| "Questions 67 and 68" | ||||||||
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| Single by Chicago | ||||||||
| from the album The Chicago Transit Authority | ||||||||
| B-side | "Listen", "I'm A Man" | |||||||
| Released | July 1969, September 1971 |
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| Format | 7" | |||||||
| Recorded | January 27/30, 1969 | |||||||
| Genre | Jazz fusion | |||||||
| Length | 5:03 (initial release) 3:26 (1971 edit) |
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| Label | Columbia | |||||||
| Writer(s) | Robert Lamm | |||||||
| Producer | James William Guercio | |||||||
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"Questions 67 and 68" is a song written by Robert Lamm for the rock band Chicago and recorded for their debut album The Chicago Transit Authority (1969), with Peter Cetera and Lamm singing lead vocals. The song was the band's "first boss hit-bound single that never was a boss hit-bound single," released in July of that year and peaking at #71 on the Billboard Hot 100.
After the band's success with subsequent singles, "Questions 67 and 68" was edited to a more radio-friendly length and re-released in September 1971, with "I'm A Man" as the B-side. The edited single climbed to #24 on the U.S. charts.
Cetera and Lamm recorded Japanese-language vocals for the song in 1971, and the version of the song with those vocals was released as a single in Japan. Columbia Records released the song only as a radio-only promotional 45 rpm single, with the English version on the other side.[1] This recording was released digitally in 1998 on the Japan-only compilation CD The Heart Of Chicago 1967-1971 Volume II Special Edition (green cover), which also contains "Lowdown" sung in Japanese. The group performed the song live with the Japanese lyrics during tours of Japan in 1972, documented on the Live In Japan album, and again in 1995.[2]