Chi Lites Too Good To Be Forgotten: Best Of CD

Two CD collection. Although they had formed nine years earlier, it was when the Chi-Lites 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'. 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 teaming-up again with Carl Davis on his own Chi-Sound records label, to record 1980's Heavenly Body and 1981's Me And You. This 38-track 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 Beyonc? (and featuring Jay-Z), for her worldwide 2003 hit and Transatlantic #1, 'Crazy In Love'.

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 - (Jackie Wilson ; the Chi-Lites) 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 (Makes Me Wanna Holler) 10. Stoned Out of My Mind 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 20. Too Good to Be Forgotten 21. Oh Girl 22. A Letter to Myself 23. The Coldest Days of My Life (PT 1) 24. Have You Seen Her 25. A Lonely Man 26. I Like Your Lovin' (Do You Like Mine) 27. 24 Hours of Sadness 28. My Heart Just Keeps on Breakin' 29. Give It Away 30. Let Me Be the Man My Daddy Was 31. I Want to Pay You Back (For Loving Me) - Single Version 32. Homely Girl 33. If I Had a Girl 34. Happy Being Lonely - Single Version 35. Heavenly Body - (The Chi-Lites Feat. Gene Record) 36. Me and You - (The Chi-Lites Feat. Eugene Record) 37. Hot on a Thing (Called Love) - (The Chi-Lites Feat. Eugene Record) 38. Changing for You