The exuberant brass motif that drives this swinging soul number sounds instantly familiar, perhaps because of the many lives this song has had since it was written by The Chi-Lites’ lead singer Eugene Record and Sonny Sanders.

The first – under the title Am I The Same Girl? – was when it was recorded in 1968 by Barbara Acklin, a former backing singer at Chess Records in Chicago, who would go on to co-write the peerless Have You Seen Her for The Chi-Lites with Record.

There’s a yearning quality to her vocals that tugs at the heartstrings. But oddly, the song works just as well without any vocals in its second guise – as Soulful Strut – by the Chicago instrumental ensemble Young-Holt Unlimited (aka Young-Holt Trio).

It’s the same backing track on both. Its effortless swing might be attributed to the fact that the group’s titular rhythm section – bassist Eldee Young and drummer Isaac ‘Redd’ Holt – were formerly members of Ramsey Lewis’s jazz trio.

The truth is that neither of them actually played on the track (and nor did their pianist Don Walker).

Despite the instrumental version being released under their name, it’s thought producer Carl Davis didn’t use the group at all on the recording, replacing the titular Young and Holt with anonymous session musicians from the Brunswick Studio Band, and replacing pianist Don Walker with Floyd Morris, who plays the piano solo that replaced Acklin’s vocals.

Whatever the truth, it proved to be a goldmine for all concerned – except Acklin, whose biggest hit would be Love Makes A Woman, released in the same year – with the instrumental version selling a million copies.

It was covered the following year by Dusty Springfield. But it didn’t hit the UK charts until nearly a quarter of a century later, after singer Corinne Drewery heard it in a Manchester disco’s Northern Soul night and her group Swing Out Sister gave it a characteristically mellow makeover in 1992.