Feelin' Stronger Every Day

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"Feelin' Stronger Every Day"
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Single by Chicago
from the album Chicago VI
B-side "Jenny"
ReleasedJune 23, 1973
Genre Rock
Length4:15 (LP version)
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s) Peter Cetera, James Pankow
Producer(s) James William Guercio
Chicago singles chronology
"Dialogue (Part I & II)"
(1972)		"Feelin' Stronger Every Day"
(1973)		"Just You 'n' Me"
(1973)

"Feelin' Stronger Every Day" is a song written by Peter Cetera and James Pankow for the group Chicago and recorded for their album Chicago VI (1973). The first single released from that album, it reached #10 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. [1]

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Development

The song was a collaboration between bassist Peter Cetera and trombonist James Pankow. Regarding the composition, drummer Danny Seraphine said, "Peter wrote that song about his marriage falling apart. He'd gone through a real hard time and was starting to feel stronger again." [2]

Cetera himself recalled, "I can remember the exact beginnings of that one... We were at the Akron Rubber Bowl in Akron, Ohio, an outdoor gig that was delayed a bit because of rain, and so, we got there our normal hour and a half before the gig, and we're sitting around, and we were told we're gonna hold for at least an hour, and I heard Jimmy [Pankow] in the other room playing the actual beginning of that song... and I said, 'What is that?' and he went, 'Oh, I don't know, I'm just messing around.'... I went and got my bass, and we sat there and played around with it, and a few weeks later, after we got off the road, I went to his house, and we wrote 'Feelin' Stronger Every Day'." [3]

Pankow noted that "'Stronger Every Day' was about a relationship but yet, underlying that relationship it's almost like the band is feeling stronger than ever.” [3]

Cetera played bass and sang lead vocals, [4] while keyboardist Robert Lamm played Hohner Pianet as well as acoustic piano.[ citation needed ]

Reception

Cash Box said that with this song "Chicago undergoes a slight change in musical directions by straying somewhat away from the sharp horn lines that have so successfully represented their sound in the past." [5] Record World said that the "band have outdone themselves on this number produced superbly by Jim Guercio" and that the "last half of the record takes off into the ionosphere." [6]

Personnel

Chart performance

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References

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  5. ↑ "Cash Box Record Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. June 9, 1973. p. 22. Retrieved 2021-12-11.
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