The Stylistics are a
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vocal group, and were one of the best-known
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of the 1970s. They formed in 1968, and were composed of lead
Russell Thompkins, Jr.Russell Allen Thompkins, Jr. is an American soul singer. Noted for his high-pitched tenor and falsetto vocals, Thompkins is the former lead singer of the Philadelphia soul vocal group The Stylistics.-Career:...
, Herbie Murrell, Airrion Love, James Smith, and James Dunn. All of their US
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were ballads, graced by the soaring
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of Russell Thompkins, Jr. and the lush productions of
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, which helped make the Stylistics one of the most successful soul groups of the first half of the 1970s." During the early 1970s, the band had twelve consecutive U.S.
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top ten hits, including "
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", "
You Are EverythingAnother cover was by one-time Motown singing duo, Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye. Released as the second UK single from their Diana & Marvin album, the song reached #5 in the UK Singles Chart in April 1974. It also reached #13 on the Dutch charts and #20 on the Irish Singles Chart...
", "Betcha by Golly, Wow", "
I'm Stone in Love with You"I'm Stone in Love with You" was a 1972 hit by the Philadelphia soul group The Stylistics. The song was written by Thom Bell, Linda Creed, and Anthony Bell....
", "
Break Up to Make Up"Break Up to Make Up" was a 1973 hit by the Philadelphia soul group The Stylistics. The song was written by Thom Bell, Linda Creed, and Kenneth Gamble....
", and "
You Make Me Feel Brand New"You Make Me Feel Brand New" was a 1974 hit by the Philadelphia soul group The Stylistics. The song was written by Thom Bell and Linda Creed.An R&B ballad, it was the fifth track from their 1974 album, Let's Put It All Together and was released as a single and reached #2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot...
".
Early years
The Stylistics were created from two Philadelphia groups, The Percussions and The Monarchs.
Russell Thompkins Jr., James Smith, and Airron Love came from the Monarchs, and James Dunn and Herbie Murrell came from the Percussions. In 1970, the group
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"You're a Big Girl Now", a
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their
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Marty Bryant
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with Robert Douglas, a member of their
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Slim and the Boys, and the
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became a regional hit for Sebring Records. Producer Bill Perry spent $400 to record the number in the Virtue Studios in Philadelphia. The larger
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soon signed the Stylistics, and the
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eventually climbed to number seven on the
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in early 1971.
Success: The Bell/Creed years
After signing to Avco, the
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approached
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Thom BellThomas Randolph "Thom" Bell is an American songwriter and producer, best known as one of the creators of the Philadelphia style of soul music in the 1970s. He moved to Philadelphia as a child.-Biography:...
, who had already produced a catalogue of hits for
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, to work with the group. The Stylistics auditioned for Bell, and he was initially unimpressed. He ultimately only agreed to produce the group because he believed in the great potential of lead singer
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distinctive, nasal high
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voice. Avco gave Bell complete creative control over the Stylistics, and he proceeded to focus the group's sound exclusively around Thompkins's voice. On most of the group hits Bell would have Thompkins sing virtually solo.
The first song the Stylistics recorded together with Bell and his
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,
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Linda CreedLinda Creed also known by her married name Linda Epstein, was an American singer-songwriter and lyricist who teamed up with songwriter-producer Thom Bell to produce some of the most successful Philadelphia soul groups of the 1970s.-Career:Born in Philadelphia in 1949, Creed was raised in the...
, was the lush "
Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)"Stop, Look, Listen " is a soul song written by Thom Bell and Linda Creed that was originally recorded by the Philadelphia soul group The Stylistics.-The Stylistics version:...
". Bell imported the techniques he had perfected with The Delfonics, and his
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s worked perfectly with Thompkins' falsetto. The bittersweet
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from Creed were a key factor in creating memorable
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.
Their hits from this period —distilled from three albums— included "Betcha by Golly, Wow" (U.S. #3), "
I'm Stone in Love with You"I'm Stone in Love with You" was a 1972 hit by the Philadelphia soul group The Stylistics. The song was written by Thom Bell, Linda Creed, and Anthony Bell....
", "
Break Up to Make Up"Break Up to Make Up" was a 1973 hit by the Philadelphia soul group The Stylistics. The song was written by Thom Bell, Linda Creed, and Kenneth Gamble....
" (U.S. #5), "
You Make Me Feel Brand New"You Make Me Feel Brand New" was a 1974 hit by the Philadelphia soul group The Stylistics. The song was written by Thom Bell and Linda Creed.An R&B ballad, it was the fifth track from their 1974 album, Let's Put It All Together and was released as a single and reached #2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot...
" featuring a rare double lead with Airron Love, the aforementioned "
Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)"Stop, Look, Listen " is a soul song written by Thom Bell and Linda Creed that was originally recorded by the Philadelphia soul group The Stylistics.-The Stylistics version:...
", "
You Are EverythingAnother cover was by one-time Motown singing duo, Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye. Released as the second UK single from their Diana & Marvin album, the song reached #5 in the UK Singles Chart in April 1974. It also reached #13 on the Dutch charts and #20 on the Irish Singles Chart...
