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“Oh Girl” is a number-one 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, “Oh Girl” centers around 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 (“Oh 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”), while knowing that staying will be no better (“I could save myself a lot of useless tears/Girl I’ve got to get away from here”; “Better be on my way, I can’t stay here”). “Oh Girl” was the Chi-Lites’ first and only number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at that... Read on...