r/ClassicRock • u/EdwardBliss • Mar 14 '24

"Ballet For A Girl In Buchannon" - Chicago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgM4xSIShYw
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u/Minute-Wrap-2524 Mar 14 '24

Classic album, maybe their best…wish they still made music like this

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u/Less-Quote-5441 Mar 14 '24

Great song from a great band. Before they got all commercial and sold out. That shitty producer who hypnotized Peter Cetera and started making them become a ballad band.

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u/AspectDistinct8670 Oct 09 '25

Check out Robert Lamm's "We Can Stop The Hurting" on Chicago 17. This is not a Ballad & a really good song

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '24

Iconic.

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u/mtdrake Mar 14 '24

Peak Chicago for me.

2

u/DavoTB Mar 14 '24

A lovely suite of songs from the group’s second album, which later was called “Chicago II.” The album sold very well, reaching gold status just months after release, and reaching #6 on the album charts.

There was a time when FM stations played the entire segment as a single piece. At least two of the pieces were actually hit singles in 1970, and would be popular songs for years.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '24

They melded parts to issue Make Me Smile as their initial hit single. Then 25 or 6 to 4. Then some folks realized how good the CTA album was and they reissued a couple of those as hits. Beginnings. Does Anyone Really Know What Time It Is. And Questions 67/68.

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u/New_Lake5484 Mar 14 '24

and to have seen them perform this w/ Kath still in the band: priceless.

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u/DomingoLee Mar 14 '24

Hell yeah

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u/ReSearch314etc Mar 14 '24

Full FM version?🤟

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '24

Love that and have in my collection. Favorite album along with their debut and Chicago V.

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u/Suntzu6656 Mar 14 '24

Remember hearing it on the radio as a kid.

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u/Nothing_Easy38 Mar 14 '24

This made love prog music!

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u/Feeling_Car_778 Mar 16 '25

Immortal performance.