Sweet baby Jesus. I cannot believe you guys did this track. Not only my favorite Chicago track but in my top 10 of all time.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, great!

@willard2729

Жыл бұрын

The best sleeper Chicago song

@michaelp.7893

Жыл бұрын

"Goodbye" is one of the reasons Chicago V is my favorite Chicago album.

The horns sound big because they double triple and quadruple tracked their horns. I've heard that they often have 4+ tracks of just trombone in different octaves/ harmony. Because they were all playing with themselves, the articulation and intonation was spot on. And they played pretty damn well, so that helps. For a representation of what they sounded like live check out their live at Carnegie Hall or Live in Japan. Still big and powerful. Yes the producer James William Guercio at Caribou Studios in Colorado was a major aspect of their sound at this time. My half uncle was a carpenter that did work for Guercio in the 70s and was paid in part by demonstrator (usually reserved for radio stations and critics) albums for his work up to this album. That's how I got into the fun Chicago.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Andrew!

Chicago V was the start of an incredible run of five consecutive #1 albums. Robert Lamm was the primary songwriter on this album and vocals are handled by three lead vocalists (Peter Cetera - high tenor, Terry Kath - low and soulful, Robert Lamm - midrange and smooth). Check out almost any song from this album - tons of diversity. Dialogue for trading vocals, guitar and awesome horn work in a political message that still resonates today. Saturday in the Park for its simple joyous vibe and irresistible groove. A Hit by Varese for horn solos. Now That’s You’ve Gone for incredible harmonies. All winners. Enjoy!

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for that!

@contourbody

Жыл бұрын

James Pankow's Now That You've Gone's horn chart is simply on another level and awe inspiring 😊

Now you "have to" hear "Dialogue" too. Because it's my favorite song on this album.

'Goodbye' is one of my favorite Chicago numbers. Such a nice jazzy feel. 'Hit by Varese' is a big jazzy piece from the same album and worth a listen.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

It’s an awesome song!

IMHO one of the most profoundly brilliant pieces of music ever recorded. Chicago during this period were simply, creatively on another level. Wonderful 😊

yes that was the great Peter Cetera on lead vocals and brilliant bass!

@reidwhitton6248

2 жыл бұрын

Love his bass lines and feel.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

So great!

@willard2729

Жыл бұрын

Peter was stunning on this song

First 9 or 10 Chicago albums were great, before they got into all that top 40 pop shit. Just another great classic Chicago tune. Two words: horn charts.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

We’re looking forward to listening to it all!

One of my favorite Chicago songs of all time....

Chicago was intact with the same seven founding members until founding lead guitarist Terry Kath's accidental death after Chicago XI was released. That was also the last album Chicago had James William Guercio as their producer, who had taken them from their native Chicago, Illinois out to California to make it big. Terry Kath - Guitar, lead vocals Robert Lamm - Keyboards, lead vocals Peter Cetera - Bass, lead vocals James Pankow - Trombone Lee Loughnane - Trumpet Walter Parazaider - Woodwinds, Saxophone Danny Seraphine - Drums Around Chicago VI they added Brazilian Laudir de Oliveira on percussion. Guercio built his own recording studio in Colorado, at Caribou Ranch. The band recorded albums V, VI and VII there. Artists John Berg and Nick Fasciano designed the famous Chicago script logo and a large number of their famous album covers. The Chicago VI cover was printed by the American Bank Note Company and the original album jacket had raised ink in fine line details as on real currency. Chicago VII had an embossed cover resembling leather. Chicago VIII had a cover resembling an embroidered patch of the logo and a cardinal. That album came with an iron on transfer of that logo to put on a t-shirt. Other albums included posters, including a MASSIVE poster in Chicago IV Live At Carnegie Hall.

@MovementGraffiti

2 жыл бұрын

Nice. How cool

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the line up Craig! We love the cover history!

@ruelmotos8690

2 жыл бұрын

Chicago V (1972) was recorded at Columbia Rec.'s 52nd Street Studios (Studio B) in New York City. Chicago's first three albums (1969-1971) were recorded at Columbia Rec.'s 30th Street Studio also in New York City while their fourth album release, Chicago At Carnegie Hall, was recorded live in Carnegie Hall. The rest of the Chicago albums (under Columbia Rec. label) from Chicago VI (1973) to Chicago XI (1977) were all recorded in James William Guercio's Caribou Ranch Studio in Nederlands, Colorado which also served as a mountain retreat for Chicago and other famous 70's band's that used the legendary studio to record their albums. When Chicago and Guercio parted ways, the band started to use other studios such as the Criteria Studios, in Miami, Record Plant in Los Angeles and A & R Recording, New York City.

@tomtheyank1

2 ай бұрын

Craig , I'm 61 years old and have a rare record collection in storage in seattle . Got Chicago vintage vinyl Original Chicago 4 , 6 , 7 , And 8 . 7 my favourite as raised swade. Original Last Waltz also raised Swade.. living in Ireland 🇮🇪 these past 25 years now. Started collection around 78... all the best!

