Consumer Guide Album

The Chi-Lites: Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 [Brunswick, 1976]
They're still a better-than-average harmony group, but their moment is past, and although they continue to handle brisk tempos more deftly than the competition their accommodations to disco are just that--compromises, not expansions. Eugene Record's lyrics offer more than the music, which he often farms out these days: "A Letter to Myself" is classic silly self-pity, I leave it to your to imagine how "Homely Girl" turns out, and "That's How Long" (which Record didn't write) is as graphic a song as has ever made 54 in Billboard. B