Terry kath's singing ... Makes me smile no matter how many times I hear this... Best cover I've seen/ heard is Leonid and friends on UA-cam... They cover old Chicago better than Chicago does.
The greatness of this epic display of writting ,production, arrangement, musicianship and vocals is off the charts. This is 1970!!!!!!!!!! Still sounds as fresh today as it did the first time my generation heard it! Talent like this is unfortunately GONE ftom the industry. Mid sixties to 1980 was the pinnacle of pop, rock,R&B and all commercial music. The artirsts and music that put out their best work , we will never see their likes again.
Every generation draws a line in the sand regarding new music. Elvis’ generation shook their hips, while their elders heard the music of the devil, that would cause the downfall of civilization. The new music is always for the teens.
Kevin bean, true, but you must admit... They played real instruments before, and some were virtuosos like these. The horns, providing such mood, and tone have mostly disappeared. This is also far more complicated and complex to be compared to current rock pop or rap. They were also rather sui generis.
I am listening to this in 2020 -- fifty years after it arrived -- and it remains a relevant and virtuosic performance by today's standards. In 1970, fifty year old music would have been recorded acoustically into a horn, jazz on record would be three years old while blues and country would not yet have existed on record. The achievement of this group of seven is stunning.
This came right on right after lowdown and honestly I never even heard this before. Everyone in Chicago is so amazing and so talented and I am grateful to have been alive during the 60s '70s and '80s and the 90s.....to hear all this amazing music that we have even in the years leading up to today's minimal amount of talent but there is always some good music out there you just have to find it. Chicago is such a legendary band.... the greatest will ever see in our lifetime
@@heavnnnsent Been listening to III for the last couple of days. As mindblowing today as it was the first time I heard it 50 years. No...even more than 50 years ago!
What band in their history debut a Double l.p. only to follow that up with ANOTHER Double Album! These guys had a lot of material when they signed their record contract. All of it phenomenal.
They just played the WHOLE 13 minute ballad on Music Choice cable station ( Classic Rock channel ) & BLEW ME AWAY----usually ya Only hear parts of it----never the Whole thing ! Had to hear it again, here, even tho I have the original vinyl album, buried somewhere around the house.
Her name was Terrie Heisler. She left Pankow to go to school at West Virginia Wesleyan College (hence "West Virginia Fantasies"). She married someone else in 1975 and lived happily ever after. She just passed away in 2 Feb 2020.
What an absolute masterpiece of playing and composition. And, the joy of holding the actual album with the art and listening to the vinyl was just sublime.
@@mr.sinclair4940 there are probably lots of girls in this beat down little factory town in SW Michigan that have Chicago beaus. Not near as far away as WV.
If your cousin Joey has passed away then I know he's smiling that you just dedicated this to him. I know they are watching over us and that we will meet them again when it's our time
I heard this coming out of the office at summer camp when I was 12, and had to go in, cuase I instantly fell in love with it, 5 other campers came in before it was over, powerful!
The early 70's were a great time in popular musical diversity and experimentation. I so loved this album and the fact that they spelled the title of one of their great numbers like the British, "Colour my World."
Growing up in the Chicago suburbs in the '70s, "Colour My World" was the song you had your first dance to in the fifth grade, and likely playing when you had your first kiss. 💋
My wife and I were there too! So glad after close to fifty years, finally to see them....Great setting at Artpark with the Niagara gorge in the background, eh?
First I just want to echo all the comments that this a masterpiece like Stairway etc.... but here's why this is better. Most of those songs we know from the studio versions, well recorded and produced. Ever seen Stairway live? not quite the same. Ever seen this whole thing live? It's exactly the same. This is exactly what they sounded like. and still do sound like. Also worth mentioning that in 1970 this was cut in two short radio songs Make Me Smile and Colour My World. Most people had no idea it written as a suite. I didn't catch on until I bought Carnegie Hall. Thanks again Chicago, this wonderful piece is one of my early potent influences to study and perform music.
Chicago were true innovators and with their first few albums that were double albums and their genius laid in the late Terry Kath and this band was so inventive and brilliant they are so much more than their hits these boys were a true album and prog band
Saw them at Soldier Field summer of 1970. What a great concert! I think there were 5 bands but I was too stoned to remember. Just remember Chicago CTA being the GREATEST!
