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"Hard Habit to Break" is a song written by Steve Kipner and John Lewis Parker, produced and arranged by David Foster and recorded by the group Chicago for their 1984 album Chicago 17, with Bill Champlin and Peter Cetera sharing lead vocals.
Cash Box said that the song is very different from Chicago's "vocal harmonies and horns heyday," having "a hard rocking drum beat, some techno-synth backing and an upper-register lead vocal." [3] Upbeat and rock-oriented, it was the first single released from that album, and reached number 16 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Chicago 17 is the fourteenth studio album by American rock band Chicago, released on May 14, 1984.It was the group's second release for Full Moon/Warner Bros. Records, their second album to be produced by David Foster [7] and their last with founding bassist/vocalist Peter Cetera.
Hard Habit to Break", written by Steve Kipner and John Lewis Parker, [82] brought three Grammy nominations for Cetera: two nominations as a member of Chicago for Record of the Year and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal; [73] [83] and outside the group, as a co-nominee with David Foster for Best Vocal Arrangement for Two or More ...
The single, "Hard Habit to Break", brought two more Grammy Award nominations for the band, for Record of the Year and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. [22] The album included two other singles: " Stay the Night " (No. 16), [ 20 ] another composition by Cetera and Foster; and " Along Comes a Woman " (No. 14), [ 20 ] written by ...
He performed lead vocals on three of Chicago's biggest hits of the 1980s, 1984's "Hard Habit to Break" and 1988's "Look Away" and "I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love". During live shows, he sang the lower, baritone, vocal parts originally performed by founding guitarist Terry Kath , who had died in 1978.
"Hard Habit to Break" (Steve Kipner/Jon Parker) – 4:44 from Chicago 17 "Saturday in the Park" (Robert Lamm) – 3:55 from Chicago V "Wishing You Were Here" (Cetera) – 4:35 from Chicago VII "The Only One" (Pankow/Greg O'Connor) – 5:59 Previously unreleased. A new recording produced and featuring backing vocals by Lenny Kravitz
He won Grammy Awards for his arrangements on Chicago's "Hard Habit to Break" in 1984, Andy Williams's Close Enough For Love, in 1986, and for Celine Dion's "When I Fall in Love", from the film Sleepless in Seattle, in 1994. He also received 11 additional nominations for his arrangements.