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Album Peak chart positions Record label US [1] US R&B [1] 1972 Greatest Hits: 55 4 Brunswick: 1976 Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 — — 1983 Greatest Hits — — Epic: 1991 The Very Best of The Chi-Lites — — Music Club 1992 Greatest Hits — — Rhino: 1996 Inner City Blues — — Brunswick Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 — — Rhino 1998 Too Good to Be ...
The Chi-Lites' greatest fame came during the late 1960s through the early 1970s (with members Record, Jones, Lester and Thompson), scoring eleven top-ten R&B chart hits from 1969 until 1974. [1] The group also charted 21 songs in the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Chart, [ 2 ] and had chart hits in Australia, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Canada, as ...
By 1977, Record who was lead singer and wrote most of the hits for The Chi-Lites, left to pursue a solo career. [15] The Chi-Lites continued on with Thompson, Lester and new member Doc Roberson who replaced Kensey. In 1980, Thompson and Lester were reunited with Jones, and continued touring as a trio with Lester as the lead singer.
A Lonely Man was The Chi-Lites' most successful album, topping the R&B chart and peaking at No. 5 on the pop chart. It is frequently cited as the group's best recording. AllMusic reviewer Craig Lytle describes the album as "flawless" and "exquisite". [1]
The album was the third of four consecutive Chi-Lites albums to make the R&B top 5 (reaching #4), but has only a moderate critical reputation, with none of the tracks being considered as strong as the highlights on (For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People or A Lonely Man.
Chi-Lites includes three of the group's most successful singles. "Stoned Out of My Mind" and "Homely Girl" both made the top 3 on the US R&B chart, while "Homely Girl" and "Too Good to Be Forgotten" both making the top 10 hit list in the UK. The latter, while never released as a single in the US, has remained one of the group's biggest hits in ...
By 1974, Brunswick had started to struggle financially so Toby was less heavily-promoted than the group's previous albums and fared less well commercially. It was the first Chi-Lites album since 1970 to stall outside the R&B top 10 (peaking at #12) and to miss the top 100 on the Pop listings. Three singles from the album were top 20 R&B hits.
Greatest Hits is the first compilation album by American soul group The Chi-Lites. The album was released in 1972 on the Brunswick label. Track listing