Well I'm sure Jimi Hendrix was there to escort Terry kath to the next adventure .... Because when we die our friends are relatives come and take us to our next journey
When a teen in the 70s I discovered by accident while trying to record this from the radio that if you cut from 3:30 to 10:22, you get a perfect 6 minute Make Me Smile, longer than any other version of just it!!
this is the way it should be presented. the whole ballet in its entirety. If you heard individual songs from here it doesn't have the same impact. this is just Greatness!
I had never heard this long version... I always heard it on a compilation, which is totally edited, to be played on the radio, so when I heard the original album, released in 1970, I even reacted: "Wow, what a difference!" - From then on, I never stopped listening to this long original song!
My absolute 1st album. Then I collected about 1500 before a flood claimed them. But this album was still in there 20+ yrs after I got it. I do like CTA a little better though.
There's always somebody out to steal your joy but I'm not letting them! This is Big band rock at its finest and they will never be another Chicago Transit authority
I'm just noticing here on this version that the tambourine has been mixed out of "West Virginia Fantasies" portion of "Ballet for a Girl..." weird (compared with the original LP)
Chicago still performs, minus Kath, Cetera and Seraphine, but Danny started California Transit Authority, and they play some Chicago and some newer tunes... worth a listen!
Yeah, well..Back then DJ's were paid to sell bubblegum, the weather report and other junk. The music was just there to keep your ears paying attention if you were lucky. It was college FM stations that played the music in those days.. 😏
not enough people realize that Colour My World is just a movement in a larger piece of music and that this whole magnificient piece should always be played in its entirety
@@thomasmaxwell8353 you know for years when I was a kid growing up in the 70's (I will be 56 next month)listing to Chicago and before really researching the band I thought that Terry was a Black man he has such a deep soulful voice, so sad when we lost him i remember when the news of his accidental death in 1978 wonder what his music would be like if he was still here
@Chris Paul I have to admit I had to look up Bobby Colomby. I always liked Blood, Sweat and Tears, but I typically focused more on the horns and vocals. I'll go back and check out some BST and focus on the drums. Right there with you on Carl Palmer. Like everything he's done, his pieces on Side 3 of Works, Volume 1 were incredible.
I agree. Terry Kath was a legendary guitarist, and one of the least-recognized at that. If he hadn't been taken so soon, I don't doubt his work would have been more widely recognized.
I am 61, born at the end of 60. I met my husband only 6 years ago. He is a musician, more folky than me... but he gets my Chicago fixation. He got me the new remix of Chicago II, which to me is a major sign of love. Ballet is one of my most favs ever. "Make Me Smile" was the final of our two 2-CD wedding music. I never get tired of it, or of how he understands how hot I've always thought this is.
It's 2022 and I'm listening to this just like I did as a 15 year old kid. I was dumbstruck at this genius piece of music. Rates right up there with the Beatles "A Day in the Life". James Pankow's brilliant lyrics and horn arrangements for this song are now legendary.
Thank you so much for putting this out there. This is one of the greatest songs of all time, rating up there with the likes of Stairway to Heaven and Free Bird. In my opinion, of course. Their best rendition is the live version from Carnegie Hall, which has been taken down.
In my opinion, and remember this is MY opinion, this album side stands toe to toe with side 2 of Abby Road. This medley so smoothly runs together. I bought this album in 1970 on the strenghth of the AM radio version of "Make me Smile" as I'm sure so many people did. This was unexpected to my young ears as I was a high school freshman and only listened to pop music of the time. After listening I called my best friend to hear this amazing find as well. He brought over a joint and we listened together and music changed for both of us. This album along with Santana's lion album which I also bought that day shaped my music ears and mind forever. The joint may have also had a little bit to do with it as well ;-). Bye I'm going to do a hit and listen one more time. Some things never change.
Yes, Abbey Road side two... none better, but there's this, which is just as good for flow. 1970 I was a 9 YO girl drummer and loved loved loved horns so much!
@@donnamccall8063 I was lucky enough to see a show from that tour you're referring to. Just the two bands; Hendrix as headliner, & Chicago Transit Authority opening. After their both their 1st LP's, & prior to the band's name change to just 'Chicago'. It was in 1968 at the Oakland Coliseum Arena. And such a great show.
