Considered the first funk tune ever by James Brown and Sly Stone, Was released on Feb, 16th 1969 and rose quickly up the charts. Was number 2 behind Aquarius!
One of the funkiest tunes I ever heard as a 12-year-old. Listened to it from the modern-day iPod at the time, a small transistor radio. The song just blew me away...
Just a riff...we oldsters know how to type on a manual with carbons, install tv antennas, wash clothes on a washboard (just kidding, but I've been there) My take...music gets exhausting..first records then 8tracks then cassettes which turn to glue after 20 years then cds then we go find our vinyl records moldering in the garage. Now I just feel useless, but I do know a lot.
Dig it, Carl. I first heard this from my portable transistor radio in the late 1960s, from Cousin Brucy, a DJ for WABC in Jersey, while riding my Schwinn bicycle around my hometown. I got goosebumps as a young 12-year-old white boy. I was in stunned belief, even at a young age how well-produced and funky this tune was. In addition, I miss Bill Withers, Dolby Gray, Marvin Gay, and just about everyone who has passed through Motown. We will never see this type of quality in music again I am afraid.
Perhaps the best old school funk and R&B song in Rock and Roll history. Just last week I was on a car ride with a 32 year old female. I put the song on her car's "system" (about 2000 watts) and she could not stop movin' and groovin'. I worked an outdoor event yesterday, the DJ pumped this through a 20,000 watt system, it set off a dozen car alarms!
@@pattiannepascual L take lol, let people identify themselves as whatever they want, Im sure you identify as an american patriot, so whos really mentally confused here lol
This was a big hit when I was in high school. Today, I'm a great grandfather. All through the record I hear the piano playing a simple line. Once you hear it, you always will.
This song was not only heard in Sausage Party, but it was also heard in Muppets from Space, Smurfs: The Lost Village, The Big Bounce, Music Within, Stonewall, you name it.
"It's Your Thing" yielded them roughly 5 million copies, "but we only got paid for two(million)!", as Ronald explained in the A&R portion of "Story, Volume 2: The TNeck Years (1969-85)" compilation!!
Found this song going around in my head this afternoon. Just had to find it/ play it and jam along. It came out in 1969. My high school graduation year. Still gets me movin!
And I graduated high school in '70! It is iconic....both those years and the song. It was incredible to have lived it...both those times....and the song!!😉
Back in the day, and today, this song still makes my heart smile. More people should hear the words -- do what you wanna do, I can't tell you....... Peace... Love.... and not so much hatred in those days.
RIP to the Isley that passed yesterday. As a White boy in the USA who loved music, we used to love Sam & Dave, the Isley Bros., Kool, Chic, Earth-Wind & Fire, the Brothers Johnson, the Ohio Players, P-Funk, James Brown and the other stalwarts of the R & B, Funk and Philly sounds. Music back then was a uniting force and watching Don Cornelius and Soul Train every weekend was a ritual that was as much about the music, the vibe, the cool of Don, and the great dancing. I wish today's urban music had the same allure and charm and sexiness that the Isley's and others radiated for years over 50 years ago. It is very sad. We need new versions of Berry Gordy, Quincy Jones, Smoky and the rest of the gang but I honestly don't see any contemporary version of the Black musical artists that reigned supreme back then. Woe is us.
Thank You For Your Comment.You are so on point.You covered all the bases.P.S. can I add Sly an the Family Stone,War,Mandrill to your list.Great Group.Great Era in music.Just like you I'm stilling listening and reading an making a comment .(69 years old an still living it)😊😊😊
Unfortunately I have to agree with you; I'm all of 66 years old now and have seen(and heard) the music go from 'yea to nea'; how sad it is now, not just for us but for the youth of today because they'll never know new music that was so creative and inspired us the way the music of our generation did. 9-26-24.
Monday, December 16, 2024 1:00 pm, PST. Sacramento, California, U.S A. I agree with the sentiments in your comment, and that's why as a karaoke singer today I try to keep these songs and those vibes alive by singing them with every chance I get.
