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Released
  
November 10, 1975

Chicago IX - Chicago's Greatest Hits (1975)
  
Chicago X (1976)

Release date
  
10 November 1975

Label
  
Columbia Records

Length
  
47:18

Artist
  
Chicago

Producer
  
James William Guercio

Genres
  
Rock music, Rock and roll

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Recorded
  
January 1969 – December 1973

Similar
  
Chicago albums, Rock music albums

Chicago IX: Chicago's Greatest Hits is the first greatest hits album, and ninth album overall, by the American band Chicago and was released in 1975 by Columbia Records in both stereo (PC 33900) and SQ quadraphonic (PCQ 33900) versions.

Contents

Including all of Chicago's biggest hits to date, this set stretches from their 1969 debut, The Chicago Transit Authority, to 1974's Chicago VII. Chicago VIII and its hits, having only come out just months earlier, were considered too recent to anthologize, while Chicago III's material was overlooked for inclusion due to its lack of top-selling singles.

Chicago IX proved to be an enormous success upon its release. It reached #1 in the US and remained on the Billboard 200 for a total of 72 weeks. It has since been certified quadruple platinum by the RIAA, signifying sales of over five million copies. Even though 2002's The Very Best of Chicago: Only the Beginning superseded it, Chicago IX was also reissued by Rhino Records, Chicago's current distributor. The album did not chart in the UK.

Side one

  1. "25 or 6 to 4" (Robert Lamm) – 4:51
  2. "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" (Lamm) – 3:20 CD 2:53 LP/Cassette
  3. On the original LP (and cassette) version of Chicago IX, most of the intro was cut off.
  4. "Colour My World" (James Pankow) – 2:59
  5. "Just You 'n' Me" (Pankow) – 3:42
  6. "Saturday in the Park" (Lamm) – 3:54
  7. "Feelin' Stronger Every Day" (Peter Cetera/Pankow) – 4:14

Side two

  1. "Make Me Smile" (Pankow) – 2:59
  2. This is the single edit that also includes parts of "Now More Than Ever".
  3. "Wishing You Were Here" (Cetera) – 4:34
  4. "Call on Me" (Lee Loughnane) – 4:02
  5. "(I've Been) Searchin' So Long" (Pankow) – 4:29
  6. "Beginnings" (Lamm) – 7:51 CD 6:28 LP/Cassette
  7. On the original LP version of Chicago IX this song was faded out about 1:20 early.

The UK version contain the additions of "Never Been in Love Before" and a shortened 3:27 version of "I'm a Man". The Brazilian version has the addition of "Happy Man" and moves "25 or 6 to 4" to the end of Side 1. "Feelin' Stronger Every Day" and "(I've Been) Searchin' So Long" are omitted.

Personnel

  • John Berg – design
  • Peter Cetera – bass, guitar, lead & background vocals
  • Laudir de Oliveira – percussion
  • Nick Fasciano – logo
  • James William Guercio – producer
  • Terry Kath – guitars, lead & background vocals
  • Robert Lamm – keyboards, lead & background vocals
  • Lee Loughnane – trumpet, flugelhorn, percussion, background vocals
  • Reid Miles – photography
  • James Pankow – trombone, percussion, background vocals
  • Walter Parazaider – woodwinds, percussion, background vocals
  • Danny Seraphine – drums, percussion

    • Charts

    Album - Billboard (North America)

    Songs

    125 or 6 to 44:53
    2Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?3:22
    3Colour My World3:01

    References

    Chicago IX: Chicago's Greatest Hits Wikipedia
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