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The Box (Chicago album)

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The Box
Box set by
Chicago
ReleasedJuly 22, 2003
RecordedJanuary 1969–1998
Genre
Length392:55
LabelRhino Records
Producer
Chicago chronology
The Very Best of Chicago: Only the Beginning
(2002) 		The Box
(2003) 		Love Songs
(2005)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

The Box is a five-CD/one DVD career-spanning box set by the popular American group Chicago, compiled and released by Rhino Records in 2003. The set was authorized by the band, who helped choose material from their entire back catalogue.

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 features 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

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Disc one
No.TitleWriter(s)Original albumLength
1."Introduction"Terry KathChicago Transit Authority, 19696:35
2."Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" (Single version)Robert LammChicago 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 WinwoodChicago Transit Authority5:43
8."Movin' In"James PankowChicago, 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"LammChicago 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 SeraphineChicago 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"LammChicago 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"PankowChicago 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"PankowChicago VII, 19744:29
16."Mongonucleosis"PankowChicago VII3:26
17."Wishing You Were Here"CeteraChicago VII4:37
18."Call on Me"Lee LoughnaneChicago VII4:02
19."Happy Man" (GH2 edit)CeteraChicago VII3:14
Disc three
No.TitleWriter(s)Original albumLength
1."Harry Truman"LammChicago 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)PankowChicago 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"KathChicago XI, 19774:39
12."Baby, What a Big Surprise"CeteraChicago XI3:04
13."Take Me Back to Chicago"Seraphine/David WolinskiChicago XI5:17
14."Prelude (Little One)/Little One"Seraphine/WolinskiChicago XI6:34
15."Gone Long Gone"CeteraHot 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/WolinskiChicago 13, 19794:23
2."Must Have Been Crazy"Donnie DacusChicago 133:23
3."Manipulation" (Single version)LammChicago 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 FosterChicago 16, 19824:59
8."Chains"Ian ThomasChicago 163:22
9."What You're Missing" (2002 remastered edit)Jay Gruska/Joseph WilliamsChicago 163:30
10."Hard to Say I'm Sorry/Get Away"Cetera/Foster/LammChicago 165:06
11."Stay the Night"Cetera/FosterChicago 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 GoldenbergChicago 173:46
15."You're the Inspiration"Cetera/FosterChicago 173:48
16."Good for Nothing"Lamm/Foster/Richard MarxWe Are the World, 19853:38
17."If She Would Have Been Faithful..."Kipner/Randy GoodrumChicago 18, 19863:51
18."Forever"Lamm/Bill GableChicago 185:17
19."Will You Still Love Me?" (Single version)Foster/Tom Keane/Richard BaskinChicago 184:11
20."Niagara Falls"Kipner/Bobby CaldwellChicago 183:42
Disc five
No.TitleWriter(s)Original albumLength
1."Heart in Pieces"Tim Feehan/Brian MacLeod/Diane WarrenChicago 19, 19885:04
2."Look Away"Diane WarrenChicago 193:59
3."What Kind of Man Would I Be?"Jason Scheff/Chas Sandford/Bobby CaldwellChicago 194:19
4."I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love"Warren/Albert HammondChicago 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 DukesDays of Thunder soundtrack, 19904:01
8."Only Time Can Heal the Wounded"Lamm/Gerard McMahonTwenty 1, 19914:43
9."You Come to My Senses"Billy Steinberg/Tom KellyTwenty 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 TizolNight & Day: Big Band, 19953:23
16."Here in My Heart"Glen Ballard/James Newton HowardThe 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 ChildThe 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

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

Personnel[2]

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References

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  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)
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