Love Chicago and "Big Walt" Parazader(sp). Tall and handsome...helluva player. He no longer tours with the band so I guess I will never see him in concert. Would love to see them period but I keep missing them when they're in the area.
What I miss most about vinyl is being able to say my all-time favorite album side is Side 2 of Chicago II. Although I should have listened to Fancy Colours first!
After more than 50 years, this holds up and I never tire of hearing it. So happy I saw them at Blossom Music Center before Terry Katy died. This song and Beginnings from CTA are two of the most perfectly produced songs ever. And, yes, Danny Serraphine may be the most underrated drummer of all time
My cousin gave me this album before he was shipped off to Vietnam and killed in action on June 12 1970. RIP PFC Jesus Oleta.
So sorry for your loss. He had great taste in music.
What a memory I'm so sorry for you lost and lost the family experience and I believe that you will see him again when it's your time
Thank you for your sacrifice Jesus.
I hope you treasure the memories of your cousin as well as treasure this album always. Peace.
I'm so sorry for your loss! Carry on the music for the future.
This should be up there with Stairway To Heaven, Hey Jude, Born To Run, etc, as one of the greatest songs of all time
Word!
Absolutely
Terry kath's singing ... Makes me smile no matter how many times I hear this... Best cover I've seen/ heard is Leonid and friends on UA-cam... They cover old Chicago better than Chicago does.
Agreed 1000%!
For those of us who were here when this dropped...it is.
The greatness of this epic display of writting ,production, arrangement, musicianship and vocals is off the charts.
This is 1970!!!!!!!!!!
Still sounds as fresh today as it did the first time my generation heard it!
Talent like this is unfortunately GONE ftom the industry.
Mid sixties to 1980 was the pinnacle of pop, rock,R&B and all commercial music.
The artirsts and music that put out their best work , we will never see their likes again.
No more crap hair metal bands?
If that were true I'd be ecstatic.
It sounds even better today because there's nothing to compare!
agreed
Every generation draws a line in the sand regarding new music. Elvis’ generation shook their hips, while their elders heard the music of the devil, that would cause the downfall of civilization. The new music is always for the teens.
Kevin bean, true, but you must admit... They played real instruments before, and some were virtuosos like these. The horns, providing such mood, and tone have mostly disappeared. This is also far more complicated and complex to be compared to current rock pop or rap. They were also rather sui generis.
I am listening to this in 2020 -- fifty years after it arrived -- and it remains a relevant and virtuosic performance by today's standards. In 1970, fifty year old music would have been recorded acoustically into a horn, jazz on record would be three years old while blues and country would not yet have existed on record. The achievement of this group of seven is stunning.
yes indeed!!!
Absolutely this band is off the charts fantastic.
This came right on right after lowdown and honestly I never even heard this before. Everyone in Chicago is so amazing and so talented and I am grateful to have been alive during the 60s '70s and '80s and the 90s.....to hear all this amazing music that we have even in the years leading up to today's minimal amount of talent but there is always some good music out there you just have to find it. Chicago is such a legendary band.... the greatest will ever see in our lifetime
ballet came before lowdown. ballet was on 2 - lowdown on 3
@@heavnnnsent Been listening to III for the last couple of days. As mindblowing today as it was the first time I heard it 50 years. No...even more than 50 years ago!
Chicago in their original form was the best group of musicians in the world.
They were a soulful force of nature
All you got to do is listen!
i know that
Amen, bro... Amen to that!
That horn section… so tight.
I will pass on the current wannabes
It's hard for me to disagree, but The Beatles and Pink Floyd are ahead.
What band in their history debut a Double l.p. only to follow that up with ANOTHER Double Album! These guys had a lot of material when they signed their record contract. All of it phenomenal.
Exactly!!!
True musicianship!!!
They were🔥🔥🔥
The Clash took crap from their record company over 'London Calling' being a double LP. So their next one was a triple.
Think3-4 in a row!! All fantastic
And Hendrix saw this raw talent before their big recording contract
James Pankow is a genius.
"To be free" is my favourites part ever
Yes, he is.
SHEER GENIUS!!!
Fun fact: James' brother John was Cousin Ira on the sitcom Mad About You. Very talented family!
