"Shout" was written by Ronald Isley, Rudolph Isley and O'Kelly Isley Jr. and recorded by the Isley Brothers at RCA Victor Studios in New York City on July 29, 1959, with producers Hugo & Luigi. RCA Victor released it as a two-part single in August 1959, and it also appeared on the album Shout!. The song grew out of the group's closing number, a cover of Jackie Wilson's "Lonely Teardrops". At a Philadelphia show, Ronald Isley improvised the call-and-response line "You know you make me wanna... Shout!", and the group borrowed a drawn-out "We-eee-ll" from Ray Charles's "I Got a Woman". Ronald Isley said church groups asked radio stations to stop playing the record because of its gospel sound. It reached No. 47 on the Billboard Hot 100, the group's first chart hit and later its first gold single. The song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999, and Rolling Stone ranked it No. 119 in its 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Later versions include those by Johnny O'Keefe, Joey Dee and the Starliters, Lulu and the Luvvers and The Beatles. It was used in the film Animal House (1978) and serves as the Buffalo Bills' fight song.
