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The Very Best of Chicago: Only the Beginning

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Length
  
157:44

Artist
  
Chicago

Label
  
Rhino Entertainment

The Very Best of Chicago Only the Beginning (2002)
  
The Box (2003)

Release date
  
2 July 2002

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Released
  
July 2, 2002 (2002-07-02)

Recorded
  
January 1969 – January 1995

Producer
  
James William Guercio, Phil Ramone, Chicago, David Foster, Chas Sandford, Ron Nevison, Bruce Fairbairn, David McLees

Genres
  
Rock music, Soft rock, Pop rock, Jazz fusion, Rock and roll, Adult contemporary music

Similar
  
Chicago albums, Rock music albums

The Very Best of Chicago: Only the Beginning is a double greatest hits album by the American band Chicago, their twenty-seventh album overall. Released in 2002, this collection marked the beginning of a long-term partnership with Rhino Entertainment which, between 2002 and 2005, would remaster and re-release Chicago's 1969–1980 Columbia Records catalog.

Contents

In Europe, a greatest hits compilation was released as The Chicago Story: Complete Greatest Hits with a different track listing.

The Very Best of Chicago: Only the Beginning combines almost all of Chicago's greatest successes from their entire recording career up to that point, excerpting material from all of their regular studio albums with the exception of 1979's Chicago 13 and 1980's Chicago XIV. Several songs appear in an edited form, including "I'm a Man", which is missing the Danny Seraphine drum solo, and "Dialogue (Part I & II)", which is presented in its shortened single version.

Disc one

  1. "Make Me Smile" (James Pankow) – 4:26
  2. New edit
  3. "25 or 6 to 4" (Robert Lamm) – 4:50
  4. Tracks 1–2 originally issued on 1970's Chicago II
  5. "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" (Lamm) – 3:20
  6. Single version
  7. "Beginnings" (Lamm) – 6:26
  8. Edited version from 1975's Chicago IX: Chicago's Greatest Hits
  9. "Questions 67 and 68" (Lamm) – 4:52
  10. New edit
  11. "I'm a Man" (Jimmy Miller, Steve Winwood) – 5:44
  12. New edit
  13. Tracks 3–6 originally issued on 1969's The Chicago Transit Authority
  14. "Colour My World" (Pankow) – 3:00
  15. Originally issued on Chicago II
  16. "Free" (Lamm) – 2:17
  17. "Lowdown" (Peter Cetera, Danny Seraphine) – 3:34
  18. Tracks 8–9 originally issued on 1971's Chicago III
  19. "Saturday in the Park" (Lamm) – 3:56
  20. "Dialogue (Part I & II)" (Lamm) – 5:00
  21. Single version
  22. Tracks 10–11 originally issued on 1972's Chicago V
  23. "Just You 'n' Me" (Pankow) – 3:42
  24. "Feelin' Stronger Every Day" (Cetera, Pankow) – 4:14
  25. Tracks 12–13 originally issued on 1973's Chicago VI
  26. "(I've Been) Searchin' So Long" (Pankow) – 4:29
  27. "Wishing You Were Here" (Cetera) – 4:36
  28. "Call on Me" (Lee Loughnane) – 4:02
  29. "Happy Man" (Cetera) – 3:15
  30. Edited version from 1981's Greatest Hits, Volume II
  31. Tracks 14–17 originally issued on 1974's Chicago VII
  32. "Another Rainy Day in New York City" (Lamm) – 3:00
  33. "If You Leave Me Now" (Cetera) – 3:57
  34. Tracks 18–19 originally issued on 1976's Chicago X

