The Chi-Lites Too Good To Be Forgotten - The Best Of The Chi-Lites (LP, 140g Vinyl Edition)
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The Chi-Lites: Too Good To Be Forgotten - The Best Of The Chi-Lites (LP, 140g Vinyl Edition)
On June 17, 2020, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and the City of Los Angeles announced that the iconic, multi-million selling soul/R&B band THE CHI-LITES will be honored with a star on Hollywood Boulevard on the Hollywood Walk of Music in their Class of 2021.
On September 30, 2021, Marshall Thompson, co-founder and last surviving member of THE CHI-LITES, accepted the award on behalf of the band in the presence of family friends and other soul legends, including their legendary labelmate Gene Chandler.
Although the band had been formed nine years earlier, they signed a contract with Brunswick in 1968 when they met record producer Carl Davis. They began to gain commercial recognition and success, with songs written and composed mostly by band member Eugene Record, who was also their lead singer, although their first chart song, "Give It Away" (US R&B Chart #10), had been written by Record with producer Carl Davis.
THE CHI-LITES released more than 15 studio albums and charted in the U.K. nine times, five of which were in the Top 10, including the double-A reissue "Have You Seen Her"/"Oh Girl."
In 1976, THE CHI-LITES switched labels from Brunswick to Mercury and recorded two albums, 'Happy Being Lonely' (1976) and 'The Fantastic Chi-Lites' (1977), before reuniting with Carl Davis on his own label, Chi-Sound Records, to record 'Heavenly Body' in 1980 and 'Me And You' in 1981.
This 12-track vinyl LP set focuses on their Brunswick Records period and includes all their UK hits, beginning with the barnstorming 'Are You My Woman (Tell Me So)', whose intro was sampled by Beyoncé (and Jay-Z) for their 2003 global hit and Transatlantic #1, 'Crazy In Love'.
Article properties: The Chi-Lites: Too Good To Be Forgotten - The Best Of The Chi-Lites (LP, 140g Vinyl Edition)
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Interpret: The Chi-Lites
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Album titlle: Too Good To Be Forgotten - The Best Of The Chi-Lites (LP, 140g Vinyl Edition)
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Genre R&B, Soul
- Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
- Vinyl record size LP (12 Inch)
- Record Grading Mint (M)
- Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
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Artikelart LP
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Label Demon Music Group
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EAN: 5014797906662
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| Chi-lites - Too Good To Be Forgotten - The Best Of The Chi-Lites (LP, 140g Vinyl Edition) LP 1 | ||||
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| 01 | Are you my woman (tell me so) | The Chi-Lites | ||
| 02 | Stoned out of my mind | The Chi-Lites | ||
| 03 | (for god's sake) give more power to the people | The Chi-Lites | ||
| 04 | We are neighbours | The Chi-Lites | ||
| 05 | I found sunshine | The Chi-Lites | ||
| 06 | Inner city blues (make me wanna holler) | The Chi-Lites | ||
| 07 | Oh girl | The Chi-Lites | ||
| 08 | Have you seen her | The Chi-Lites | ||
| 09 | It's time for love | The Chi-Lites | ||
| 10 | Homely girl | The Chi-Lites | ||
| 11 | Too good to be forgotten | The Chi-Lites | ||
| 12 | You don't have to go | The Chi-Lites | ||
The Chi-Lites
Give It Away
The Chi-Lites
Give It Away
You didn't have to wonder where The Chi-Lites hailed from: they proudly incorporated their hometown into their name. The quartet was an amalgam of two South Side groups: baritone Marshall Thompson and bass Creadel 'Red' Jones had been with The Desideros, who made a single for the Renee logo, while lead singer Eugene Record, born December 23, 1940 in Chicago, and tenor Robert 'Squirrel' Lester were formerly with The Chanteurs, whose You've Got A Great Love came out on Vee-Jay in '63.
"The Desideros was a very outstanding dancing group," says Marshall, born August 24, 1941 in Chicago. "And the Chanteurs, which was Eugene Record and Squirrel, Robert Lester, they was good singers. They couldn't dance at all!" Recalled the late Record, "We used to sing against each other on little talent shows and stuff. But as time went on, both groups seemed to just like fall apart. Some guys got married, some guys went to the service. So us four, we were the ones that really wanted to continue."
The new quartet called themselves The Hi-Lites when they recorded for Thompson's uncle James Shelton's Daran label. Their final name change was prompted by Mercury's Blue Rock subsidiary picking up their I'm So Jealous from Daran. "We didn't want to change it too far, because a lot of people knew us around Chicago," says Marshall. "So we just put the 'C' in front of it."
In '67, Dakar Records boss Carl Davis' right-hand man, singer Otis Leavill, stepped in. "Otis told me to come down there and see Carl Davis," says Thompson. "We had a tune called 'Price Of Love' we was working on then." Neither Price Of Love nor two singles for Russ Regan's Revue imprint hit. But when Davis moved them to Brunswick Records, The Chi-Lites' first 45 for the label, Give It Away, was a #10 R&B and #88 pop hit.
"I had a melody," said Eugene. "The melody was part of the horn arrangement on there. That's all I had for awhile. So I just put it together from there." Sonny Sanders' surging horn-leavened arrangement beautifully framed Record's soaring tenor. "It took us to the Apollo Theatre," says Thompson.
With Record tripling as their lead singer, chief composer, and producer, The Chi-Lites were a '70s hitmaking force, specializing in beautiful ballads: Have You Seen Her and Oh Girl were back-to-back R&B chart-toppers in 1971-72, the latter also pacing the pop hit parade. Until legal problems brought Brunswick down in 1976 and prompted Davis to leave the company (Record went solo the same year), The Chi-Lites were its greatest asset. Record died July 22, 2005 after a lengthy bout with cancer. Thompson keeps The Chi-Lites name alive with a new incarnation of the group.
- Bill Dahl -
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