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"Saturday in the Park" is a song written by Robert Lamm and recorded by the group Chicago for their 1972 album Chicago V. It was successful upon release, reaching No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, [6] and became the band's highest-charting single at the time, helping lift the album to No. 1. [7] Billboard ranked it as the No. 76 song for 1972.
Released shortly before the album, the single "Saturday in the Park" was the band's biggest hit to that point, reaching No. 3 in the US. [4] Chicago V was critically acclaimed and became Chicago's first No.1 album, [5] [6] spending nine weeks atop the charts in the US. [7] In the UK, the release managed to reach No. 24. [8]
The Very Best of Chicago: Only the Beginning is a double greatest hits album by the American band Chicago, their twenty-seventh album overall.Released in 2002, this collection marked the beginning of a long-term partnership with Rhino Entertainment which, between 2002 and 2005, would remaster and re-release Chicago's 1969–1980 Columbia Records catalog.
As mentioned above, there is a video, easily found online, of Chicago performing "Saturday in the Park" at the Arie Crown Theater in Chicago, in 1973. In this performance, Robert Lamm clearly sings, "Eh Cumpari, ci vo sunari," no elisions or contractions. He even rolls his "R"s and attempts proper Italian pronunciation.
The rock group Chicago referred to "Eh, Cumpari!" in some performances of the song "Saturday in the Park" with the line: "a man selling ice cream, singing Italian ...
The Best of Chicago: 40th Anniversary is a double greatest hits album, and the thirty-first album overall, by American rock band Chicago, released by Rhino Records on October 2, 2007. It consists of two discs containing 30 of Chicago's top 40 singles.
Grandview Park Bandshell during the 30th anniversary of Saturday in the Park. Saturday in the Park is an annual festival that is held at Grandview Park Municipal Bandshell in Sioux City, Iowa first held in 1991. The festival falls on the Saturday closest to the 4th of July and attracts around 50,000 people from all over the Midwest for the ...
Chicago IX proved to be an enormous success upon its release. It reached No. 1 in the US and remained on the Billboard 200 for a total of 72 weeks. [2] It has since been certified quintuple platinum by the RIAA, signifying sales of over five million copies. [3] Chicago IX was reissued by Rhino Records, Chicago's current distributor. The album ...