The Lost Generation was an American soul group from Chicago, Illinois, active between 1969 and 1974.
This was after Jesse Dean completed time in the United States Army.
Shortly after forming, Lowrell Simon's childhood friend, Gus Redmond (who was by that time promotional head at Brunswick Records), had the group record with producer Carl Davis.
The result of these sessions was the single "The Sly, Slick and the Wicked", which became a hit in the US, and whose sales earned Brunswick Records enough profits to buy itself out and dissociate itself from its parent company, Decca Records, that same year.
Lowrell Simon embarked on a successful career as a songwriter and, in the late 70's, a solo artist.