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''Chicago 16'' is the thirteenth studio album, sixteenth overall by the American
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, released on June 7, 1982. It is considered their "comeback" album because it was their first album to go platinum since 1978's '' Hot Streets.'' It made it into the ''Billboard'' 200 top ten, and produced their second number one single in the United States, "
Hard to Say I'm Sorry "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" is a 1982 power ballad by American rock band Chicago. It was written by bassist Peter Cetera, who also sang the lead vocals on the track, and producer David Foster. It was released on May 17, 1982, as the lead single fro ...
". The album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in August, 1982, two months after its release, and platinum in December, 1982. "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" was nominated for a
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for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. ''Chicago 16'' was the first album in a decade-long association with their new label
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; the band's first project to be produced by
David Foster David Walter Foster (born November 1, 1949) is a Canadian record producer, composer, arranger, and musician. He has won 16 Grammy Awards from 47 nominations. His career began as a keyboardist for the pop group Skylark in the early 1970s befor ...
, who has been called the "key" to their comeback; their first album to include some songs exclusively by composers outside of the group; and is also the first album since ''
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'' (1974) not to feature Laudir de Oliveira as a band member. It is also the first studio album to be released two years after the previous, as previous studio albums were released annually.


Background

The band brought in Sons of Champlin founder
Bill Champlin William Bradford Champlin (born May 21, 1947) is an American singer, keyboardist, guitarist and songwriter. He formed the band Sons of Champlin in 1965, which still performs today, and was a member of the rock band Chicago (band), Chicago from 1 ...
as keyboardist and singer. The group also retained
Chris Pinnick Chris Pinnick (born July 23, 1953) is an American guitarist and songwriter, probably best known for his work with the band Chicago from 1980 to 1985. Pinnick was born on July 23, 1953, in Van Nuys, California, and took up the guitar at the age ...
from the '' Chicago XIV'' sessions. Through the band's manager, Jeff Wald, and on suggestion of Danny Seraphine, producer David Foster would make contact with the band. Jeff Wald was dismissed as manager and the band enlisted
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and Howard Kaufman as their new managers shortly thereafter. Once they agreed to Foster producing the album (the band had considered him for 1980's ''Chicago XIV''), Foster radically redefined Chicago's sound for the 1980s, with all of the latest technologies and techniques, and also brought in outside songwriters and studio players to the sessions. Three members of Toto lent their expertise to the sessions. In 2015 former Chicago drummer
Danny Seraphine Daniel Peter Seraphine (born August 28, 1948) is an American drummer, record producer, theatrical producer, and film producer. He is best known as the original drummer and a founding member of the rock band Chicago, a tenure which lasted from ...
defended this choice to change their sound: The
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leanings of Peter Cetera and Foster permeate much of ''Chicago 16''. The band was moving to a new label after an entire career at Columbia.
Robert Lamm Robert William Lamm (born October 13, 1944) is an American musician and a founding member of the rock band Chicago. He is best known for his songwriting, vocals, and keyboard melodies, most significantly on the band's debut studio album, ''Chic ...
was also unavailable for the majority of the album's production because of personal issues, and the once-prolific writer only shared a sole partial writing credit on the release, with no lead vocal contributions. Lamm said of this change: In an interview in 2019, Cetera described the initial songwriting efforts from band members that were presented to Foster as "pure shit," blaming alcohol and drug abuse in the band for the decline in the quality of songwriting. Eventually, Foster and Cetera collaborated to write the album's two hit singles. Percussionist Laudir de Oliveira was dismissed from the band after the ''Chicago XIV'' tour, as his Latin-American style would not fit with the "more pop-oriented sound" of the band. Upon its June 1982 release, ''Chicago 16'' was a hit album, especially as "
Hard to Say I'm Sorry "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" is a 1982 power ballad by American rock band Chicago. It was written by bassist Peter Cetera, who also sang the lead vocals on the track, and producer David Foster. It was released on May 17, 1982, as the lead single fro ...
" became the band's second number one US single, going to number one on both the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart and the ''Billboard'' Adult Contemporary chart. The album ultimately went platinum and reached number nine on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart. The single would also be included in its lengthier form "Hard to Say I'm Sorry/Get Away" on the ''
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'' movie soundtrack. "Love Me Tomorrow", the second single lifted off the album, features a lengthy orchestration at the end. It went to number 22 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart and number eight on the ''Billboard'' Adult Contemporary chart. A third single, "What You're Missing", was released and peaked at number 81 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart. The
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remaster does not include the full-length versions of "What You're Missing" and " Love Me Tomorrow." The former was replaced with its single edit, and the latter had two bars of the sequence (prominently featuring strings) that begins the instrumental bridge removed. However, this remastered version does include a Bill Champlin demo, called "Daddy's Favorite Fool", as a bonus track. A subsequent international release in 2010 (included in the ''Studio Albums 1979-2008'' box set from 2015) has the original album restored, with additional bonus tracks of the single versions of "Hard To Say I'm Sorry", "What You're Missing", and Love Me Tomorrow" as well as "Daddy's Favorite Fool." The original UK LP release contains "Rescue You" before "What Can I Say," unlike subsequent releases of this album.


Track listing


Outtakes

"Remember There's Someone Who Loves You" (Champlin, Lamm) and "Come On Back" (Bill Gable, Lamm)https://www.ascap.com/repertory#ace/writer/69746331/LAMM%20ROBERT%20WILLIAM were recorded during the sessions and remain unreleased.


