Old Days

"Old Days" is a song written by James Pankow for the group Chicago and recorded for their album Chicago VIII (1975), with lead vocals by Peter Cetera.[1] The second single released from that album, it reached #5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and #3 on the Easy Listening chart.[2]

"Old Days"
Single by Chicago
from the album Chicago VIII
B-side"Hideaway"
ReleasedApril 1975
Recorded1974
GenreRock
Length3:31
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)James Pankow
Producer(s)James William Guercio
Chicago singles chronology
"Harry Truman"
(1975)		 "Old Days"
(1975)		 "Brand New Love Affair"
(1975)

Pankow has said that the song is a nostalgic piece about his childhood:

"It touches on key phrases that, although they date me, are pretty right-on in terms of images of my childhood. 'The Howdy Doody Show' on television and collecting baseball cards and comic books." [3]

Pankow told group biographer James William Ruhlmann that the group stopped performing the song live because Cetera refused to sing it, calling the lyrics "corny".[4]

Later uses

"Old Days" is featured on the soundtrack of the movie Starsky & Hutch (2004). The band also reworked the song in 2009 to serve as the theme for the "Monsters in the Morning" show airing on Comcast SportsNet Chicago. The song has also gained some resurgent popularity among the Internet meme community.

Chart performance

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References
  1. Chicago VIII liner notes.
  2. "Chicago Awards". Allmusic. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
  3. "Chicago official website". Archived from the original on 2007-06-09. Retrieved 2007-07-05.
  4. Ruhlmann, James William (1991). "Group Portrait Essay". Album Liner Notes. p. 7. Retrieved April 27, 2019.
  5. "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1975-07-05. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  6. "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1975-06-21. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  7. "NZ Top 40 Singles Chart | The Official New Zealand Music Chart". Nztop40.co.nz. 1975-07-21. Retrieved 2016-10-10.
  8. "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". collectionscanada.gc.ca.
  9. Whitburn, Joel (1999). Pop Annual. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. ISBN 0-89820-142-X.


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