nursev said:

Has to be one of the greatest r&b records ever made. To this day it still sounds good, has a positive messaage and makes you feel good. Great, timeless song Any opinions?

Used to love this song. When i first heard the falsetto and the

positive message i thought it was Phillip Bailey.

Caravan of Love was redone by hundreds of people all over the world, from choirs, to school children to private people to people in bars to other recording artists. If you go to Chris Jasper's youtube page at youtube.com/goldcitymusic, he has all of the Caravan of Love videos from around the world up as one of his playlists on his youtube channel. It is amazing how this song went around the world! Chris Jasper sang lead on the song. He also wrote most of the Isley Brothers songs when they were together in the '70s and '80s before the group split up in 1984.

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This one and "Look The Other Way" are the last two decent songs The Isleys ever made. And even those two are weak compared to their earlier songs.

phunkdaddy said:

Used to love this song. When i first heard the falsetto and the

positive message i thought it was Phillip Bailey.

When I first heard it, I thought it was actually the Isley Brothers but something was off about the lead vocalist I thought. In my five-year-old mind, I thought, "may be one of the older brothers." Then it turned out it wasn't and I was like "whaaa???"

vainandy said:

This one and "Look The Other Way" are the last two decent songs The Isleys ever made. And even those two are weak compared to their earlier songs.

That is because when the six member group split up, the music and songwriting went with Chris Jasper and Ernie Isley and the three older brothers had to get new songwriters and producers for their albums.

Chris and Ernie formed Isley-Jasper-Isley with younger brother Marvin, and then that group split up.

Ernie released a solo album "High Wire" and then returned to record with Ronald Isley.

Chris Jasper continued on as a solo artist, releasing inspirational and secular R&B, and producing other artists for his own independent label (goldcitymusic.com)...still good R&B music out there if anyone wants to check it out.

My favorite cover.

KGA said:

vainandy said:

This one and "Look The Other Way" are the last two decent songs The Isleys ever made. And even those two are weak compared to their earlier songs.

That is because when the six member group split up, the music and songwriting went with Chris Jasper and Ernie Isley and the three older brothers had to get new songwriters and producers for their albums.

Chris and Ernie formed Isley-Jasper-Isley with younger brother Marvin, and then that group split up.

Ernie released a solo album "High Wire" and then returned to record with Ronald Isley.

Chris Jasper continued on as a solo artist, releasing inspirational and secular R&B, and producing other artists for his own independent label (goldcitymusic.com)...still good R&B music out there if anyone wants to check it out.

"The Real Deal" album is the last album with some really hard hitting funk on it. "Between The Sheets" had some funk on it but it was like a different style of funk that just wasn't as hard as their previous funk. After that, I remember Isley, Jasper, Isley coming out a few years later. I bought two 45s but not the album because I don't waste my money on an album if I haven't heard a hard funky preview on the radio and I hadn't. I remember The Isley Brothers releasing maybe an album or two in the late 1980s but all I ever heard on the radio was either a ballad or something midtempo. That's what I absolutely hated so much about the late 1980s, so many people abandoning hard hitting funk.

vainandy said:

KGA said:

Chris Jasper was the one behind the "hard-hitting funk"...check out some of the songs on his recently released "Everything I Do" CD...samples are on his Facebook page at www.facebook.com/goldcitymusic.

That is because when the six member group split up, the music and songwriting went with Chris Jasper and Ernie Isley and the three older brothers had to get new songwriters and producers for their albums.

Chris and Ernie formed Isley-Jasper-Isley with younger brother Marvin, and then that group split up.

Ernie released a solo album "High Wire" and then returned to record with Ronald Isley.

Chris Jasper continued on as a solo artist, releasing inspirational and secular R&B, and producing other artists for his own independent label (goldcitymusic.com)...still good R&B music out there if anyone wants to check it out.

"The Real Deal" album is the last album with some really hard hitting funk on it. "Between The Sheets" had some funk on it but it was like a different style of funk that just wasn't as hard as their previous funk. After that, I remember Isley, Jasper, Isley coming out a few years later. I bought two 45s but not the album because I don't waste my money on an album if I haven't heard a hard funky preview on the radio and I hadn't. I remember The Isley Brothers releasing maybe an album or two in the late 1980s but all I ever heard on the radio was either a ballad or something midtempo. That's what I absolutely hated so much about the late 1980s, so many people abandoning hard hitting funk.

Great song. I used to love this. I remember the lead singer's hair was laid. His body was looking right in those crazy outfits too.

vainandy said:

KGA said:

That is because when the six member group split up, the music and songwriting went with Chris Jasper and Ernie Isley and the three older brothers had to get new songwriters and producers for their albums.

Chris and Ernie formed Isley-Jasper-Isley with younger brother Marvin, and then that group split up.

Ernie released a solo album "High Wire" and then returned to record with Ronald Isley.

Chris Jasper continued on as a solo artist, releasing inspirational and secular R&B, and producing other artists for his own independent label (goldcitymusic.com)...still good R&B music out there if anyone wants to check it out.

"The Real Deal" album is the last album with some really hard hitting funk on it. "Between The Sheets" had some funk on it but it was like a different style of funk that just wasn't as hard as their previous funk. After that, I remember Isley, Jasper, Isley coming out a few years later. I bought two 45s but not the album because I don't waste my money on an album if I haven't heard a hard funky preview on the radio and I hadn't. I remember The Isley Brothers releasing maybe an album or two in the late 1980s but all I ever heard on the radio was either a ballad or something midtempo. That's what I absolutely hated so much about the late 1980s, so many people abandoning hard hitting funk.

Like someone pointed out to me around 1988, that's all the stripped down original

Isley Brothers could do is Smooth Sail. Without the other 3, they couldn't funk

no more at that point.

Great song, but waaaay over-played. Like Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On."

Terrib3Towel said:

Funklov said:

Terrib3Towel said:

Great song, but waaaay over-played. Like Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On."

over played where? i almost never here it here on LA radio. i finally had to buy it on itunes. favorite part of song: guitar

It's overplayed where I'm from. Shame that was their only HUGE hit... neither the original Isleys nor Isley-Jasper-Isley recovered from their '84 split.

Timmy84 said:

Funklov said:

Terrib3Towel said: over played where? i almost never here it here on LA radio. i finally had to buy it on itunes. favorite part of song: guitar

It's overplayed where I'm from. Shame that was their only HUGE hit... neither the original Isleys nor Isley-Jasper-Isley recovered from their '84 split.

That's true, although Ron a/k/a Mr. Biggs claims it is all about him.

Funklov said:

Terrib3Towel said:

Great song, but waaaay over-played. Like Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On."

over played where? i almost never here it here on LA radio. i finally had to buy it on itunes. favorite part of song: guitar

It's played almost daily down here, along with several of The Isley Brothers' slow jams. They're played so much that the younger generation thinks The Isley Brothers were just a balladeer group, which is a damn shame.

Has anyone read this book written by Rudolph Isley's daughter "One Isley Brothers Daughter"? According to the book, older brother Rudolph Isley used to beat his kids (as well as younger brothers Ernie Isley and Marvin Isley) with wooden slats from the bed until they were black and blue. Maybe there was some lingering hostility that led to the 1984 breakup?

http://www.oneisleybrothersdaughter.com/

lazycrockett said:

My favorite cover.

i didn't realise this was a cover! after hearing the original i still prefer the housemartins version!

^shhh so do i. I think the stripped down really shows off the lyrics.