Too Good to Be Forgotten: The Best of the Chi-Lites
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Release Date: 18/03/2022
Although they had formed nine years earlier, it was only when the band met record producer Carl Davis in 1968 that they signed a contract with Brunswick Records. They began to achieve commercial recognition and success, with songs predominantly written and composed by band member Eugene Record, who was also their lead singer The Chi-Lites released more than 15 studio albums and registered on the UK chart on nine occasions, with five Top 10 entries, one of them being the Double-A sided reissue 'Have You Seen Her'/'Oh Girl'. This 38-track, 2 CD set covers the period 1969-1983 and includes all of their UK hits, as well as most of their international hits. The collection ends in the hard-to-find early-'80s UK soul weekender classic 'Changing for You', which proved that even in the changing musical landscape, The Chi-Lites were still a force more than a dozen years after their first charting UK single, and more than 40 years later, with their barn-storming 'Are You My Woman (Tell Me So)', the intro from which, being famously and expertly sampled by Beyoncé (and featuring Jay-Z), for her worldwide 2003 hit and Transatlantic #1, 'Crazy In Love'.
Disc 1
1: Are You My Woman (Tell Me So)
2: I Found Sunshine
3: We Are Neighbours
4: Troubles A' Comin'
5: Don't Burn No Bridges
6: (For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People
7: The Man & the Woman (The Boy & the Girl)
8: The Devil Is Doing His Work
9: Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
10: We Need Order
11: We Need Order
12: You Got to Be the One
13: Here I Am
14: That's How Long
15: There'll Never Be Any Peace (Until God Is Seated at the Conference Table)
16: It's Time for Love
17: My First Mistake
18: Vanishing Love (Single Version)
19: You Don't Have to Go
Disc 2
1: Too Good to Be Forgotten
2: Oh Girl
3: A Letter to Myself
4: The Coldest Days of My Life (Pt. 1)
5: Have You Seen Her
6: A Lonely Man
7: I Like Your Lovin' (Do You Like Mine)
8: 24 Hours of Sadness
9: My Heart Just Keeps On Breakin'
10: Give It Away
11: Let Me Be the Man My Daddy Was
12: I Want to Pay You Back (For Loving Me) [single Version]
13: Homely Girl
14: If I Had a Girl
15: Happy Being Lonely (Single Version)
16: Heavenly Body (Feat. Gene Record)
17: Me and You (Feat. Eugene Record)
18: Hot On a Thing (Called Love) [feat. Eugene Record]
19: Changing for You