The Isley Brothers "Baby Makin' Music" hits the stores today. Make sure you go get your copy. You can also listen to it before you even buy it on VH1. Click on this link to go to the VH1 site. After a first listen, I already like, You're My Star, Gotta Be With You, Pretty Woman, Forever Mackin, and Beautiful. Ernie gets to show off his skills on these. I think you're going to like it!

The release of the Isley Brothers "Baby Makin' Music" has been pushed back to May 9. For the Ernie fans, the guitar virtuoso will be heard on the tracks, "You're My Star" and "Heaven Hooked Us Up". BABY MAKIN' MUSIC contains two special cuts from Manuel Seal, Jr., (co-producer of Mariah Carey's smash "We Belong Together" and Usher's smash hit, "My Boo" with Alicia Keys): "Show Me" is "real baby-makin' music!" according to Ron Isley. And "Give It To You", he calls a "2006 version of "Between The Sheets," a song about a guy who didn't get the chance to make love with his woman the last time they were together," Ron adds. "When they do, well, you can imagine the rest…."

It's time for some "Baby Makin' Music." The Isley Brothers featuring Ronald Isley drop their new album March 7 on Def Jam Soul. Producers feature Jermaine Dupri, Tim and Bob and Manuel Seal, Jr and others. The first single should be "Just Came Here to Chill" produced by Troy Taylor and Gordon Chambers.

On Tower Records Mos Def, Raphael Saadiq, ?uest Love, and De La Soul are among the folks appearing on the Isley Brothers remix album "Taken to the Next Phase (Reconstructions)."

"He is doing well," confirms Elyse Murray, Vice President of Pyramid Entertainment Group and responsible agent to the Isley Bros. and Ronald Isley. "He has no brain damage, he's doing very well.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Soul veteran Ronald Isley, the lead singer with the Isley Brothers, has suffered a minor stroke, but hopes to resume performing as soon as possible, a spokeswoman for his record label said on Thursday.

The 2004 BET Awards will honor the Isley Brothers with the Lifetime Achievement Award on June 29 in Hollywood's Kodak Theater.

Ron Isley will be 63 tomorrow.

The Isley Brothers and Def Jam? The Isley Brothers have signed with Def Soul Classics and will release their next album in the first quarter of 2005. They have already finished a duet with Patti Labelle called "Gotta Go Solo". Source: Billboard

The album Live it Up was re-released on CD Feb 24 2004. This is one of the great Isley Brothers albums. Make sure you get this for your collection.

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Body Kiss sold 155,000 copies for the week ended Sunday, according to SoundScan numbers. The Isley Brothers' "Body Kiss" gives the pair its first No. 1 on The Billboard 200 in nearly 30 years. The DreamWorks set sold 155,000 copies in the U.S. during its first week at retail, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It's the Isley's first No. 1 on the main album chart album since 1975's "The Heat Is On" (T-Neck). ?

The Top 10 albums for the week ended Sunday May 11, 2003 were:

1. Body Kiss, Isley Brothers
2. Come Away with Me, Norah Jones
3. On and On, Jack Johnson
4. The Very Best of Cher, Cher
5. Get Rich or Die Tryin', 50 Cent
6. Fallen, Evanescence
7. One Heart, Celine Dion
8. The Matrix Reloaded soundtrack, various
9. Thankful, Kelly Clarkson
10. The Lizzie McGuire Movie soundtrack, various

The Isley Brothers...featuring Ronald Isley... a.k.a. Mr. Biggs (an identity he created for an R. Kelly Video), will release their next album, Body Kiss on May 6th. The album is the follow-up to the group's guest-filled 2001 release, Eternal, which found the legendary soul ensemble celebrating its fortieth anniversary by working with the likes of Kelly, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, and Jill Scott. The new album's first single is "What Would You Do," which has already hit radio. The group will head to Chicago on February 10th for a two-day video shoot with director Billie Woodruff (Britney Spears).

