Have You Seen Her ChiLites Hit Song

Have You Seen Her is a song sung by the Chi-Lites lead singer Eugene Record in 1971. The song taps the romantic sensitivities of a pained yet composed lover and is an all time favorite. It has won many accolades since 1971 and some contemporary artists have also sung it. The song belongs to the (For Gods Sake) Give More Power to the People album of the Chi-Lites.

Both Eugene Records and Barbara Acklin have composed Have You Seen Her. It is a Brunswick Records number. As mentioned earlier the song has reached top music chart ratings. M.C Hammer also sang this song in his own version in 1990. Both the versions have gained significant chart positions. The original Chi-Lites version of the song ranked 1st in the R&B Singles Chart in 1971, earned the prestigious 3rd position on the Billboard Hot 100 list the same year. It also occupied the very popular 3rd position of the UK Singles Chart in 1972.

Much later in 1990, The M.C. Hammer version of Have You Seen Her also succeeded in gaining a lot of popularity and achievement milestones. M.C. Hammer actually sang a cover version of the song. The song was recorded on LP, Please Hammer Dont Hurt Em. It secured the fourth position on the Billboard Hot 100 and the eighth position on the UK Singles Chart in 1990.

So much about the accomplishments of the song Have You Seen Her. Let us see why it has become an all time popular number. The theme revolves around the sensitivities of a lover who loses out his love. Maybe, many pained lovers connect with this song, which is a heartfelt cry of such people. With Eugene Records many a lover would like to strongly demand Tell me have you seen her of people around them, as though one of them would really bring her back for him. Strange but an injured heart sees no reason.

Barbara Acklin actually wanted Have You Seen Her to sound like the earnest imploring of a lover yearning for love that has abandoned him, but Record makes it sound like the renditions of a lover who is bravely confronting his emotions and wants to know why such an unjust happening occurred with him. Well, women tend to expose their sensitivities and though basically strong, incidents related to the heart tend to make them emotionally fragile. A man on the other hand, tends to put on a tough cover of emotional stability even though he is as fragile as a woman from within. Wikipedia