It's Our Thing

Infobox Album
Name = It's Our Thing
Type = Album
Artist = The Isley Brothers


Released = 1969
Recorded = A&R Studios, New York, 1969
Genre = Funk/soul
Label = T-Neck/Buddah Records
Length = N/A
Producer = The Isley Brothers
Reviews =
Last album = "Soul on the Rocks"
(1967)
This album = "It's Our Thing"
(1969)
Next album = "Live at Yankee Stadium"
(1969)

"It's Our Thing" is a 1969 album released by The Isley Brothers on their own T-Neck imprint. Fully emancipated from three and a half years in Motown Records and encouraged by their international success in England, 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 title track. 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 group, this album has only been released in CD format in 2008.

Track listing

"All songs were written, arranged, composed and produced by The Isley Brothers"
#"I Know Who You Been Socking It To"
#"Somebody Been Messin'"
#"Save Me"
#"I Must Be Losing My Touch"
#"Feel Like the World"
#"It's Your Thing"
#"Give the Women What They Want"
#"Love Is What You Make It"
#"Don't Give It Away"
#"He's Got Your Love"

Credits

*Ronald Isley: lead vocals
*O'Kelly Isley, Jr. and Rudolph Isley: background vocals
*Ernie Isley: bass, guitar
*Marvin Isley: bass
*Chris Jasper, Everett Collins: piano, keyboards
*Instrumentation by assorted New York musicians