Chicago 17

In keeping with the majority of their albums up to that time (1984), the traditional "Chicago" logo, designed by John Berg and Nick Fasciano,{{Cite magazine|last=A.|first=M.|title=It's An American Brand: About That Logo|date=July 20, 2002|magazine=Billboard|page=50|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_AsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA50|access-date=July 27, 2017}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.aiga.org/across-the-graphic-universe-an-interview-with-john-berg|title=Across the Graphic Universe: An Interview with John Berg|last=Nini|first=Paul|date=October 30, 2007|work=AIGA {{!}} the professional association for design|access-date=July 26, 2017|archive-date=March 21, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190321142230/https://www.aiga.org/across-the-graphic-universe-an-interview-with-john-berg/|url-status=dead}} is the main feature of the album cover. It does not feature any photos of the group. In a 2020 article for Muse by Clio, it was listed among "Nine Great Album Covers, Chosen by Gregory Sylvester." Sylvester describes the cover as, " ... an illusion of a package within a package ... brown kraft paper, twine and a faux red stamp."{{Cite web|title=9 Great Album Covers, Chosen by Gregory Sylvester|url=http://musebycl.io/art-album/9-great-album-covers-chosen-gregory-sylvester|last=Sylvester|first=Gregory|date=May 21, 2020|website=Muse by Clio|language=en|access-date=May 23, 2020}} The album cover looks like a package wrapped in brown paper tied with twine and (on the back) secured with tape. On the front, the "Chicago" logo appears to be in bas-relief (it is not), covered by the wrapping paper. The number "17," in Arabic numerals rather than the Roman numerals used by the group formerly, appears to be stamped on the wrapping paper below the logo. In the upper left-hand quadrant of the cover back, a pink "receipt form" is depicted (designated as a "TOPS FORM 3014" in small print at the bottom of the "receipt"), tucked underneath the "twine," with the "Chicago" logo stamped on it near the top in purple ink and, below the logo, a "DESCRIPTION OF PACKAGE" lists the tracks on side one and side two. The bottom of the "receipt form" shows production and engineering credits and the Warner Bros. logo "stamped" on the slip. On the inner dust sleeve, a large group photo of the band appears on one side: (back row, left to right) Lee Loughnane, Bill Champlin, James Pankow, Walt Parazaider, Robert Lamm, (front row, left to right) Danny Seraphine, Peter Cetera. The reverse side of the dust sleeve gives track listings, song lyrics, and song and album credits, including credits for artwork and packaging: Art Direction/Design, Simon Levy; Album Cover Art, Larry Vigon; Photography, Harry Langdon, James Goble.

{{Track listing

| headline = Side one

| extra_column = Lead vocals

| title1 = Stay the Night

| length1 = 3:48

| writer1 = Peter Cetera, David Foster

| extra1 = Peter Cetera

| title2 = We Can Stop the Hurtin{{'-}}

| length2 = 4:11

| writer2 = Bill Champlin, Robert Lamm, Deborah Neal

| extra2 = Robert Lamm

| title3 = Hard Habit to Break

| length3 = 4:43

| writer3 = Steve Kipner, John Lewis Parker

| extra3 = Cetera with Bill Champlin

| title4 = Only You

| length4 = 3:53

| writer4 = Foster, James Pankow

| extra4 = Lamm with Champlin

| title5 = Remember the Feeling

| length5 = 4:28

| writer5 = Cetera, Champlin

| extra5 = Cetera

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Side two

| extra_column = Lead vocals

| title6 = Along Comes a Woman

| length6 = 4:14

| writer6 = Cetera, Mark Goldenberg

| extra6 = Cetera

| title7 = You're the Inspiration

| length7 = 3:49

| writer7 = Cetera, Foster

| extra7 = Cetera

| title8 = Please Hold On

| length8 = 3:37

| writer8 = Champlin, Foster, Lionel Richie

| extra8 = Champlin

| title9 = Prima Donna

| length9 = 4:09

| writer9 = Cetera, Goldenberg

| extra9 = Cetera

| title10 = Once in a Lifetime

| length10 = 4:12

| writer10 = Pankow

| extra10 = Champlin with Cetera

| total_length = 41:53

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Bonus tracks on Rhino reissue

| extra_column = Lead vocals

| title11 = Here Is Where We Begin

| length11 = 3:53

| writer11 = Lamm

| note11 = featuring David Pack

| extra11 = Lamm with David Pack

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Unreleased

| extra_column = Lead vocals

| title11 = Sweet Marie

| length11 =

| writer11 = Cetera, Foster[https://www.ascap.com/repertory#ace/search/title/sweet%20marie SWEET MARIE]

| extra11 = Champlin

}}

Some songs were recorded during the Chicago 17 sessions but not released. "Good for Nothing" was later released on the We Are the World superstar charity album in 1985.{{Cite news|title=Art from the Attic|last=Hulse|first=Megan|date=March 29, 2017|newspaper=The Daily Utah Chronicle|publisher=University of Utah Student Media |url=http://dailyutahchronicle.com/2017/03/29/print-art-from-the-attic-international-unity-in-we-are-the-world/|access-date=October 26, 2017}}{{cite news |date=April 6, 1985 |title=We Are the World |newspaper=Billboard |volume=97 |issue=14 |url={{Google books|MCQEAAAAMBAJ|page=13|plainurl=yes}}|pages=12–13 (two-page advertisement) |access-date= October 25, 2017 }} This is the last released Chicago song to feature Peter Cetera on vocals.

