In the 1960s, while The Isley Brothers bounced between various labels (including Atlantic, United Artists and Motown), they briefly employed a then-unknown Jimi Hendrix (aka Jimmy James) as their lead guitarist, buying him a white Fender Stratocaster guitar and moving him into the Isley home. Perhaps the most musically adventurous vocal ensemble in American pop history, The Isley Brothers were adding rock, funk, R&B, soul and ballad elements into the gospel and doo-wop music at the foundation of their sound. The Isleys followed up 'Shout' with a variety of tracks (including their Top 20 single, 'Twist & Shout,' a song later famously covered by The Beatles). 118 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The much-covered 'Shout' was inducted into the GrammyВ® Hall of Fame in 1999 and placed No. One of the most immediately identifiable and infectious party anthems ever written or recorded, The Isley Brothers 'Shout'-with its irresistible call-and-response structure-combined gospel heat and doo-wop soul with a high-powered rock 'n' roll energy. Moving to the New York City area in the late 1950s, The Isley Brothers scored some modest regional chart successes before their fourth single (and first for RCA Victor), 'Shout'-written by O'Kelly, Rudolph and Ronald-catapulted them into the pantheon of pop immortality in 1959. Born and raised in the suburbs of Cincinnati, Ohio, The Isley Brothers-O'Kelly Isley, Jr., Rudolph Isley, Ronald Isley and a fourth brother, Vernon Isley (who died a couple of years after their first incarnation)-began performing as a gospel-based vocal group in 1954.

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