@@toyotaphil54 He was also in the movie, Once Upon a Time In LA, as well as others.
I had this album, being a trumpet player, Thanks UA-cam for putting this album on UA-cam
December 2023
☺👍💎🈁
I still have this album
Jeez, at times I think, ‘no one has ever sang with as much raw soul as Terry Kath.
Amazing.
RIP Terry Kath…
❤️✌🏾
I'm listening to this in 2021 and still utterly marvelling at it the way I did when I heard it for the first time over 50 years ago.
They just played the WHOLE 13 minute ballad on Music Choice cable station ( Classic Rock channel ) & BLEW ME AWAY----usually ya Only hear parts of it----never the Whole thing ! Had to hear it again, here, even tho I have the original vinyl album, buried somewhere around the house.
Yeah, me too... :)
This was the high point of their 1970 Tanglewood concert. That must have been some girl!
maybe it was you!
Her name was Terrie Heisler. She left Pankow to go to school at West Virginia Wesleyan College (hence "West Virginia Fantasies"). She married someone else in 1975 and lived happily ever after. She just passed away in 2 Feb 2020.
What an absolute masterpiece of playing and composition. And, the joy of holding the actual album with the art and listening to the vinyl was just sublime.
Had I been that Girl in Buchannon,, I’d have been so damn flattered by this masterpiece they would’ve had to call 911 for me.
Fun fact. The closest place to Chicago called Buchanan is a little factory town In Michigan about 90 miles away.
@@paulbowen1532believe the Buchanon in West Virginy is what they are referring to!
@@mr.sinclair4940 there are probably lots of girls in this beat down little factory town in SW Michigan that have Chicago beaus. Not near as far away as WV.
@@mr.sinclair4940 That would fit as West Virginia Fantasies is part of it ???
For my and our sweet cousin Joey Garcia from Corpus Christi, Texas (RIP), who was a devoted fan. His smile said it all.
If your cousin Joey has passed away then I know he's smiling that you just dedicated this to him. I know they are watching over us and that we will meet them again when it's our time
Danny seraphine playing inspires me I play this whole thing on drums And I just don’t wanna stop playing it all over and over again
I played this album to death when it came out and I still love it all these years later. Brilliant.
My favorite of all.
Me too
I heard this coming out of the office at summer camp when I was 12, and had to go in, cuase I instantly fell in love with it, 5 other campers came in before it was over, powerful!
In its' entirety probably Chicago's greatest song from one the Greatest ever bands!!
The masterpiece of this magnificent band, excellent musicians Terry, Robert, James, Peter, Walter, Denny, Lee
The early 70's were a great time in popular musical diversity and experimentation. I so loved this album and the fact that they spelled the title of one of their great numbers like the British, "Colour my World."
70s were the best time for music.
Classic Chicago never gets old, even after 50 years.
Terry Kath, the forgotten guitar hero!
He is growing again in popularity due to youtube. What a player Kath was
not by me!
and a great singer
I will never forget the guy. He was pure. The man was one of a kind.
videodrome99 Gone, but NEVER forgotten!! 💗
Growing up in the Chicago suburbs in the '70s, "Colour My World" was the song you had your first dance to in the fifth grade, and likely playing when you had your first kiss. 💋
My parents' wedding song. :)
Oh man... not just in Chicago. Junior high Sock hops... all over America!
Yes, indeed!! I was there!
Always play this album when I’m working around the house. Will always be my favorite band.
Can't help but smile when singing along for 43 years.
An absolutely beautiful piece of music. Thank you for uploading the whole thing uninterrupted.
That’s for sure. Just the best!
Saw them live at the Erie Crown Theatre, in Chicago 1972. Clearly the best musicianship ever.
For my friend Tony Nunez,...He was the BEST Trumpet Player ,... Cancer got him Bad 🙏🛐
pankow brilliant! songwriter and jimmy trombone! Genius! I was lucky to have t\seen this classic group over 50 times!
original band had no competition
Fun fact. The closest place to Chicago called Buchanan is a little factory town In Michigan about 90 miles away.
Good research❤❤
We saw Chicago live last night in Lewiston, New York. They played this and other favorites for a solid 2 hours!!! They were fantastic!
My wife and I were there too! So glad after close to fifty years, finally to see them....Great setting at Artpark with the Niagara gorge in the background, eh?
