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If You Leave Me Now (album)

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Released
  
March 1983

Length
  
42:42

Artist
  
Chicago

Label
  
Columbia Records

Recorded
  
1969–1980

If You Leave Me Now (1983)
  
Chicago 17 (1984)

Release date
  
1982

Genre
  
Rock music

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Producers
  
James William Guercio, Phil Ramone, Tom Dowd

Chicago albums
  
The Heart of Chicago 1967–19, Chicago XXXIV: Live in '75, Twenty 1, Greatest Hits - Volume II, Chicago XIV

If You Leave Me Now is a compilation album by the rock band Chicago. In an attempt to capitalize on the band's second #1 single ("Hard to Say I'm Sorry") as well as its Top 40 follow-up ("Love Me Tomorrow"), Columbia Records built a collection around the Grammy-winning single, which had previously been their only other chart-topper.

Contents

Since Columbia was the owner of the recordings at the time, this is an official release, but has never been considered a proper part of their numbered canon of works. While the practice of repackaging older works when an artist has a resurgence with another label is not new, it is almost always frowned upon, as demonstrated in William Ruhlmann's review at AllMusic: "At least a few people will mistake it for new product and take it home".

Track listing

  • The CD version of Chicago's Greatest Hits restored some of the edited intro to "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?", making this the only source of the original Greatest Hits edit available on compact disc.

    • In 2012, Rhino reissued it yet again, with "(And Other Hits)" added in its title.

    Songs

    1If You Leave Me Now3:56
    2Saturday in the Park3:56
    3Feelin' Stronger Every Day4:13

    References

    If You Leave Me Now (album) Wikipedia
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