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"Can't Give You Anything (But My Love)" is a 1975 single by the Stylistics. It reached number one for three weeks in the UK in August 1975. [1]After splitting from record producer Thom Bell in 1974, songwriters/producers Hugo & Luigi and George David Weiss took over, with arrangements by Van McCoy.
Around the same time, Motown wanted their most successful label mates Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye to record a duet album.Among the songs they released, their version of "Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)" was recorded in separate studios, and was released as a UK only single from their duet album, Diana & Marvin, in 1974.
The Stylistics are an American Philadelphia soul group that achieved their greatest chart success in the 1970s. They formed in 1968, with a lineup of singers Russell Thompkins Jr. , Herb Murrell, Airrion Love, James Smith and James Dunn.
The Stylistics' record sold over one million copies globally, earning the band their first gold disc; [4] the award was presented by the RIAA on January 3, 1972. [4] Group member Airrion Love sang only the opening harmony with Russell.
Stylistics co-founder, baritone Airrion Love opens the song, then alternates with the falsetto of lead vocalist Russell Thompkins Jr. The song, in a longer five-minute version, had first appeared as a track on the Stylistics' 1973 album, Rockin' Roll Baby, though that version was not released as a single. [3]
One year after Stevens' original version was released, the Stylistics recorded a more successful cover version as an R&B ballad under the name the song is best known, "Betcha by Golly, Wow". It was the third track from the Stylistics' 1971 debut self-titled album; [5] released as a single in 1972, it reached No. 3 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.
"I'm Stone in Love with You" is a 1972 single by the Philadelphia soul group The Stylistics. The song is noted for lead singer Russell Thompkins Jr.'s distinctive falsetto singing, which he employs through most of the record.
"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. [3]An R&B ballad, it was the seventh track from their 1972 album Round 2 [4] and was released as a single and reached number 5 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.