''Live at Yankee Stadium'' is a 1969 live album by

The Isley Brothers The Isley Brothers ( ) are an American musical group originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, that began as a vocal trio consisting of brothers O'Kelly Isley Jr., Rudolph Isley and Ronald Isley in the 1950s. With a career spanning over seven decade ...

, released on their own T-Neck label. While the Isleys appear in this live album, it is actually a live showcase by the group to conjoin artists that signed to their T-Neck label and

Buddah Records Buddah Records (later known as Buddha Records) was an American record label founded in 1967 in New York City. The label was born out of Kama Sutra Records, an MGM Records-distributed label, which remained a key imprint following Buddah's foun ...

-associated acts including Judy White, the girl group Sweet Cherries, the gospel group the Edwin Hawkins Singers and the family soul group the

Five Stairsteps The Five Stairsteps, known as "The First Family of Soul" and later "The Invisible Man's Band", was an American Chicago soul group made up of five of Betty and Clarence Burke Sr.'s six children: Alohe Jean, Clarence Jr., James, Dennis, and Ken ...

. All the guest artists except for the Edwin Hawkins Singers sang songs that were written and produced for them by the Isleys. The Isleys performed their then-current hits "

It's Your Thing "It's Your Thing" is a funk single by The Isley Brothers. Released in 1969, the anthem was an artistic response to Motown chief Berry Gordy's demanding hold on his artists after the Isleys left the label in late 1968. The lyrics of the chorus, ...

", " I Turned You On" and the 1959 classic, " Shout", bringing in audience members alongside them as they ended the performance. The album peaked at No. 34 on the ''Billboard'' Soul LPs chart in December 1969. It was remastered and expanded for inclusion in the 2015 released CD box set ''The RCA Victor & T-Neck Album Masters, 1959-1983''. The expanded CD only features additional performances by The Brooklyn Bridge, there are no additional Isley Brothers tracks. ''Live at Yankee Stadium'' was independently filmed and was funded by the Isley Brothers. It was released in theaters as ''

'' in August 1970.

Track listing

Notes

The version of "It's Your Thing" heard here appears on the Isley Brothers' career-spanning 1999 boxed set ''It's Your Thing: The Story of the Isley Brothers'', the liner notes to which say the concert took place on June 21, 1969.

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* {{Isley Brothers The Isley Brothers albums 1969 live albums T-Neck Records live albums Albums produced by Rudolph Isley Albums produced by Ronald Isley Concert films