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Give It Away (The Chi Lites album)

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Released
  
August 1969

Artist
  
The Chi-Lites

Label
  
Brunswick Records

Length
  
30:06

Release date
  
August 1969

Producers
  
Carl Davis, Eugene Record


Give It Away (1969)
  
I Like Your Lovin' (Do You Like Mine?) (1970)

Genres
  
Soul music, Rhythm and blues

The Chi-Lites albums
  
A Letter to Myself, (For God's Sake) Give More Po, I Like Your Lovin' (Do You Like, A Lonely Man, Greatest Hits

The chi lites give it away


Give It Away is the debut album by American soul group The Chi-Lites, produced by Carl Davis and lead singer Eugene Record. The album was released in 1969 on the Brunswick label.

Contents

Give it away the chi lites


History

Give It Away consists of seven original tracks and four cover versions (three Motown songs and "The Twelfth of Never"). The album was well received by critics and sold respectably, with four singles reaching the R&B top 50 and two the Billboard Hot 100. The album sold mainly to the R&B market, where it peaked at #16. Five singles were released from the album with the title track charting the highest, #88 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #10 on R&B chart, their first top ten hit.

In 2004, the track "What Do I Wish For" became familiar to television viewers in the United Kingdom when it was used in a commercial for fast food chain KFC.

Personnel

  • Eugene Record, Marshall Thompson, Robert "Squirrel" Lester, Creadel "Red" Jones – vocals
  • Production

  • Carl Davis, Eugene Record, Gerald Sims – producers
  • Willie Henderson – director
  • Sonny Sanders – arranger
  • Charts

    Singles

    Songs

    1Give It Away2:43
    2Let Me Be The Man My Daddy Was3:40
    3My Whole World Ended3:00

    References

    Give It Away (The Chi-Lites album) Wikipedia