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Length
  
41:53

Chicago 17 (1984)
  
Chicago 18 (1986)

Release date
  
14 May 1984

Genres
  
Rock music, Soft rock

Label
  
Full Moon/Warner Bros.

Artist
  
Chicago

Producer
  
David Foster

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Released
  
May 14, 1984 (1984-05-14)

Recorded
  
Mid 1983 – Early 1984 in Vancouver, Canada and Los Angeles, California, US

Awards
  
Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

Similar
  
Chicago albums, Rock music albums

Chicago 17 is the fourteenth studio album by American band Chicago, released on May 14, 1984. It was the group's second release for Full Moon/Warner Bros. Records and their last with founding bassist/vocalist Peter Cetera.

Contents

Four singles were released from the album, all of which placed in the top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The success of the singles propelled Chicago 17 to achieve an RIAA certification of six times platinum. Chicago 17 remains the biggest-selling album in the band's history.

In 2006, Rhino Entertainment remastered and reissued the album, using the original analog versions of "Please Hold On" (which was co-written with Lionel Richie who was enjoying success from his album Can't Slow Down) and "Prima Donna" and adding a Robert Lamm demo, "Here Is Where We Begin" as a bonus track.

Track listing

Some songs were recorded during the Chicago 17 sessions but not released. "Good for Nothing" was later released on the We Are the World superstar charity album in 1985. This is the last released Chicago song to feature Peter Cetera on vocals.

A song called "Sweet Marie" that was supposed to be released on the Chicago 17 album has been performed by the Norwegian band called TOBB. Bill Champlin offered this song to perform with the band. It was released on May 14, 2014 by the band, the 30th anniversary of the Chicago 17 album that was released on May 14, 1984. It was performed by Chicago on rare occasions back in 1984 and have surfaced online from VHS recordings of some of their performances.

Personnel

  • Peter Cetera – bass guitar ; lead and background vocals, arrangements on "Stay the Night", "Along Comes a Woman", "You're the Inspiration", and "Prima Donna"; vocal arrangements on "Remember the Feeling"
  • Bill Champlin – guitars, keyboards, lead and background vocals, vocal arrangements on "Only You"
  • Robert Lamm – keyboards, lead and background vocals, arrangements on "We Can Stop the Hurtin'", vocal arrangements on "Only You"
  • Lee Loughnane – trumpet
  • James Pankow – trombone, horn arrangements, arrangements on "Once In a Lifetime"
  • Walter Parazaider – woodwinds
  • Chris Pinnick – guitar
  • Danny Seraphine – drums

    • Additional personnel

  • Jeff Porcaro – drums (uncredited) on "Stay the Night"
  • Carlos Vega – drums (uncredited) on "You're the Inspiration"
  • John "JR" Robinson - drums (uncredited) on "Please Hold On"
  • Michael Landau – guitar
  • Paul Jackson, Jr. – guitar
  • Mark Goldenberg – guitar, additional arrangements on "Along Comes a Woman" and "Prima Donna"
  • Paulinho da Costa – percussion
  • David Foster – keyboards, synthesizer programming, additional arrangements
  • John Van Tongeren – synthesizer programming
  • Erich Bulling – synthesizer programming
  • Marcus Ryle – synthesizer programming
  • Gary Grant – trumpet
  • Greg Adams – trumpet
  • Kenny Cetera – background vocals on "Stay the Night", "Prima Donna", "You're the Inspiration", "Remember the Feeling" and "Along Comes a Woman"
  • Donny Osmond – background vocals on "We Can Stop the Hurtin'"
  • Richard Marx – background vocals on "We Can Stop the Hurtin'"
  • David Pack – duet vocals on "Here Is Where We Begin"

    • Songs

    1Stay The Night3:50
    2We Can Stop the Hurtin'4:12
    3Hard Habit To Break4:45

    References

    Chicago 17 Wikipedia
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