South California Purples

South California Purples

Infobox Single
Name = South California Purples
Artist = Chicago
from Album = The Chicago Transit Authority
Recorded = January 1969
Genre = Blues rock, hard rock
Length = 6:11
Label = Columbia Records
Writer = Robert Lamm
Producer = James William Guercio

"South California Purples" is a song written and sung by Robert Lamm for the rock band Chicago and recorded for their debut album "The Chicago Transit Authority" (1969).

A live version appears on 1971's "Chicago at Carnegie Hall," lasting over fifteen minutes.

=Trivia=The song quotes the opening line from The Beatles' "I Am the Walrus:" "I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together."


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