Their smooth harmonies and choreographed stage show were inspired Motown vocal groups of the 1960s, with Shaw listing The Temptations, The Stylistics, The Impressions, and The Delfonics as influences as well as Jamaican rocksteady artists such as John Holt and Ken Boothe.

Avco gave Bell complete creative control over the Stylistics, and he proceeded to focus the group's sound exclusively around Thompkins's voice.

Stylistics also attempts to establish principles capable of explaining the particular choices made by individuals and social groups in their use of language, such as socialisation, the production and reception of meaning, critical discourse analysis and literary criticism.

Their first songwriting collaboration, " Stop, Look, Listen ( To Your Heart )", became a Top 40 pop hit for the Stylistics, beginning an extended collaboration that also yielded the group's most successful recordings, including " You Are Everything ", " Betcha by Golly, Wow ", " Break Up to Make Up ", and " You Make Me Feel Brand New ".

In the past, the group also featured Eban Brown, now the lead vocalist for The Stylistics.

He has approximately 700 song copyrights to his credit and is also noted for producing songs for such recording artists as Gladys Knight and the Pips, The Stylistics, Aretha Franklin, Brenda & The Tabulations, David Ruffin, Peaches & Herb, and Stacy Lattisaw.

He has also published Defining Issues in English Language Teaching ( 2002 ), and Practical Stylistics: An Approach to Poetry ( 1992 ).

" I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself " has also been recorded by Cissy Houston ( 1968 ), Isaac Hayes ( 1970 ), the Dells ( 1972 ), Elvis Costello & The Attractions ( 1978 ), Demis Roussos ( 1978 ), The Photos ( featuring Wendy Wu ) ( 1980 ), Linda Ronstadt ( 1994 ), the Stylistics ( 1991 ) and Steve Tyrell ( 2003 ).

In Practical Stylistics, HG Widdowson examines the traditional form of the epitaph, as found on headstones in a cemetery.

In 2006, a new computer analysis of the play and comparison with the Shakespeare corpus by Arthur Kinney, of the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States, and Hugh Craig, director of the Centre for Linguistic Stylistics at the University of Newcastle in Australia, found that word frequency and other vocabulary choices were consistent with the middle portion of the play having been written by Shakespeare.

The group, prior to Fields ' departure, was featured live on the DVD The Stylistics Live at the Convocation Center ( 2006 ), as well as along with other artists of the 1970s on the DVD, 70s Soul Jam.

In 1961, after a year performing in jubilees, sock hops and school functions, the Ordettes, then managed by respected music manager Bernard Montague, who later managed several other Philadelphia-based groups such as The Stylistics and The Delfonics, got their first deal with Harold Robinson's Newtown Records.

By 1973, WNBC was an Adult Contemporary radio station featuring the Carpenters, Paul Simon, Carole King, the Stylistics, Neil Diamond, James Taylor, and other artists of that era.

They have shared the stage with other performers such as The Jacksons, Lionel Richie, The Commodores, Marvin Gaye, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Natalie Cole, The Temptations, The Four Tops, The Spinners, Earth, Wind & Fire, New Edition, The Stylistics, Mick Jagger and others.

* The Stylistics, a Philadelphia soul group

The Stylistics are a soul music vocal group, and were one of the best-known Philadelphia soul groups of the 1970s.

All of their US hits were ballads, graced by the soaring falsetto of Russell Thompkins, Jr. and the lush productions of Thom Bell, which helped make the Stylistics one of the most successful soul groups of the first half of the 1970s.

Avco's best-known artists were the r & b / soul groups, The Stylistics, who had a series of major hits in the pop and R & B charts mainly produced by Thom Bell, and Little Anthony & The Imperials.

In the early 1970s, McCoy began a long, acclaimed collaboration with songwriter / producer, Charles Kipps, and arranged several hits for the soul group The Stylistics as well as releasing his own solo LP on the Buddha label, Soul Improvisations, in 1972.

The station playlist included the R & B, soul and funk playing what would become the classics of their genre and launching careers of national artists like Lou Rawls and " Philadelphia Sound " acts such as The O ' Jays, The Stylistics, Patti LaBelle and the Blue Bells, and Teddy Pendergrass.

But the composition scored a hit when it was released by the Philadelphia soul group The Stylistics in 1972.

At this point, the station played music from such artists as Barbra Streisand, Frank Sinatra, the Carpenters, Dionne Warwick, Kenny Rogers, Tony Bennett, Andy Williams, Barry Manilow, Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, and the Stylistics.

In 2004, Russell Thompkins, Jr. started a new group, the New Stylistics, with the returning Raymond Johnson, James Ranton, and Jonathan Buckson.

* The American vocal group The Stylistics recorded a cover version for their 1976 album, Once Upon a Juke Box.

*" Betcha by Golly, Wow " – originally recorded by Connie Stevens as " Keep Growing Strong ", later made famous by The Stylistics, later covered by Prince

The larger Avco Records soon signed the Stylistics, and the single eventually climbed to number seven on the US Billboard R & B chart in early 1971.

" You Make Me Feel Brand New " was the group's biggest U. S. hit, holding at # 2 for two weeks in the spring of 1974, and was one of five U. S. gold singles the Stylistics collected.

The Sunday chart show would be the only show Browne ever presented on Radio 1, but he did present occasional music documentaries on the station, notably on Abba, Queen and The Stylistics, and he never showed any sign of crossing over to television ( except for his brief appearance in 1973 mentioned earlier ), for example via Top of the Pops.

The Stylistics were created from two Philadelphia groups, The Percussions and The Monarchs.

Image: Stylisticsearly80. jpg | The Stylistics 1980: Clockwise from top, James Smith, Russell Thompkins, Jr., Herbie Murrell, Airrion Love

* Stylistics ( linguistics ), the study and interpretation of texts from a linguistic perspective

Stylistics is the study and interpretation of texts from a linguistic perspective.

* Stylistics from Scratch: My ‘ Take ’ on Stylistics and How to Go About a Stylistic Analysis Professor Mick Short

* A CC licensed introductory course to Stylistics from Lancaster University: http :// www. lancs. ac. uk / fass / projects / stylistics / start. htm

Likewise, there is no connection between the original Embassy Records and Embassy Productions, a heavy metal record label from the 1990s, or with the Avco Embassy record label that released records by The Chambers Brothers, The Stylistics and Henry Mancini ( amongst others ) in the 1960s and 1970s.

* Baiyon-" Baiyon And Hair Stylistics " from Like A School On Lunch Time EP ( 2006 )

5 Contains samples from " Maybe It's Love This Time " by The Stylistics

The Stylistics switched record labels during this period as Avco Records transitioned to become H & L Records in 1976.

The first song the Stylistics recorded together with Bell and his collaborator, lyricist Linda Creed, was the lush " Stop, Look, Listen ( To Your Heart )".

Thom Bell stopped working with the Stylistics in 1974, and the split proved commercially devastating to the group's success in the U. S. Just as with the Delfonics, the Stylistics were to some extent a vehicle for Bell's own creativity.

They worked closely with the production team of Gamble and Huff and producer / arranger Thom Bell, and backed up such groups as Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, the O ’ Jays, the Stylistics, the Spinners, Wilson Pickett, and Billy Paul.

R & B radio jumped on board and Norman and Phyllis scored on the R & B charts with a remake of The Stylistics ' " Betcha by Golly Wow!

*" I'm Stone in Love with You " – originally recorded by The Stylistics

They took The Stylistics with them.