Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye’s 1973 model of “You Are Everything,” from their Diana & Marvin album, holds a rightful place amongst Motown’s most soulful entries of the Nineteen Seventies, and its most beautifully-turned duets.
However the unique model of this elegant music, written by the peerless group of Thom Bell and Linda Creed, not often will get the limelight it deserves. It was by these prolific Nineteen Seventies hitmakers from Philadelphia, the Stylistics, and it took its bow on the R&B chart on October 30, 1971.
That was a memorable debut yr for the soul troupe, during which they’d already loved their first two soul chart entries, each High 10 successes, in “You’re A Big Girl Now” and “Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart).” The primary had been a regional hit in 1970 earlier than the Stylistics have been snapped up by Avco Data, and the second was one other Bell & Creed unique, which certainly Ross and Gaye would reduce as their follow-up to “You Are Everything,” once more from Diana & Marvin.
The Stylistics’ model of the music featured the distinctive lead vocals of Russell Thompkins Jr., and whereas he didn’t try the ad-libbed inflections so acquainted in Gaye’s a part of the later model, the Stylistics’ single was an aesthetic recording in its personal proper. It entered Billboard’s Greatest Promoting Soul Singles listing at No.43 and, every week later, began its ascent of the Scorching 100. It rose steadily on each charts to spend two weeks at No.9 pop in January and attain No. 10 on the soul aspect. It grew to become the group’s first gold disc.
Inexplicably, Diana and Marvin’s nice remake of the music was by no means launched as an American single, but it surely grew to become a agency favourite throughout the Atlantic, reaching No.5. “Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)” then adopted up with a No.25 peak. Later variations of “You Are Everything” included one by Rod Stewart, for his 1991 album Vagabond Coronary heart, and the monitor has been repeatedly sampled by soul stars, together with by Mary J. Blige, Jennifer Lopez, Craig David, and Usher.
Purchase or stream the Stylistics’ unique of “You Are Everything” on You Are All the things: The Important Stylistics.
