The Box (Chicago album)

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ReleasedJuly 22, 2003
RecordedJanuary 19691998
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Length392:55
Label Rhino Records
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Chicago chronology
The Very Best of Chicago: Only the Beginning
(2002)
The Box
(2003)
Love Songs
(2005)
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The Box is a five-CD/one DVD career-spanning box set by popular American group Chicago and was compiled and released through Rhino Records in 2003. The set was authorized by the band, who helped choose material from its entire back catalogue.

Contents

The box includes material from every studio album released by the band since its 1969 debut Chicago Transit Authority to its late 1990s recordings, along with a few rarities, notably three songs from the then-unreleased 1993 Stone of Sisyphus project. Every charting single from 1969 to 2003 is included, with the exception of the 1986 remake of the band's earlier hit, "25 or 6 to 4."

An additional DVD sports rare live recordings from 1972 and promotional material for 1979's Chicago 13 . The set also includes a booklet of additional material featuring track-by-track analysis, promotional photos, essays and variations on the familiar Chicago logo.

The set did not chart in the US or the UK.

Track listing

Disc one
No.TitleWriter(s)Original albumLength
1."Introduction" Terry Kath Chicago Transit Authority , 19696:35
2."Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" (Single version) Robert Lamm Chicago Transit Authority3:20
3."Beginnings" (GH edit)LammChicago Transit Authority6:27
4."Questions 67 and 68"LammChicago Transit Authority5:01
5."Listen"LammChicago Transit Authority3:22
6."South California Purples"LammChicago Transit Authority6:11
7."I'm a Man" (New edit) Jimmy Miller/Steve Winwood Chicago Transit Authority5:43
8."Movin' In" James Pankow Chicago , 19704:06
9."Wake Up Sunshine"LammChicago2:29
10."Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon: Make Me Smile/So Much to Say, So Much to Give/Anxiety's Moment/West Virginia's Fantasies"PankowChicago7:02
11."Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon: Colour My World"PankowChicago3:00
12."Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon: To Be Free/Now More Than Ever"PankowChicago2:41
13."Fancy Colours"LammChicago5:10
14."25 or 6 to 4"LammChicago4:50
15."Poem for the People"LammChicago5:31
16."It Better End Soon: 1st Movement/3rd Movement/4th Movement"Lamm/KathChicago6:37
Disc two
No.TitleWriter(s)Original albumLength
1."Loneliness Is Just a Word"Lamm Chicago III , 19712:36
2."Travel Suite: Flight 602"LammChicago III2:45
3."Travel Suite: Free"LammChicago III2:16
4."Mother"LammChicago III4:30
5."Lowdown" Peter Cetera/Danny Seraphine Chicago III3:35
6."An Hour in the Shower": "A Hard Risin' Morning Without Breakfast/Off to Work/Fallin' Out/Dreamin' Home/Morning Blues Again"KathChicago III5:28
7."A Hit by Varèse"Lamm Chicago V , 19724:55
8."All Is Well"LammChicago V3:50
9."Saturday in the Park"LammChicago V3:56
10."Dialogue (Part I & II)"LammChicago V7:10
11."Just You 'n' Me"Pankow Chicago VI , 19733:42
12."Something in This City Changes People"LammChicago VI3:42
13."In Terms of Two"CeteraChicago VI3:29
14."Feelin' Stronger Every Day"Cetera/PankowChicago VI4:14
15."(I've Been) Searchin' So Long"Pankow Chicago VII , 19744:29
16."Mongonucleosis"PankowChicago VII3:26
17."Wishing You Were Here"CeteraChicago VII4:37
18."Call on Me" Lee Loughnane Chicago VII4:02
19."Happy Man" (GH2 edit)CeteraChicago VII3:14
Disc three
No.TitleWriter(s)Original albumLength
1."Harry Truman"Lamm Chicago VIII , 19753:01
2."Old Days"PankowChicago VIII3:31
3."Brand New Love Affair, Part I & II"PankowChicago VIII4:27
4."Never Been in Love Before"LammChicago VIII4:10
5."You Are on My Mind" (Single version)Pankow Chicago X , 19763:12
6."Mama Mama"CeteraChicago X3:30
7."Hope for Love"KathChicago X3:03
8."Another Rainy Day in New York City"LammChicago X3:01
9."Gently I'll Wake You"LammChicago X3:33
