Chords for CHICAGO on MERV (1980)

an assembly of artists like this at say the Forum would cost a fortune right?
And as you know there's been no charge here today. _ _
Except in the next three hours if you use the restroom that's $50.
Gotcha huh?
These predictions about records and the music you're gonna hear
today all going to the top were made by a record industry guru whose
publication the Friday Morning Quarterback acts as the Bible [Bb] for the
music and radio industries.
A man who's been called and I quote the single most
influential factor in the development of hit records.
Cal Rudman is our guest today.
_ _ _ _ _ _ If you can get on the front [Eb] of that Friday Morning Quarterback red sheet you've got a hit.
Now I want you to listen to some of the recording stars who [Bb] will be performing
for us over the next two days except here in the studio which will be the
next three hours.
Chicago is here.
_ _ _ Right now it is a rare privilege to welcome these fellas.
They're making
their first appearance on a talk show [E] here today and I'm very pleased.
During
the 70s they sold over [Bb] 60 million records with an unbroken string of hits
like does anyone know what time it is Saturday in the park and if you leave me
now they're continuing that sex.
Sex.
They're continuing that success.
I'm starting to sound like Charo here.
Their success into the 80s.
And this is the album right here and
it's called Chicago 14.
Now the song they're gonna do from it is now they're
single and wait till you hear it.
It's called Thunder and Lightning.
Welcome Chicago.
[G] _ _
_ [E] _ I don't know it's hard [Bb] to know who to talk to because they're all stars of the band.
Right.
_ _ _ _ Oh, so it's in Canada down here.
Jim, why don't you introduce the guys.
You have met them haven't you?
Let's see if I can remember.
Okay.
Walter Perizator.
_ _ _ _ Martin Rudd.
_ New Lock Man.
_ Steven Cicero.
_ Bobby Lamb.
_ In fact we got Chris
Kinnick on guitar.
_ _ _ Danny Seraphine on drum.
_ _ _ [Eb] And Logier Galavera [F] on percussion.
We heard you.
It was terrific.
_ [Bb] Now it's a band that has really stuck closely together.
Is there a secret why you have remained when others have left?
We don't talk to each other.
Don't what?
We don't [Eb] talk to each other.
You don't talk to each [Bb] other.
What do you think, Gal?
They weren't very [B] visible publicly for a long time.
There was a previous manager and that was the Elvis.
Now you're going to tell all the secrets.
Well it was [F] okay.
It worked and now they've come out of the closet.
[Bb] Wait, wait, wait.
_ _ [F] _
_ _ _ The case of [Eb] the _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ front man and everybody is an equal say so.
I think that makes for a smooth vibe.
Can they vote a guy down?
[F] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ _ _ Can you all find each other easily?
Yeah.
Find [Bbm] a way.
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ Hey, the group.
Everybody. _ _ _ _ _
Came to be.
_ The _ _ _ _ _ _ breaks.
During the breaks of the [Eb] rehearsals, most of the guys would [Bb] head down to the cabana with us.
Pinball games.
I hate pinball.
[B] I would [F] just sit and play piano and noodle and I got the musical idea.
Chris and I would just jam [Bb] together.
The [Gb] idea came and when everybody else walked back [Bb] into the room, they said, hey, what's that?
I said, well, I don't know yet, but it could be a song.
Who came up with the title Thunder and Lightning?
[F] Danny wrote the lyrics after coming back from New York.
We were flying back [Bb] from New York. _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ That's what it takes to make you guys write a song.
_ _ _ _ Lightning a couple of [Bb] times and then _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ being a love affair or whatever.
It just kind of evolved from that.
It's wonderful over the [F] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ years.
It's within a mile of a radio that has [Eb] this musical force.
They've had a great [D] impression on the music industry in the world. _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Now you've got your album.
What do they have to do?
Well, it's the 14th album and they are the pioneers of album [F] rock because the first album came out in 1969.
So in [E] the world of radio programmers where [Bb] we live, they, it's like an oak tree.
You can't grow another one.
So this album is heavily oriented toward album rock radio, but at the same time, Thunder and Lightning has mass appeal.
[C] And they've lived long enough now to [F] span an entire generation of listeners and consumers.
So the radio program directors will be clutching [Bb] this record for the full ARB because it's upper demographics.
And now the buys are up to age 54 and you're appealing to the older ones and the younger ones.
[F] You're the Frank Sinatra of rock and roll.
_ _ [Bb] We'll take a break and come back and once again, you'll hear [Em] Chicago.
_ _ [Gbm] _ _
[Bb] _ [Gb] _ [D] Where is my Emmy? _ _
[Gm] _ _ [G] _ Cover once again so you'll recognize.
You won't miss that one when [Bb] you go in the record stores.
I want to know whose fingerprint that is. _ _ _
_ No two are alike.
Who's that on the back?
That's the guy in the front. Aha.
There's the album.
And this is, as Carol Rudman says, destined to be a big, big hit.
As you'll see right now with a second number from it.
The American Dream.
Chicago.
Boy, they had that