Eugene Record up with two members of another local group to form The Hi-Lites and eventually changing the name to The Chi-Lites. After a few unsuccessful singles, the group was signed by Brunswick production chief in Chicago, Carl Davies. Record wrote or co-wrote (often with singer Barbara Acklin) a long series of hits for the group, including million-sellers,"Have You Seen Her" and "Oh Girl", as well as major hits, such as "Homely Girl" and "Give More Power To The People". He also wrote and produced for other artists, mostly on Brunswick, including Acklin, Jackie Wilson, The Lost Generation, Otis Leavill, and later,
Oh! You Pretty Things Oh! You Pretty Things "Oh! You Pretty Things" is a song written by David Bowie in 1971 for the album "Hunky Dory". It opens with only piano and Bowie's vocal, before entering the catchy refrain. The simple piano style has been compared with The Beatles' "Martha My Dear". Thematically, the song has been seen as reflecting the influence of occultist Aleister Crowley, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, and Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel 1871 "Vril, the Power of the Coming Race", and heralding "the impending obsolescence of the human race in favour of an alliance between arriving aliens and the youth of the present