Blood Sweat and Tears has a similar sound in incorperating horns in their music. Chicago's horn section includes trumpet, trombone and sax. The talking part was always there, but like Ethan said you notice it more when you listen through headphones.
During their "Jazz Fusion" (70s) era, their biggest hits (besides this one) were "25 or 6 to 4" (#4), "Free" (#20), "Beginnings" (#7), "Colour My World" (#7), "Questions 67 and 68" (#24), "I'm A Man" (#49), "Saturday in the Park" (#3), "Dialogue (Part I & II)" (#24), "Feelin' Stronger Every Day" (#10), "Just You 'n' Me" (#4), "I've Been Searchin' So Long" (#9), "Call On Me" (#6), "Wishing You Were Here" (#11), "Old Days" (#5), "If You Leave Me Now" (#1), "Baby What A Big Surprise" (#8), "No Tell Lover" (#14)... and "Make Me Smile" (#9). If you do "Make Me Smile" -- do NOT, under ANY circumstances, listen to the radio-edited single cut from the "greatest hits" collections! (You can tell by the length; the radio edit is only 2:58 in length.) The song actually consists of two parts which bookend the "Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon" suite from side two of their "Chicago II" album, and the 1970 single edit which puts the two parts together sounds like it was edited with a weed-whacker. 😛 Look for the 4:25-length edit from their 2002 "Only The Beginning" box set.
I think the next song you should listen to by Chicago is “Beginnings.” I love that song so much. When I was young and living at home, I played that song over and over and over again. It’s one of their best, in my opinion.
Well, it's Poll Thursday on a Friday. This actually was done when Chicago was called Chicago Transit Authority. Just their first studio album, than they were Chicago after that. Check out your second place finisher Hey Nineteen by Steely Dan
The single 45" release of this song omitted the spoken background vocal in the last verse. It is likely why Larry didn't remember hearing it before, as most oldies stations play the single edit.
Hello there! A day late is good time for me! Im a big Chicago fan! Robert Lamm's vocals are awesome and you know this band's distinctive sound immediately by those horns! Good one! Feeling Stronger Everyday is another good one! And Beginnings!
@@66edoug Chicago is fine. We got a little side swiped because Indiana got some of the smoke. And yes New York was terrible. They had to cancel the White Sox game!
That was really good, Chicago were really a great band. Other jazz fusion artists that are well worth checking out are Weather Report - Birdland is superb - and late, great Jeff Beck with tracks like Led Boots, Freeway Jam and the really great ballad Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers
Saw them in the 80s. To save a buck, I sat on the lawn that was way in the back on a hill. I had a gravity induced power wedgie all night long. Learning moment, pay the money and get floor seats. ✌
U ask & u shall receive .. how did those horns tickle ur fancy Ethan? 😉 You have got to do more Chicago .. their catalog is superb. Many commentors have already listed their great tunes so I won't bore you. Great tune here to jump start our wknd. Nice job .. much luv from Georgia .. B well y'all ❣️🤘🏼😊
Ethan if you like this you may like some of STINGS solo work. Englishman in New York, Desert Rose, Seven Days, All This Time, Fragile, If I Ever Lose My Faith In You, If You Love Somebody Set Them Free, When We Dance, just to name a few. 🤞✌
Rock-Jazz fusion: Billy Joel's 52nd Street album. This was perhaps my favorite Joel album (I play jazz) as it is far and away his most jazz-influenced work, and it was so good it drew one of the greatest jazz trumpet players post-1960, Freddie Hubbard. Not every song is jazzy -- there is some pop -- but among the best jazz-tinged songs is "Zanzibar" which included Hubbard on Trumpet and has a hook that went viral on TikTok 40+ years after it was released. My second choice from that is relatively unknown but a banger driven by trumpets, "Half a Mile Away."
CTA, later known simply as CHICAGO due to legal litigation with the actual Chicago Transit Authority, had a somewhat unque sound in my opinion. They once described themselves as a "Rock Band With Horns". I suppose that description fits as well as anything I could come up with.
