Just You 'n' Me

The second single released from that album, it was more successful than the first single, "Feelin' Stronger Every Day", reaching No. 4 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100^[2][3] and No. 1 on the Cash Box Top 100.^[4][5] Walter Parazaider plays a soprano saxophone solo during the instrumental section while guitarist Terry Kath uses a wah-wah pedal and phase shifter on his guitar.^{[citation needed]} "Just You 'n' Me" was written after a fight between Pankow and his future wife Karen:

"We had had a huge fight, it was a nasty lovers' quarrel, if you will. She locked herself in the bathroom and wouldn't come out...'Just You 'n' Me' poured out of me in its entirety. Usually when I write songs I come up with an idea for a chorus or a hook and fill in the blanks in stages. This was a moment of clarity I've never experienced before or after. It remains a special event in my songwriting experience".^[6]

Billboard called it one of Chicago's "best singles ever," with a "heartfelt and mature" love lyric.^[7] Record World called it a "James Pankow tune that's done in typical Chicago fashion."^[8] In 2019, Bobby Olivier, writing for Billboard, judged the song to be the group's "greatest love song, hard stop."^[3]

"Just You 'n' Me" was the final song played by Chicago AM radio station WLS before switching to a talk radio format in 1989.^[9]

• Peter Cetera — bass, lead vocals
• Robert Lamm — keyboards, backing vocals
• Terry Kath — guitar, backing vocals
• Danny Seraphine — drums
• James Pankow — trombone
• Lee Loughnane — trumpet
• Walter Parazaider — soprano saxophone