YEAR
1992
INDUCTED BY
Little Richard
CATEGORY
Performers
Fifty years, fifty singles and two generations of brothers.
The Isley Brothers navigated every cultural shift with skill, coming out the other end with an innovative new sound and yet another hit.
Chris Jasper
Ernie Isley
Marvin Isley
O'Kelly Isley
Ronald Isley
Rudolph Isley
Little Richard Inducts the Isley Brothers
The Isley Brothers Acceptance Speech
"Shout"
"Purple Haze"
"Call Me"
HALL OF FAME
ESSAY
By Harry Weinger
Ronald Rudolph and O’Kelly Isley might command a niche in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame merely for three volcanic singles cut from 1959-62: “Shout,” “Respectable,” and “Twist And Shout.”
But for the next 30 years joined in 1969 by younger brothers Marvin and Ernie Isley and cousin Chris Jasper, they made even more essential music: “That Lady,” ‘‘Fight The Power,” ‘‘Work To Do,” “‘Harvest For The World,” “For The Love Of You.”
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