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  • Oh Girl
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  • Gramophone record
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  • Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles
  • Billboard Adult Contemporary number-one singles
  • 1972 singles
  • 1972 songs
  • 1990 singles
  • Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs number-one singles
  • Leo Sayer songs
  • Brunswick Records singles
  • Paul Young songs
  • Songs written by Eugene Record
  • The Chi-Lites songs
  • Con Hunley songs
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  • %22Oh Girl%22 is a single recorded by the soul vocal group, The Chi-Lites and released on Brunswick Records in 1972. Included on the group's 1972 album A Lonely Man, %22Oh Girl%22 centers on a relationship on the verge of break-up. The narrator, portrayed by the song's author Eugene Record, expresses concern that the break-up may prove unbearable for him (%22Oh girl/I'd be in trouble if you left me now/'Cause I don't know where to look for love/I just don't know how%22), while knowing that staying will be no better (%22I could save myself a lot of useless tears/Girl I've got to get away from here%22; %22Better be on my way, I can't stay here%22).%22Oh Girl%22 was the Chi-Lites' first and only number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at that position in May 1972 for one week. The single also reached the top position of the Billboard R&B Singles chart the following month, remaining in that position for two weeks. Billboard ranked it as the No. 13 song for 1972. In addition, it reached number fourteen on the UK Singles Chart in July 1972.The instrument featured in the song could be a melodica.
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  • Eugene Record
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  • 5714dee725ac0d8aee5393cb
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