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The Isley Brothers

THE ISLEY BROTHERS

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

Chris Jasper

Ernie Isley

Ernie Isley

Marvin Isley

Marvin Isley

O'Kelly Isley

O'Kelly Isley

Ronald Isley

Ronald Isley

Rudolph Isley

Rudolph Isley

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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Class of 1992
they had "Shout," and boy, they had me shoutin' everywhere
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