Chicago IX - Chicago's Greatest Hits
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| Chicago IX - Chicago's Greatest Hits |
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| Compilation album by Chicago | ||
| Released | 10 November 1975 | |
| Recorded | January 1969 - December 1973 |
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| Genre | Rock | |
| Length | 47:18 | |
| Label | Columbia Records | |
| Producer(s) | James William Guercio | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| Chicago chronology | ||
| Chicago VIII (1975) |
Chicago IX - Chicago's Greatest Hits (1975) |
Chicago X (1976) |
Chicago IX - Chicago's Greatest Hits is the first greatest hits album by American rock band Chicago and was released in 1975.
Gathering all of Chicago's biggest hits thus far, this set stretches all the way back to 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 truly big hit singles.
Released in November 1975 on Columbia Records, Chicago IX - Chicago's Greatest Hits proved to be an enormous seller, reaching #1 in the US. Despite 2002's The Very Best of: Only the Beginning superseding it, Chicago IX - Chicago's Greatest Hits was also reissued by Rhino Records, Chicago's current distributor.
[edit] Track listing
- "25 or 6 to 4" (Robert Lamm) – 4:51
- "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" (Robert Lamm) – 3:20
- This has most of the instrumental intro cut off. On the original LP version of IX, more of the intro was cut off and the spoken part in the last verse was omitted.
- "Colour My World" (James Pankow) – 2:59
- "Just You 'N' Me" (James Pankow) – 3:42
- "Saturday in the Park" (Robert Lamm) – 3:54
- "Feelin' Stronger Every Day" (Peter Cetera/James Pankow) – 4:14
- "Make Me Smile" (James Pankow) – 2:59
- This is the single edit that also includes parts of "Now More Than Ever".
- "Wishing You Were Here" (Peter Cetera) – 4:34
- "Call On Me" (Lee Loughnane) – 4:02
- "(I've Been) Searchin' So Long" (James Pankow) – 4:29
- "Beginnings" (Robert Lamm) – 7:51
- On the original LP version of IX this song was faded out about 1:20 early.
Chicago IX - Chicago's Greatest Hits (Columbia 33900) reached #1 in the US during a chart stay of 72 weeks. It did not chart in the UK.
[edit] Personnel
- Peter Cetera
- Laudir DeOliveira
- Terry Kath
- Robert Lamm
- Lee Loughnane
- James Pankow
- Walter Parazaider
- Danny Seraphine
[edit] Charts
Album - Billboard (North America)
| Year | Chart | Position |
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| 1975 | Pop Albums | 1 |
| Chicago |
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| Robert Lamm | James Pankow | Lee Loughnane | Walter Parazaider | Bill Champlin Jason Scheff | Tris Imboden | Keith Howland Terry Kath | Peter Cetera | Danny Seraphine | Laudir DeOliveira | Donnie Dacus | Chris Pinnick | Dawayne Bailey |
| Discography |
| Studio albums: The Chicago Transit Authority | Chicago | Chicago III | Chicago V | Chicago VI |Chicago VII | Chicago VIII | Chicago X | Chicago XI | Hot Streets Chicago 13 | Chicago XIV | Chicago 16 | Chicago 17 | Chicago 18 | Chicago 19 | Twenty 1 | Night & Day Big Band | Chicago XXX |
| Live albums: Chicago at Carnegie Hall | Chicago XXVI: Live in Concert |
| Compilations: Chicago IX - Chicago's Greatest Hits | Greatest Hits, Volume II | Greatest Hits 1982-1989 The Heart of Chicago 1967-1997 | The Heart of Chicago 1967-1998 Volume II | The Very Best of: Only the Beginning | Love Songs |
| Christmas albums: Chicago XXV: The Christmas Album | What's It Gonna Be, Santa? |
| Unreleased album: Stone of Sisyphus |
| Box sets: The Box |
