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"You Make Me Feel Brand New"
side-A label
One of pressings of the US single
Single by The Stylistics
from the album Rockin' Roll Baby & Let's Put It All Together
B-side"Only for the Children"
ReleasedMay 5, 1974
StudioSigma Sound, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Genre
Length4:45
5:30 (long version)
LabelAvco
Songwriter(s)Thom Bell, Linda Creed
Producer(s)Thom Bell
The Stylistics singles chronology
"Rockin' Roll Baby"
(1973) 		"You Make Me Feel Brand New"
(1974) 		"Let's Put It All Together"
(1974)

"You Make Me Feel Brand New" is a 1974 single by the Philadelphia soul group The Stylistics. An R&B ballad, the song was written by Thom Bell and Linda Creed.[3]

Background and composition

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According to a Thom Bell interview for Record Collector :

"When Creed broke one of their golden songwriting rules by mentioning religion (“God bless you”) in You Make Me Feel Brand New, Bell tore a strip off her. He then felt like a heel when she told him that she had written the song about him, and the lyric stayed intact." [4]

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]

Chart performance

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"You Make Me Feel Brand New" was the fifth track from their 1974 album, Let's Put It All Together[5] and was released as a single and reached No. 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks,[3][6] barred from the No. 1 spot by "Billy Don't Be a Hero" by Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods.[7] In addition, it climbed to No. 5 on the Billboard R&B chart.[6] Billboard ranked it as the No. 14 song for 1974.

"You Make Me Feel Brand New" also reached No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart in August 1974.[8] The Stylistics' recording sold over one million copies in the US, earning the band a gold disc[3] The award was presented by the RIAA on May 22, 1974.[3] It was the band's fifth gold disc.[3]

Weekly charts

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Chart (1974) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[9] 3
Brazil (Brazilian Top 100)[10] 5
Canada RPM Top Singles 3
Ireland (IRMA)[11] 18
New Zealand (Listener)[12] 11
South Africa (Springbok)[13] 6
UK 2
US Billboard Hot 100 2
US Billboard Adult Contemporary 6
US Billboard Hot Soul Singles 5
US Cash Box Top 100[14] 1

Year-end charts

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Chart (1974) Rank
Australia (Kent Music Report)[15][9] 27
Brazil[10] 5
Canada[16] 51
UK[17] 19
US Billboard Hot 100[18] 14

Influence

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Neil Sedaka used the song as inspiration to compose the melody of "The Hungry Years", noting that it contained a three-semitone key change that he found particularly appealing and called a "drop-dead chord."[19]

Other versions

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"You Make Me Feel Brand New" has been recorded by jazz and pop artists including:

Samples

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  • It was also used in TV commercials for Woolite in the mid 1980s and in TV advertisements for Australian department store Myer in the late 1980s.[citation needed] In Britain, a version was used to advertise BioTex stain removing powder.[23]

References

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  1. ^ Breithaupt, Don; Breithaupt, Jeff (October 15, 1996). "The Sound of Philadelphia: Philly Soul". Precious and Few - Pop Music in the Early '70s. St. Martin's Griffin. p. 52. ISBN 031214704X.
  2. ^ Marsh, Dave (1989). The Heart of Rock & Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made. Plume. p. 420. ISBN 0-452-26305-0.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Murrells, Joseph (1978). The Book of Golden Discs (2nd ed.). London: Barrie and Jenkins Ltd. p. 351. ISBN 0-214-20512-6.
  4. ^ Stanley, Bob. "Thom Bell". Record Collector.
  5. ^ Hamilton, Andrew. "Let's Put It All Together Baby". AllMusic. Retrieved September 20, 2011.
  6. ^ a b Allmusic - Charts & Awards
  7. ^ "The Hot 100 Chart". Billboard. Retrieved April 24, 2021.
  8. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 537. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  9. ^ a b Steffen Hung. "Forum - 1970 (ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts)". Australian-charts.com. Retrieved October 10, 2016.
  10. ^ a b "Top 100 Músicas Mais Tocadas em 1974" [Top 100 Most Played Songs of 1974] (in Portuguese). March 14, 2018. Retrieved July 11, 2022.
  11. ^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – You Make Me Feel Brand New". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved June 22, 2017.
  12. ^ "flavour of new zealand - search listener". Flavourofnz.co.nz. Retrieved October 10, 2016.
  13. ^ "SA Charts 1965–March 1989". Rock.co.za. Retrieved September 5, 2018.
  14. ^ "Cash Box Top 100 6/22/74". Tropicalglen.com. Retrieved April 24, 2021.
  15. ^ "National Top 100 Singles for 1974". Kent Music Report. December 30, 1974. Retrieved January 15, 2022 – via Imgur.
  16. ^ Canada, Library and Archives (September 13, 2017). "Image : RPM Weekly". Library and Archives Canada.
  17. ^ "Top 100 1974 - UK Music Charts". Uk-charts.top-source.info. Retrieved October 10, 2016.
  18. ^ "Top 100 Hits of 1974/Top 100 Songs of 1974". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved October 10, 2016.
  19. ^ "Today's Mini-Concert - 9/2/2020". YouTube. Archived from the original on December 21, 2021. Retrieved April 24, 2021.
  20. ^ "song-database.com". 1.song-database.com. Retrieved April 24, 2021.
  21. ^ "Verbal Jint, San E, Bumkey, Swings, Phantom, and Kanto release teaser for 'You Make Me Feel BRAND NEW'". Allkpop. January 9, 2014. Retrieved January 10, 2014.
  22. ^ "Mystique (DJ)'s 'Brand New' sample of The Stylistics's 'You Make Me Feel Brand New' | WhoSampled".
  23. ^ "Central Adverts & Continuity - 1986". YouTube. At 10 minutes 50 seconds. Archived from the original on December 21, 2021. Retrieved May 25, 2022.
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