeem.com"Summer Breeze" is a 1972 soft rock single for folk rock duo Seals & Crofts that was covered famously in a harder rock/soulful style by The Isley Brothers as a single in 1974 and by the Three Tenors during their 1996 farewell performance at the Coach and Horses Tavern in Windsor, Ontario. Released off the Summer Breeze album, Seals & Crofts' version reached number six on th...
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www.lanier2.imeem.comFirst formed in the early '50s, the Isley Brothers enjoyed one of the longest, most influential, and most diverse careers in the pantheon of popular music -- over the course of nearly a half century of performing, the group's distinguished history spanned not only two generations of Isley siblings but also massive cultural shifts which heralded their music's transformation ...
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We can file this under 'Not Gonna Happen'Def Jam Records is seeking the help of fans around the nation to help secure a presidential pardon for soul legend Ronald Isley, who was convicted of tax evasion last year. Ron was sentenced to three years in prison, but hasn't started to serve it yet due to his recovery from a stroke, and kidney cancer. According to Def Jam, Isley will report to serve h...
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The Isley Brothers may be on tour in support of their last album "Baby Making Music", but that hasnt stopped them from starting in on their next album while on the road. "We just started," says Isley, 65, who was delayed from promoting "Baby Making Music" by kidney surgery in the spring of 2006. "We're just doing it on the road, in the times that we have off."Ronald Isley tells billboard that t...
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www.lanier2.imeem.com"Summer Breeze" is a 1972 soft rock single for folk rock duo Seals & Crofts that was covered famously in a harder rock/soulful style by The Isley Brothers as a single in 1974 and by the Three Tenors during their 1996 farewell performance at the Coach and Horses Tavern in Windsor, Ontario. Released off the Summer Breeze album, Seals & Crofts' version reached number six on th...
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www.lanier2.imeem.comFirst formed in the early '50s, the Isley Brothers enjoyed one of the longest, most influential, and most diverse careers in the pantheon of popular music -- over the course of nearly a half century of performing, the group's distinguished history spanned not only two generations of Isley siblings but also massive cultural shifts which heralded their music's transformation ...
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(written on the subway, so don't mind the bumps)...I've always thought of my relationship with my music to be not unlike a long-running affair with a loyal lover, it's been there with me when the backstabbers were legion as well as when the times were flush, thick and thin...but sometimes, admittedly, I've felt like I've heard it all before (and I have, technically, at least everything in my i...
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...posting about "*Jimi Hendrix*":http://mog.com/CrashPryor/blog_post/34190 and,more recently, James Brown got me thinking about the Isley Brothers and how they fused R&B and rock back in their early days...I think it started with "Twist and Shout", their first mainstream hit but you can really hear it come through on cuts like the original version of "Who's that Lady", "Fight the Power" and "L...
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Sometimes when I first hear great music, my mouth suddenly feels full and tastes like warm brownies. How weird is that? Usually, I follow that instinct and buy the music as soon as possible. It only feels and tastes like that upon the initial sound; after that, I’m only left with good music.
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The Isley Brothers, label owners and businessmen, as well as a great band, realized the need to cross over, and did many cover songs from the rock world in attempt to spread their appeal.That they did them so well shows you why they've been around for 40 years.In comments you'll see Houston's Fabulous Fantoms doing a cover of the cover in exacting fashion and then a Meters live medley that pays...
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An appeals court upheld a three year jail sentence for old school R&B singer Ronald Isley today. Ron tried to get his jail time reduced due to his poor health and old age, but the law slapped that notion down. Isley suffered a stroke in 2004 and argued that the system could not adequately tend to his medical needs. A three judge panel considered his plea and ultimately chose to uphold the origi...
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.....This "new" MOG has caused a lot or reassessment. Posts are not being commented on as much, and quite a lot of posts seem to be advertisements in drag. Lurking has become the vogue, as many of you have indicated, and commenting has become...........But one can still instigate a good discussion sometimes.
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A lot of us here know The Isley Brother's second version of Who's That Lady. Even today, Ernie Isley's laser beam phase shifted guitar is a thing of firey grace.Ah, but for Funky Friday we'll bring on the first version The Brothers' hit. Long before Ernie joined the band.Kelly, Rudy, Ronnie and Vernon Isley were a Gospel singing family and were highly regarded in that field. The death of Ver...
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greets moggers,here's my list. these are not all 2007 releases but 2007 personal discoveries! so, in no particular order:isley brothers - givin' it backdiscovered shopping the bins at amoeba, i bought it because i dug the album cover. didn't open it for over a year and then out of boredom with my music collection, put in on and was blown away. sent me on a major 60's/70's soul kick. epic covers...
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| 1 Fire and Rain |
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| 2 If You Were There |
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| 3 Summer Breeze |
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| 4 Footsteps in the Dark, Pts. 1 & 2 |
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| 5 The Highways of My Life |
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