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.

[4]Stylistics co-founder, baritone Airrion Love opens the song, then alternates with the falsetto of lead vocalist Russell Thompkins Jr.

[3] "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.

[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]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.