In this Series of Posts, I will writing about the Artist's who are in My "Greatest Ever Soul Singer of All-Time" Poll.
The Poll is over to the Right of the Blog, it has been Running for a Few Month's now, so if You haven't already Voted, Please do so!
In these Post's, I will write a few Facts, Figures, Stats and Interesting Stuff on the Artist in Question, I will also include a Playlist of their 20 Greatest Songs.
This is the Last Artist in this Series of Post's, I have Enjoyed Posting about these Great Soul Artists but Look out for a New Voting Section to the Right!
Very Surprisingly Eugene Record has not had a Vote as yet, he was Lead Singer of my Favorite Soul Band, The Chi-Lites !
He and the Chi-Lites had some Fantastic Record's, just a Listen to their Greatest Song's, Real Soul Music!
ARTIST NUMBER 11..............EUGENE RECORD
Eugene Booker Record was Born on the 23rd December 1940 in Chicago USA.
He became Interested in Music at a Very Young Age, this was Attributed to his Sister , who was an Accomplished Pianist.
While at School Eugene Record Formed his First Band with Friends, Robert"Squirrell"Lester and Clarence Johnson they were Called "The Chanteurs"
They Released a Couple of Singles in 1959, without any Success!
They then Teamed up with Two other Friends, Marshall Thompson and Creadel "Red" Jones and the Quintet called themselves "The Hi-Lites"
They Released their First Single in 1964 "I'm So Jealous" which was a Moderate Hit.
That same Year of 1964 saw Clarence Johnson Leave the Band, and they were now a Quartet, they had a Few more Release's without any Success!
Then the Hi-Lites Had a name Change, they Added an "E" and Became The Chi-Lites.
By 1968 The Chi-Lites Signed a Record Deal with Brunswick Records, who were Ran by Carl Davis, the Following Year of 1969 they had their First Hit Record "Give It Away", this Track Reached Number 10 on the US R&B Chart.
This was Taken from the Album of the same name "Take It Away" (which Reached Number 16 on the US R&B Chart), the Follow Up Single was a Double A-Side Featuring "Let Me Be The Man My Daddy Was" and "The Twelfth Of Never"
This was to Start a String of Hit Singles and Albums for The Chi-Lites!
By this Time Eugene Record was Writing and Producing other Artists, Including Jackie Wilson and Barbara Acklin.
Between 1971 and 1976 the Chi-Lites Released some Fantastic Soul Music, both Albums and Singles, heres a List of some of the Best:
Eugene Booker Record was Born on the 23rd December 1940 in Chicago USA.
He became Interested in Music at a Very Young Age, this was Attributed to his Sister , who was an Accomplished Pianist.
While at School Eugene Record Formed his First Band with Friends, Robert"Squirrell"Lester and Clarence Johnson they were Called "The Chanteurs"
They Released a Couple of Singles in 1959, without any Success!
They then Teamed up with Two other Friends, Marshall Thompson and Creadel "Red" Jones and the Quintet called themselves "The Hi-Lites"
They Released their First Single in 1964 "I'm So Jealous" which was a Moderate Hit.
That same Year of 1964 saw Clarence Johnson Leave the Band, and they were now a Quartet, they had a Few more Release's without any Success!
By 1968 The Chi-Lites Signed a Record Deal with Brunswick Records, who were Ran by Carl Davis, the Following Year of 1969 they had their First Hit Record "Give It Away", this Track Reached Number 10 on the US R&B Chart.
By this Time Eugene Record was Writing and Producing other Artists, Including Jackie Wilson and Barbara Acklin.
Albums
1972...Lonely Man
1973...Letter To Myself
1973...Chi-Lites
1974...Toby
1975...Half A Love
Singles
1971...Have You Seen Her
1972...Oh Girl
1972...The Coldest Days
1972...A Lonely Man
1973...A Letter To Myself
1974...Homely Girl
1974...You Got To Be The One
1974..Too Good To Be Forgotten
1974...Toby
1975...It's Time For Love
1976...You Dont Have To Go
By 1976 Eugene Record Left The Chi-Lites to Pursue a Solo Career, he Released a Total of 3 Albums, but with only Moderate Success, and by 1980 he had Re-joined The Chi-Lites.
They Released a Further 4 Albums up until 1988 (with only a Small amount of Success) Incidentally the First 2 Albums were on Carl Davis "Chi-Sound" Record Label, then in Left "The Chi-Lites" again, for the Last Time.
Eugene Record was to Suffer from Cancer a Few Years Later, which he Ultimately was to Die from in July 2005.
Eugene Record / The Chi-Lites with E.R Discography
Studio Albums (Chi-Lites)......12
Studio Albums (Solo)......3
Singles (Chi-Lites)......53
Singles (Solo)......7
Checkout Some Great Music by Eugene Record
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