Wow. Can I go slightly off topic and tell you guys how SHOUT by the Isley Brothers changed my life? In 1958, I was a quiet high school kid who bought records in a local Record Shop every Friday. The lady owner was continuously playing SHOUT on the speaker outside, and I hated the record. One day, I bought the record, she put it in a bag, I opened the bag, broke the record and handed it back to her and said, “I wish you would do that to the record playing outside”. She then realized that I was not that quiet little kid, but was perhaps a little off center. [[that is what you have to be if you are in the record business) So she offered me a job when I got out of high school and I later used that store as a foundation to start my own businesses in the record industry. So I owe my career to SHOUT.
And in later years, I appreciated many of the releases of the Isleys and Isley-Jasper-Isely. It took a little time, but now I even like SHOUT and can not figure out what I did not like about it at the time. I guess my tastes changed. [obviously. After all, I was buying Pat Boone records back then
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So thank you Isleys and congrats on a career that spans eight decades
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