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- 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".
Chicago Studio albums - The Chicago Transit Authority
- Chicago
- Chicago III
- Chicago V
- Chicago VI
- Chicago VII
- Chicago VIII
- Chicago X
- Chicago XI
- Hot Streets
- Chicago 13
- Chicago XIV
- Chicago 16
- Chicago 17
- Chicago 18
- Chicago 19
- Twenty 1
- Night & Day Big Band
- Chicago XXV: The Christmas Album
- Chicago XXX
- Chicago XXXII: Stone of Sisyphus
- Chicago XXXIII: O Christmas Three
Live albums - Chicago at Carnegie Hall
- Live in Japan
- Chicago XXVI: Live in Concert
- Chicago XXXIV: Live in '75
Compilations - Chicago IX - Chicago's Greatest Hits
- Greatest Hits, Volume II
- If You Leave Me Now
- Take Me Back to Chicago
- Greatest Hits 1982-1989
- Group Portrait
- The Heart of Chicago 1967-1997
- The Heart of Chicago 1967-1998 Volume II
- The Very Best of: Only the Beginning
- The Box
- Love Songs
- The Best of Chicago: 40th Anniversary Edition
Related articles Categories:- 1970 singles
- Chicago (band) songs
- Songs written by James Pankow
- 1970s rock song stubs
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