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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.
[1] [8] The Stylistics recorded "Disco Baby", "Love is the Answer" and "16 Bars" also. They are one of the few U.S. acts to have two chart-topping greatest hits albums in the U.K. [8] The Stylistics switched record labels during this period as Avco Records transitioned into H&L Records in 1976. [1]
The Best of the Stylistics — — — — Amherst All-Time Classics — — — — The Best of the Stylistics, Vol. 2 — — — — Greatest Love Hits — — — — 1992 The Greatest Hits of the Stylistics — — — 34 Mercury: 1996 The Best of the Stylistics — — — — BPI: Platinum [6] Spectrum Music: 2005 The Very Best of the ...
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]
Airrion Love (born October 8, 1949 [1] [2] [3]) is a baritone singer, who is a founding member of The Stylistics. [4] He formed The Stylistics in 1968, and is still in the group as of 2024. Love shared lead vocals with Russell Thompkins Jr. on their Grammy-nominated [ 5 ] song " You Make Me Feel Brand New ".
Group members Airrion Love, Herb Murrell, James Dunn, and James Smith can be heard on "You're a Big Girl Now," recorded and released as a single prior to the beginning of production on the album, but according to lead singer Russell Thompkins Jr., they're absent from the album's other eight songs aside from Love's harmony vocals on "You Are ...
Rockin' Roll Baby is the third studio album recorded by American R&B group The Stylistics, released in November 1973 on the Avco label. It was produced by Thom Bell and recorded at Sigma Sound Studio North in Philadelphia. This was the group's last album produced by Bell. Lead vocals are by Russell Thompkins, Jr.
Russell Allen Thompkins Jr. (born March 21, 1951) is an American soul singer, best known as the original lead singer of the vocal group The Stylistics and noted for his high tenor, countertenor, and falsetto vocals. With Russell as lead singer, The Stylistics had 12 straight Top 10 Billboard R&B singles, and 5 gold singles from 1971 through 1974.