This was a major song way back then. I haven’t heard anything close to it from that era. It fits with r&b music of today!! When you go this far back and the Isleys Brothers are there!!! They are the best musical band of all time. Black or white
First this in 1969. Express Yourself (Charles Wright) 1970. Mr Big Stuff (Jean Knight) 1971. The Isley Brothers were funky trend setter's or most everyone else just bit off them
The soul of American music: The Isley Brothers, Chicago, the Commodores, Chic, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, the Doobie Brothers, Blood, Sweat and Tears and so many others. Still in heavy rotation even today.
Well, memories of grade school, 5th, 6th & 7th in fact, brought me here. It seems the Isleys waited about 3years to have a new song, and each was a masterpiece! They could change with the times, yet be themselves! The background instruments, to me, set this song apart from the rest, and so it's my personal favorite. Funk at its finest! A-1!!!
I struggle to think what would have happened if I had heard this in 1969. Here in NZ on the charts, the nearest would have been... nope, nothing like this. A few years ago I added this to my YT playlist entitled "I never thought I'd like Funky", and ain't that the Truth!
LONG LIVE FUNK WE NEED IT WE LOVE IT ITS THE BEST THING OUTTA THE 70S AND THISE WER THE TIMES OF REAL PEACE AMD BROTHERLY LOVE AND FUNK WAS DA GROOVE WE JIVED TO getcha some suede patent leather 3 inch platform shoes some big old bell bottoms get your throw out there really big and get that wide lapel shirt with the buttons down all the way and don't forget the Hat with the big ass feather now we're talking
My 25yo kid just sent this to me, he's working at Target and he heard overhead. I can't sit still when I hear the Isley Bros! Love them! Go on! Get your funk on! Git down with the git down, all the way down! God bless folks.
Back then 1969 my sister 2 years older bought this on 45.. on hot summer day we had our music in that tiny house with all of us.. No complaints adaptation and the love for music.. The Isley Brothers had a distinct sound.. And Ronnie led the way.. the early Iskey’s with them costumes they wore.. They were an amazing group.. and all those sweet ballads came later..lot of babies were born (Sinbad) because of the Isley Brothers. ( flip it over and let the Isley Brothers do your talking/Sinbad) .. LB June 2022
This was a breakthrough r and b recording that was played on white radio stations across the country . This was a monster hit because the term "it's yo thing came from this recording!
I don't know if you have heard Creedence Clearwater Revival's THERE'S A BAD MOON ON THE RISE (CLUE) and a guy thought it said THERE'S A BATHROOM ON THE RIGHT, Hendrix Purple Haze EXCUSE ME WHILE I KISS THE SKY another guy thought was EXCUSE ME WHILE I KISS THIS GUY. A radio station had a call in thing with people who said the lyrics to a song, those two stuck in my head, especially about the bathroom on the right. IF the chorus was there's a bathroom on the right, the name of the song would be Bathroom On The Right, the actual title would be irrelevant.
@@robinpotter963 Ya'll are killing me with those lyrics. I too had my one foolish interpretations. I though the Four Tops were singing "Burn the dead" in their song "Bernadette"
The Isley Brothers were full of soul rhythm and class. Baba Ron Isley, the late Baba Rudy Isley and the late O'Kelly Isley so powerful. The Isley Brothers Ase.
RIP the two members of The Isley Brothers Rudolph Isley (April 1, 1939 - October 11, 2023), aged 84 O'Kelly Isley Jr. (December 25, 1937 - March 31, 1986), aged 48 You both will be remembered as legends.
I wish that Stevie Had his version of this like how he did at the Harlem Festival in the 1960s. I seen this documentary and I love how he slowed up the pace with the cadence and vibe. Hopefully someone knows what documentary I’m talking about
Once you go taco, you never go back-o
LMAO
I'm going to fawk-de-fawk outta you.
For my Grandma Anna, who passed yesterday at 97, she loved the Isleys! She did her thing and she did what she wanted to do!
A QUEEN.
EXCELLENT!!!!
I LOVE HER!
AND YOU!
Yeah she did the old time timers had the jams and the style and good times
Your Gran knew the good stuff in life. My Dad went 19 years ago, always telling me, " turn that xxxx down". Never understood the problem myself!
That's what I'm talking about!
Praise God for the longevity of Grandma and your having been able to enjoy her thoroughly before she transitioned!!
