Other Versions
Jody Miller had a #5 C&W hit with her 1971 remake of "He's So Fine"; this version - which omits the original's 'doo lang' background vocal, and plays on the similarities with "My Sweet Lord" by playing the same notes in the guitar solos - also crossed over to #53 on the Pop charts and gave Miller her career best chart placing with a #2 ranking on the Easy Listening charts.
1978 saw two disparate remakes of "He's So Fine" chart. First in May Jane Olivor's remake reached #77: her version of "He's So Fine" - in the vein of Cissy Houston's 1971 take on the Ronettes' "Be My Baby" - reinvented the girl-group classic as a lush ballad. Two months later an attempted replication of the original "He's So Fine" credited to Kristy and Jimmy McNichol reached #70. The latter version only featured Kristy, the duo credit reflecting the track's 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.
In 1987 Jonathan King put his 1971 version of "He's So Fine" as the B-side of his remake of the Cat Stevens song, "Wild World". King remade "Wild World" to corroborate his contention that the Pet Shop Boys has plagiarized it with their hit "It's a Sin": he chose "He's So Fine" as the B-side to stress his position due to the songs' involvement in the plagiarism suit described in the following section. His version was played in the court room by the Chiffons legal team.
- The classic 'doo-lang' background lyric from "He's So Fine" was utilized by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards in their composition "Shang a Doo Lang" which the Rolling Stones recorded in November 1963: that version was never released but a version by Adrienne Posta was a single in 1964. The 1979 single "You're Gonna Get What's Comin'" by Bonnie Raitt concludes with a repetition of the 'doo-lang' lyric. In 1982 Aneka had the single "Ooh Shooby Doo Doo Lang", the title standing in for the vocals which a career background singer laments are her lot.
Dionne Bromfield covered this song on her debut album "Introducing Dionne Bromfield" in 2009.
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