Eternal is a 2001 album released by The Isley Brothers

The Isley Brothers

The Isley Brothers are a highly influential, successful and long-running American music group consisting of different line-ups of six brothers, and a brother-in-law, Chris Jasper...

 on DreamWorks Records

DreamWorks Records

DreamWorks Records was an American record label. Founded in 1996 by David Geffen, Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg as a subsidiary of DreamWorks SKG, the label operated until 2005 when it was shut down...

. Now popular again with audiences, almost single-handledly for Ronald Isley

Ronald Isley

Ronald Isley is an American singer and is known as the lead singer and founding member of the family music group The Isley Brothers.-Career:...

's "Mr. Biggs" persona, Eternal included production from not only R. Kelly

R. Kelly

Robert Sylvester Kelly , better known by his stage name R. Kelly, is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. A native of Chicago, Kelly began performing during the late 1980s and debuted in 1992 with the group Public Announcement. In 1993, Kelly went solo with the album 12 Play...

 who gave the Isleys their biggest hit as leading artists in over two decades with "Contagious

Contagious (song)

"Contagious" is a song by The Isley Brothers featuring group member Ronald Isley. It was released as a single off of their 2001 album "Eternal". The song was written and produced by R...

" but also from Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Raphael Saadiq

Raphael Saadiq

Raphael Saadiq is an American singer, songwriter and record producer. Saadiq has been a standard bearer for "old school" R&B since his early days as a member of the multiplatinum group Tony! Toni! Toné! He also produced songs of such artists as TLC, Joss Stone, D'Angelo, Mary J...

 and Ronald's wife at the time, Angela Winbush

Angela Winbush

Angela Winbush is an American R&B/soul singer-songwriter who rose to fame first in the 1980s R&B duo René & Angela, also scoring hits as a solo artist.-Early life and career:...

. Based on the mega-success of "Contagious", Eternal peaked at number three on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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Billboard Top 200 album charts and number one on the R&B album chart selling over two million copies having it certified double-platinum. The first album the Isleys released as a duo in over a decade (Marvin Isley

Marvin Isley

Marvin Isley was the youngest member of the family music group the Isley Brothers and its bass guitarist....

 left the group after suffering a bout with diabetes, which later caused both of his legs to be amputated), Ernie Isley

Ernie Isley

Ernest "Ernie" Isley is a member of the iconic American musical ensemble, The Isley Brothers.-Life and career:Ernie was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, where his older brothers formed The Isley Brothers, first as a gospel group, then as a secular-singing group. In 1960 his family moved to Englewood and...

 also showcase his talents as a guitarist

Guitarist

A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...

 in songs like "Move Your Body" and the aptly titled "Ernie's Jam" while Ronald was still as vocally strong on this album as he had been throughout the Isley Brothers' legendary catalogue.

Track listing

1. "Move Your Body"
2. "Contagious
   Contagious (song)
   "Contagious" is a song by The Isley Brothers featuring group member Ronald Isley. It was released as a single off of their 2001 album "Eternal". The song was written and produced by R...
   
   "
3. "Warm Summer Night"
4. "You Deserve Better"
5. "Just Like This"
6. "Secret Lover"
7. "You're All I Need"
8. "Settle Down"
9. "Eternal"
10. "If You Leave Me Now
    If You Leave Me Now
    "If You Leave Me Now" is the title of a popular hit ballad by the American rock group Chicago, from their album Chicago X. It was written and sung by bass guitar player Peter Cetera and released as a single in July 1976....
    
    " (Originally performed by Chicago
    Chicago (band)
    Chicago is an American rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. The self-described "rock and roll band with horns" began as a politically charged, sometimes experimental, rock band and later moved to a predominantly softer sound, becoming famous for producing a number of hit ballads. They had...
    
    )
11. "Said Enough"
12. "You Didn't See Me"
13. "Ernie's Jam"
14. "Think"

Personnel

• Ernie Isley
  Ernie Isley
  Ernest "Ernie" Isley is a member of the iconic American musical ensemble, The Isley Brothers.-Life and career:Ernie was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, where his older brothers formed The Isley Brothers, first as a gospel group, then as a secular-singing group. In 1960 his family moved to Englewood and...
  
   - Guitar
• Donnie Lyle - Bas, Guitar
• Peter Mokran - Engineer
• Neil Pogue - Mixing
• Alexander Richbourg - Percussion, Drum Programming
• Louis Silas, Jr. - Executive Producer
• Angela Winbush
  Angela Winbush
  Angela Winbush is an American R&B/soul singer-songwriter who rose to fame first in the 1980s R&B duo René & Angela, also scoring hits as a solo artist.-Early life and career:...
  
   - Keyboards, Producer, Drum Programming, Vocals
• Tony Flores - Assistant Engineer
• Michelle Lynn Forbes - Assistant Engineer
• Raphael Saadiq
  Raphael Saadiq
  Raphael Saadiq is an American singer, songwriter and record producer. Saadiq has been a standard bearer for "old school" R&B since his early days as a member of the multiplatinum group Tony! Toni! Toné! He also produced songs of such artists as TLC, Joss Stone, D'Angelo, Mary J...
  
   - Bass, Background Vocals, Producer, Guitar
• Chris Bellman - Mastering
• Bradley Yoast - Assistant Engineer
• Boogie Jake - Drum Programming
• Kelvin Wooten - Keyboards
• Andre Harris - Producer
• James "Big Jim" Wright - Keyboards, Background Vocals
• Jeff Vereb - Engineer
• Avant
  Avant
  Myron Avant , better known as Avant is an American R&B singer-songwriter. He is best known for hits such as "Separated" , "My First Love," which one version features KeKe Wyatt, and "Read Your Mind"...
  
   - Background Vocals
• Jill Scott
  Jill Scott
  Jill Scott is an American soul and R&B singer-songwriter, poet, and actress. In 2007, Scott made her cinematic debut in the films Hounddog and in Tyler Perry's feature film, Why Did I Get Married? That year, her third studio album, The Real Thing: Words and Sounds Vol. 3, was released on...
  
   - Background Vocals
• Vidal Davis - Producer, Engineer
• Clint Roth - Engineer
• Andy Gallas - Assistant
• Ian Mereness - Programming, Engineer
• Kevin Guarnieri - Engineer, Digital Editing, Assistant Engineer
• Nick Monson - Assistant Engineer
• Gary Brown - Engineer
• The Johnson Sisters - Background Vocals
• R. Kelly
  R. Kelly
  Robert Sylvester Kelly , better known by his stage name R. Kelly, is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. A native of Chicago, Kelly began performing during the late 1980s and debuted in 1992 with the group Public Announcement. In 1993, Kelly went solo with the album 12 Play...
  
   - Arranger, Producer
• Paulinho Da Costa
  Paulinho Da Costa
  Paulinho da Costa is a Brazilian percussionist born in Rio de Janeiro, considered one of the most recorded musicians of modern times. Playing over two hundred percussion instruments, he has participated in thousands of recording sessions, Grammy Award-winning albums, hit songs, soundtracks, radio...
  
   - Percussion
• Steve Hodge - Engineer, Mixing
• Steve Huff - Producer, Instrumentation
• Ronald Isley
  Ronald Isley
  Ronald Isley is an American singer and is known as the lead singer and founding member of the family music group The Isley Brothers.-Career:...
  
   - Background Vocals, Executive Producer
• Jimmy Jam - Arranger, Producer, Keyboards
• Terry Lewis
  Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis
  James Samuel "Jimmy Jam" Harris III and Terry Steven Lewis are an American R&B and pop-music songwriting and record production team...
  
  -Arranger, Producer, Instrumentation