Best Songs Ever

ø 5 at 1 votes
What’s your rating?

▸ Alternative video Spotify

For other uses of the term, see “Shout”. “Shout” is an influential popular song, originally recorded by The Isley Brothers. Released in 1959, it was written by the brothers themselves as a call-and-response answer to Jackie Wilson’s seminal “Lonely Teardrops” which they interpreted after performing that song during a club date. While the song did not reach higher than #47 on the Billboard Hot 100, it became their first gold single on the basis of its longevity and became a much-covered tune, with many U.S. and international artists recording the song. Just one month after the initial release Johnny O’Keefe covered it in his australian TV show Six O’Clock Rock reaching #3 in Australia. He re-recorded the song in 1964, but it was only a minor hit. This later version is... Read on...