Chicago Transit Authority
Album by Chicago
Released	April 1969
Recorded	January 1969, Columbia Recording Studios, New York, NY
Genre	Soft Rock
Length	76 min 20 sec
Record label	Columbia
Producer	James William Guercio
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Chicago Chronology
Chicago Transit Authority (1969)		Chicago II (1970)

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Track listing

1. "Introduction" (Kath) - 6:35
2. "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" (Lamm) - 4:36
3. "Beginnings" (Lamm) - 7:54
4. "Questions 67 and 68" (Lamm) - 5:02
5. "Listen" (Lamm) - 3:21
6. "Poem 58" (Lamm) - 8:37
7. "Free Form Guitar" (Kath) - 6:47
8. "South California Purples" (Lamm) - 6:11
9. "I'm a Man" (Miller, Winwood) - 7:39
10. "Prologue, August 29, 1968" (Guercio, Guercio) - 0:57
11. "Someday (August 29, 1968)" (Lamm, Pankow) - 4:13
12. "Liberation" [live] (Pankow) - 14:38

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Personnel

• Peter Cetera - bass, vocals
• Terry Kath - guitar, vocals
• Robert Lamm - keyboards, vocals
• Lee Loughnane - trumpet, vocals
• James Pankow - trombone
• Walter Parazaider - woodwinds, vocals
• Danny Seraphine - drums

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Production

• Producer: James William Guercio
• Engineer: Fred Catero
• Brass arrangement: James Pankow
• Cover art: Nick Fasciano

Charts

Album

Singles