Bless her heart
After watching that one movie
This song will haunt me forever
LMAO that scene was funny
@@bigfatdohnut "want me to be the hamburglar? Rabble rabble, *rabble rabble*
@@NateS917 IM FILLIN YOU!!
Once you go taco, you never go baco
Nein! Nein! Nein!
Considered the first funk tune ever by James Brown and Sly Stone, Was released on Feb, 16th 1969 and rose quickly up the charts. Was number 2 behind Aquarius!
Interesting! Thanx for that!! ... and btw, to be on the same LIST as (Age of ) Aquarius would have been honor enough for most!! MAGA!!
The Isley Brothers are legendary… REAL music.
One of the funkiest tunes I ever heard as a 12-year-old. Listened to it from the modern-day iPod at the time, a small transistor radio.
The song just blew me away...
Me too! Transistor radio, was so cool at the time. --little black plastic box with the soulful sounds!
Keep listening Bobby. This and other songs are better than most of what's coming out now.
Just a riff...we oldsters know how to type on a manual with carbons, install tv antennas, wash clothes on a washboard (just kidding, but I've been there) My take...music gets exhausting..first records then 8tracks then cassettes which turn to glue after 20 years then cds then we go find our vinyl records moldering in the garage. Now I just feel useless, but I do know a lot.
Yeah I was like 5 and thought this was rap. Next was easy e. Lol
God bless your grandma bro The Isley Brothers one can make the argument one of the best r&B around although the temps are
This song socked it to me as a child and still does in 2020. Corona virus ain't got shit on this.
Heck yeah!!!!
Mmh! Good soul music.
Yes indeed
Dig it, Carl. I first heard this from my portable transistor radio in the late 1960s, from Cousin Brucy, a DJ for WABC in Jersey, while riding my Schwinn bicycle around my hometown. I got goosebumps as a young 12-year-old white boy. I was in stunned belief, even at a young age how well-produced and funky this tune was. In addition, I miss Bill Withers, Dolby Gray, Marvin Gay, and just about everyone who has passed through Motown. We will never see this type of quality in music again I am afraid.
Clyde l Otis wrote this... I'm his just niece from hometown Prentiss ms .he is a Motown legend... Thank y'all
RIP UNCLE CLYDE OTIS...ISLEY BROTHER S
'Out of Sight"!
One of my favorite Elmore Leonard film adaptations💯
One of the greatest hits.
👍🏿
Just impossibly funky, I’m not sure if there are any songs that match this level of funkiness. Peerless.
I remember this from when I was 7 ... a scrawny white boy with the FUNK !
Most James Brown songs match this funkiness.
@@kool-808 I was going to say the same thing. Only James Brown could compete.
the Gap Band got pretty funky.
but no band did it like the Funkadelics/ parliament.
George Clinton. ay
Maybe Aretha's Rock Steady....
This song is cool, I sure hope it won't be used in a movie where foods curse and this song plays in the ending where they have a orgy
your not funny man stop trying... and go watchKILLTONY instead. seriously your not funny at all, not clevr just a geek.
LOL, I hope not! 🤣
Perhaps the best old school funk and R&B song in Rock and Roll history. Just last week I was on a car ride with a 32 year old female. I put the song on her car's "system" (about 2000 watts) and she could not stop movin' and groovin'. I worked an outdoor event yesterday, the DJ pumped this through a 20,000 watt system, it set off a dozen car alarms!
just call her a woman wtf
I’ve liked this since grade school I guess I have good taste
@@MrDukeSilverr these days you need to get the point across it was a real female, not some mental, confused man labeling himself a "woman".
@@pattiannepascual L take lol, let people identify themselves as whatever they want, Im sure you identify as an american patriot, so whos really mentally confused here lol
Pure groove!!!
This is my jam. Doesn't matter where or who I'm with, people catch this groove and you can see it on their faces.
The funky guitar in this song soars to very high heights!
Charles "Skip" Pitts on guitar!
Ronnie at the top of his range and game. Such a tough vocal and no one could sing it like Ronnie, "Its His Thing" !
This was a big hit when I was in high school. Today, I'm a great grandfather. All through the record I hear the piano playing a simple line. Once you hear it, you always will.
