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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 ".
The two bands were in the same high school. The Stylistics was first conceived when Airrion Love's English teacher, Beverly Hamilton, suggested the two bands become one. [4] Russell Thompkins Jr., James Smith and Airrion Love came from the Monarchs, and James Dunn and Herb Murrell came from the Percussions. The name "the Stylistics" came from ...
From left to right: Airrion Love, James Smith, James Dunn, Herb Murrell, and Russell Thompkins Jr. ... Love Spell — — — — — The Lion Sleeps Tonight ...
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 ...
Both groups disbanded shortly thereafter. Their remaining members, Thompkins, James Smith, and Airrion Love from The Monarchs, and James Dunn and Herbie Murrell from the Percussions, joined to form a new group called The Stylistics in 1968. [5]
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]
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Group member Airrion Love sang only the opening harmony with Russell. The actual background vocals were done by Russell, producer Thom Bell, Carl Helm, Bunny Sigler, Kenny Gamble, and Phil Hurtt. The rest of the Stylistics never sang on the first three albums that Thom Bell produced, as Russell explained in several interviews.