I've seen them twice in concert at the Toledo Zoo in Ohio. Awesome shows.
@@rodneyutley5787 Use
First I just want to echo all the comments that this a masterpiece like Stairway etc.... but here's why this is better.
Most of those songs we know from the studio versions, well recorded and produced. Ever seen Stairway live? not quite the same.
Ever seen this whole thing live? It's exactly the same. This is exactly what they sounded like. and still do sound like.
Also worth mentioning that in 1970 this was cut in two short radio songs Make Me Smile and Colour My World.
Most people had no idea it written as a suite. I didn't catch on until I bought Carnegie Hall.
Thanks again Chicago, this wonderful piece is one of my early potent influences to study and perform music.
Wish they would remaster. Greatest side of music ever!!!
Love the timing changes and terry Kaths voice and guitar
“Cry sweet tears of joy, touch the sky”
Chicago were true innovators and with their first few albums that were double albums and their genius laid in the late Terry Kath and this band was so inventive and brilliant they are so much more than their hits these boys were a true album and prog band
My first Chicago album. These musicians knew how to work together. Ballet is great but so is It Better End Soon.
Saw them at Soldier Field summer of 1970. What a great concert! I think there were 5 bands but I was too stoned to remember. Just remember Chicago CTA being the GREATEST!
Masterpiece without doubt. Isn't it?
Yes it is!
Well I'm sure Jimi Hendrix was there to escort Terry kath to the next adventure .... Because when we die our friends are relatives come and take us to our next journey
@@heavnnnsent oh,yes,definitely you're right! Thanks
When a teen in the 70s I discovered by accident while trying to record this from the radio that if you cut from 3:30 to 10:22, you get a perfect 6 minute Make Me Smile, longer than any other version of just it!!
FIN OUTSTANDING!!! Terry Kath and this band
this is the way it should be presented. the whole ballet in its entirety. If you heard individual songs from here it doesn't have the same impact. this is just Greatness!
Fine piece of brilliance!
I like suites, like Suite Judy Blue Eyes CS&N, A Quick One by the Who, and the side 2 Abby Road Medley. Suites show the bands musical skills.
I luv hearing the crackling of the vinyl record.
This album...man! A family treasure I received from my older siblings. Timeless.
They knew about the world even in their youth when writing these masterpieces!
Still sounds fresh to me even after all these years. Thanks fellas, awesome stuff!
Oh my god thank you, I literally made a playlist several months ago just for this purpose. I can FINALLY listen to it seamlessly.
I had never heard this long version... I always heard it on a compilation, which is totally edited, to be played on the radio, so when I heard the original album, released in 1970, I even reacted: "Wow, what a difference!" - From then on, I never stopped listening to this long original song!
This band will always be great. Love the music 🎶
My brother had this album,it made me a fan of Chicago
Hi
Such a great album
My absolute 1st album. Then I collected about 1500 before a flood claimed them. But this album was still in there 20+ yrs after I got it. I do like CTA a little better though.
Damn that was alot of history.
Everyone in my year learned the first six notes, to COLOUR MY WORLD!!!!!! On the school piano
Right on, it hits the spot
I remember listening to this and a Jazz purist rubbished it as derivative, but it was a grand album!
This was got me into jazz!
There's always somebody out to steal your joy but I'm not letting them! This is Big band rock at its finest and they will never be another Chicago Transit authority
@@heavnnnsent The 'jazz purist' was my gf's father. He just wanted to put me down.
One of the best bands ever (at least out of prog-rock music).
BRAVO!!!!!
Hi
Pure f#@$n magic!!!
Grandiose 🙏🙏🙏
GRANDI!!
Chicago...grandissima band
I'm just noticing here on this version that the tambourine has been mixed out of "West Virginia Fantasies" portion of "Ballet for a Girl..." weird (compared with the original LP)
Whatever you're selling, I'll never buy it if your ad interrupts a jam like this.
💓
🍀😀💛🥀
Hi
I wish the original members would form a new band. They were amazing. But it would be impossible to replace Terry.
Chicago still performs, minus Kath, Cetera and Seraphine, but Danny started California Transit Authority, and they play some Chicago and some newer tunes... worth a listen!
