The O'Jays - Use Ta Be My Girl flac album

The Very Best of the O'Jays is a compilation album featuring all their greatest hits. It is part of Sony's Playlist album series, which covers 1972 through to 1978, when the O'Jays (and Gamble & Huff) were at the peak of the Charts. Every song on the album has placed somewhere within the Top 20 of the R&B chart, and many of them went to the top of the chart including "Back Stabbers," "Love Train," "For the Love of Money," and "Use ta Be My Girl,". All tracks written by The O'Jays.

Ironically the O'Jays' biggest selling single was the one that neither the vocal trio nor the on duo of Gamble and Huff thought would hit number one. Even frequent engineer Joe Tarsia had grounds to dislike the record; he thought it sounded technically dull, not enough highs. The Four Tops' 1981 number one R&B/number 11 pop single "When She Was My Girl" is both similar in title and tone.

1978's "Use ta Be My Girl" was their final Top Five hit, though they continued placing songs on the R&B charts throughout the 1980s. The O'Jays success was not confined to the United States, as they also logged up nine hit singles in the United Kingdom between 1972 and 1983, including four tracks that reached the Top 20 in the UK Singles Chart. Their 1987 album, Let Me Touch You, was a breakthrough of sorts, and included the R&B hit "Lovin' You"

The O'Jays are an American R&B group from Canton, Ohio, formed in 1958 and originally consisting of Eddie Levert (born June 16, 1942), Walter Williams (born August 25, 1943), William Powell (January 20, 1942 – May 26, 1977), Bobby Massey and Bill Isles. The O'Jays made their first chart appearance with "Lonely Drifter" in 1963, but reached their greatest level of success once Gamble & Huff, a team of producers and songwriters, signed them to their Philadelphia International label in 1972  . Oh, good loving, The girl's got plenty good lovin'. Ask me how I know, And I'll tell you so, She used ta be my girl. I respect her. When she was mine, I used to neglect her.

Use Ta Be My Girl by The O’Jays (Soul Train 1978) Source: RETROVISOR on YouTube . This is the good stuff right here! July 8, 1978 - "Use Ta Be My Girl" by The O'Jays peaked at N. on the Hot 100. It was their last top five hit on the pop chart. The song was written and produced by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff. Released from their hit 1978 album, So Full of Love, it became a huge crossover hit. The song spent five weeks at number one on the R&B singles chart. It also peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. ’Use ta Be My Girl" became one of their biggest and most familiar hits by The O'Jays. The song has also been certified by the RIAA as a Million-Seller.