", and the Top 20 Pop hit "Rockin' Roll Baby" (U.S. #14). "You Make Me Feel Brand New" was the group's biggest U.S. hit, holding at #2 for two weeks in the spring of 1974, and was one of five U.S.
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singles the Stylistics collected. The Stylistics' smooth sound also found an easier path onto
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airwaves than other soul
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, and the group made
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's Easy Listening singles chart twelve times from 1971 to 1976, with three entries ("Betcha by Golly, Wow", "You Make Me Feel Brand New", and "You'll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart)") reaching the Top 10. Every single that Bell produced for the Stylistics was a Top Ten R&B hit, and several—"You Are Everything", "Betcha by Golly Wow!", "I'm Stone in Love with You", "Break Up to Make Up", and "You Make Me Feel Brand New"—were also Top Ten
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hits. This commercial success was not confined only to the U.S., with the band also having big hits with this material throughout Europe.
Changing style: Continuing international success
Thom Bell stopped working with the Stylistics in 1974, and the split proved commercially devastating to the group's success in the U.S. Just as with the Delfonics, the Stylistics were to some extent a vehicle for Bell's own creativity. They struggled hard to find producers who could come up with the right material, and partnerships with
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(through which they did produce one commercially successful early disco record, entitled, "Hey Girl, Come and Get It" in 1975) and
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were notably less successful. However, just as U.S. success began to wane, their popularity in
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, and especially the
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, increased. Indeed, the lighter 'pop' sound fashioned by Van McCoy and Hugo & Luigi gave the band a
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#1 in 1975 with "Can't Give You Anything (But My Love)". Further successes with "Na Na is the Saddest Word", "Funky Weekend" and "
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" consolidated the band's European popularity. They are one of the few U.S. acts to have two chart-topping
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albums in the UK.
The Stylistics switched record labels during this period as Avco Records transitioned to become
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in 1976. Notwithstanding this, the band began to struggle with increasingly weak material, and although the singles and albums came out as before, by 1978 chart success had vanished. This decline coincided with the rise of
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in Europe around this time, and it was also stated by Russell Thompkins Jr. (in the re-issue sleevenotes for the 1976 album
Fabulous) that the group began to feel that the music they were recording was becoming increasingly dated, and not in keeping with the popular
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sound of the late 1970s.
In 1979, they had a small part in the movie
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, directed by
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, where they play conservative army officers. They double
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in singing a tongue-in-cheek song called "White Boys".
Later years
In 1980, both James Dunn and James Smith departed due to conflicts over the direction of the group. The group continued, recruiting new member Raymond Johnson. They would also reunite with Thom Bell and sign with
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subsidiary TSOP Reocrds in 1980 and released the single "Hurry Up This Way Again" in 1980, which was their biggest hit since "You Make Me Feel Brand New". In 1985, Johnson departed, leaving the group a
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. Love, Murrell, and Thompkins continued to tour until 2000, when original lead Russell Thompkins, Jr. left. Love and Murrell brought in two new members from one set of
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- Harold Eban Brown as lead singer (Also an Accomplished Smooth Jazz Recording Artist), and tenor Van Fields. In 2011, Fields departed from the group due to health problems and was replaced with Jason Sharpe (formerly with
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). The group, prior to Fields' departure, was featured live on the
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The Stylistics Live at the Convention Center (2006), as well as along with other artists of the 1970s on the DVD,
70s Soul Jam.
In 2004, Russell Thompkins, Jr. started a new group, the New Stylistics, with the returning Raymond Johnson, James Ranton, and Jonathan Buckson. They are featured on the DVD
Old School Soul Party Live!, which was part of the
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My Music series.
In 2006, their hit single "Can't Give You Anything (But My Love)" was used as the base for a Japanese advertisement campaign by
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, to launch their new male hair styling product, 'Moving Rubber'. The campaign was successful and featured one of
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's most popular celebrities
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of the pop group
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. They were also featured guests on SMAP's television show,
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, one of the highest rated shows in Japan to promote the 'Moving Rubber' product.
In October 2009, they featured on the UK
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,
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.
Their song, "People Make the World Go Round", was used by
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in the
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for his
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,
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, made in 1994.
Personnel
- Russell Thompkins, Jr. - born March 21, 1951, Philadelphia (1968–2000)
- Airrion Love - born August 8, 1949, Philadelphia (1968–present)
- Herb Murrell - born April 27, 1949, Lane
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(1968–present)
- James Smith - born June 16, 1950, New York City
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(1968–1980)
- James Dunn - born February 4, 1950, Philadelphia (1968–1980)
- Raymond Johnson (1980–1986)
- Harold Eban Brown - born June 14, 1972, Newark
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, New JerseyNew Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
(2000–present)
- Van Fields - born November 12, 1952, Philadelphia (2000–2011)
- Jason Sharpe Baltimore, Maryland (2011–present)
Awards and recognition
- The Stylistics were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame
The Vocal Group Hall of Fame was organized to honor outstanding vocal groups throughout the world. It is headquartered in Sharon, Pennsylvania, United States. It includes a theater and a museum....
in 2004.
See also
External links