Thanks to Pete Cetera, now Chicago is now basically a clone of Air Supply with a brass section.
Good, but nowhere as good as the Tanglewood version. This was one of the rare bands that was better live.
Not up there with them but at the top of the list.
Hi
I give it a 25 or 6 to four (;
a cd version of this would have been better then record can hear the crackling. Dylan do over but with cd only.
Those people that only know the radio version of "Make Me Smile" are missing some of the greatest music ever made.
Whew!!!!
You're not kidding!!!
The entire song is 🔥🔥
So true! Like only listening to an opera's preludes and not the whole composition.
And colour my world
I know this one due to a concert video I've watched before listening to the radio version.
Yeah, well..Back then DJ's were paid to sell bubblegum, the weather report and other junk. The music was just there to keep your ears paying attention if you were lucky. It was college FM stations that played the music in those days.. 😏
not enough people realize that Colour My World is just a movement in a larger piece of music and that this whole magnificient piece should always be played in its entirety
Indeed!
The whole thing should have been on Chicago IX in that case since it was the Greatest Hits album.
No doubt about it!
I’d like to hear a symphony orchestra version of it. It would be lovely.
Couldn’t agree more. I love CMW as an element of the ballet but am indifferent to it as a standalone
This particular album side should always be played in its entirety, beginning to end.
Excellent point! This side takes you through an awesome journey
I agree, just like the album dark side of the moon, it is really one long song.
It should be a law!
Always drives me crazy when radio stations chop up these songs, play it all!
James Pankow's brass arrangements are spectacular. Great group.
James Pankow is one of my musical heroes.
He wrote this entire movement side 2 of album 2.
I love Terry Kath he is the best GUITARIST I EVER HEARD WHAT A VOICE!!
What a guitar player too and yes he really could sing!
white ray charles with a guitar instead of a piano
@@thomasmaxwell8353 you know for years when I was a kid growing up in the 70's (I will be 56 next month)listing to Chicago and before really researching the band I thought that Terry was a Black man he has such a deep soulful voice, so sad when we lost him i remember when the news of his accidental death in 1978 wonder what his music would be like if he was still here
Man alive !! Has music gone backwards or what ?! This is just supreme; always was, always will be.....🚬😎
One of the best album sides ever
sides?
Yes. Starts with wake up sunshine, a throwaway that was really a gem
All of them are or were great musicians.
Lamm, Kath, Cetera, Seraphine,Lougnane, Pankow, Parazider the BEST band EVER!!
Seraphine was smooth on drums.
Probably the most underrated drummer ever.
Does not get nearly enough credit - dude was a master. CTA was the first album I ever bought, 47 years ago.
and Lamm was velvet smooth on vocals
@Chris Paul I have to admit I had to look up Bobby Colomby. I always liked Blood, Sweat and Tears, but I typically focused more on the horns and vocals. I'll go back and check out some BST and focus on the drums.
Right there with you on Carl Palmer. Like everything he's done, his pieces on Side 3 of Works, Volume 1 were incredible.
a perfect contributor to this magic band. total freaking magic - the whole band.
2023 and still nothing can top this
and nothing can change a year watcher like you we know what dam year it is
@@thomasbrunn4182there's always got to be that one who wants to act like an asshole.
Damn right!
Bohemian Rhapsody 2nd!!!❤
6/15 2024
Terry Kath! Enough said
The late great Terry Kath is still one of the top five best guitarists of all time (in my opinion).
Can't argue with that. He was stupendous. Hendrix praised him.
I agree. Terry Kath was a legendary guitarist, and one of the least-recognized at that. If he hadn't been taken so soon, I don't doubt his work would have been more widely recognized.
Terry was Jimi Hendrix favorite guitarist.
That guns not loaded...
Wonderful guitarist. When Jimmy says you're the best. Awesome 👌 👏
I am 61, born at the end of 60. I met my husband only 6 years ago. He is a musician, more folky than me... but he gets my Chicago fixation. He got me the new remix of Chicago II, which to me is a major sign of love. Ballet is one of my most favs ever. "Make Me Smile" was the final of our two 2-CD wedding music. I never get tired of it, or of how he understands how hot I've always thought this is.
