On this date in 1974, CALL ON ME by CHICAGO entered the Billboard Hot 100 at #89 (Jun 22, 1974) NOTE: I've restored this live clip taken from from the 1974 Chicago TV special "Meanwhile back at the ranch", improving the audio and color. Featuring the group's bass player Peter Cetera on lead, CALL ON ME was written by Chicago founding member and trumpet player Lee Loughnane. "I was at the end of a marriage, and I wanted to remain friends with her," explained Lee. "I put that in the lyric: you can

A very rare Chicago footage, the 1974's song Call On Me performed live at the Caribou Ranch, from TV special "Meanwhile back at the ranch", aired on August 16, 1974, with the original members and Laudir de Oliveira, former Brazilian percussionist. The Caribou Ranch is the old studio founded by James William Guercio, their former producer, where they recorded five of their first eleven albums, and which control room had been burned in March, 1985, not being ever reactivated. Such a rarity! | Top

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