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It's Your Thing

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debut LP The medley included the only two covers that Golden recorded as an artist. In 2000, the medley featuring "It's Your Thing", was reissued in an Atlantic compilation, with Golden as the sole female artist in the line
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The brothers' decision to leave Motown came after a successful British tour, where they had a bigger fan base than in the United States. A re-release of "This Old Heart" had reached number three on the
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brought their own funk anthems to the scene. Brown used the musical background from the song for the songs "It's My Thing (You Can't Tell Me Who to Sock It to)", an answer song by
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The lyrics of the chorus, which also serve as first verse, run: "It's your thing/ Do what you wanna do/ I can't tell you/ Who to sock it to". The song is ranked No. 420 on the
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wrote upon arriving home after taking his daughter Tawana to school. The lead singer said that he thought of the melody and some of the lyrics in his head. His older brothers
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along with Studio Rio did a Bossa Nova of the song, in collaboration will The Isley Brothers as part of the soundtrack for the
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hotel chain have featured a cover version of "It's Your Thing", modified so the lyrics say "Do Your Thing" instead.
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Like many of their earlier singles, the song has been featured in commercials. Some Canadian commercials for the
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on guitar. The song was released as a single on February 16, 1969, and quickly rose to the top of both the
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Berry Gordy allowed the brothers to leave the label, and the Isleys reactivated their own label,
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uses a sample from Cold Grits' instrumental cover of "It's Your Thing" in his 2010 album
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This article is about the Isley Brothers song. For the Mercedes song, see
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would often perform an instrumental of the song in a medley format with "
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Recorded in two takes and featuring the first appearance of 16-year-old
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recorded a duet version in 1971 that remained unreleased until 2009.
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The song has been credited for being one of the first fully-fledged
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It also appears in the English version of the adult animated film
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Over 60 artists have recorded their own version of the song.
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After scoring one popular hit with the label, with the song "
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on what would be her final radio show in her lifetime, for
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Don't Say Goodnight (It's Time for Love) (Parts 1 & 2)
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singles charts, peaking at No. 2 on the former, (behind
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Index

It's Your Thing (Mercedes song)
It's Your Thing (film)

Single
The Isley Brothers
It's Our Thing
B-side
Studio
A&R Studios
New York City
Genre
Psychedelic funk
R&B
Label
T-Neck
Songwriter(s)
Ronald Isley
O'Kelly Isley, Jr.
Rudolph Isley
Producer(s)
The Isley Brothers
The Isley Brothers
Put Yourself in My Place
I Turned You On
"It's Your Thing"
YouTube
funk
The Isley Brothers
Motown
Berry Gordy

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