Disc two

  1. "Old Days" (Pankow) – 3:31
  2. Originally issued on 1975's Chicago VIII
  3. "Baby, What a Big Surprise" (Cetera) – 3:06
  4. "Take Me Back to Chicago" (Seraphine, David Wolinski) – 2:57
  5. Single version
  6. Tracks 2–3 originally issued on 1977's Chicago XI
  7. "Alive Again" (Pankow) – 4:04
  8. "No Tell Lover" (Cetera, Loughnane, Seraphine) – 4:13
  9. Tracks 4–5 originally issued on 1978's Hot Streets
  10. "Love Me Tomorrow" (Cetera, David Foster) – 3:58
  11. Single version
  12. "Hard to Say I'm Sorry/Get Away" (Cetera, Foster, Lamm) – 5:05
  13. Tracks 6–7 originally issued on 1982's Chicago 16
  14. "Stay the Night" (Cetera, Foster) – 3:50
  15. "Hard Habit to Break" (Steve Kipner, John Parker) – 4:45
  16. "You're the Inspiration" (Cetera, Foster) – 3:49
  17. "Along Comes a Woman" (Cetera, Mark Goldenberg) – 3:47
  18. Single version
  19. Tracks 8–11 originally issued on 1984's Chicago 17
  20. "Will You Still Love Me?" (David Foster, Tom Keane, Richard Baskin) – 4:12
  21. Single version
  22. "If She Would Have Been Faithful..." (Randy Goodrum, Kipner) – 3:51
  23. Tracks 12–13 originally issued on 1986's Chicago 18
  24. "Look Away" (Diane Warren) – 4:00
  25. Single version
  26. "What Kind of Man Would I Be?" (Jason Scheff, Bobby Caldwell, Chas Sandford) – 4:14
  27. Single version
  28. "I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love" (Warren, Albert Hammond) – 3:57
  29. "We Can Last Forever" (Scheff, John Dexter) – 3:44
  30. Single version
  31. "You're Not Alone" (Jim Scott) – 4:00
  32. Single version
  33. Tracks 14–18 originally issued on 1988's Chicago 19
  34. "Chasin' the Wind" (Warren) – 4:18
  35. Originally issued on 1991's Twenty 1
  36. "Sing, Sing, Sing" – with the Gipsy Kings (Louis Prima) – 3:20
  37. Originally issued on 1995's Night and Day: Big Band

Disc one

  1. "If You Leave Me Now" (Cetera) – 3:57
  2. "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" (Cetera, Foster, Lamm) – 3:51
  3. Single version
  4. "You're the Inspiration" (Cetera, Foster) – 3:49
  5. "Hard Habit to Break" (Kipner, Parker) – 4:45
  6. "Will You Still Love Me?" (Foster, Keane, Baskin) – 4:12
  7. Single version
  8. "Baby, What a Big Surprise" (Cetera) – 3:06
  9. "Look Away" (Warren) – 4:00
  10. Single version
  11. "What Kind of Man Would I Be?" (Scheff, Caldwell, Sandford) – 4:14
  12. Single version
  13. "I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love" (Warren, Hammond) – 3:57
  14. "Love Me Tomorrow" (Cetera, Foster) – 3:58
  15. Single version
  16. "Just You 'n' Me" (Pankow) – 3:42
  17. "Happy Man" (Cetera) – 3:15
  18. Same edit as American issue
  19. "You're Not Alone" (Scott) – 4:00
  20. Single version
  21. "Chasin' the Wind" (Warren) – 4:18
  22. "Wishing You Were Here" (Cetera) – 4:36
  23. "No Tell Lover" (Cetera, Loughnane, Seraphine) – 4:13
  24. "(I've Been) Searchin' So Long" (Pankow) – 4:29
  25. "Colour My World" (Pankow) – 3:00
  26. "You Come to My Senses" (Tom Kelly, Billy Steinberg) – 3:48
  27. Originally issued on Twenty 1
  28. "We Can Last Forever" (Scheff, Dexter) – 3:44
  29. Single version

Disc two

  1. "25 or 6 to 4" (Lamm) – 4:50
  2. "Saturday in the Park" (Lamm) – 3:56
  3. "Questions 67 and 68" (Lamm) – 4:52
  4. Same edit as American issue
  5. "I'm a Man" (Miller, Winwood) – 5:44
  6. Same edit as American issue
  7. "Stay the Night" (Cetera, Foster) – 3:50
  8. "Only You" (Foster, Pankow) – 3:54
  9. Originally issued on Chicago 17
  10. "Dialogue (Part I & II)" (Lamm) – 5:00
  11. Single version
  12. "Old Days" (Pankow) – 3:31
  13. "Beginnings" (Lamm) – 6:26
  14. Same edit as American issue
  15. "Lowdown" (Cetera, Seraphine) – 3:34
  16. "Another Rainy Day in New York City" (Lamm) – 3:00
  17. "Call on Me" (Loughnane) – 4:02
  18. "Feelin' Stronger Every Day" (Cetera, Pankow) – 4:14
  19. "Take Me Back to Chicago" (Seraphine, Wolinski) – 2:57
  20. Single version
  21. "Sing, Sing, Sing" – with the Gipsy Kings (Prima) – 3:20
  22. "Along Comes a Woman" (Cetera, Goldenberg) – 3:47
  23. Single version
  24. "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" (Lamm) – 3:20
  25. Single version
  26. "Make Me Smile" (Pankow) – 4:26
  27. Same edit as American issue
  28. "Street Player" (Seraphine, Wolinski) – 4:22
  29. Single version
  30. Originally issued on 1979's Chicago 13

Songs

1Make Me Smile (new edit)4:28
225 or 6 to 44:53
3Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? (new edit)3:21

References

The Very Best of Chicago: Only the Beginning Wikipedia
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