music friday: "shout"

I've started posting a video of a song a day on Bluesky, and today I am up to 1959.

Rarely has a popular song been so perfectly troublesome to a certain group of people, because "Shout" has overwhelmingly clear roots in black gospel music. "Shout," needless to say, is rather secular.

Probably to most famous version, over the years, is this one, a modern staple everywhere a crowd needs to be driven into a frenzy:

Comments

[Tomas]

Love it! One of the greats. I think the ubiquity of it makes folks lose sight of just how great it is. But that can be a characteristic of a lot of Isley Bros work. It seems simple, easy, but it's go so much.

[Steven Rubio]

Yes, I don't think it's underrated, exactly, but it is seminal.