The Box (box set)

The Box
The Box
Box set by Chicago
Released	July 22, 2003
Recorded	January 1969–1998
Genres	Rock; hard rock; pop rock;
Length	392:55
Label	Rhino Records
Producers	James William Guercio; Phil Ramone; Chicago; Tom Dowd; David Foster; Ron Nevison; Chas Sandford; Bruce Fairbairn; Lenny Kravitz; James Newton Howard; Roy Bittan;
Chicago chronology

The Box is a five-CD/one DVD career-spanning box set by the popular American group Chicago, compiled and released by Rhino Records in 2003. It is the band's twenty-eighth canon release; the members of Chicago helped choose the material from their entire back catalogue.

ReleasedJuly 22, 2003

RecordedJanuary 1969–1998

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Length392:55

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The box includes material from every studio album released by the band since its 1969 debut, 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 features 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.

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No.	Title	Writer(s)	Original album	Length
1.	"Introduction"	Terry Kath	Chicago Transit Authority, 1969	6:35
2.	"Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" (Single version)	Robert Lamm	Chicago Transit Authority	3:20
3.	"Beginnings" (GH edit)	Lamm	Chicago Transit Authority	6:27
4.	"Questions 67 and 68"	Lamm	Chicago Transit Authority	5:01
5.	"Listen"	Lamm	Chicago Transit Authority	3:22
6.	"South California Purples"	Lamm	Chicago Transit Authority	6:11
7.	"I'm a Man" (New edit)	Jimmy Miller/Steve Winwood	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

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

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

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" (2002 remastered edit)	Cetera/David Foster	Chicago 16, 1982	4:59
8.	"Chains"	Ian Thomas	Chicago 16	3:22
9.	"What You're Missing" (2002 remastered edit)	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

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" (Single version)	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/O'Connor	The Heart of Chicago 1967–1998 Volume II	3:35

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