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25 OR 6 TO 4Robert Lamm |
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The second single from the album, CHICAGO II Chart: #4 . Time - 4:58. Recorded at Columbia Studios, New York, New York, USA, in August 1969. A new version was recorded and released Aug. 1986 from the album CHICAGO 18. This version had Jason Scheff on lead vocals and went to #48 on Billboard's singles chart. According to Bill Champlain (a later lead singer of Chicago), the song is about whether the songwriter should stay awake and keep trying to write his songs or not. The new 1986 version is perhaps not as good, resulting in it's poorer chart performance. You can never out do an original. But were they trying to make it as good.....or just make a different version? - Larry - |
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ROBERT LAMM"It's just a reference to the time of day [as in]waiting for the break of day. The song is about writing a song. It's not mystical." ROBERT LAMM" And "25 or 6 to 4" is really a song about just writing a song, and a reference to time. ...it was written up in the Hollywood Hills above Sunset; I was living in a house with some other people and I could look out kind of across the city and see flashing lights against the sky." LEE LOUGHNANE - MSN Chat - 1999"Robert Lamm wrote it. He was writing a song about writing a song. It is a reference to time. He was writing early in the morning and he looked across the room and he could barely make out the clock. It said either 25 or 26 to 4 am so there you have it. " |
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