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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.
In 2004, after having left the Stylistics in 2000, former lead singer Thompkins launched his own group called Russell Thompkins Jr, & the New Stylistics, returning with former member Johnson, plus James Ranton and Jonathan Buckson. [13] They were featured on the DVD Old School Soul Party Live!, which was part of the PBS My Music series. [14]
Airrion Love, on the left, performing on Soul Train in 1974. Arrion was in the group The Monarchs with Russell Thompkins Jr. and James Smith. Their rival group, The Percussions, who they had beat at a talent show at Benjamin Franklin High School, [10] had disbanded around the same time they had, and after their English teacher, Beverly Hamilton, suggested the two merge together, Love, Smith ...
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".
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 ...
"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.
Russell Wilson sure knows how to leave an impression in the comments section!. On Sunday, Oct. 27, Ciara shared a string of Instagram photos in which she was wearing an all-black leather look ...
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]