Great song by Chicago. Ethan's correct, with headphones you definitely hear those more nuanced sounds. That talking part has always been in the track, never edited out. Just like in "Saturday in the Park" where they sing "a man selling ice cream, singing Italian songs" and then you hear "Italian lyrics". And can we give props to that muted trombone playing the final closing riff!
I agree with the Steely Dan comparison to an extent. Just the incorporation aspect. I would also compare them to the way ELO incorporates their strings even more so. Nice easy tune for the ears
This either didn't chart or wasn't released in the UK, so I don't recall it at all. It was okay, quite easy listening, and I get the Steely Dan comparison. Their biggest hit in the UK was If You Leave Me Now in July 1976 and was #1 in every market listed on the Wiki discography. Hope Finals are going well for you, Ethan! Best wishes.
Charted in Australia (#35), Canada (#2), New Zealand (#17), and at either #7 or #5 in the US, depending on whether you're using the Billboard Hot 100 or the Cash Box Top100 numbers... but yeah, it didn't chart in the UKm, even though the album it came from ("Chicago Transit Authority") actually peaked higher in the UK (#9) than it did in the US (#17). Go figure.
Does anybody really know what time it is ? "You mean now?" i second a comment for BS&T "And When I'm Gone" edit: "die" if u don't plan on reacting to it then don't wait to listen to it. you'll enjoy it. Good song and wrap , Fusion Friday ! peace.
This was made in to a B side for a couple of their singles in the Uk. Not sure if it was Beginnings or I'm a Man from that first album. It was also with either Make Me Smile or 25 or 6 to 4 from the second album. One of those two had Colour My World as the B side. I was very much in to Chicago back then, and I still highly rate both of those albums. Chicago gave value for money - the first 3 albums were doubles, while the 4th was a live box set at Carnegie hall. I dont know why I bought the singles because they didn't offer anything that could not be found on the albums which had and still have longer and better versions.
You should have played the original album cut, you missed the piano solo intro by Robert Lamm. There was also another short cut version that skips the second verse and overdub spoken verse. On this debut album, you MUST play Poem "58"!!!!! Almost nine minutes of PURE FUNK led by Terry Kath on guitar, Danny Seraphine on drums, and Peter Cetera underscoring it with bass. DEFINITELY "POEM 58"!!!
Great song and great album too. There are some great jazz rock/fusion bands around: Mahavishnu Orchestra. Passport. Stomu Yamashta (album Go live from Paris). Return to forever. I’ve got a recommendation for you. ID.Entity by the Polish band Riverside. Introvert by Polish band Retrospective. No, I’m not Polish. I’m Dutch. Both bands play progressive rock music.
Blood Sweat and Tears has a similar sound in incorperating horns in their music. Chicago's horn section includes trumpet, trombone and sax. The talking part was always there, but like Ethan said you notice it more when you listen through headphones.
During their "Jazz Fusion" (70s) era, their biggest hits (besides this one) were "25 or 6 to 4" (#4), "Free" (#20), "Beginnings" (#7), "Colour My World" (#7), "Questions 67 and 68" (#24), "I'm A Man" (#49), "Saturday in the Park" (#3), "Dialogue (Part I & II)" (#24), "Feelin' Stronger Every Day" (#10), "Just You 'n' Me" (#4), "I've Been Searchin' So Long" (#9), "Call On Me" (#6), "Wishing You Were Here" (#11), "Old Days" (#5), "If You Leave Me Now" (#1), "Baby What A Big Surprise" (#8), "No Tell Lover" (#14)... and "Make Me Smile" (#9).
If you do "Make Me Smile" -- do NOT, under ANY circumstances, listen to the radio-edited single cut from the "greatest hits" collections! (You can tell by the length; the radio edit is only 2:58 in length.) The song actually consists of two parts which bookend the "Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon" suite from side two of their "Chicago II" album, and the 1970 single edit which puts the two parts together sounds like it was edited with a weed-whacker. 😛 Look for the 4:25-length edit from their 2002 "Only The Beginning" box set.
A feel good song with energy that works just from the power of the horn section.
I think the next song you should listen to by Chicago is “Beginnings.” I love that song so much. When I was young and living at home, I played that song over and over and over again. It’s one of their best, in my opinion.
This is music I have cleaned my house to for years!
