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[13], May 1978 saw the release of an attempted replication of the original "He's So Fine" credited to Kristy and Jimmy McNichol although the track only featured the former, being credited to the duo to reflect its parent Kristy and Jimmy McNichol album which was produced by Philip Margo and Mitch Margo who – as members of the Tokens – had produced the Chiffons' original: three members of the Chiffons: Patricia Bennett, Barbara Lee, and Sylvia Peterson, sang back-up on the McNichol remake of "He's So Fine." Billboard named the song #73 on their list of 100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time.[6]. Read and write album reviews for He's So Fine - The Chiffons on AllMusic It sounds like the beginning of one. (The chart fortunes of both the Olivor and McNichol takes on "He's So Fine" varies widely according to which of the three music trade periodicals is cited: Record World affords a peak of #87 to both the Oliver and McNichol versions while according to Cash Box the Olivor take peaked at #67, McNicol's at #83. He also claimed the song came from Edwin Hawkins Singers' "Oh Happy Day," not "He's So Fine." Complete your Jackie Wilson collection. Some user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. With Nicolas Read, Brett Jacobsen, Santio East, Ross Leon. He's So Fine was the #24 song in 1963 in the Pop charts.The song was performed by The Chiffons.Comment below with facts and trivia about the song and we may include it in our song facts! Olivia moved to the small town of Lucky Harbor to escape her past, which revolves around a big secret that was eluded to in the preceding book. “He’s So Fine,” recorded in 1962, is a catchy tune consisting essentially of four repetitions of a very short basic musical phrase, sol-mi-re (hereinafter motif A), 1 altered as necessary to fit the words, followed by four repetitions of another short basic musical phrase, sol-la-do-la-do (hereinafter motif B). View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1958 Vinyl release of "He's So Fine" on Discogs. The Chiffons' two later Top 10 hits both contain echoes of "He's So Fine", although neither song was written by Ronald Mack, who died soon after the Chiffons had recorded his song. The Chiffons Discography Price Guide Recently Listed Email Alerts Refine Search Results. "He's So Fine" by The Chiffons is also featured on the soundtrack album to the 1979 film Quadrophenia by the English band The Who. With Olivia's guarded approach to life and Cole's quick, charming and oh-so-sexy sexy wit, they balance each other perfectly and make this a feel good story that kept me reading and smiling well into the night! "He's So Fine" would also afford Olivor her sole ranking on the Billboard Easy Listening chart where its peak would be #21, also ranking in the Canadian singles chart with a #71 peak and rising as high as #3 on the Canadian Easy Listening chart. A fallout between Harrison and his manager Allen Klein, who switched sides during the proceedings likely hurt his case’s chances. We can't show you this lyrics snippet right now. Discover releases, reviews, credits, songs, and more about Jackie Wilson - He's So Fine at Discogs. One of the most instantly recognizable golden oldies with its doo-lang doo-lang doo-lang background vocal, "He's So Fine" is also renowned as the plaintiff song in the famous plagiarism case against George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord". [12] Released as a single in April 1978, "He's So Fine" debuted on the Hot 100 dated 20 May 1978 becoming the second of Olivor's two Hot 100 entries and with its eventual peak of #77 becoming the more successful as Olivor's precedent Hot 100 single "Some Enchanted Evening" had peaked at #91 in 1976. Miller's remake omits the original's 'doo lang' background vocal. It seems that some others noticed this resemblance too. Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile. In Australia Miller's "He's So Fine" charted with a #28 peak. [11] "He's So Fine" also afforded Miller a Top Ten C&W hit in Canada with a #3 peak, with the track reaching #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart for Canada and crossing over to #46 on the Canadian Pop chart. Cage knew he was bad. '...Of course we'd already been turned down by ten companies. This book started out strong, but the plot fell a bit flat for me toward the end. One of the most instantly recognizable Golden Oldies…, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Mack elicited the interest of Bright Tunes Corporation, a production company run by the Tokens, who produced the Chiffons singing "He's So Fine", and two other Mack compositions at Capitol Recording Studios (New York, 165 W. 46th St.), The Tokens themselves – who had never previously played on a recording session – provided the instrumentation, with the services of drummer Gary Chester. "He's So Fine" was written by Ronald Mack, an acquaintance of the Chiffons' members who set himself up as their manager after overhearing them harmonise in their high school's lunch room. It’s an exceedingly simple song, with its direct melody and its earwormy backing vocals. He's So Fine The Chiffons The Chiffons en.wikipedia.org The Chiffons were an all girl group originating from the Bronx area of New York in 1960. He's So Fine is book #11 in Jill Shalvis's Lucky Harbor series. Wondering if it was just my imagination, I googled it. Both the McNichol version of "He's So Fine" and that by Jane Olivor appeared in the Record World ranking of the singles at positions #101 to #150 as early as the chart dated 20 May 1978 although the McNichol take would not debut on the Record World ranking of the top 100 singles until that dated 5 August 1978 two weeks subsequent to the