Personnel


Chicago

* Peter Cetera – bass, acoustic guitar on "Hard To Say I'm Sorry", lead and backing vocals, BGV arrangements, rhythm arrangements *
Bill Champlin William Bradford Champlin (born May 21, 1947) is an American singer, keyboardist, guitarist and songwriter. He formed the band Sons of Champlin in 1965, which still performs today, and was a member of the rock band Chicago (band), Chicago from 1 ...
– keyboards, guitars, lead and backing vocals, BGV arrangements *
Robert Lamm Robert William Lamm (born October 13, 1944) is an American musician and a founding member of the rock band Chicago. He is best known for his songwriting, vocals, and keyboard melodies, most significantly on the band's debut studio album, ''Chic ...
– keyboards, backing vocals *
Lee Loughnane Lee David Loughnane (pronounced LOCK-nain; born October 21, 1946) is an American trumpeter, flugelhorn player, vocalist, and songwriter who is a founding member of the rock band Chicago. He is best known for being one-third of Chicago's brass/wo ...
– trumpet,
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,
piccolo trumpet The piccolo trumpet is the smallest member of the trumpet family, pitched one octave higher than the standard B trumpet. Most piccolo trumpets are built to play in either B or A, using a separate leadpipe for each key. The tubing in the B picco ...
*
James Pankow James Carter Pankow (born August 20, 1947) is an American trombone player, songwriter, and brass instrument arranger who is a founding member of the rock band Chicago. He is best known for his brass arrangements, and for being one-third of Chi ...
– trombone, horn arrangements *
Walter Parazaider Walter Parazaider (born March 14, 1945) is an American woodwind musician who is a founding member of the rock band Chicago. He is best known for being one-third of Chicago's brass/woodwind section alongside Lee Loughnane and James Pankow. Para ...
– woodwinds *
Danny Seraphine Daniel Peter Seraphine (born August 28, 1948) is an American drummer, record producer, theatrical producer, and film producer. He is best known as the original drummer and a founding member of the rock band Chicago, a tenure which lasted from ...
– drums, rhythm arrangements


Additional personnel

*
David Foster David Walter Foster (born November 1, 1949) is a Canadian record producer, composer, arranger, and musician. He has won 16 Grammy Awards from 47 nominations. His career began as a keyboardist for the pop group Skylark in the early 1970s befor ...
– keyboards, synth bass, rhythm arrangements, additional horn arrangements *
David Paich David Frank Paich (born June 25, 1954) is an American keyboardist, singer, and songwriter, best known as the co-founder, principal songwriter, keyboardist, and secondary vocalist of the rock band Toto (band), Toto since 1977. He wrote or co-wrot ...
– synthesizers *
Steve Porcaro Steven Maxwell Porcaro (born September 2, 1957) is an American keyboardist, songwriter, singer, and film music composer, known as one of the founding members of the rock band Toto and the last surviving Porcaro brother (after the deaths of Jeff ...
– synthesizers, synthesizer programming *
Chris Pinnick Chris Pinnick (born July 23, 1953) is an American guitarist and songwriter, probably best known for his work with the band Chicago from 1980 to 1985. Pinnick was born on July 23, 1953, in Van Nuys, California, and took up the guitar at the age ...
– guitars *
Steve Lukather Steven Lee "Luke" Lukather (born October 21, 1957) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, arranger and record producer, best known as the sole continuous founding member of the rock band Toto. His reputation as a skilled guitarist led to ...
– guitars *
Michael Landau Michael Christopher Landau (born June 1, 1958) is an American musician, audio engineer, and record-producer. He is a session musician and guitarist who has played on many albums since the early 1980s with Boz Scaggs, Minoru Niihara, Joni Mitchel ...
– guitars * Jeremy Lubbock, Peter Cetera and David Foster – string arrangements on "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" and "Love Me Tomorrow" * Gerard Vinci – concertmaster * Dave Richardson – lyric assistance on "What Can I Say"


Production

* Produced by David Foster * Engineered and Mixed by
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* "Hard To Say I'm Sorry/Get Away" mixed by
Bill Schnee William S. Schnee (born July 4, 1947) is an American musician, music producer, and audio engineer. Schnee has been nominated 11 times for the Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical Grammy Award and worked on a multitude of other Grammy nominated ...
* Mix assistance by Jack Goudie, Lee Loughnane and Walter Parazaider. * Second Engineers – Britt Bacon, Jeff Borgeson, Steve Cohen, Bobby Gerber, Phil Jamtaas, Don Levy, David Schober, Ernie Sheesely and Chip Strader. * Recorded at Bill Schnee Studios and
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(Los Angeles, CA); Davlen Sound Studios (Hollywood, CA); Skyline Recording (Topanga, CA). * Mixed at Studio 55 (Los Angeles, CA). * Photography by
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* Original Art Design and Direction by John Kosh and Ron Larson Reissue * A&R/Project Supervisors – Lee Loughnane, Jeff Magid and Mike Engstrom. * Bonus Selections mixed by David Donnelly and Jeff Magid * Remastering – David Donnelly * Editorial Supervision – Cory Frye * Art Direction and Design – Greg Allen * Project Assistance – Steve Woolard and Karen LeBlanc


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References

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