#24: You Are Everything by Stylistics
City: Montreal, PQ
Radio Station: CKVL
Peak Month: February 1972
Peak Position in Montreal ~ #1
Peak position in Vancouver ~ #9
Peak Position on Billboard Hot 100 ~ #9
YouTube: “You Are Everything”
Lyrics: “You Are Everything”
The Stylistics were created from two Philadelphia groups, the Percussions and the Monarchs. The two bands attended the same high school. The Stylistics was first conceived when Airrion Love’s English teacher, Beverly Hamilton, suggested the two bands merge. Russell Thompkins Jr., James Smith, and Airrion Love came from the Monarchs. James Dunn and Herb Murrell were in the Percussions. The name “the Stylistics” came from their guitar player Robert Douglas. Three original members, Airrion Love, James Dunn, and Russell Thompkins Jr., were born in Philadelphia. Herb Murrell was born in Lane, South Carolina and James Smith was born in New York City, but moved to Philadelphia after his father’s death in 1962. Dunn, Love, Murrell, Smith and Thompkins Jr. were the classic Stylistics lineup from 1968 to 1980. During this time the group charted five singles into the Top Ten on the Billboard Hot 100, a dozen on the Billboard Best Selling Soul Singles/Hot Black Singles chart, and ten singles in the UK Pop Singles Top Ten.