MCA Special Products'
Remembered has a bit of a morbid title, but it's a good budget-line sampler. True, it doesn't dig deeply into
the Chi-lites' catalog or illustrate exactly why they were one of the great soul groups of their era -- it simply offers a random selection of ten tunes from their catalog, including some hits ("Have You Seen Her," "Oh Girl") and many album tracks. Sure, it's missing some major songs -- "(For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People," "Are You My Woman? (Tell Me So)," "Stoned out of My Mind" are all absent -- but a random sampling of the Chi-Lites' album tracks is bound to produce a reasonably listenable collection, and that's exactly what this is. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine