This crazy trivia made my night. Am I the Same Girl has a peculiar history. The records backing tracks were used as a basis for Young-Holt Unlimiteds instrumental hit Soulful Strut, with a piano in place of Acklins vocals. Released before Am I the Same Girl, Soulful Strut did better chart-wise and sale-wise, going Top Ten R&B, number three pop, and selling over two million copies. In the meantime, Acklin was writing songs with fellow Brunswick signee Eugene Record of the Chi-Lites. The collaboration was fruitful. The sparse melancholy ballad Have You Seen Her settled at number one R&B and number three pop, earning the Chi-Lites their first gold record. Originally the last track on the Chi-Lites album (For Gods Sake) Give More Power to the People, Have You Seen Her was getting massive airplay on soul stations despite its unusually long-for-radio length of five minutes. In a bit of déjà vu, another Acklin song had smoothed the way for an act to score a career-defining hit. The Chi-Lites had their first number one pop single, Oh Girl, in the spring of 1972. The ethereal ballad went to number one R&B for two weeks in June 1972. Other Acklin/Record compositions for the Chi-Lites were the effervescent Stoned Out of My Mind and the wonderfully poignant Toby (a double-sided hit single and the title track of a 1974 album). Thats How Long, a song written by Archie Powell and Tony Byrd, was on the flip side, making the record a double delight. https://youtube/watch?v=qzuifcwDqIo
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