Make Me Smile

For the Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel song, see "Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)."

"Make Me Smile"
Single by Chicago
from the album Chicago II
B-side	"Colour My World"
Released	March 1970
Format	7"
Recorded	August 1969
Genre	Rock
Length	2:59 (original single edit) 4:25 (2002 compilation edit)
Label	Columbia
Writer(s)	James Pankow
Producer	James William Guercio
Chicago singles chronology
"Beginnings" (1969) "Make Me Smile" (1970) "25 or 6 to 4" (1970)

"Make Me Smile" is a song written by James Pankow for the rock band Chicago. Part of Pankow's Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon song cycle/suite, it was recorded for their second album Chicago II (1970). Terry Kath sang the lead vocal.

A radio-friendly edit of "Make Me Smile" (incorporating the end of "Now More Than Ever," another track from the Ballet) was released as a single in March 1970, becoming the band's first Top 10 record, peaking at number nine on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Since the death of Terry Kath in 1978, the vocals for live performances of "Make Me Smile" were handled by Bill Champlin, who joined the band for the recording of Chicago 16, until he departed the group in August 2009. On shows that Champlin didn't attend, Robert Lamm sang the lead vocal. Champlin's replacement Lou Pardini has now taken over the singing of "Make Me Smile".