Absolute classic! Yes, go buy Chicago II. It is one of the best produced albums in history; far ahead of its time
It's 2022 and I'm listening to this just like I did as a 15 year old kid. I was dumbstruck at this genius piece of music. Rates right up there with the Beatles "A Day in the Life". James Pankow's brilliant lyrics and horn arrangements for this song are now legendary.
Thank you so much for putting this out there. This is one of the greatest songs of all time, rating up there with the likes of Stairway to Heaven and Free Bird. In my opinion, of course. Their best rendition is the live version from Carnegie Hall, which has been taken down.
I have my dad's live at Caregie Hall album set. Still sounds like new.
In my opinion, and remember this is MY opinion, this album side stands toe to toe with side 2 of Abby Road. This medley so smoothly runs together. I bought this album in 1970 on the strenghth of the AM radio version of "Make me Smile" as I'm sure so many people did. This was unexpected to my young ears as I was a high school freshman and only listened to pop music of the time. After listening I called my best friend to hear this amazing find as well. He brought over a joint and we listened together and music changed for both of us. This album along with Santana's lion album which I also bought that day shaped my music ears and mind forever. The joint may have also had a little bit to do with it as well ;-). Bye I'm going to do a hit and listen one more time. Some things never change.
Yes, Abbey Road side two... none better, but there's this, which is just as good for flow. 1970 I was a 9 YO girl drummer and loved loved loved horns so much!
Kicks MAJOR A$$ with a doob & headphones. 😇💪✊👊🖐️👍👌✌️🤘🙂
I'm a Beatles tragic but I agree with you there, this is magic.
Actually, this is far better.
I always thought of Chicago as a prog/jazz band that did some great pop tunes. I don't think Abbey Road touches their complexity.
FINALLY!!! I’ve been looking for the original full version! Tytytyty!!! Much love!
This was when Chicago rocked. I won't listen to any of their stuff that was done after Terry Kath passed away.
hear ya loud and clear. they went in a bad direction, for sure.
Nor will I - Pete Cetera had way too much influence after that!
100%. Different band without Terry.
Some musicians can be replaced, some cannot. Led Zeppelin is about the only band that knew the difference. Are you listening Pete & Roger?
yep...exactly how I feel
This one band had more musical talent than 500 bands out today!
One of the most brilliant pieces of music to ever be pressed to vinyl!
My all time favorite Chicago tune. Danny Seraphine is under-rated, he is one hell of a fine drummer!
i bet he wasn't 'underrated' by the other band members :D
He's in my all-time top 3 drummers. and, i can't put them in a 1 2 3 order. I love Danny!
During Chicagos time with Terry Kath..one of the most talented group of musicians ever assembled. So soulful .
Glad that I was born in an Era of awesome music (1970).
Jimi Hendrix told Terry Kath that he was the best Guitarist he had ever heard and that Terry was better than he was.
But he wasn't... c'mon now. Jimi is very arguably the greatest rock guitarist of all time.
@@craigalden54 only to those that are unfamiliar with Zappa, Gallagher and Beck.
JH did not tell him that. He said it to one of the band members. They were offered a chance to tour with JH and took it.
@@craigalden54 He was! Kath more versatile , more soul, better phrasing and a better technical player.
Really not close!
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I was lucky enough to see a show from that tour you're referring to. Just the
two bands; Hendrix as headliner, & Chicago Transit Authority opening.
After their both their 1st LP's, & prior to the band's name change to just 'Chicago'.
It was in 1968 at the Oakland Coliseum Arena. And such a great show.
Jimmy Pankow waking up Walter Parazaider - “Hey, Walt, I have something I need you to play the flute on”. Sublime.
Love Chicago and "Big Walt" Parazader(sp).
Tall and handsome...helluva player.
He no longer tours with the band so I guess I will never see him in concert.
Would love to see them period but I keep missing them when they're in the area.
What I miss most about vinyl is being able to say my all-time favorite album side is Side 2 of Chicago II. Although I should have listened to Fancy Colours first!
After more than 50 years, this holds up and I never tire of hearing it.
So happy I saw them at Blossom Music Center before Terry Katy died.
This song and Beginnings from CTA are two of the most perfectly produced songs ever.
And, yes, Danny Serraphine may be the most underrated drummer of all time
Hell yes! Watch some of the early footage of Chicago and watch how Terry and Danny play off each other. It's beautiful.