It's Our Thing

1969 studio album by The Isley Brothers

It's Your Thing

Studio album by

The Isley Brothers

Released

April 1969

Recorded

A&R Studios
(New York, New York)

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 Your 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

^ Henderson, Alex. "The Isley Brothers - It's Our Thing (1969) album review, credits & releases | AllMusic". AllMusic.com. Retrieved 2012-08-05.
^ 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