Well, it's Poll Thursday on a Friday. This actually was done when Chicago was called Chicago Transit Authority. Just their first studio album, than they were Chicago after that.
Check out your second place finisher Hey Nineteen by Steely Dan
Col. Smart name change. Theirsongs were half over when the DJ said who the band was over.
Great song. Glad you reacted to it.
The single 45" release of this song omitted the spoken background vocal in the last verse. It is likely why Larry didn't remember hearing it before, as most oldies stations play the single edit.
Hello there! A day late is good time for me! Im a big Chicago fan! Robert Lamm's vocals are awesome and you know this band's distinctive sound immediately by those horns! Good one! Feeling Stronger Everyday is another good one! And Beginnings!
Hi Cheryl, You sound like you are in a good mood. That's great! And when I saw it was Chicago I thought of you.
@@66edoug Hello! Got to keep those smiles going! And it is fun to have a band named after your city! How's the air quality where you are?
@@cherylreichardt Air quality is good. We are lucky. How is it in Chicago? I saw the pictures of New York the other day, it was awful.
@@66edoug Chicago is fine. We got a little side swiped because Indiana got some of the smoke. And yes New York was terrible. They had to cancel the White Sox game!
@@cherylreichardt I Know. It was awful. The sky was brown.
That was really good, Chicago were really a great band.
Other jazz fusion artists that are well worth checking out are Weather Report - Birdland is superb - and late, great Jeff Beck with tracks like Led Boots, Freeway Jam and the really great ballad Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers
Saw them in the 80s. To save a buck, I sat on the lawn that was way in the back on a hill. I had a gravity induced power wedgie all night long. Learning moment, pay the money and get floor seats. ✌
Tower of Power
Also questions 67 and 68 by Chicago will blow you away.
Forgot how great this band was. Some superb hits - "If you leave me now", "Hard to say I'm sorry" - try some more guys
U ask & u shall receive .. how did those horns tickle ur fancy Ethan? 😉 You have got to do more Chicago .. their catalog is superb. Many commentors have already listed their great tunes so I won't bore you. Great tune here to jump start our wknd. Nice job .. much luv from Georgia .. B well y'all ❣️🤘🏼😊
Can’t wait to hear more from them! Thanks Ramona! Have a good weekend -Ethan
@@fatherandsonreactions thnx & yvw😊
Ethan if you like this you may like some of STINGS solo work.
Englishman in New York, Desert Rose, Seven Days, All This Time, Fragile, If I Ever Lose My Faith In You, If You Love Somebody Set Them Free, When We Dance, just to name a few. 🤞✌
Rock-Jazz fusion:
Billy Joel's 52nd Street album. This was perhaps my favorite Joel album (I play jazz) as it is far and away his most jazz-influenced work, and it was so good it drew one of the greatest jazz trumpet players post-1960, Freddie Hubbard. Not every song is jazzy -- there is some pop -- but among the best jazz-tinged songs is "Zanzibar" which included Hubbard on Trumpet and has a hook that went viral on TikTok 40+ years after it was released. My second choice from that is relatively unknown but a banger driven by trumpets, "Half a Mile Away."
CTA, later known simply as CHICAGO due to legal litigation with the actual Chicago Transit Authority, had a somewhat unque sound in my opinion. They once described themselves as a "Rock Band With Horns". I suppose that description fits as well as anything I could come up with.
Great song by Chicago. Ethan's correct, with headphones you definitely hear those more nuanced sounds. That talking part has always been in the track, never edited out. Just like in "Saturday in the Park" where they sing "a man selling ice cream, singing Italian songs" and then you hear "Italian lyrics". And can we give props to that muted trombone playing the final closing riff!
Earth, Wind & Fire , Doobie Brothers are two similar groups.
Thanks ! I’ll make sure to note that down 📝 -Ethan
I agree with the Steely Dan comparison to an extent. Just the incorporation aspect. I would also compare them to the way ELO incorporates their strings even more so. Nice easy tune for the ears
This either didn't chart or wasn't released in the UK, so I don't recall it at all. It was okay, quite easy listening, and I get the Steely Dan comparison. Their biggest hit in the UK was If You Leave Me Now in July 1976 and was #1 in every market listed on the Wiki discography. Hope Finals are going well for you, Ethan! Best wishes.