After fifty relationships forget about it🤭
Haha so true 🤣
As far as i'm concerned, this is just an awesome song that should just be remembered for just being an awesome song.
Walk the Moon made a good cover of it, too.
That would be an awesome thing to do that should just be done because it's an awesome thing to do 👍🏾
This is the song that plays during the food orgy at the end of sausage party
lmao it did
This song was not only heard in Sausage Party, but it was also heard in Muppets from Space, Smurfs: The Lost Village, The Big Bounce, Music Within, Stonewall, you name it.
We don’t talk about that. That was a movie that should never have been made.
@@stevenscarbary3207Big Momma's House 2 and Kroger brought me here!!!!!😊😊😊😊😊
@@davidmcaninch4714it was way too perfect for this world. The world was not prepared for it
Sausage Party is freaking engraved into my head whenever I hear this song…
Once you go taco you never go backo
I was only eight when this one came out, and I remember the funk and R&B… Love it then and love it still
2:22 is my fav part the way he chills on that line
This song is great, but what’s sad is that I’ll always associate it with a certain scene in a particular film about food.
This melody was in a beer commercial.
@@TVBoxablehaha!
"It's Your Thing" yielded them roughly 5 million copies, "but we only got paid for two(million)!", as Ronald explained in the A&R portion of "Story, Volume 2: The TNeck Years (1969-85)" compilation!!
Found this song going around in my head this afternoon. Just had to find it/ play it and jam along. It came out in 1969. My high school graduation year. Still gets me movin!
One old fart to another! Man I grew up in north New Jersey and we loved “funk”!
An iconic song that's now embedded into American Pop culture.
So much so. I just love the funk. I don't even hafta understand.
*U.S.
The best funk song ever!
Deca Cards52 more like itch your thing
Introducing 17 year old Ernie Isley on bass
so dam funky! isleys were badass...
@UN ARE
this song went to #2 on the pop charts in 1969!!!
And I graduated high school in '70! It is iconic....both those years and the song. It was incredible to have lived it...both those times....and the song!!😉
Once you see that scene, that is all you'll ever see while listening to this song. Oh gosh.
Happy Birthday to Ernie Isley! 🎉
He was only 16 when he played bass on this song!
Had a decent teacher too in Jimi
Ernie don't play bass he plays guitar. Marvin was the bass player
vim pela propaganda da Heineken , muito boa a musica !!
eu também, eles são fora de série!!
Eu também, mas na versão do comercial eu acho que é cover.
musica top
ouça 'footsteps in the dark' deles tambem
@@willshinodalp ,The Highways of my life , Between the sheets também.
Back in the day, and today, this song still makes my heart smile. More people should hear the words -- do what you wanna do, I can't tell you....... Peace... Love.... and not so much hatred in those days.
I was 9 years old in Liberia but I remember dancing to this at parties from then 'til now!❤️😁
What's the safety word?
Molasses, MOLOASSES!!!
Pley all@@bigfatdohnut
Yes
I was a 9 year old with my mom at a La Puente CA laundromat when this song first blared over the radio intercom. It's stayed with me since.
Yes u r! Happy birthday Grandma
HEINEKEN 0.0 COMMERCIAL BROUGHT US HERE!
#MeToo
#MeToo
#MeToo
Accually, Saucage Party brought me here 😂
#MeToo
all i can say is OH HELL YEA!
Great song for driving an a Monday, or any day...or anytime for a great lift!!! ❤️ Love this Song & Isley Bros.
Rock in Peace, Grandma Anna
You had great taste in Music.
I bet you made your 97 years count . Love to the Otherside ✌️
thank you Heiniken
RIP to the Isley that passed yesterday. As a White boy in the USA who loved music, we used to love Sam & Dave, the Isley Bros., Kool, Chic, Earth-Wind & Fire, the Brothers Johnson, the Ohio Players, P-Funk, James Brown and the other stalwarts of the R & B, Funk and Philly sounds. Music back then was a uniting force and watching Don Cornelius and Soul Train every weekend was a ritual that was as much about the music, the vibe, the cool of Don, and the great dancing. I wish today's urban music had the same allure and charm and sexiness that the Isley's and others radiated for years over 50 years ago. It is very sad. We need new versions of Berry Gordy, Quincy Jones, Smoky and the rest of the gang but I honestly don't see any contemporary version of the Black musical artists that reigned supreme back then. Woe is us.
