Voyage to Atlantis

“Voyage to Atlantis” is a 1977 slow jam released by The Isley Brothers on the T-Neck label. The single, which was off their multi-platinum album, "Go for Your Guns", is about two lovers going their separate ways, depicting their eventual reunion as a journey to "a paradise out beyond the sea"(i.e. Atlantis). However, the narrator in the song is in effect telling his lover that this reunion will never happen; it is, in fact, as mythical as the "paradise" for which the song is named.("Atlantis...is back to you.") For Isley fans, the memorable moment is in the beginning of the song when guitarist Ernie Isley revs up his guitar and partakes on the beginning of the song until lead singer Ronald Isley performs in his trademark buttery tenor followed by his brothers backing him up. The song charted at number fifty on the Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart but the song is regarded as one of the brothers’ best songs to date. In 1992, the R&B group Riff recorded a remake version.

Credits

*Written, arranged, composed and produced by The Isley Brothers and Chris Jasper
*Ronald Isley: lead and background vocals
*Rudolph Isley and O’Kelly Isley, Jr.: background vocals
*Ernie Isley: guitars; drums
*Marvin Isley: bass guitar
*Chris Jasper: keyboards, synthesizers