A song called "Sweet Marie" recorded during sessions for the Chicago 17 album has been performed by the Norwegian band TOBB. Bill Champlin offered this song to the band. It was released on May 14, 2014 by TOBB, the 30th anniversary of the Chicago 17 album's release.{{Cite news|url=http://somethingelsereviews.com/2014/05/15/bill-champlin-revisits-lost-1980s-chicago-track-sweet-marie-with-tobb/|title=Bill Champlin revisits lost 1980s Chicago track "Sweet Marie" with TOBB|last=Nelson|first=Jimmy|date=May 15, 2014|work=Something Else!|access-date=October 26, 2017|language=en-US}} It was performed by Chicago on rare occasions in 1984, and has surfaced online from VHS recordings of some of their performances.

A subsequent international release in 2010 (included in the Studio Albums 1979 - 2008 boxed set from 2015) has the original album restored, with additional bonus tracks of alternate versions of "Only You", "You're the Inspiration", and "Prima Donna" as well as "Here Is Where We Begin". A demo version of "Hard Habit to Break" exists with Robert Lamm on vocals, as briefly heard during the documentary Now More Than Ever: The History of Chicago.

All information in this section from except as noted.{{cite AV media notes |title=Chicago 17 |others=Chicago |year=1984 |type=CD liner |publisher=Warner Bros. Records Inc. |id=9 25060-2}}

Chicago

• Peter Cetera – lead and backing vocals, bass guitar (1), arrangements (1, 6, 7, 9), vocal arrangements (5)
• Bill Champlin – keyboards, guitars, lead and backing vocals, vocal arrangements (4)
• Robert Lamm – keyboards, lead and backing vocals, arrangements (2), vocal arrangements (4)
• Lee Loughnane – trumpet
• James Pankow – trombone, horn arrangements (2, 4, 6, 8, 10), arrangements (10)
• Walter Parazaider – woodwinds
• Chris Pinnick – guitars
• Danny Seraphine – drums (except track 1)

Additional personnel

• David Foster – keyboards, synthesizer programming, additional arrangements, arrangements (1–5, 7, 8, 10), synth basses (2–10), horn arrangements (4)
• Erich Bulling – synthesizer programming
• Marcus Ryle – synthesizer programming
• John Van Tongeren – synthesizer programming
• Mark Goldenberg – guitars, arrangements (6, 9)
• Paul Jackson Jr. – guitars
• Michael Landau – guitars
• Jeff Porcaro – drums (uncredited) (1){{Cite book| last = Seraphine | first = Danny| year = 2011 | title = Street Player: My Chicago Story|publisher = John Wiley & Sons, Inc.| isbn = 978-0-470-41683-9}}{{rp|206}}
• Carlos Vega – drums (uncredited) (7){{rp|208}}
• John Robinson – drums (uncredited) (8)
• Paulinho da Costa – percussion
• Greg Adams – trumpet
• Gary Grant – trumpet
• Jeremy Lubbock – string arrangements (3, 5, 7, 10)
• Jules Chaikin – string contractor (3, 5, 7, 10)
• Gerald Vinci – concertmaster (3, 5, 7, 10)
• Kenny Cetera – backing vocals (1, 6, 7, 9){{cite interview|last=Cetera|first=Kenny|interviewer=Paul Doty|title=Chicago 17: Interview with Kenny Cetera|date=April 6, 2015|url=http://www.amfm-magazine.tv/chicago-17-interview-with-kenny-cetera/|website=www.amfm-magazine.tv|at=At time 9:36|language=en-US|access-date=July 25, 2017|archive-date=July 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712221752/http://www.amfm-magazine.tv/chicago-17-interview-with-kenny-cetera/|url-status=dead}}
• Donny Osmond – backing vocals (2)
• Richard Marx – backing vocals (2)
• David Pack – vocal harmony and bridge vocal improvs on "Here Is Where We Begin"{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}

Production

• David Foster – producer
• Humberto Gatica – engineer, mixing
• Terry Christian – assistant engineer
• Eddie Delena – assistant engineer
• Laura Livingston – assistant engineer
• Larry Fergusson – mix assistant, additional overdubs
• Paul Lani – additional overdubs
• Simon Levy – art direction, design
• Larry Vigon – album cover art
• James Goble – photography
• Harry Langdon – photography
• Recorded at The Lighthouse (North Hollywood, CA); Sunset Sound (Hollywood, CA); Record Plant (Los Angeles, CA).
• Mixed at Lion Share Recording Studio (Los Angeles, CA).

Production for 2006 reissue

• Jeff Magid – project supervision, mixing (bonus selections)
• David Donnelly – mixing (bonus selections), remastering
• Cory Frye – editorial supervision
• Greg Allen – art direction, design
• Karen LeBlanc – project assistance
• Steve Woolard – project assistance
• Mixed at DNA Studio (Studio City, California)
• Mastered at DNA Mastering (Studio City, California)

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{{Certification Table Entry|region=Switzerland|type=album|artist=Chicago|title=17|award=Gold|certref={{cite web|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/80s/1987/M&M-1987-12-26.pdf|title=Gold & Platinum Awards 1987|work=Music and Media|publisher=American Radio History Archive|date=26 December 1987|page=46|access-date=1 January 2020}}|relyear=1984}}

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