Thank You For Your Comment.You are so on point.You covered all the bases.P.S. can I add Sly an the Family Stone,War,Mandrill to your list.Great Group.Great Era in music.Just like you I'm stilling listening and reading an making a comment .(69 years old an still living it)😊😊😊
Unfortunately I have to agree with you; I'm all of 66 years old now and have seen(and heard) the music go from 'yea to nea'; how sad it is now, not just for us but for the youth of today because they'll never know new music that was so creative and inspired us the way the music of our generation did. 9-26-24.
Monday, December 16, 2024
1:00 pm, PST.
Sacramento, California, U.S A.
I agree with the sentiments in your comment, and that's why as a karaoke singer today I try to keep these songs and those vibes alive by singing them with every chance I get.
RIP, Rudolph Isley... Just found out today he passed away. He was 84.
oh jeeze i hope he got vaxed& did the right thing!
We've been losing a lot of legends in the music industry lately. I guess us fans are getting older : ) Isley's were great Los Angeles
This was a major song way back then. I haven’t heard anything close to it from that era. It fits with r&b music of today!! When you go this far back and the Isleys Brothers are there!!! They are the best musical band of all time. Black or white
First this in 1969.
Express Yourself (Charles Wright) 1970.
Mr Big Stuff (Jean Knight) 1971.
The Isley Brothers were funky trend setter's or most everyone else just bit off them
.... ONE OF THE BEST MUSICAL BAND.... NOT : "THE BEST" !!! ;-)
Very good but you can’t forget about James Brown or the Temptations.
The soul of American music: The Isley Brothers, Chicago, the Commodores, Chic, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, the Doobie Brothers, Blood, Sweat and Tears and so many others. Still in heavy rotation even today.
RIP Rudolph.
It's our thing
Ain't gonna die over no cookie. This song keeps me alive
My name is Lillie Harris and when I was in my teen age years I loved this song, now I am 76 and I still love this song.
You were 23 in 1969 so it wasn't your teen age years.
Rest In Power, Rudy💜
This song and the Golden Age from 2011 were great Heineken songs and commercials
" *clears throat* Happy red, white, & blue day, you guys 🇺🇸🌭🌮🌯🥯
🥓🧀!"
It's 2023 and this jam is still FUNKALISIOUS😂❤
I like this
Isley bros its your thang thats another hit facts of life
I was 14 when this was released in the UK. It baffles me why this wasnt Top Ten over here. It was a hint of where the Isleys were going at that time.
Well, memories of grade school, 5th, 6th & 7th in fact, brought me here. It seems the Isleys waited about 3years to have a new song, and each was a masterpiece! They could change with the times, yet be themselves! The background instruments, to me, set this song apart from the rest, and so it's my personal favorite. Funk at its finest! A-1!!!
I struggle to think what would have happened if I had heard this in 1969. Here in NZ on the charts, the nearest would have been... nope, nothing like this.
A few years ago I added this to my YT playlist entitled "I never thought I'd like Funky", and ain't that the Truth!
Im not going to lie, everything that The Isley Brothers are saying is on point
nothing brought me here other than growing up with this jam. they damn sure don't make 'um like this anymore.
I remember listening to this song as kid and freaking out ... it's a great song.
Super heavy funk.
Reminds me...of my dear Mom {RIP} That was her motto...and LIVE, LAUGH & LOVE! Crazy old heifer! Much love all...
Lord ,
“Have mercy‼️”
LONG LIVE FUNK WE NEED IT WE LOVE IT ITS THE BEST THING OUTTA THE 70S AND THISE WER THE TIMES OF REAL PEACE AMD BROTHERLY LOVE AND FUNK WAS DA GROOVE WE JIVED TO getcha some suede patent leather 3 inch platform shoes some big old bell bottoms get your throw out there really big and get that wide lapel shirt with the buttons down all the way and don't forget the Hat with the big ass feather now we're talking
Without the Funk we would have no Punk !
