"You Make Me Feel Brand New" | ||||||||
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Single by The Stylistics | ||||||||
from the album Rockin' Roll Baby & Let's Put It All Together | ||||||||
B-side | "Only for the Children" | |||||||
Released | May 5, 1974 | |||||||
Format | 7" single | |||||||
Genre | Soul | |||||||
Length | 4:45 5:27 (long version) |
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Label | Avco | |||||||
Writer(s) | Thom Bell, Linda Creed | |||||||
Producer(s) | Thom Bell | |||||||
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"You Make Me Feel Brand New" is a 1974 single by the Philadelphia soul group The Stylistics. The song was written by Thom Bell and Linda Creed.
An R&B ballad, it was the fifth track from their 1974 album, Let's Put It All Together and was released as a single and reached number 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 for 2 weeks. In addition, it climbed to number 5 on the Billboard R&B chart.Billboard ranked it as the No. 14 song for 1974.
"You Make Me Feel Brand New" also reached number 2 in the UK Singles Chart in August 1974. The Stylistics' recording sold over one million copies globally, earning the band a gold disc The award was presented by the RIAA on May 22, 1974. It was the band's fifth gold disc. The track first appeared on the Stylistics' 1973 album, Rockin' Roll Baby, in a longer five-minute version.
This song 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.
"You Make Me Feel Brand New" has been extensively covered, in jazz and pop circles, including in 1975 by Vicky Leandros, in 1982 by The Salsoul Orchestra (vocals by Christine Wiltshire and Ray Stevens), in 1986 by Babyface, in 2003 by Simply Red (on their studio album Home), and in 2004 by Boyz II Men. The Simply Red version reached number 10 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary Chart.