This Old Heart of Mine (album)

Infobox Album
Name = This Old Heart of Mine
Type = Album
Artist = The Isley Brothers


Released = 1966
Recorded = 1965-1966, Hitsville U.S.A., Detroit, Michigan (Studio A)
Genre = Rhythm and blues/Motown/soul
Label = Tamla
Length = 33:50
Producer = Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, William "Mickey" Stevenson and Robert Gordy
Reviews =
Last album = "Twist & Shout"
(1962)
This album = "This Old Heart of Mine"
(1966)
Next album = "Soul on the Rocks"
(1967)

"This Old Heart of Mine" is a 1966 album released by The Isley Brothers on the Tamla (Motown) label. The album, their first with the seminal Detroit-based music label, yielded the Isleys' biggest hit in their early period with the title track. Other charted singles including "Take Some Time Out for Love" and "I Guess I'll Always Love You". The album's cover was controversial because it did not depict the three African-American brothers, instead using a picture of two white teenage lovers on a beach. The cover would be parodied in the 1991 movie, "The Five Heartbeats", where the group and its manager are taken aback that the group's faces were not shown on their album cover, inciting Leon's J.T. character to balk, "I ain't ever seen five niggas on Elvis Presley's album cover."

Despite the early success of their Motown debut, the Isley Brothers would be alienated from the label because it treated them as a second-string group. They soon left for Buddah Records and reforming their own T-Neck label in 1969 finding long-lasting success soon afterwards.

Track listing

"All songs on the album was written and produced by Holland-Dozier-Holland except where indicated":
#"Nowhere to Run" – 2:50
#"Stop! In the Name of Love" – 2:58
#"This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)" – 2:52
#"Take Some Time Out for Love" (Robert Gordy, Thomas Kemp) – 2:29
#"I Guess I'll Always Love You" – 2:48
#"Baby Don't You Do It" – 2:32
#"Who Could Ever Doubt My Love" – 2:35
#"Put Yourself in My Place" – 2:39
#"I Hear a Symphony" – 3:19
#"Just Ain't Enough Love" – 2:16
#"There's No Love Left" – 2:59
#"Seek and You Shall Find" (Ivy Hunter, William "Mickey" Stevenson) – 3:33

Credits

*Ronald Isley: lead vocals
*O'Kelly Isley, Jr. and Rudolph Isley: background vocals
*Additional background vocals on certain songs by The Andantes: Jackie Hicks, Marlene Barrow and Louvain Demps
*Produced by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, William "Mickey" Stevenson and Robert Gordy
*Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers