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No Tell Lover

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B-side
  
"Take a Chance"

Format
  
7"

Label
  
Columbia

Released
  
December 1978

Genre
  
Pop rock

Length
  
3:48 (Single version) 4:13 (Album version)

"No Tell Lover" is a song written by Peter Cetera, Lee Loughnane, and Danny Seraphine for the group Chicago and recorded for their album Hot Streets (1978), with Cetera and Donnie Dacus singing lead vocals. The second single released from that album, it reached #14 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart and #5 on the adult contemporary chart.

After "No Tell Lover", Chicago failed to chart a single in the U.S. top fifty for nearly four years, finally breaking their slump with the 1982 number-one hit "Hard to Say I'm Sorry".

Personnel

  • Peter Cetera - lead & backing vocals, bass
  • Donnie Dacus - lead & backing vocals, electric guitars
  • Robert Lamm - Fender Rhodes electric piano, backing vocals
  • Danny Seraphine - drums
  • Laudir de Oliveira - percussion
  • James Pankow - trombone
  • Lee Loughnane - trumpet
  • Walt Parazaider - tenor saxophone
  • Blue Weaver - ARP String Ensemble synthesizer
  • References

    No Tell Lover Wikipedia