All these hidden deep track gems. The music here is the best of any channel out there. Love the variety and Zappa😊 Can't help ya on the horns, I got nothing there

I love the low trombone doing the counter melody. So unique.

Peter Cetera was in the band through their 17th album, so yes this was definitely Cetera. All their albums except their 12th album Hot Streets were simply called Chicago with the number of the album after it. Well the first album was called Chicago Transit Authority (the name of the band at the time) and the 2nd was called Chicago, but the fans refer to it as Chicago II.

@shyshift

2 жыл бұрын

That changed again with: Night and Day Stone Of Sysyphus Now

@andrewjarvis2867

2 жыл бұрын

@@shyshift and now “Born For This Moment” which would have been Chicago XXXVIII.

The first 11 are wonderful albums. Live In Japan 1973 is a scorcher.

It's Pete singing ( who was there since the first album actually) and that's his badass jazz bass playing, as well.

Wood Chicago is Fire ! Scott Munie A NYC DJ WPLJ In the 80s Used to play Wood Chicago 🪵 in the Afternoon. Stealy Dan And Chicago the only 2 bands who'd dare to pull off Jazz And Blues in the 70s ! Peter Cetera playing Jazz While singing with eaze is incredible to me... thanks for the video ! ❤

They were so thoroughly artful. I love how their logo incorporated the bass and treble clefs. It really illustrated that they put the music first. It feels like a privilege having seen them during their heyday.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

We’re sure!

@lindaloe

Жыл бұрын

SAW CHICAGO IN 1973 AT CHICAGO STADIUM!!

@lindaloe

Жыл бұрын

LOVE V!! YES PETER WAS THERE JAMES GUERCIO WAS THEIR PRODUCER THEN.

Woohoo!

Watching this made me remember how much I loved that album when it came out. Then I started reminiscing about some other horns I used to enjoy. I collected a lot of the music of Don Ellis in the early 70s. He was a composer and trumpet player and very experimental and loved different time signatures. Played electric trumpet sometimes. He’s almost like a mashup of Chicago with a trumpet playing Zappa. I should add musically he resembles that mashup but no lyrics of course.

@SightAfterDark

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing Barry!

Underrated Chicago!

LOVE THE VERY ANDING WITH THE VANDERGRAFF GENERATOR THING GOING WITH ALL INSTRUMENTS ALL OVER THE PLACE . ONE OF THE BEST ENDINGS TO ANY SONG. ESPECIALLY WITH PANKOW'S TROMBONE HANGING ON THAT LOW "G" AS IT FADES OUT.

@derekbaker3279

Ай бұрын

I agree.....and very representative of the very mixed emotions they felt at the time of their relocation.

Totally! Youse is soooo funny! I loved what I thought of as an homage kinda vibe, a more "trad" set of parameters than I expect from vintage Chicago, who were also at their rockin'est back then. It seemed to show everyone to advantage as intrinsically part the ensemble. It set me at ease, and I thought, "sometimes it's the voice and words, sometimes their absence". Didn't mind at all when vocals joined the proceedings.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

☺️thanks for watching Damon!

@gregorycrnkovic1660

Жыл бұрын

Word......

6:48 just about any texture/background you can think of has been a Chicago album cover design 😆 (checkerboard, marble, a map, grass, gold, chrome, and even a freaking dollar bill).

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

It’s insane!

If you like Chicago songs, check out Y.Tube videos of note for note covers of Chicago songs by the Russian Group Leonid & Friends.

The best song off a truly great and underrated album! Thank you Robert❤ similar chords to Hot streets later on

@derekbaker3279

Ай бұрын

I'm partial to "Now That You've Gone", which continues to give me goosebumps (no exaggeration!) 50+ years later! Actually, the entire album does!

Jazzy intro in 3/4 with some unusual drum accents (I always thought), a once-only verse in 7/4, continuing into solo, then a return of the intro material in 3/4, then a (bridge?) in 4/4, followed by the final vocals in 3/4 continuing through the end, with the musicians slowly winding down / falling apart. Basically a through-composed song in form, a jazzy-prog number which they didn't do much of beyond VII.

@gregorycrnkovic1660

24 күн бұрын

3/4 to 7/4 back to 3/4 to 4/4 back to 3/4 and the slow down fizzle!!......I was trying to explain the terrific composition of this song last year but couldn't get it right. All those years learning how to read music and boy how quickly I let it slip away. But I was just a singer and never tried to learn an instrument which I do regret.

Lot of hidden gems on this one. Considered too "commercial" by the cool kids of the time.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely!

@howardtennenhouse7849

2 жыл бұрын

Great song.Great album.Was not commercial.Very jazzy.

The WOOD CHICAGO!! That's What I CALL It!!

@SightAfterDark

Жыл бұрын

It’s fire! Thanks for watching!

Its Peter Cetera! Also the producer is James William Guercio, who produced their first 11 albums, underrated, does not get the credit he deserves for not only getting this band off the ground but guiding them throughout their best years, certainly got the most out of these guys!

