It's Our Thing

It's Our Thing is the sixth album released by The Isley Brothers on their own T-Neck Records imprint in April 1969. Fully emancipated from three and a half years in Motown Records and encouraged by their international success in the United Kingdom, 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 "It's Your Thing". 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 seminal group, this album was not released in CD format until 2008. The album was remastered and expanded for inclusion in the 2015 released CD box set "The RCA Victor & T-Neck Album Masters, 1959-1983". Although not featured on the album's cover, It's Our Thing marks the first Isley Brothers album to feature Ernie Isley on bass guitar.

Personnel

 * The Isley Brothers
 * Ronald Isley – lead vocals
 * O'Kelly Isley, Jr. and Rudolph Isley – background vocals
 * Everett Collins – drums, percussion
 * Ernie Isley – bass, guitar


 * with
 * Instrumentation by assorted New York City musicians


 * Technical
 * Tony May – recording and mix engineer
 * Acy R. Lehman – art direction
 * James Kriegsmann Jr. – cover photography