Eugene Booker Record was an American singer, songwriter, arranger, and record producer.
14 Facts About Eugene Record
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Eugene Record was best known as the lead vocalist of the Chicago-based vocal group The Chi-Lites.
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Eugene Record learned to play the guitar and formed his first group while at high school with Robert Lester, who stayed on when they joined up with two members of another local group to form The Hi-Lites and eventually changing the name to The Chi-Lites.
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Eugene Record wrote and produced for other artists, mostly on Brunswick, including Acklin, Jackie Wilson, The Lost Generation, Otis Leavill, and later, The Dells and The Impressions.
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When Brunswick began to falter due to legal and financial issues in the mid-1970s, Record decided to go solo and released three albums in the late 1970s on Warner Music Group without major success, before re-joining The Chi-Lites in 1980.
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Eugene Record stayed with The Chi-Lites until the mid-1980s for several albums on various labels before leaving again.
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Eugene Record continued to make occasional guest appearances with the group.
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Eugene Record performed "Have You Seen Her" and "Trying to Get to You".
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Eugene Record first married his high school sweetheart, Sandra Scott, about whom the hit, "Have You Seen Her", was written.
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Eugene Record has been erroneously reported to have married Barbara Acklin.
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Eugene Record died on July 22,2005, in Chicago, after a long battle with cancer.
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Eugene Record was buried at Resurrection Catholic Cemetery in Justice, Illinois, having come from Catholic family roots.
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Eugene Record had several hits after rejoining the Chi-Lites in the early 1980s.
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Eugene Record is a co-writer of the 2003 Beyonce hit record "Crazy in Love", thanks to its sampling of The Chi-Lites' "Are You My Woman ".