@derekbaker3279

Ай бұрын

Sadly, there were allegations of Guercio's ego growing out of proportion, possibly ripping off the band financially, and sticking his nose into the creative process that had made the band so incredible during the 1960s & 70s....consequently the entire band eventually gave him the boot. But, yes indeed, Guercio deserves a ton of credit for helping Chicago become the phenom they were!

Yes, that is Peter Cetera on lead vocal.

That was great

ALLWAYS WISHED TERRY KATH WAS STILL ALIVE AND THE ORIGINAL 7 WOULD REUNITE AND RECORD A COVER OF " PICK UP THE PIECES" BY THE (AVERAGE WHITE BAND). WHEN I FIRST HEARD THAT SONG , I THOUGHT IT WAS CHICAGO.

Peter Cetera (bass, vocals) was with Chicago since the very first album The Chicago Transit Authority (1969). Chicago never officially recorded until they completed the seven-man lineup. Chicago was started by Walter Parzaider (woodwinds), Terry Kath (guitar, vocals) and Danny Seraphine (drums) calling themselves the Missing Link. They added three more musicians to the lineup such as Lee Loughnane (trumpet), James Pankow (trombone) and Robert Lamm (keyboards, vocals) in the order they joined the band and changed their name to The Big Thing for a very short time. Before producer Guercio took them to L.A., they added the last piece of the puzzle, Peter Cetera (bass, vocals) to complete the lineup and again changed the band name to The Chicago Transit Authority (1968) and then finally to Chicago (1969). To enhance their sound, they added former Sergio Mendes' percussionist Laudir de Oliveira in 1974 to make them an eight-piece rock-pop band with horns. This lineup remained intact until 1978 when Terry Kath tragically died of an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound. The rest is history.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing Ruel!

Very strong contender for the greatest Chicago song

Heavy 'Jazz Messangers' vibe in this one . Thanks for continuing to out the mostly underappreciated and nearly Covert Chicago (arguably the Terry Kath era) - that avoided the trite , hackneyed , tortured , predictable & completely uninteresting drivel .

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Our pleasure! Thanks for watching!

For a popular act ..they could play. Flugelhorn

Fun Fact: Terry’s widow is married to Keifer Sutherland and he’s also a guitar player.

@annikapc

2 жыл бұрын

She was only married to Sutherland from 1987-1990. Now, she is with Jeff Lynne of ELO since 2008.

@shyshift

2 жыл бұрын

@@annikapc they didn’t mention that in the Terry Kath documentary.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Woah!

Chicago 5 it's Peter!

Did anyone notice that V has very few guitar solos from Terry? VI doesn’t either cttoi.

@Chicago_Podcast_Authority

2 жыл бұрын

A Hit from Varese, Dialogue, While the City Sleeps all do :)

@shyshift

2 жыл бұрын

@@Chicago_Podcast_Authority really short though compared to 25 or 6 to 4.

@derekbaker3279

Ай бұрын

Yes, but if one listens carefully to Terry's incredible playing throughout Chicago V (e.g. in headphones), one will be treated to harmonically & lyrically briliiant guitar parts that seamlessly float between lead & rhythm...a talent that relatively few rock guitarists of the day demonstrated (exceptions include Hendrix, and a few others). So, IMHO Terry's musicianship & influence on each song was no less astounding than when he was communicating to us all in any of his brilliant solos.

Never saw them play this live.....

Chicago V is their masterpiece. It's a perfect Chicago album. It's a flawless blend of rock, funk, jazz, avant garde classical, pop and political cynicism melded into more succinct and to the point compositions. And the musicianship is perfect. This was their creative peak as far as I'm concerned. Though VII is strong...

@derekbaker3279

Ай бұрын

I agree 100%. While I am crazy in love with every one of their albums up until the world lost Terry, and I actually think that their two albums with Donnie Daccus were pretty good pop albums (then they lost me...) however, IMHO, Chicago V represents the perfect blend of everything that made the band GREAT. It was a passionate & perfectly-performed distillation of their talents, energies, influences, experiences, creative gifts & souls.

It's Peter..he did not leave until Album 19..this is #5

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks ☺️!

@andrewjarvis2867

2 жыл бұрын

Actually Chicago 17 was Peter’s last album.

@tj5073

Жыл бұрын

He left after 17

@tj5073

Жыл бұрын

Sorry I'm dumb ass didnt see reply until after

Jazz Messengers ...correct spelling helps a bunch .

CETARA , KATH , PANKOW , PARAZADER , LANGLONE , LAMMB , SERAFINE THAT'S (MY) CHICAGO. THE ONLY CHICAGO !!!!!

yes he was...just sayin':)

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

😆

Terry Kath was the lead vocalist on this song. Peter Cetera sang some of the backing vocal. Cetera has a much higher range than Kath. In fact, I much prefer Kath. Listen to All is Well or Dialogue 1 & 2 from this same is album and you can hear the distinction. Ken

@Chicago_Podcast_Authority

2 жыл бұрын

Terry was not singing on this song. He only sings lead on "Now That You've Gone" and "Alma Mater" from this album

@davidpaxton3590

2 жыл бұрын

Cetera was lead singer on "Goodbye"