Chicago - Old Days

According to Billboard chart statistics, Chicago is second only to the Beach Boys as the most successful American rock band of all time, in terms of both albums and singles. Judged by album sales, as certified by the R.I.A.A., the band does not rank quite so high, but it is still among the Top Ten best-selling U.S. groups ever. If such statements of fact surprise, that's because Chicago has been singularly underrated since the beginning of its long career, both because of its musical ambitions (to the musicians, rock is only one of several styles of music to be used and blended, along with classical, jazz, R&B, and pop) and because of its refusal to emphasize celebrity over the music. The result has been that fundamentalist rock critics have consistently failed to appreciate its music and that its media profile has always been low. At the same time, however, Chicago has succeeded in the ways it intended to. From the beginning of its emergence as a national act, it has been able to fill arenas with satisfied fans. And beyond the impressive sales and chart statistics, its music has endured, played constantly on the radio and instantly familiar to tens of millions. When, in 2002, Chicago's biggest hits were assembled together on the two-disc set The Very Best of Chicago: Only the Beginning and the album debuted in the Top 50, giving the band the distinction of having had chart albums in five consecutive decades, the music industry and some music journalists may have been startled. But the fans who had been supporting Chicago for over 30 years were not.
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Old days
Good times I remember
Fun days
Filled with simple pleasures
Drive-in movies
Comic books and blue jeans
Howdy Doody
Baseball cards and birthdays
Take me back
To a world gone away
Memories
Seem like yesterday

Old days
Good times I remember
Gold days
Days I'll always treasure
Funny faces
Full of love and laughter
Funny places
Summer nights and streetcars
Take me back
To a world gone away
Boyhood memories
Seem like yesterday

Old days - in my mind and in my heart to stay
Old days - darkened dreams of good times gone away
Old days - days of love and feeling fancy free
Old days - days of magic still so close to me
Old days - in my mind and in my heart to stay
Old days - darkened dreams of good times gone away
Old days - days of love and feeling fancy free
Old days - days of magic still so close to me

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[1QuikTransAm]

Oh how I connect with this great song. Riding my pieced together Schwin bike with a sissy bar , banana seat, and ape hanger hadle bars. In my young mind there was no such thing as racism, hate, dishonesty. Your biggest worry was trying to get some neigborhood girl to dig you. Sure do miss the 70's....

[TigerGrumman]

@1QuikTransAm:

Yep - the 70's, in my neighborhood, was peaceful, quiet and easy going. I grew-up in a neighborhood where the color of one's skin was immaterial at best. All the kids hung out together: black, white, asian, hispanic - it did not matter to any of us. It seemed like the days lasted forever.

If the World Wide Web had been available in the 70's, you would see none of the raw hate that you see today in places like Youtube. Young people were respectful and mindful back then.

[thechevyman999]

@1QuikTransAm wish i couldve lived in such a time

[eydie57]

@TigerGrumman i'm glad that was true in your case. it wasn't in mine. i grew up in the 70's and there were plenty of bullies in my school.

[eydie57]

it's ironic. this song came out in the 70's and he's clearly talking about the 50's. but we who were young when this song was out long for the 70's.

[THEATREofPAIN270]

I didn't have enough to add this so I have to say, The drums are AWESOME in this song and the Brass, Oh My God, Does it really get any better than this. I just need to thank CHICAGO for this one especially and the so many more you gave us fans. Thank You Thank You Thank You Thank You!

[THEATREofPAIN270]

1 Dislike, Well that's bullshit, Obviously somebody didn't like thier Old Days. So many good comments. I loved this song back in the day and still do. Really takes me back. Good times with family and friends. Most of my family has passed on and friends have moved on but hearing this makes me smile. Makes me think of a great time in my life. It's a real good 3 minutes and 35 seconds, Only bad thing, This song ends. RakyMaky, You post some really good tunes, I had to Subscribe, Thanx 4 the post!

[MrCombat1965]

Apparently the people arguing didn't bother to read the top rated comments.

[bigfootskitty]

@ntvtxn62 NO. Only Whites In America are to blame! Dispite that the Brits (Who's colony we were) Being first to outlaw slavery, Or that Black African Warlords Took the tribesmen from competing tribes and sold them into bondage, OPENLY TAKING PLACE UNDER THE FRENCH FLAG! 80% were sold to SOUTH AMERICA And the "Spice Islands" of the gulf yet It's ONLY HERE blacks EXPECT restitution for imprisonment THEY PERSONALY, NEVER ENDURED! AND WHITEY FOUGHT TO FREE them, mostly,It wasn't blacks.

[dutchy1176]

@TigerGrumman You're absolutely right.I'm too young to have been old enough back then,but I totally understand.I really love this music,and it goes hand in hand with honest childsplay,respect, and digging great music in general....happy holidays!

[MrOldhippy1956]

@TigerGrumman Tiger you are so right,,,, back in the late 60's and 70's life was so easy!!!

[sweetgypsy100]

Wish the "Old" Days were the 'Now' Days!! A special time, indeed! :)