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"Wishing You Were Here" is a song written by Peter Cetera for the group Chicago and recorded for their album Chicago VII (1974), with lead vocals by Terry Kath (uncredited on the original album package), while Cetera sang the song's bridge. The third single released from that album, it reached No. 11 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, No.
"Wishing You Were Here" 11 1 51 51 [A] — 12 9 Kath/Cetera "Life Saver" Columbia 10049 Feb. 1975 "Harry Truman" 13 23 — — — 16 19 Lamm Chicago VIII "Till We Meet Again" Columbia 10092 April 1975 "Old Days" 5 3 80 — — 6 6 Cetera "Hideaway" Columbia 10131 Aug. 1975 "Brand New Love Affair (Part I and II)" 61 27 — — — 65 43 Kath/Cetera
Chicago VII is the sixth studio album by American rock band Chicago. It was released on March 11, 1974 by Columbia Records . It is notable for being their first double album of new material since 1971's Chicago III and remains their final studio release in that format.
Among the other tracks on the album: Lamm's dynamic but cryptic "25 or 6 to 4" (Chicago's first Top 5 hit), [20] which is a reference to a songwriter trying to write at 25 or 26 minutes before 4 o'clock in the morning, [39] [29]: 109 [40] and was sung by Cetera with Terry Kath on guitar; the lengthy war-protest song "It Better End Soon"; and ...
As the 1970s progressed, Cetera became a more prolific songwriter for the group, contributing the songs "Wishing You Were Here" and "Happy Man" to the 1974 album Chicago VII. "Wishing You Were Here" featured vocals by members of the Beach Boys , [ 55 ] and reached number eleven on the charts. [ 14 ] "
After the release of a self-titled debut album in April 1969, the band shortened its name to simply Chicago after receiving a threat of legal action from the Chicago Transit Authority. [1] The group's lineup remained stable for over ten years and released a series commercially and critically successful albums.
He called Chicago "probably the most unforgivably terrible rock 'n' roll band of the 70s" and said Group Portrait memorialized the band "in suitably monstrous fashion". He goes on to say that Chicago had some "decent" singles, already collected on two greatest-hits albums, and names " Wishing You Were Here " as the group's "most notable ...
Chicago XI is the ninth studio album by the American rock band Chicago.It was released on September 12, 1977, through Columbia Records.It was both the last to feature guitarist and vocalist Terry Kath prior to his death in a gun accident just over four months later, and the last to be produced by longtime associate of the band James William Guercio.