Isley Brothers, The - Live It Up, Pt. 1 & 2 Lyrics

Damn bumpin all night to this jam, sweating like crazy, afro shrinking, everybody dancing like da roof on 🔥 fire! No fights no shootings. Those were the days.

Gosh. Doesn't the beginning of ZZ Tops "Sharp Dressed Man" echo the intro (drum) to this? AMJ

How may times did I see these guys live? about 25

*love it !!*

Some bad boys

This comes to mind every time i hear ZZ Top's 'Gimme All Your Lovin' ' drum machine intro...

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my favorite Isley Broithers song and actually one of my all time favorites.

Never fails to give me chills

Where my rose_colored glasses an' psychedelic fur at??? Got to live it up!!!

This groove is very simple yet catchy as hell! When it comes to good music, sometimes less truly is more!

This song here brings back hella memories the year was 1975 summer time in the housing projects in Watts California Nickerson gardens everybody love this song

summer of 74

THEM ISLEY BROTHERS - For me and my opinion, their the GREATEST GROUP Of ALL TIME!!! VERSIFIED: Can bring it FAST OR SLOW!!! LONGIVITY: 6 decades of HITS!!! From the DO-WOP ERA TO BEING MR. BIGGS!!!

The ISLEYS BROTHERS been around so long, that they were involved in the MUSIC INDUSTRY back in the days where COLORED FOLKS couldn't appear on your own ALBUM, regardless if it was a HIT ALBUM or not!!!

What is great about "Live It Up" I remember Moma had a line dance that went along with the song. I love after Ronald gets happy and vamps out the last verse, the song is so hot... 🔥 you can hear Marvin Isley turn down the heat with his bass guitar. " I wanna live wanna live it! I wanna dance make romance... Then Ernie and Marvin gather the song along with Chris Jasper... Now you have about two and a half minutes of a square dance twine line dance track. . . that's "Live It Up!"

I honestly don't know WHY classic rock stations refuse to play the Isley Brothers. Their music was very rock n' roll. It'd be refreshing to hear this song just once instead of the same dumbass Wings song every fifteen minutes.

Many Rock radio stations played the Isleys in the 70s when the songs were current, for sure.

@JackT Wish it were like that today.

@Tito it was like that back in Philly, anyway!

@JackT. I don't know about the rest of the South, but no Isley Brothers were played on rock stations here in Dallas TX.

Rock radio (97.9 KZEW 'the Zoo') and KTXQ - Q 102.1) played NO black acts, EXCEPT a long-dead James Marshall Hendrix. Someone must have arm-twisted them into playing Prince, one time only, in 1983. Steve Winwood's 'Higher Love' with Chaka Khan on the chorus? She made that song a hit. 'Higher Love' was played ONCE.

Neither of those stations exist now; 97.9 is a rap station.
Q-102 fought to the bitter end, becoming 'alternative' from the 90's to about 2018, when it threw in the towel and became a generic pop station.

Tito: I was thinking the same thing.

soooo funky cooool !!!!

I don't remember where or what club in downtown nyc (long time ago) I was groovin' to this song on the dance floor, but what I'll never forget was how drenched my clothes were & how every single person dancing was digging this tune, it's message & life - forever memories !!

Sure makes the drive home a lottttttttt better

funky as they wanna be

Klassik

Sylvester the national anthem we just play this at the beginning of every football game in the United States everybody just wants to have fun and Live It Up

THIS IS THE FUCKING SHIT. AWESOME!

sounds good!

Chris Nova777 Music of strategy love it.

thanks for showing this song the love and care it needed. now excuse me while I go and CRANK THE SHIT OUT OF THIS ON A HUUUGE SYSTEM!!!!

Some songs are just meant to be played loud. This is one of them.

For Tyler Azelton :-)

love. it

Chris Jasper funked this song up!!! His solo was off the chain....the drums is mad tight! Ernie's solo was nice too!

so true but what about the vocals by ronald isley he murdered this

Ernie always played drums on the recordings as well

Michael Jackson emulated Ronald Isley & Stevoe Wonder. (Great influences). amjmetaltomotown

Love Ernie playing drums (in the pocket), and also his guitar work on this piece, but I really love the keyboard work O Mr. Chris Jasper...WOW! the best of the best.

Got a feeling it was George Moreland

I see George Moreland credit for drums on some tracks . does he play keys too?
Ernie's guitar usually takes the lead on the Part 2 of most tunes, but giving space to the keys on this one is my favorite thing about this tune.
Not a fan of ballads but the Isley funk always gets me goin!!

i play this song 10 times per day and it keeps getting better.

Honey327 👍👍

takes me right back to the dance floor (lighted dance floor) in the 70's
Great tune.

Rockin back to the great 70s to real meaningful music no auto tune bull here

Where do I begin...there's something spiritual about this song that rocks my soul, in a good way. ;-)

This SONG takes me back to the 70's

dude, thank you for this cleaned-up upload.

I LOVE this song!..The guitar solo,the groove,the STRONG back ground vocals,and smooth lead vocal!

Darrell Perry need all need to work instead of killing each other.

Forget the other message I gave you it was misquoted what i wanted to in the time that music sending us a message that we as black should live happy as any body else and it seems like it's against the law.

I .messed that message up .I mean well I'm trying to adjust to texting.

great taste in music brought me here

old school funk The ISLEY

thank you

Thanks brother I needed this

Got to live it up!

excellent work sir