Chicago at Carnegie Hall

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Chicago at Carnegie Hall
Chicago at Carnegie Hall cover
Live album by Chicago
Released 25 October 1971
Recorded 5 - 10 April 1971
Genre Rock
Length 1971: 2:48:33
2005: 3:43:59
Label Columbia Records
Producer(s) James William Guercio
Professional reviews
Chicago chronology
Chicago III
(1971)		 Chicago at Carnegie Hall
(1971)		 Chicago V
(1972)


Chicago at Carnegie Hall is the first live album by American band Chicago and was initially released in 1971 as a four LP vinyl box set on Columbia Records.

While touring in support of Chicago III, Chicago booked themselves into the Carnegie Hall for a week in April 1971 and recorded all of their shows. Deciding that most of the songs performed there (virtually, the first three double albums, together with the new "A Song For Richard And His Friends") were worthy of release, producer James William Guercio compiled a mammoth four LP collection for release as Chicago's fourth album (that distinction being responsible for the album's nickname of Chicago IV).

Columbia were very skeptical on the risk the extended set posed, and with a decrease in royalties to counter that fear (a similar situation befell their 1969 debut The Chicago Transit Authority), Chicago released Chicago at Carnegie Hall that October to a mixed reaction. While the set sold very well, reaching #3 in the US (but failing to chart at all in the UK), the critics found the album too long - and even indulgent with its moments of tune-ups - while also noting that the acoustics of Carnegie Hall were never that impressive. The band themselves have remained divided over the years to the merits of the album.

Despite the poor sound quality, Chicago at Carnegie Hall went on to become the best-selling box set by a rock act, a record which stood until the release of the Live/1975-85 5 LP live box set by Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band in 1986. It is still the best-selling 4 LP set.

The original LP release of this set contained two giant posters of the band, an insert about voting information, and a 20-page softcover booklet containing photos of the band members playing during the concert and a full touring schedule from their first tour through their 1971 U.S. tour on the back.

In 2005, Chicago at Carnegie Hall was remastered and re-issued on three CDs by Rhino Records with much improved sound quality, a bonus disc of eight tracks of alternate takes and songs not on the 1971 edition, plus recreations of nearly all the original posters and packaging.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "In The Country" (Terry Kath) – 10:35
  2. "Fancy Colours" (Robert Lamm) – 5:15
  3. "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? (Free Form Intro)" (Robert Lamm) – 6:21
  4. "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" (Robert Lamm) – 3:26
  5. "South California Purples" (Robert Lamm) – 15:35
  6. "Questions 67 And 68" (Robert Lamm) – 5:36
  7. "Sing A Mean Tune Kid" (Robert Lamm) – 12:54
  8. "Beginnings" (Robert Lamm) – 6:27
  9. "1st Movement" (Robert Lamm) – 2:55
  10. "2nd Movement (Flute Solo)" (Robert Lamm/Walter Parazaider) – 5:00
  11. "3rd Movement (Guitar Solo)" (Terry Kath/Robert Lamm) – 2:43
  12. "4th Movement (Preach)" (Robert Lamm/Terry Kath) – 3:09
  13. "5th Movement" (Robert Lamm) – 2:08
    • Tracks 9 - 13 form an extended "It Better End Soon" suite
  14. "Introduction" (Terry Kath) – 7:10
  15. "Mother" (Robert Lamm) – 8:21
  16. "Lowdown" (Peter Cetera/Danny Seraphine) – 3:58
  17. "Flight 602" (Robert Lamm) – 3:31
  18. "Motorboat To Mars" (Danny Seraphine) – 3:00
  19. "Free" (Robert Lamm) – 5:15
    • Tracks 17 - 18 form an abbreviated "Travel Suite"
  20. "Where Do We Go From Here" (Peter Cetera) – 4:08
  21. "I Don't Want Your Money" (Terry Kath/Robert Lamm) – 5:23
  22. "Happy Cause I'm Going Home" (Robert Lamm) – 7:56
  23. "Make Me Smile" (James Pankow) – 3:31
  24. "So Much To Say, So Much To Give" (James Pankow) – 1:00
  25. "Anxiety's Moment" (James Pankow) – 1:09
  26. "West Virginia Fantasies" (James Pankow) – 1:31
  27. "Colour My World" (James Pankow) – 3:26
  28. "To Be Free" (James Pankow) – 1:22
  29. "Now More Than Ever" (James Pankow) – 3:26
    • Tracks 23 - 29 form the "Ballet For A Girl In Buchannon" suite
  30. "A Song For Richard And His Friends" (Robert Lamm) – 6:58
  31. "25 or 6 to 4" (Robert Lamm) – 6:35
  32. "I'm A Man" (Jimmy Miller/Steve Winwood) – 8:51

[edit] Bonus Disc (2005 Rhino edition)

  1. "Listen" (Robert Lamm) – 4:16
  2. "Introduction" (Terry Kath) – 6:37
  3. "South California Purples" (Robert Lamm) – 12:41
  4. "Loneliness Is Just A Word" (Robert Lamm) – 2:44
  5. "Free Form Intro (Naseltones)" (Robert Lamm) – 5:58
  6. "Sing A Mean Tune Kid (Robert Lamm) – 10:51
  7. "An Hour In The Shower: A Hard Risin' Morning Without Breakfast/Off To Work/Fallin' Out/Dreamin' Home/Morning Blues Again" (Terry Kath) – 6:00
  8. "25 Or 6 To 4" (Robert Lamm) – 6:21
  9. "I'm A Man"

Chicago at Carnegie Hall (Columbia 30865) reached #3 in the US during a chart stay of 46 weeks. It did not chart in the UK.

[edit] Personnel

Chicago
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
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