The Box (Chicago album)

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The Box is a five-CD/one DVD career-spanning box set by popular American group Chicago and was compiled and released through Rhino Records in 2003. The set was authorized by the band, which helped choose material from its entire back catalogue.

The box includes material from every studio album released by the band since its 1969 debut The Chicago Transit Authority to its late 1990s recordings, along with a few rarities, notably three songs from the then-unreleased 1993 Stone of Sisyphus project. Every charting single from 1969 to 2003 is included, with the exception of the 1986 remake of the band's earlier hit, "25 or 6 to 4."

An additional DVD sports rare live recordings from 1972 and promotional material for 1979's Chicago 13. The set also includes a booklet of additional material featuring track-by-track analysis, promotional photos, essays and variations on the familiar Chicago logo.

The set did not chart in the US or the UK.

Track listing

Disc one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Original album	Length
1.	"Introduction"	Terry Kath	The Chicago Transit Authority, 1969	6:35
2.	"Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" (Single version)	Robert Lamm	The Chicago Transit Authority	3:20
3.	"Beginnings" (GH edit)	Lamm	The Chicago Transit Authority	6:27
4.	"Questions 67 and 68"	Lamm	The Chicago Transit Authority	5:01
5.	"Listen"	Lamm	The Chicago Transit Authority	3:22
6.	"South California Purples"	Lamm	The Chicago Transit Authority	6:11
7.	"I'm a Man" (New edit)	Jimmy Miller/Steve Winwood	The Chicago Transit Authority	5:43
8.	"Movin' In"	James Pankow	Chicago, 1970	4:06
9.	"Wake Up Sunshine"	Lamm	Chicago	2:29
10.	"Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon: Make Me Smile/So Much to Say, So Much to Give/Anxiety's Moment/West Virginia's Fantasies"	Pankow	Chicago	7:02
11.	"Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon: Colour My World"	Pankow	Chicago	3:00
12.	"Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon: To Be Free/Now More Than Ever"	Pankow	Chicago	2:41
13.	"Fancy Colours"	Lamm	Chicago	5:10
14.	"25 or 6 to 4"	Lamm	Chicago	4:50
15.	"Poem for the People"	Lamm	Chicago	5:31
16.	"It Better End Soon: 1st Movement/3rd Movement/4th Movement"	Lamm/Kath	Chicago	6:37

Disc two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Original album	Length
1.	"Loneliness Is Just a Word"	Lamm	Chicago III, 1971	2:36
2.	"Travel Suite: Flight 602"	Lamm	Chicago III	2:45
3.	"Travel Suite: Free"	Lamm	Chicago III	2:16
4.	"Mother"	Lamm	Chicago III	4:30
5.	"Lowdown"	Peter Cetera/Danny Seraphine	Chicago III	3:35
6.	"An Hour in the Shower": "A Hard Risin' Morning Without Breakfast/Off to Work/Fallin' Out/Dreamin' Home/Morning Blues Again"	Kath	Chicago III	5:28
7.	"A Hit by Varèse"	Lamm	Chicago V, 1972	4:55
8.	"All Is Well"	Lamm	Chicago V	3:50
9.	"Saturday in the Park"	Lamm	Chicago V	3:56
10.	"Dialogue (Part I & II)"	Lamm	Chicago V	7:10
11.	"Just You 'n' Me"	Pankow	Chicago VI, 1973	3:42
12.	"Something in This City Changes People"	Lamm	Chicago VI	3:42
13.	"In Terms of Two"	Cetera	Chicago VI	3:29
14.	"Feelin' Stronger Every Day"	Cetera/Pankow	Chicago VI	4:14
15.	"(I've Been) Searchin' So Long"	Pankow	Chicago VII, 1974	4:29
16.	"Mongonucleosis"	Pankow	Chicago VII	3:26
17.	"Wishing You Were Here"	Cetera	Chicago VII	4:37
18.	"Call on Me"	Lee Loughnane	Chicago VII	4:02
19.	"Happy Man" (GH2 edit)	Cetera	Chicago VII	3:14