I can remember my grandmother having a discussion with somebody about how risqué this song was. I was a small kid back then. It seems quaint now.
My 25yo kid just sent this to me, he's working at Target and he heard overhead. I can't sit still when I hear the Isley Bros! Love them! Go on! Get your funk on! Git down with the git down, all the way down! God bless folks.
This funk was and is WISELY ISLEY, I say! It's my thing to dance and such is the chance! Memorable!
Ron Isley on the Lead Vocals
My music favorite.
grace and frankie! 3 more seconds to the light ;)
Great soulful feel and very funky! Love it:)
This has to be the best Isley Brothers song
I love this song because it’s my dance recital song!💃
Back then 1969 my sister 2 years older bought this on 45.. on hot summer day we had our music in that tiny house with all of us.. No complaints adaptation and the love for music.. The Isley Brothers had a distinct sound.. And Ronnie led the way.. the early Iskey’s with them costumes they wore.. They were an amazing group.. and all those sweet ballads came later..lot of babies were born (Sinbad) because of the Isley Brothers. ( flip it over and let the Isley Brothers do your talking/Sinbad) .. LB June 2022
Rabble rabble rabble rabble
This song is really good! I first heard it from an adult animated movie.
Really I have been a soul man since I first heard any music, but the Isley Bros always got me twitching. So funky
Nobody could have said it better! Keep rockin' Grandma!
‘The Witches’ (2020) brought me here.
This song is great!
This was a breakthrough r and b recording that was played on white radio stations across the country . This was a monster hit because the term "it's yo thing came from this recording!
When I was a kid, I thought they were singing, "Itch yo thang". To this day I sing that when I have to scratch an itch.
I don't know if you have heard Creedence Clearwater Revival's THERE'S A BAD MOON ON THE RISE (CLUE) and a guy thought it said THERE'S A BATHROOM ON THE RIGHT, Hendrix Purple Haze EXCUSE ME WHILE I KISS THE SKY another guy thought was EXCUSE ME WHILE I KISS THIS GUY. A radio station had a call in thing with people who said the lyrics to a song, those two stuck in my head, especially about the bathroom on the right. IF the chorus was there's a bathroom on the right, the name of the song would be Bathroom On The Right, the actual title would be irrelevant.
@@robinpotter963 Ya'll are killing me with those lyrics. I too had my one foolish interpretations. I though the Four Tops were singing "Burn the dead" in their song "Bernadette"
@@MattBragg hahaha that's a different take on the song...thanks for making me laugh
lost. wtf?
Lol. Love that!
Reminds me of Sanford and Son was when Fred was singing that song
ある映画で見つけていい曲だなと思いました。
The Breakfast Club come on in
join the party 🎉
That's a seriously funky bass line.
Bringing that Primordial Funk!
Get On UP MF’S!!!!!
This jam is just my thing!
A really good friend gave me this song on a 45 for my birthday a long time ago. Thanks Ricky.
Memes aside, the funk and pocket between the drummer and bass guitarist is airtight. Nasty, filthy stuff.
Love that scratch on the guitar 🎸
The Isley Brothers were full of soul rhythm and class.
Baba Ron Isley, the late Baba Rudy Isley and the late O'Kelly Isley so powerful.
The Isley Brothers Ase.
Those coats 💞
SENSATIONAL AWESOME HEAVENLY BEAUTIFUL AMAZING!!!!!!
RIP the two members of The Isley Brothers
Rudolph Isley (April 1, 1939 - October 11, 2023), aged 84
O'Kelly Isley Jr. (December 25, 1937 - March 31, 1986), aged 48
You both will be remembered as legends.
♥️🙏 I learned the piano for this song when I played in several bands. I will keep playing it wherever I go there's a piano to keep their memory alive.
Love this bass .....
Lo más grande isley brother for ever!
I like this.
“Hey fellas, you thinking what I’m thinking?”
"I am going to fawk-de-fawk outta you."
I wish that Stevie Had his version of this like how he did at the Harlem Festival in the 1960s. I seen this documentary and I love how he slowed up the pace with the cadence and vibe. Hopefully someone knows what documentary I’m talking about