Chicago - Chicago II (Japan Edition) (1995)

Artist: Chicago
Title Of Album: Chicago II (Japan Edition)
Release Date: 1995 (1970)
Location: USA
Label: Teichiku / Overseas (TECW-1902)
Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz-Rock, Soft Rock, Fusion
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue+covers)
Length: 67:26 min
Tracks: 23
Total Size: 515 MB (+5%)

[b]Chicago II[/b] is the second studio album by Chicago-based American rock band Chicago. Like their debut album, Chicago Transit Authority, this was a double album. It was their first album under the name Chicago (the band's prior name, Chicago Transit Authority, was changed due to a threatened lawsuit from the Chicago Transit Authority) and the first to use the now ubiquitous cursive Chicago logo on the cover. Released in January 1970 on Columbia Records, Chicago was commercially successful. It was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in April of the same year of its release, and certified platinum in 1991. It reached No. 4 on the album charts in the United States and No. 6 on the album charts in the UK, and produced three top ten singles on the Billboard Hot 100. The album received three Grammy Award nominations - for Album of the Year, Contemporary Vocal Group, and Best Album Cover. It was voted best album of 1970 by readers of Cash Box magazine, and the 1971 best small-combo LP by readers of Playboy magazine.

Tracklist:

01. Movin' On (4:06)
02. The Road (3:10)
03. Poem for the People (5:32)
04. In the Country (6:37)
05. Wake Up Sunshine (2:34)
06. Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon: Make Me Smile (3:15)
07. Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon: So Much to Say, So Much to Give (1:11)
08. Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon: Anxiety's Moment (1:00)
09. Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon: West Virginia Fantasies (1:33)
10. Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon: Colour My World (3:00)
11. Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon: To Be Free (1:13)
12. Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon: Now More Than Ever (1:28)
13. Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon: Fancy Colours (5:11)
14. Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon: 25 or 6 to 4 (4:52)
15. Prelude 1:09)
16. Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon: A.M. Mourning (2:05)
17. Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon: P.M. Mourning (1:58)
18. Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon: Memories of Love (4:01)
19. It Better End Soon: 1st Movement (2:33)
20. It Better End Soon: 2nd Movement (3:40)
21. It Better End Soon: 3rd Movement (3:18)
22. It Better End Soon: 4th Movement (0:56)
23. It Better End Soon: Where Do We Go from Here (2:47)

Line-up / Musicians:

- Terry Kath / electric & acoustic guitars, lead (1,4,6,9,10) & backing vocals
- Robert Lamm / piano, Hammond organ, Hohner Pianet, lead (3,5,6) & backing vocals
- Lee Loughnane / trumpet, flugelhorn, backing vocals
- James Pankow / trombone, brass arrangements
- Walter Parazaider / saxophones, flute, clarinet, backing vocals
- Peter Cetera / bass, lead (2-5,7,8,11) & backing vocals
- Daniel Seraphine / drums, percussion

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