Disc three
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Original album	Length
1.	"Harry Truman"	Lamm	Chicago VIII, 1975	3:01
2.	"Old Days"	Pankow	Chicago VIII	3:31
3.	"Brand New Love Affair, Part I & II"	Pankow	Chicago VIII	4:27
4.	"Never Been in Love Before"	Lamm	Chicago VIII	4:10
5.	"You Are on My Mind" (Single version)	Pankow	Chicago X, 1976	3:12
6.	"Mama Mama"	Cetera	Chicago X	3:30
7.	"Hope for Love"	Kath	Chicago X	3:03
8.	"Another Rainy Day in New York City"	Lamm	Chicago X	3:01
9.	"Gently I'll Wake You"	Lamm	Chicago X	3:33
10.	"If You Leave Me Now"	Cetera	Chicago X	3:56
11.	"Mississippi Delta City Blues"	Kath	Chicago XI, 1977	4:39
12.	"Baby, What a Big Surprise"	Cetera	Chicago XI	3:04
13.	"Take Me Back to Chicago"	Seraphine/David Wolinski	Chicago XI	5:17
14.	"Prelude (Little One)/Little One"	Seraphine/Wolinski	Chicago XI	6:34
15.	"Gone Long Gone"	Cetera	Hot Streets, 1978	4:00
16.	"No Tell Lover" (Single version)	Cetera/Loughnane/Seraphine	Hot Streets	3:48
17.	"Alive Again" (Single version)	Pankow	Hot Streets	3:28
18.	"The Greatest Love on Earth"	Seraphine/Wolinski	Hot Streets	3:18
19.	"Little Miss Lovin'"	Cetera	Hot Streets	4:36
20.	"Hot Streets"	Lamm	Hot Streets	5:14

Disc four
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Original album	Length
1.	"Street Player" (Single version)	Seraphine/Wolinski	Chicago 13, 1979	4:23
2.	"Must Have Been Crazy"	Donnie Dacus	Chicago 13	3:23
3.	"Manipulation" (Single version)	Lamm	Chicago XIV, 1980	3:29
4.	"Thunder and Lightning"	Cetera/Lamm/Seraphine	Chicago XIV	3:32
5.	"Song for You"	Cetera	Chicago XIV	3:41
6.	"The American Dream"	Pankow	Chicago XIV	3:17
7.	"Love Me Tomorrow"	Cetera/David Foster	Chicago 16, 1982	4:59
8.	"Chains"	Cetera/Ian Thomas	Chicago 16	3:22
9.	"What You're Missing"	Jay Gruska/Joseph Williams	Chicago 16	3:30
10.	"Hard to Say I'm Sorry/Get Away"	Cetera/Foster/Lamm	Chicago 16	5:06
11.	"Stay the Night"	Cetera/Foster	Chicago 17, 1984	3:48
12.	"We Can Stop the Hurtin'"	Lamm/Bill Champlin/Deborah Neal	Chicago 17	4:11
13.	"Hard Habit to Break"	Steve Kipner/Jon Parker	Chicago 17	4:43
14.	"Along Comes a Woman" (Single version)	Cetera/Mark Goldenberg	Chicago 17	3:46
15.	"You're the Inspiration"	Cetera/Foster	Chicago 17	3:48
16.	"Good for Nothing"	Lamm/Foster/Richard Marx	We Are the World, 1985	3:38
17.	"If She Would Have Been Faithful..."	Kipner/Randy Goodrum	Chicago 18, 1986	3:51
18.	"Forever"	Lamm/Bill Gable	Chicago 18	5:17
19.	"Will You Still Love Me?" (Single version)	Foster/Tom Keane/Richard Baskin	Chicago 18	4:11
20.	"Niagara Falls"	Kipner/Bobby Caldwell	Chicago 18	3:42

