Not this weekend, but next weekend plan on checking out our 57th Oyster Festival.
Highlight is always the Shucking Competition:
Got some music to enjoy along with the bivalves:
Speaking of music, the Isley Brothers are now down to one surviving member Ron as his Brother Rudolph passed away yesterday at 84. (The third brother O’Kelly passed in 1986.)
If asked to name two of the Isleys’ songs I’m thinking most folks would cite “Who’s That Lady” and “This Old Heart of Mine.” (“It’s Your Thing” may be in there too, but since I never cared for that one too much, it doesn’t make the cut here as a favorite IB tune.)
That said, it was two of their first big hits that they should be remembered for even though subsequent performances of those tunes were more popular than their initial versions. I’m talking about their two “Shout” songs as in “Shout” and “Twist and Shout.”
They did Shout in 1959 but it was only a middling hit for them peaking at 47 on Billboard. Joey Dee and the Starliters then had a big hit with it in 1962. In 1978 it was made even more famous when Otis Day and the Knights performed it in the movie Animal House.
Twist and Shout was a top 20 hit for the Isleys in 1962, but then some long haired white boys from England covered it in 1964 and made it into a world-wide hit. In this photo, that’s Rudolph on the right, Ron center and O’Kelly on the left.