Yes! Best wishes for Ethan!
Charted in Australia (#35), Canada (#2), New Zealand (#17), and at either #7 or #5 in the US, depending on whether you're using the Billboard Hot 100 or the Cash Box Top100 numbers... but yeah, it didn't chart in the UKm, even though the album it came from ("Chicago Transit Authority") actually peaked higher in the UK (#9) than it did in the US (#17). Go figure.
@@cherylreichardt this got a lot of airplay in the US.
@@PowderedToastMan420 Tremendous play. Would hear it constantly on local radio.
@@ballyastrocade5672 - we're fickle...
Chase, led by trumpeter Bill Chase. Songs Livin in Heat or Get it On.
Does anybody really know what time it is ? "You mean now?"
i second a comment for BS&T "And When I'm Gone" edit: "die" if u don't plan on reacting to it then don't wait to listen to it. you'll enjoy it.
Good song and wrap , Fusion Friday ! peace.
YES "Spinning Wheel"👈🏼
More Jazz fusion you say?
Blood, Sweat, & Tears - And When I Die and Spinning Wheel is an excellent place to start.
✌️Peace✌️
Thanks Paul! -Ethan
This was made in to a B side for a couple of their singles in the Uk. Not sure if it was Beginnings or I'm a Man from that first album. It was also with either Make Me Smile or 25 or 6 to 4 from the second album. One of those two had Colour My World as the B side. I was very much in to Chicago back then, and I still highly rate both of those albums. Chicago gave value for money - the first 3 albums were doubles, while the 4th was a live box set at Carnegie hall. I dont know why I bought the singles because they didn't offer anything that could not be found on the albums which had and still have longer and better versions.
You should have played the original album cut, you missed the piano solo intro by Robert Lamm. There was also another short cut version that skips the second verse and overdub spoken verse.
On this debut album, you MUST play Poem "58"!!!!! Almost nine minutes of PURE FUNK led by Terry Kath on guitar, Danny Seraphine on drums, and Peter Cetera underscoring it with bass. DEFINITELY "POEM 58"!!!
Great song and great album too.
There are some great jazz rock/fusion bands around: Mahavishnu Orchestra. Passport. Stomu Yamashta (album Go live from Paris). Return to forever.
I’ve got a recommendation for you.
ID.Entity by the Polish band Riverside.
Introvert by Polish band Retrospective.
No, I’m not Polish. I’m Dutch.
Both bands play progressive rock music.
Hey really Good Reaction 👍👍You Both should React to "Chicago Dialogue Parts 1 & 2 " , thats another Cool One 👍👍 Rock on Peace 🎶🎶🎵🎵🎼🎼🎸🎸🎷🎷🎙🎙✌✌
There was guitar, Terry Kath not plaiyng guitar? He was playing rhythm. Check out Blood sweat and tears "Spinning wheel" and Ides of march "vehicle".
I know what DAY it is - it is FRIDAY - lol
Yep! Check out the community tab MK 😃 -Ethan
Hey U .. where ya been? How r ya man? Me u ask .. I woke up on the green side of the grass today & got to listen to Chicago with my fave peeps 😊
Dialogue (parts 1 and 2) would be a good one!
😎👍
This a song I've heard a lot but really never knew the name.
But did you know what time it was?🤔
@@cherylreichardt 😀Nope, just supper and bed time. One, I enjoyed more than the other.
@@66edoug 🤣👍
@@cherylreichardt 😊
are you playin' games ? name games ? :,)
I know what time it is! Time to study for finals.
You’re right! That’s my plan for today 😃 -Ethan
@@fatherandsonreactions what math are you taking?
Calculus right now. -Ethan
Hi guys! Is it finally that time again already?
Hello! It is that time !
@@cherylreichardt - time is now! How you doin'?
Hi Dave!
@@66edoug - Hi there! Doesn't seem like seven minutes since I was last chatting to you!
@@davemac1197I'm doing well! Hope you are doing fine too!
Nice reaction gents! Love Chicago and particularly this album. Try Introduction or Poem 58 from this same album. Mind blowing!
Thanks Jeffrey! -Ethan