In other Isley news, Legacy will continue their string of reissues for the group in April. The group's classic 1973 release 3 + 3 (featuring the hit "That Lady, Pt. 1 and 2") will be remastered and expanded along with Caravan of Love, the 1984 album issued by the splinter group featuring Ernie and Marvin Isley along with cousin Chris Jasper. Also in the works is an album featuring the Isley Brothers hits remixed by various DJs. A lineup of remixers has not yet been set.

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Isley Brothers Tour Dates

"WE JUST SAID, 'GIVE US YOUR BEST. LET'S BLOW EVERYONE'S MINDS!' " relates bona fide pop legend Ron Isley of the roster assembled for the Isley Brothers' new album, "Eternal" (due Aug 7, 2001, from DreamWorks Records). "We're at a point in our career where I feel we're doing our very best work. We try to outdo ourselves with each record, but this time, we're really out for blood. It's like the Isley Brothers Super Bowl."

In addition to the compositions written by Ron and Ernie Isley, "Eternal" boasts an impressive roster of guest producers, writers and performers: R. Kelly, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Lucy Pearl/former Tony! Toni! Tone! vocalist Raphael Saadiq and hot newcomer Steve Huff. Keeping it in the family, Isley's wife, Angela Winbush, has lent her songwriting, production and vocal skills as well.

"We chose these collaborators because we admire them enormously, and they already have a firm grasp of the Isley Brothers flavor," Isley continues. "We've got a lot of faith in these folks. In the case of Jimmy and Terry, I'd always wondered what it would be like to work with them. We'd talked about it over the years and knew it'd be great to do an album together, but the timing and the inspiration had to be there at the same time. It finally happened with this record."

Isley is quick to mention brother Ernie's involvement as well. "He'll definitely have a lot of guitar solos; every time Ernie has solos, like on 'Who's That Lady' or 'Summer Breeze,' they turn out to be hits!" Recorded in Minneapolis, Chicago and Los Angeles, the new Isley's offering will also unveil a reinterpretation of the Chicago classic "If You Leave Me Now," which Isley considers "a masterpiece." - www.soultrain.com

After nearly four decades and more than 40 hit records with the Isley Brothers, Ronald Isley was presented with the Quincy Jones Award for outstanding career achievement, Soul Train's version of a lifetime achievement award. The legendary artist thanked the forces in his life -- "God, my family" that "kept me doin' this."

"The best compliment you can give the Lord at a time like this is Hallelujah!" he added. "This means so much to me and my family. It's because of you fans. It's because of you fans. It's because of you fans. It's because of you fans. [yes, he said this four times in a row] I am looking forward to some of the best music we've made in our lives this year." Keeping with the tradition of old artists turned hip artists, Isley said he will be working with a stable of undisclosed young hitmakers to mix a new formula for success. - Heather Wood (CDNOW.com)

Michael Bolton has been forced to eat crow yet again. Bolton lost his bid to the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a $5.4 million jury verdict that his song "Love Is A Wonderful Thing," copied parts of the 1961 Isley Brothers song of the same name. The high court, without any comment or argument, rejected an appeal by Bolton, co-writer Andrew Goldmark, and their record companies challenging the largest reported music infringement judgment involving a single song. - Lee Bailey's EUR Web

There'll be nothing but smooth sailing, maybe not tonight, but soon. R. Kelly, Raphael Saadiq, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis will be laying down tracks for the first Isley Brothers album in four years. Though the disc has not yet been titled, the project is called "The Isley Brothers Featuring Ronald Isley a.k.a. Mr. Biggs," according to a statement from Dreamworks Records. The album, which will be recorded in Minneapolis, Chicago and Los Angeles, will feature a cover of Chicago's ballad "If You Leave Me Now." Ronald Isley's wife, singer Angela Winbush, also contributed songs to the project. - Lee Bailey's EUR Web<