Posted on 08/26/2016 2:20:43 PM PDT by simpson96
Hope you enjoy.Just You 'N’ Me
music *ping*
Saw them in 73 or thereabouts. The Pointer Sisters opened for them.
Their horn section was sublime.
Why aren’t there bands like this any longer?
This is the beginning into the descent of the Peter Cetera ballads. Still a good song though, but it definitely was a harbinger of things to come.
Because that requires talent, and in this nobody-can-be-left-out age it has been abolished as “unfair”.
I always liked Chicago, America, Seals & Croft, and Steely Dan.
Any of their music is light years beyond most of the garbage on the air today.
I remember reading a review of their band which said one of their goals was “to start a revolution.” Had a few bright spots (If You Leave Me Now) but now the only place you hear them is background music at dollar stores. No loss.
For me, V was their best album. It had “Saturday in the Park”, and probably my all-time favorite Chicago tune, “A Hit by Varese”.
(It was only years later that I learned who the heck Varese was).
In “Baby what a big surprise,” it’s never explained what the “big surprise” is or was.
I remember how the jocks in school used to just eat this stuff up.
It might be bad if you wanted to hear more of their jazz-influenced stuff, but it’s still enjoyable music. It’s like the people who hate that Nat King Cole left hard jazz behind to become a pop singer, but it’s still great stuff.
Try their early albums with the late Terry Kath...tracks like “Questions 67 and 68”, “Make Me Smile” (radio edit, not the single) and “Dialogues Parts I and II”. Very different from their later pop-grade work.
Thank you for posting this! My wife and I have fond memories of ‘Just You and Me’!
It is “our song”!
Actually "Make Me Smile" was part of a suite called "Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon", which included "Color My World."
But Terry Kath was the engine that drove them. As great of a solo player as he was, he was even better as a rhythm guitarist.
Terry Kath, the vocals on “Color My World” is the most underated guitarist of all time.
“Terry Kath, the vocals on “Color My World” is the most underated guitarist of all time.”
There’s a story that Jimi Hendrix considered Kath the best guitarist around & was a big fan. Very high praise.
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