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Round 9: The Isley Brothers’ “Make Me Say It Again Girl” vs. 2-peaking ode to individuality “It’s Your Thing.” Earth, Wind & Fire aren’t exactly laying down in this round with their pick of the gorgeous groover “Devotion” from live album Gratitude - recently sampled for Drake in his Kanye West-featuring “Glow” - but the greatness of “It’s Your Thing” remains indefatigable. Earth, Wind & Fire’s “Devotion” (Live)Īll right, now the Isleys mean business, as Ron Isley has gotten up to sing along with his highest-charting hit on the Billboard Hot 100, the No. Round 8: The Isley Brothers’ “It’s Your Thing” vs. Still, “Summer Breeze” floats by with this one. B-side “Be Ever Wonderful” is a pleasantly unexpected counter - one with personal meaning to Harvey, as he says he had a father-daughter wedding dance to it. The Isleys go back to the cover well with perhaps the finest of their ’70s hit renderings: Seals & Crofts’ “Summer Breeze,” an absolutely smoldering version that eclipses an already immaculate original. Round 7: The Isley Brothers’ “Summer Breeze” vs. With inspired and well-mixed picks of two underrated cuts in the groups’ respective catalogues, the win for this one should go to D-Nice - otherwise, it’s too close to call. Steve Harvey’s call to D Nice for four “sexy ass” love songs in a row begins with the Isley Brothers’ 1977 A-Side “Groove With You,” before segueing seamlessly into Earth, Wind & Fire’s “Love’s Holiday” from the same year, off their classic All ‘n All album. Round 6: The Isley Brothers’ “Groove With You” vs. EWF also go uptempo for their next pick, this time doing a cover of their own: The Beatles’ “Got to Get You Into My Life,” a fun rendition that can’t quite compare with the Isleys’ original. Earth, Wind & Fire’s “Got to Get You Into My Life”Įrnie Isley has broken out the guitar for the last couple songs, and he sounds spectacular playing over the Isleys’ topical 1976 hit “Harvest For the World” - an appreciated turning up of the tempo after two rounds of slow songs. Round 5: The Isley Brothers’ “Harvest For the World” vs. The original still more than stands on its own - and yet it gets quickly eclipsed by EWF’s “Reasons,” another all-timer which, as Steve Harvey takes great glee in pointing out, a lot of folks watching were likely conceived to. The Isleys put away the covers to play a song of theirs famous for being covered: 1976 slow jam “(At Your Best) You Are Love,” a top 10 hit for Aaliyah two decades later and a fan favorite for Frank Ocean two decades after that.

Round 4: The Isley Brothers’ “(At Your Best) You Are Love” vs. The Isley Brothers pick another one of their covers of a then-contemporary hit, with their blissful rendition of Todd Rundgren’s singer-songwriter perennial “Hello It’s Me.” EWF are still going strong responding with their similarly sublime “Keep Your Head to the Sky,” even getting up and performing along with the early hit, but the Isleys are finally on the board with this one. Earth, Wind & Fire’s “Keep Your Head to the Sky” Round 3: The Isley Brothers’ “Hello It’s Me” vs. The Isley Brothers kick it up a notch and take it back to their first Motown single with the sweetly radiant “This Old Heart of Mine.” Would be an automatic W against most competition, but Earth, Wind & Fire aren’t backing down early, countering with the forever floor-filler “Let’s Groove,” the biggest and best of the group’s ’80s hits.

Round 2: The Isley Brothers’ “This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak For You)” vs.

Hard not to be as miffed as Harvey was at the early fade out on that one. But it can’t compete with the live version of signature Earth, Wind & Fire cut “That’s the Way of the World,” which just minutes earlier both Harvey and Ernie Isley had been raving about being a personal favorite of theirs. The Isleys start off with their hit cover of Stephen Stills’ solo smash, a rendition still soaring five decades later. Earth, Wind & Fire’s “That’s the Way of the World” (Live) Round 1: The Isley Brothers’ “Love the One You’re With” vs. See Billboard‘s round-by-round scorecard for the epic showdown below - a supersized 25-round match, in accordance with the bands’ stunningly expansive catalogues - with our final winner tallied up and declared at the bottom. D Nice span ’80s classics from Stevie Wonder and Chaka Khan, before Harvey introduced himself, offered a prayer for “down bad” Verzuz veteran DMX, and raved about the formative importance of the two groups in his own life: “These groups made me. Hosted (with a somewhat heavy touch) by star comedian Steve Harvey, and with music courtesy of veteran DJ and quarantine-era sensation D-Nice, the event was clearly going to be a special one even before the two groups began spinning.