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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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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.....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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Flashback Friday-in the great departed Dachmo tradition: Humble Pie - 30 Days in the Hole Blue Oyster Cult - Cities On Flame With Rock and RollDeep Purple - HushJo Jo Gunn - Run Run RunJackson Browne - Doctor My EyesPaul MaCartney and Wings - Hi Hi HiT. Rex - Ride a White SwanSlade - Gudbye To JaneThe Sweet - Hellraiser
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We all know that the first version of this by the Topnotes was produced by a very young and inexperienced Phil Spector, so this is the first hit version of the tune, produced by Bert Berns in 1962
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1. The Contours, "Do You Love Me." An atypical Motown act, The Contours were anything but slick. With hindsight, they seem more a rock and roll band than a Berry Gordy special. It was Gordy, though, who wrote this big hit, although what sold it was Billy Gordon's crazed vocals. (They don't actually get around to the song on the video link until it's too late, but the video kicks ass anyway. Im...
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You want to burn the world down with a smile when you hear to this one from the Isleys. Well maybe you don't, but I do. I know, I know, everything has changed now. Wait, no it hasn't. However I am excited, especially because I have been watching excerpts from 'Eyes on the Prize". This is amazing.
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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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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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(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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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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