track's debut on the Billboard Hot 100 dated 22 July 1978 (one week after the final Hot 100 appearance of the Jane Olivor take whose Hot 100 tenure ended as of the chart dated 15 July 1978): on the Cash Box Top 100 the McNichol "He's So Fine" made its debut on the chart dated 30 July 1978. The Tokens shopped "He's So Fine" to ten labels before placing it with Laurie Records. "He's So Fine" was also a #16 hit in the UK. However Capitol Records (for whom the Tokens were house producers) rejected the track: Jay Siegal of the Tokens recalled Capitol's president Voyle Gilmore dismissing the track as "too trite...too simple". On February 10, 1971, Bright Tunes Music Corporation filed suit alleging the then current George Harrison hit, "My Sweet Lord", was a plagiarism of "He's So Fine". The song also peaked at number 28 in Australia. Jane Olivor recorded the song as a ballad for her album Stay the Night, producer Jason Darrow having wanted a "lighter song" for the album: Olivor had been initially unmoved by Darrow's endorsement of a slow version of "He's So Fine" – whose lyrics Olivor found vapid – but the singer saw the validity of her producer's suggestion after Darrow played Olivor the Chiffons' 45 rpm single at 331⁄3 rpm. Besides the title cut, the He's So Fine album featured Miller's remake of the 1965 Barbara Lewis hit "Baby I'm Yours": Miller's third Sherrill-produced album There's a Party Going On afforded Miller C&W hit remakes of the Ronettes' "Be My Baby" and the Teddy Bears' "To Know Him is to Love Him". (Olivor would "bubble under the Hot 100" chart in 1980 when her single "Don't Let Go of Me" peaked at #108.) Directed by Juliet Tablak. Jody Miller had a Top Ten C&W hit with her remake of "He's So Fine" recorded in a February 17, 1971 session at the Columbia studio in Nashville and issued May 12, 1971 as the advance single from Miller's He's So Fine album, that album—released August 1971—being Miller's second full-length collaboration with producer Billy Sherrill. With Ryan O'Neal, Jack Warden, Mariangela Melato, Richard Kiel. "He's So Fine" had been a major hit there, unlike in the UK, and American commentators had been quick to scrutinise "My Sweet Lord" for its similarities. [5] Billboard ranked the record as the No. It somehow resembled to Chiffons’ “He’s So Fine”. He sent me to Hank Medress, originally of The Tokens, but now a big producer. "He's So Fine" is a song written by Ronnie Mack. A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. "He's So Fine" is a recording by the Chiffons which topped the Billboard Hot 100 for four … Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform. Bad to the bone. It's not one of my favorites in the series. “He’s So Fine” doesn’t sound like the end of a story. He's So Fine : 1:53: B : Oh My Lover : 1:44 * Items below may differ depending on the release. He's so fine (Oh, yeah) Gotta be mine (Oh, yeah) Sooner or later (Oh, yeah) I hope it's not later (Oh, yeah) We got to get together (Oh, yeah) The sooner, the better (Oh, yeah) I just can't wait I just can't wait To be held in his arms If I were a queen (Do-lang-do-lang-do-lang) His wall was covered by 'Gold Records, including ' He's so fine.' Read 27 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. "One Fine Day" was written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin, and "Sweet Talking Guy" – in which the background vocalists sing "he's so fine" – was co-written by the co-founder of Laurie Records, Eliot Greenberg. Harrison's "This Song" was written in reaction to the plagiarism suit. “He’s So Fine,” Was A Cute & Fun Song! Tho, We All Know That When the Great George Harrison Was Writing “My Sweet Lord,” He Was Not Saying To Himself,….”Oh, I Think I’m Going To Steal the Melody & Notes From “He’s So Fine! Released in early 1963, "He's So Fine" entered the national charts in February 1963 attaining the #1 position on March 30 and remaining #1 for a four-week period and also made it to number one on the soul singles chart. The final decision was that Harrison himself would purchase Bright Tunes from Klein for $587,000—the amount Klein had paid for the corporation—and although litigation continued for at least ten more years that decision was upheld. It was recorded by The Chiffons who topped the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks in the spring of 1963. It was recorded by The Chiffons who topped the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks in the spring of 1963. He's So Fine book. Ronnie was able to do all the things he had promised my mother. He's So Fine is the 11th book in Jill Shalvis' Lucky Harbor series, and it might just be my favorite, yet! It was recorded by The Chiffons who topped the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks in the spring of 1963. Impressed by the 1968 Tammy Wynette hit "Stand by Your Man", Miller had contacted that track's producer Billy Sherrill in the hopes of reviving her own flagging recording career and after Look at Mine, Miller's first album in Sherrill's charge, generated two Top Twenty C&W hits in 1970, Sherrill opted for a new musical direction for Miller who recalls: "He said I didn't phrase my words like a country singer, so we took some old, sexy pop songs and put in a little boppy steel guitar".[10]. Miller's cover version of "He's So Fine" peaked at #5 C&W in July 1971, and crossed over to the Pop charts and also Easy Listening charts with July 1971 peaks of #53 Pop and #2 Easy Listening, the latter stat representing Miller's alltime best chart showing. Golden Oldies…, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply, including ' He 's So ”. Of 100 greatest girl group originating in the spring of 1963 Santio East, Ross Leon locked the doors said... 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