It's Our Thing

It's Our Thing
Studio album by The Isley Brothers
Released	April 1969
Studio	A&R (New York City)
Genre	Funk soul funk rock
Length	26:37
Label	T-Neck, Buddah
Producer	The Isley Brothers
The Isley Brothers chronology
Doin' Their Thing: Best of the Isley Brothers (1969) It's Our Thing (1969) The Brothers: Isley (1969)
Singles from It's Our Thing
"It's Your Thing" Released: February 1969

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Pitchfork	7.7/10 [2]

It's Our Thing is the sixth album released by The Isley Brothers on their own T-Neck Records imprint in April 1969. Fully emancipated from three and a half years in Motown Records and encouraged by their international success in the United Kingdom, the Isleys composed this album in the style of Sly & the Family Stone/James Brown funk that was dominating the music industry at the time but with their own flair as explained in their smash "It's Your Thing". Other hits off the album though it didn't chart included "I Know Who You Been Socking It To" and "Give the Women What They Want". This album was also the Isleys' first Top 40 record reaching #22 on the pop albums chart. Curiously, despite its importance in the career of the seminal group, this album was not released in CD format until 2008. The album was remastered and expanded for inclusion in the 2015 released CD box set "The RCA Victor & T-Neck Album Masters, 1959-1983". Although not featured on the album's cover, It's Our Thing marks the first Isley Brothers album to feature Ernie Isley on bass guitar.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Rudolph Isley, O'Kelly Isley and Ronald Isley

Side One

No.	Title	Length
1.	"I Know Who You Been Socking It To"	2:42
2.	"Somebody Been Messin'"	2:36
3.	"Save Me"	3:30
4.	"I Must Be Losing My Touch"	2:00
5.	"Feels Like the World"	3:25

Side Two

No.	Title	Length
6.	"It's Your Thing"	2:47
7.	"Give the Women What They Want"	2:17
8.	"Love Is What You Make It"	2:37
9.	"Don't Give It Away"	2:43
10.	"He's Got Your Love"	2:00

Personnel

The Isley Brothers

• Ronald Isley – lead vocals
• O'Kelly Isley, Jr. and Rudolph Isley – background vocals
• Everett Collins – drums, percussion
• Ernie Isley – bass, guitar

with

• Instrumentation by assorted New York City musicians

Technical

• Tony May – recording and mix engineer
• Acy R. Lehman – art direction
• James Kriegsmann Jr. – cover photography

References

1. Henderson, Alex. "The Isley Brothers - It's Our Thing (1969) album review, credits & releases | AllMusic". AllMusic.com. Retrieved 2012-08-05.
2. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (September 11, 2015). "The Isley Brothers: The RCA Victor and T-Neck Album Masters". Pitchfork. Retrieved December 23, 2015.

External links

• The Isley Brothers - It's Our Thing (1969) album review by Alex Henderson, credits & releases at AllMusic
• The Isley Brothers - It's Our Thing (1969) album releases & credits at Discogs
• The Isley Brothers - It's Our Thing (1969) album to be listened as stream on Spotify
• The Isley Brothers - It's Our Thing (1969) album back cover at www.FunkMySoul.gr