CHICAGO: WAKE UP SUNSHINE (1971)
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- Опубліковано 15 бер 2010
- Chicago II is the second album by Chicago-based rock band Chicago. It was released in 1970 after the band had shortened its name from The Chicago Transit Authority after releasing their same-titled debut album the previous year.
Although the official title of the album is Chicago, it came to be retroactively known as Chicago II, keeping it in line with the succession of roman numeral-titled albums that officially began with Chicago III in 1971.
While The Chicago Transit Authority was a success, Chicago is considered by many to be Chicago's breakthrough album, yielding a number of Top 40 hits, including "Make Me Smile" (#9), "Colour My World" (#7), and "25 or 6 to 4" (#4). The centerpiece of the album was the thirteen-minute song cycle "Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon". In addition, guitarist Terry Kath also participated in an extended classically styled piece in four separate songs. The politically outspoken Robert Lamm also tackles his qualms with "It Better End Soon", another modular piece. Peter Cetera, later to play a crucial role in the band's music, donated his first song to Chicago and this album, "Where Do We Go From Here". Another hit, "In The Country", had an immediate impact on college students towards the end of the summer before they were going away to school. The song has a sentimental effect, bringing back memories of heading off to school.
Released in January 1970 on Columbia Records, Chicago was an instant hit, reaching #4 in the US and #6 in the UK and has gone on to become - perhaps - the band's most revered album.
Columbia Records was very active in promoting its Quadraphonic 4-channel surround sound format in the mid-1970s, and nine of Chicago's first ten albums were made available in quad. The quad mix features elements not heard in the standard stereo mix, including additional guitar work from Kath in "25 Or 6 To 4" and a different vocal take from Lamm in "Wake Up Sunshine", the latter of which reveals a different lyric in the song's last line.
In 2002, Chicago was remastered and reissued on one CD by Rhino Records with the single versions of "Make Me Smile" and "25 or 6 to 4" as bonus tracks.
Rhino released a DVD-Audio version of the album in 2003, featuring both Advanced Resolution Stereo and 5.1 Surround sound mixes.
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This song is awesome. Every time I play Watch Dogs, this is always the first song I listen to. And when they played it in the credits, was just genius. I just smiled. :)
I can't believe Watchdogs was the first time I'd ever heard this song. This song is the bees knees.
Q104.3 brought me here. Jim and Shelli mentioned it this morning on their show. 3.26.24. NYC
Classic Chicago from the old school days that were golden. Peter Cetera exalted the band in its early days before and after Terry Kath's demise in 1978.
For me, If You Leave Me Now, wasn't a crime against Chicago. It was, for me, a great song.
One of the reasons I tend to prefer bands to solo artists is the fact that different members of the band come up with different types and styles of songs that make them more well rounded.
I remember that the year after, If You Leave Me Now, that Terry Kath did Mississippi Delta City Blues on Chicago XI. A very hard driving song.
Best song in all ps games
Saw Chicago sing at the Allentown Fairgrounds.....1970
Allentown, PA
I have to say that this is my favorite song by them. Takes me back to my first marriage that I screwed up... unfortunately... we all do that.
RIP Clara :'(
:'( she was my favorite character...
wpftutorial rip :(
Rip Hacker Girl
My Julie {Loved this song} R.I.P Jules Coleman! She always asked me to play it for her every weekend.
Excellent song and great video!
70's iPhone ^^ nice vid. Really
Unique presentation........well done Sir!
awesome! it is hard to find decent Chicago videos. this one is great. and just happens to be one of my favorite Chicago tunes~
Great video my friend!
still luv ya Kim -- only been since 1971
So fun! The best way to greet the day....
January 1978 the death of Terry Kath & the departure of their manager James
Guercio started the band's downward spiral. Late 80's Peter Cetera's departure was 'the end.' Where most of 'us' Chicago fans remember the group's fascinating music.
Love the dog with earphones swaying to the song at :21 on the iphone!
Buen sonido amigo !
As a member, I am very disappointed they are not in, - first concert was 1970 @ the YALE Bowl - fantastic -
They're playing Wake Up Sunshine this year 2011 in their concerts. nice post my friend.
Classic Chicago song, but... LoL... I feel like a fly buzzing around when I see this video!! :)
The loss of Terry Kath was a killer, no pun intended.
Peter Cetera shows that signature bass virtuoso style, ... Great vocals,.. !!
Wake up, sunshine... Love it.
Pete didnt have a bass voice
@@clydeb7713he played bass
Funny thing, I sit in David Foster's old office every day! My dad is meeting with the President of the R&R Hall of Fame this week I think. I told him to ask, "why no Chicago in the Hall?!
Luv it Luv it Luv it.......
