"Have You Seen Her" by the Chi-Lites

What a wonderful piece of Vocal Pop music. Elements of Soul and a certain Jazzy quality; you got a nice Rock bass sound going on as well. The opening monologue to this wistful romantic classic is given with a smooth delivery and a quality acting performance, and then segwayed into the lovely vocal mantra that really carries this song home with the question: Have You Seen Her? This isn’t so much a sad sack epic, but rather, it relates to a greater feeling of loss that could apply to anything at all: car keys or the death of a spouse. The emotion cuts deep and the spoken word outro breeds further defeated confusion.

The wordless backing vocals say just as much about the depth of emotional intelligence involved as any of the clearly spoken or sung lyrical content. You can’t really beat the live percussion of yore, and the percussive touches on this track are just perfect as is a little jangled guitar bit for added flavor. Once that vocal hook really gets to the mighty punch, the listener is temporarily lost in a Stylistics song and indeed, wants to break up just to make up.