username:

password:

 
 Songs
 Albums
 Diggers
 Comments
 Blogwalls
 About
 Email Me

445,329 Albums + 604,843 Individual Songs
Send
Send
 
 
Descriptions

Isley Brothers ~ That Lady 1973 Soul Purrfection Version


Playing Next: The S.O.U.L. S.Y.S.T.E.M. - It's Gonna Be A Lovely Day - Top Of The Pops - Thursday 21st Jan 1993
Random Page  /  Random Song


I am 13 again! I really loved what the Isleys were doing, capable of the soulful elegant jazz funk of \"That Lady\" in the summer of 1973. It was a pleasure listening to this in the summer evening heat on the front porch as the sun went down. Summer vacation but actually looking forward to going back to school last week of August. Then on August 4th the terrible news that Stevie Wonder was in a life threatening accident with a logging truck. He spent four days in a coma.

\"That Lady\" became a #6 pop hit and a #2 R&B hit and had been inspired by the work of Carlos Santana according to their press kit. As a kid I felt the vibe of this song, mellow and Latin, mesmerizing me when it came on the AM transistor radio with the tinny sound accentuating the Latin rhythms that gave the song an air of elegance to the funky soul. The song had been already released in 1964 as \"Who's That Lady\" and you can listen to the original here https://youtu.be/rxKgf8fai7M

When The Isleys signed with Epic Records with members O'Kelly Isley Jr. and Ronald Isley adding family members Ernie Isley, Chris Jasper and Marvin Isley for the album titled \"3+3\", the Isleys 11th studio LP. Renamed \"That Lady\" the new sound of the ARP synthesizer is the fuzz guitar sound you hear throughout this arrangement. I think that that the funky keyboard work set a new bar in soul music on the level of the work that Stevie Wonder was doing with the ARP synthesizer.

Believing in the song's potential, when the new group put together this production with the young'uns having an equal hand in the direction of the sound and the results speak for themselves. The song was an across the board smash as was the album with the singles that followed on the R&B charts with \"What It Comes Down To\" and \"Summer Breeze\", the album went platinum.


© 2021 Basing IT