Toby | |
Type: | Studio |
Artist: | The Chi-Lites |
Cover: | chilitestoby.jpg |
Released: | June 1974 |
Genre: | R&B, soul |
Length: | 44:32 |
Label: | Brunswick |
Producer: | Eugene Record |
Prev Title: | Chi-Lites |
Prev Year: | 1973 |
Next Title: | Half a Love |
Next Year: | 1975 |
Toby is the seventh studio album by American soul group The Chi-Lites, produced by lead singer Eugene Record. The album was released in 1974 on the Brunswick label.
By 1974, Brunswick had started to struggle financially so Toby was less heavily-promoted than the group's previous albums and fared less well commercially. It was the first Chi-Lites album since 1970 to stall outside the R&B top 10 (peaking at #12) and to miss the top 100 on the Pop listings. Three singles from the album were top 20 R&B hits. In the UK however, where the Chi-Lites had previously established themselves as a successful singles group, none of the issued singles made any impact on the national chart.
Chart (1974) | Peak [1] |
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U.S. Billboard Top LPs | 181 |
U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs | 12 |
Year | Single | Peak chart positions | |
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US | US R&B | ||
1974 | "There Will Never Be Any Peace (Until God Is Seated at the Conference Table)" | 63 | 8 |
"You Got to Be the One" | 83 | 15 | |
"Toby" | 78 | 7 | |
"That's How Long" | |||