Live at Yankee Stadium is a 1969 live album by The Isley Brothers, released on their own T-Neck imprint. While the Isleys appear in this live album, it's actually a live showcase by the group to conjoin artists that signed to their T-Neck label and Buddah Records-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. 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", "I Turned You On" and the 1959 classic, "Shout", bringing in audience members alongside them as they ended the performance. Live at Yankee Stadium was independently filmed and was funded by the Isley Brothers in a documentary entitled "It's your Thing", directed by Mike Gargiulo. The UCLA Film & Television Archive has a non-circulating "research and student center" copy of this film on VHS and 35 mm reels. The American Film Institute has the same title on film as well.
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