Why can't the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame get their act together? There are so many great acts that have yet to be inducted but they put in lesser artists that just meet the minimum requirements and some of them are not really considered rock acts. Groups like Chicago, Rush, the Doobie Brothers, the Moody Blues and War are not in there but if you ask them they do not really care about it. Whether they care or not they should be recognised because their music speaks for itself.
One of the best opening album songs ever.
Michael Martin Absolutely, and one of the best rock albums of all time.
I was sitting in the kitchen looking out the window to the backyard and adjoining yard & the feeling of the song came up. so...Chicago has been so constant & such a clean group for me- soul bro.#63 (my age)
It opens side 2..get it right
i think their initial run ........spectacularly succesful , both creatively and commercially. hard to think that Terry Kaths death didnt take the band in a different direction........but i think honestly that everything has a shelf life
Their leader, Terry Kath, died in 1978. The rest is history...
It took a long time. I understand that Danny Seraphine writes in his memoir that the key decision was to drop the longer stuff for V, and that made the rest possible. Thing is, they always had it in them; they were one of the very few bands that could come up with both Top 10 pop tunes and muso excursions seemingly at will. When the record biz started turning the screws on the excursions, they could fall back on the pop tunes and stay successful.
i like wake up sunshine :3
Plus, their drummer, Danny Seraphine, was kicked out. He is a great drummer!!!
VII was a last hurrah for the old extended pieces/pop songs hybrid. Revisited only on Stone of Sisyphus to a certain degree.
The end of Guercio's influence and death of Kath began their descent into pop-schlock hell. Adopting Dianne Warren songs and allowing David Foster to thoroughly ruin them guaranteed them a non-membership into the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame. With that said, they still deserve to be in the Hall hands down.
Yes I agree...Thay should be in R and R Hall of Fame......Thay are going to Wait To Thay are All Dead!!!......The R and R Hall of Fame is B S!!!
Im here cuz watch dog
+通知 LOL
Same
Peter Cetera has said Terry was getting ready to quit the band before he tragically passed away.
I agree that everything has a shelf life, good point! However, it seems that even by the time of Terry's demise (late 1977) they had put him on the back burner in favor of ballads that were far removed from their previous work.
@Larrymh07 i agree. boy, do i agree.
@NostalgiaBob
It reminds me of Burt Bacharach, whom Robert Lamm admires.
"Domesticity is the enemy of the artist." --Various attributions
I know....
@Larrymh07 Hey, they`re still around and they`re still kickin. How many bands worth a damn can we say that about? Just them and The Stones, and Im even sure The Stones will do it again.
@Larrymh07 blame the 80's
Folks how Erie is this video is this a glimpse into the future? Look at the device in front of the Panasonic radio a cell phone? If this was made recently then ok but that phone does not fit in with the rest of the objects we see.
This was actually recorded in 1969.
Doesn't matter when it was recorded. Chicago II was released in early 70 but probably all or most of it was recorded late in 69.
They made some excellent records in 1990s, in particular their big band album and Stone of Sisyphus. Unfortunately, nobody was listening.
Maybe they should only induct Chicago version 1.
@Larrymh07 That was you Larry , not chicago!
They dove after the accidental death of Terry Kath.
@djdrock111 Thats a kitten! :)
All the words in the background are backwards. Weird.
I was here cuz of watch dogs
Can anybody write the lyrics?
Play the Chicago Quiz
"Wake Up Sunshine"
Wake up sunshine
Open up your sleepy eyes for me
Can't have you hidin'
I've been waiting all the night
People waiting for the light
Sunshine, sunshine
Wake up sunshine
Let me feel your warm sunlight on me
Can't have you hidin'
Night was long and night was cold
But today we're one day older
Sunshine, you make my life sunshine
You know I'm talkin' to you
I know you're knowin' it too
So just stop hidin' your face
Just open your eyes
Just smile your smile
I'm talkin' to you
Wake up sunshine
Ooh it's good to have you here with me
Can't have you hidin'
Can't imagine what I'd do
But feel too lonely without you
Sunshine, sunshine
You got to wake up girl
And face the day ahead
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That was good till I saw an iphone 3g there.
@sonicwarrior I've always been lame & wimpy! What's their excuse?
sorry boston chicago blawk hawks rule
Terry Kath's death is what caused Chicago to become wimpy...
Hahaha Watch Dogs, this barely fit it at all, haha
It's because of the band name, and it's the first song you unlock. (I think)
Why did Chicago start out so great and then dive into being lame & wimpy?
Money and its trappings, my friend, that leave creativity abandoned....😢
because thier lead singer while playing with a gun shot himself, without his steering of the ship they crashed on the rocks known as 80s crap