Disc five
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Original album	Length
1.	"Heart in Pieces"	Tim Feehan/Brian MacLeod/Diane Warren	Chicago 19, 1988	5:04
2.	"Look Away"	Diane Warren	Chicago 19	3:59
3.	"What Kind of Man Would I Be?"	Jason Scheff/Chas Sandford/Bobby Caldwell	Chicago 19	4:19
4.	"I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love"	Warren/Albert Hammond	Chicago 19	3:55
5.	"We Can Last Forever"	Scheff/John Dexter	Chicago 19	3:45
6.	"You're Not Alone"	Jim Scott	Chicago 19	3:56
7.	"Hearts in Trouble"	Champlin/Dennis Matkowsky/Kevin Dukes	Days of Thunder soundtrack, 1990	4:01
8.	"Only Time Can Heal the Wounded"	Lamm/Gerard McMahon	Twenty 1, 1991	4:43
9.	"You Come to My Senses"	Billy Steinberg/Tom Kelly	Twenty 1	3:49
10.	"God Save the Queen"	Pankow/Scheff	Twenty 1	4:19
11.	"Chasin' the Wind"	Warren	Twenty 1	4:18
12.	"All the Years"	Lamm/Bruce Gaitsch	Previously unreleased, 2003; later released as a part of Chicago XXXII: Stone of Sisyphus, 2008 (originally recorded in 1993)	4:16
13.	"Stone of Sisyphus"	Dawayne Bailey/Loughnane	Previously unreleased; later released as a part of Chicago XXXII: Stone of Sisyphus	4:12
14.	"Bigger Than Elvis"	Scheff/Peter Wolf/Ima Wolf	Previously unreleased; later released as a part of Chicago XXXII: Stone of Sisyphus	4:31
15.	"Caravan"	Duke Ellington/Irving Mills/Juan Tizol	Night & Day: Big Band, 1995	3:23
16.	"Here in My Heart"	Glen Ballard/James Newton Howard	The Heart of Chicago 1967–1997, 1997	4:15
17.	"The Only One" (Single version)	Pankow/Greg O'Connor	The Heart of Chicago 1967–1997	4:38
18.	"All Roads Lead to You"	Marc Beeson/Desmond Child	The Heart of Chicago 1967–1998 Volume II, 1998	4:20
19.	"Show Me a Sign"	Pankow/Greg O'Connor	The Heart of Chicago 1967–1998 Volume II	3:35

Disc 6: DVD

Features live material from 1972 and promotional videos for Chicago 13 in 1979.

References

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Robert Lamm Lee Loughnane James Pankow Walfredo Reyes Jr. Ray Herrmann Neil Donell Ramon Yslas Tony Obrohta Loren Gold Eric Baines Walter Parazaider Danny Seraphine Terry Kath Peter Cetera Laudir de Oliveira Donnie Dacus Chris Pinnick Bill Champlin Jason Scheff Dawayne Bailey Tris Imboden Bruce Gaitsch Keith Howland Drew Hester Lou Pardini Daniel De Los Reyes Jeff Coffey Brett Simons
Studio albums	Chicago Transit Authority Chicago Chicago III Chicago V Chicago VI Chicago VII Chicago VIII Chicago X Chicago XI Hot Streets Chicago 13 Chicago XIV Chicago 16 Chicago 17 Chicago 18 Chicago 19 Twenty 1 Night & Day: Big Band Chicago XXX Chicago XXXII: Stone of Sisyphus Chicago XXXV: The Nashville Sessions Chicago XXXVI: Now Chicago XXXVIII: Born for This Moment
Christmas albums	Chicago XXV: The Christmas Album Chicago XXXIII: O Christmas Three Chicago XXXVII: Chicago Christmas
Live albums	Chicago at Carnegie Hall Live in Japan Chicago XXVI: Live in Concert Chicago XXXIV: Live in '75
Compilations	Chicago IX: Chicago's Greatest Hits Greatest Hits, Volume II If You Leave Me Now Take Me Back to Chicago Greatest Hits 1982–1989 Group Portrait The Heart of Chicago 1967–1997 The Heart of Chicago 1967–1998 Volume II The Very Best of Chicago: Only the Beginning The Box Love Songs The Best of Chicago: 40th Anniversary Edition
Singles	"Questions 67 and 68" "Beginnings" "Make Me Smile" "25 or 6 to 4" "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" "Free" "Lowdown" "Saturday in the Park" "Dialogue (Part I & II)" "Feelin' Stronger Every Day" "Just You 'n' Me" "(I've Been) Searchin' So Long" "Call on Me" "Wishing You Were Here" "Harry Truman" "Old Days" "Brand New Love Affair" "Another Rainy Day in New York City" "If You Leave Me Now" "Baby, What a Big Surprise" "Take Me Back to Chicago" "Alive Again" "No Tell Lover" "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" "Love Me Tomorrow" "Stay the Night" "Hard Habit to Break" "You're the Inspiration" "Along Comes a Woman" "Will You Still Love Me?" "If She Would Have Been Faithful..." "Niagara Falls" "I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love" "Look Away" "You're Not Alone" "We Can Last Forever" "What Kind of Man Would I Be?" "Chasin' the Wind" "Here in My Heart"
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