10."If You Leave Me Now"CeteraChicago X3:56
11."Mississippi Delta City Blues"Kath Chicago XI , 19774:39
12."Baby, What a Big Surprise"CeteraChicago XI3:04
13."Take Me Back to Chicago"Seraphine/David Wolinski Chicago XI5:17
14."Prelude (Little One)/Little One"Seraphine/WolinskiChicago XI6:34
15."Gone Long Gone"Cetera Hot Streets , 19784:00
16."No Tell Lover" (Single version)Cetera/Loughnane/SeraphineHot Streets3:48
17."Alive Again" (Single version)PankowHot Streets3:28
18."The Greatest Love on Earth"Seraphine/WolinskiHot Streets3:18
19."Little Miss Lovin'"CeteraHot Streets4:36
20."Hot Streets"LammHot Streets5:14
Disc four
No.TitleWriter(s)Original albumLength
1."Street Player" (Single version)Seraphine/Wolinski Chicago 13 , 19794:23
2."Must Have Been Crazy" Donnie Dacus Chicago 133:23
3."Manipulation" (Single version)Lamm Chicago XIV , 19803:29
4."Thunder and Lightning"Cetera/Lamm/SeraphineChicago XIV3:32
5."Song for You"CeteraChicago XIV3:41
6."The American Dream"PankowChicago XIV3:17
7."Love Me Tomorrow" (2002 remastered edit)Cetera/David Foster Chicago 16 , 19824:59
8."Chains" Ian Thomas Chicago 163:22
9."What You're Missing" (2002 remastered edit) Jay Gruska/Joseph Williams Chicago 163:30
10."Hard to Say I'm Sorry/Get Away"Cetera/Foster/LammChicago 165:06
11."Stay the Night"Cetera/Foster Chicago 17 , 19843:48
12."We Can Stop the Hurtin'"Lamm/Bill Champlin/Deborah NealChicago 174:11
13."Hard Habit to Break" Steve Kipner/Jon ParkerChicago 174:43
14."Along Comes a Woman" (Single version)Cetera/Mark Goldenberg Chicago 173:46
15."You're the Inspiration"Cetera/FosterChicago 173:48
16."Good for Nothing"Lamm/Foster/Richard Marx We Are the World , 19853:38
17."If She Would Have Been Faithful..."Kipner/Randy Goodrum Chicago 18 , 19863:51
18."Forever"Lamm/Bill GableChicago 185:17
19."Will You Still Love Me?" (Single version)Foster/Tom Keane/Richard Baskin Chicago 184:11
20."Niagara Falls"Kipner/Bobby Caldwell Chicago 183:42
Disc five
No.TitleWriter(s)Original albumLength
1."Heart in Pieces" Tim Feehan/Brian MacLeod/Diane Warren Chicago 19 , 19885:04
2."Look Away"Diane WarrenChicago 193:59
3."What Kind of Man Would I Be?" Jason Scheff/Chas Sandford/Bobby Caldwell Chicago 194:19
4."I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love"Warren/Albert Hammond Chicago 193:55
5."We Can Last Forever"Scheff/John DexterChicago 193:45
6."You're Not Alone" (Single version)Jim ScottChicago 193:56
7."Hearts in Trouble"Champlin/Dennis Matkowsky/Kevin Dukes Days of Thunder soundtrack, 19904:01
8."Only Time Can Heal the Wounded"Lamm/Gerard McMahon Twenty 1 , 19914:43
9."You Come to My Senses" Billy Steinberg/Tom Kelly Twenty 13:49
10."God Save the Queen"Pankow/ScheffTwenty 14:19
11."Chasin' the Wind"WarrenTwenty 14:18
12."All the Years"Lamm/Bruce GaitschPreviously unreleased, 2003; later released as a part of Chicago XXXII: Stone of Sisyphus , 2008 (originally recorded in 1993)4:16
13."Stone of Sisyphus" Dawayne Bailey/LoughnanePreviously unreleased; later released as a part of Chicago XXXII: Stone of Sisyphus4:12
14."Bigger Than Elvis"Scheff/Peter Wolf/Ima WolfPreviously unreleased; later released as a part of Chicago XXXII: Stone of Sisyphus4:31
15."Caravan" Duke Ellington/Irving Mills/Juan Tizol Night & Day: Big Band , 19953:23
16."Here in My Heart" Glen Ballard/James Newton Howard The Heart of Chicago 1967–1997 , 19974:15
17."The Only One" (Single version)Pankow/Greg O'ConnorThe Heart of Chicago 1967–19974:38
18."All Roads Lead to You"Marc Beeson/Desmond Child The Heart of Chicago 1967–1998 Volume II , 19984:20
19."Show Me a Sign"Pankow/Greg O'ConnorThe Heart of Chicago 1967–1998 Volume II3:35

Disc 6: DVD

Features live material from 1972 and promotional videos for Chicago 13 in 1979.

Personnel [2]

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References

  1. Ruhlmann, William. Chicago: The Box - Chicago | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic at AllMusic
  2. The Box (Media notes). Chicago. Rhino Records. 2003.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)