Chicago IX - Chicago's Greatest Hits

Infobox Album | Name = Chicago IX:
Chicago's Greatest Hits
Type = Compilation Album
Artist = Chicago


Released = November 101975
Recorded = January 1969 - December 1973
Genre = Rock
Length = 47:18
Label = Columbia Records
Producer = James William Guercio
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:m998b5b4tsqk~T1 link]
Last album = "Chicago VIII"
(1975)
This album = "Chicago IX - Chicago's Greatest Hits"
(1975)
Next album = "Chicago X"
(1976)

"Chicago IX: Chicago's Greatest Hits" is the first greatest hits album by American rock band Chicago and was released in 1975.

Considering all of Chicago's biggest hits thus far, this set stretches all the way back to their 1969 debut, "The Chicago Transit Authority", to 1974's "Chicago VII". "Chicago VIII" and its hits, having only come out just months earlier, were considered too recent to anthologize, while "Chicago III"'s material was overlooked for inclusion due to its lack of truly big hit singles.

Released in November 1975 on Columbia Records, "Chicago IX" proved to be an enormous seller, reaching #1 in the US. Despite 2002's "" superseding it, "Chicago IX" was also reissued by Rhino Records, Chicago's current distributor.

Track listing

ide one

#"25 or 6 to 4" (Robert Lamm) – 4:51
#"Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" (Robert Lamm) – 3:20
#* "This has most of the instrumental intro cut off. On the original LP version of IX, more of the intro was cut off and the spoken part in the last verse was omitted."
#"Colour My World" (James Pankow) – 2:59
#"Just You 'N' Me" (James Pankow) – 3:42
#"Saturday in the Park" (Robert Lamm) – 3:54
#"Feelin' Stronger Every Day" (Peter Cetera/James Pankow) – 4:14

ide two

#"Make Me Smile" (James Pankow) – 2:59
#* "This is the single edit that also includes parts of "Now More Than Ever"."
#"Wishing You Were Here" (Peter Cetera) – 4:34
#"Call on Me" (Lee Loughnane) – 4:02
#"(I've Been) Searchin' So Long" (James Pankow) – 4:29
#"Beginnings" (Robert Lamm) – 7:51
#* "On the original LP version of IX this song was faded out about 1:20 early."

"Chicago IX" (Columbia 33900) reached #1 in the US during a chart stay of 72 weeks. It did not chart in the UK.

Personnel

*Peter Cetera
*Laudir DeOliveira
*Terry Kath
*Robert Lamm
*Lee Loughnane
*James Pankow
*Walter Parazaider
*Danny Seraphine

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)