The Isley Brothers
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Year:
1992
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Inducted by:
Little Richard
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Category:
Performers
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Chris Jasper -
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Ernie Isley -
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Marvin Isley -
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O'Kelly Isley -
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Ronald Isley -
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Rudolph Isley
Introduction
Fifty years, fifty singles and two generations of brothers.
The Isley Brothers navigated every cultural shift with skill, coming out the other end with an innovative new sound and yet another hit.
Little Richard Inducts the Isley Brothers
Little Richard Inducts the Isley Brothers at the 1992 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony-
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Little Richard Inducts the Isley Brothers00:04:19 -
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The Isley Brothers Acceptance Speech00:05:00 -
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"Shout"00:03:26 -
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"Purple Haze"00:02:42 -
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"Call Me"00:04:30
Hall of Fame Essay
1992
Ronald Rudolph and O’Kelly Isley might command a niche in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame merely for three volcanic singles cut from 1959-62: "Shout,” “Respectable,” and “Twist And Shout.”
But for the next 30 years joined in 1969 by younger brothers Marvin and Ernie Isley and cousin Chris Jasper, they made even more essential music: “That Lady,” ‘‘Fight The Power,” ‘‘Work To Do,” “‘Harvest For The World,” “For The Love Of You.”
they had “Shout,” and boy, they had me shoutin’ everywhere
Photography: Kevin Mazur, WireImage
