“Color My World”is a track written by American musician James Pankow, one of many founding members of the rock/jazz fusion band Chicago.

A part of Pankow’s “Ballet for a Lady in Buchannon” track cycle/suite, it was recorded for his or her second album Chicago, additionally referred to as Chicago II (1970). Terry Kath sings the lead vocal, and Walter Parazaider performs the extremely recognizable flute solo.

The track was dropped at Acuff-Rose Music in Nashville as a easy five-chord track with lyric line. A&R tech Earl Knosher then expanded and organized the development, including the colourful main seventh and ninth chords that make the track so distinctive.

Actually, the foremost seventh chord that begins the track has been referred to as, “probably the most well-known main seventh chord within the historical past of music.”[1] Knosher additionally organized the flute solo and performed piano on the primary demo of the track.

The track was initially launched because the B-side to “Make Me Smile” in March 1970. It was re-released in June 1971 because the B-side to the re-release of “Beginnings”; this second single reached #7 on the U.S. Billboard Scorching 100.

“Color My World” turned a preferred “slow-dance” track at highschool proms and college dances throughout the Seventies.

Chicago continues to carry out the track, both by itself, or as a part of the Ballet. Since Kath’s demise in 1978 and being introduced again into their set checklist in 1982, lead vocals had been carried out by Invoice Champlin till 1991, when Robert Lamm took the lead. It has been sung by trumpeter Lee Loughnane since 2009.

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