Country music singer Jody Miller scored a top-ten hit of her own in 1971 with her cover of "He's So Fine".
"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.
The Tokens themselves – who had never previously played on a recording session – provided the instrumentation, with the services of drummer Gary Chester.
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".
"He's So Fine" by The Chiffons is also featured on the soundtrack album of the 1979 film Quadrophenia, by the English band The Who.
[7] On February 10, 1971, Bright Tunes Music Corporation filed suit alleging that George Harrison had plagiarised "He's So Fine" in his then-current hit, "My Sweet Lord".
The case did not go to trial until February 1976, after which the judge ruled in favor of Bright Tunes on the liability portion of the suit, determining that Harrison had committed "subconscious" plagiarism.
[11] The suit to determine damages was scheduled for November 1976 but delayed until February 1981, by which time Allen Klein, Harrison's one-time manager, who had been his legal adviser in the first phase of the suit, had become the plaintiff by virtue of purchasing Bright Tunes.
[12] In 1975, the Chiffons recorded a version of "My Sweet Lord", attempting to capitalize on the publicity generated by the lawsuit.
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".
"He's So Fine" would also afford Olivor her sole ranking on the Billboard Easy Listening chart where its peak would be No.
[16] 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."
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 No.
(The chart fortunes of both the Olivor and McNichol takes on "He's So Fine" varied widely, according to which of the three music trade periodicals is cited: Record World affords a peak of No.