i play it everytime i travel with my motorcycle and singing it. this song is so difficult i cant keep up but good thing im wearing my helmet no one will hear haha
I was 20 years old and my first love said she wanted to see other people. This song came out the same week. It was excruciating. After pining away for her and exercising for a full year I walked into a bar and saw a gorgeous brunette. She gave me two great kids and is asleep beside me 45 years later.
It really is just fantastic. The melodies intertwined within the arrangement. The subtle use of brass, the incredibly immersive lyrics that just take you away. Let alone the melody/hook that is just one of those truly catchy songs. So much emotion within it.
Michele Lomartire I just saw this post although I have listened to this a million times and I'm 48. I wish I could have been a teenager during that time. You are so spot on.! This is Priceless 😃
Reminds me of a family vacation, in Bailey Island, Maine Summer of ‘77. Girlfriend down in Boston area had just broken up with me. Reading books on a deck overlooking the Harpswell Sound and bummin’ out.
This song has always fascinated me. Not because of the lyrics, but how the instruments are used so subtle and simple, yet so perfectly. An instrumental masterpiece.
I believe it's a perfect song! Nothing can be added to improve it's beauty. Takes you somewhere else everytime, and has enough interesting chords to keep you in the vibe.
This was the song played at my High School Homecoming Dance that I had taken a beautiful girl name Mimi. Hearing this song always reminded me of her and just last month while visiting my mothers grave I noticed Mimi's gravestone just 2 graves away from my mothers. I was shocked at her untimely death and heart broken to see she had passed away and buried so close to my mother. Mimi had passed away 11 years ago while my mother had passed away 20 years ago. Even though we had not seen each other since High School I always thought of her and will always think of her when I hear this song.
Here in 2022. Great music never dies 🙏🏿 I was 4 years old when this came out. My parents were going through a divorce. My dad was in the basement, crying like a baby and playing this over and over. Till this day he doesn't know I saw him at one the lowest most heartbreaking moments of his life. I love both my parents but I'm glad he eventually found someone who he didn't have to play this for again. He just listens to it now because, again, great music never dies 🙏🏿
ALL PRE 2000 SONGS ARE FULL OF MEANINGS.....YR PA INSTANCE RELATED TO ME BUT WITH A TWIST, IN THE END, 15 YEARS LATER , THE SONGS LYRIC HAUNTED ME AGAIN .....BUT THIS TIME IT WAS ACTED THROUGHOUT.....YES.SAD, BUT UNLESS DEATH DESCEND ON ME, LIFE STILL HAD TO GO ON
@@ianelder1648 Yeah, time waits for no one, time and time again; I do think it's important to remember the past, but if it's bad, don't dwell on it, at least that's what I think:-). Chicago here, well, I DEFINITELY think that's good!
It may not happen Bae. Remember Peter Cetera in his own way "Was" Chicago. In the 1980's under David Foster's Tutelage, they had hit after hit, from Hard To Say I'm Sorry, You're The Inspiration, and it got to be Peter Cetera & Chicago. They still did well with songs like "Look Away" but to some fans the magic ended to a degree when Peter left.
Yes! Thanks so much for reminding me. David Foster is so amazing. I remember around 2001 when I was watching POPSTARS and boy the Man didn't "Play". He was demanding, a perfectionist, he knew who had it and who didn't. I remember when he played The Piano and he gave the Contestants A "Girl You Better Not Waste My Time" Look.
I was 11 when this came out and remember first hearing this out in a store with my mum she smiled at me as I said I loved this song shes passed on now but memories of that day will stay with me forever best days of my life I wish I could go back life was better in the 70s ! 😢❤😪🙏
If the emotion didn't get you first time, you missed the whole point. You must have been one of those rare creatures - a well-balanced and happy teenager. This song killed me, I was just 13, starting boarding school and missing home
I was 6 years old when this charted. It moved me then the same way it moves me today. I became a HUGE Chicago fan in the mid 80's during their ' comeback ', but the Greatest Hits II cassette with this song got the most attention. During my crazy single 20's, I played this as my late night guilty pleasure, drunk ,alone,sing along . Married with a career into my 30's, I took advantage of technology and downloaded every Chicago album, through 18, onto my ipod(!) , enjoying every period of their incredible catalog of progressive jazz/prog rock to .....disco?... Something about this song, though, always makes me stop and start singing. My wife of 22 happily married years wonders why such a melancholy song would make me so emotionally HAPPY. It's just the SONG.... It's perfect
Ughhh, That voice!!! This surely is a timeless hit. I can never just listen to it once. I have to have it on repeat for a while and just let it sink in. Peter Ceteras voice captivates you. Definitely one of my top 10 best of all time. I'm 51 now and glad to have been alive during it's release. ❤
Music from the 70's and the 80's touched your heart, allowed you to express your love to your soulmate, and had meaning behind their lyrics! Music today doesn't even get close to what and how we felt and enjoyed during those times.
I grew up in the 70’s having the best of music from all groups not like today, and I’m taking a lot away from them because the oldies background singers were also good enough to be lead singers.
I lost my husband 6 months ago, this song hit me hard. Beautiful song, brought me to tears during their concert tonight. I've heard it many times but today, I felt it.
I’m 59. I did all me high school in the 70s. If I have to choose a decade to spend my teenage years again, it will be 70s over and over a million times.
Graduated from high school in 1981, so I experienced the best of the 70s, and 80s. Those two decades had a lot of great music. I definitely feel sorry, for these Millennials.
56 here. I danced with my first girlfriend in Jr. High to this song. And just a couple of days ago I sang this song to my girlfriend before she had to fly back to the UK to tend to her ailing mother. Her and I are going to find a way to stay together even though we are 4500 miles apart. While I like modern music the 70's spoke volumes about how to express your true feeling to the one you love.
I'm a millennial, this song was before my time, but i love it. It reminds me of the most precious thing i ever had in my life.. My mom. She use to sing it all the time. So this song stays in my heart where she remains eternally.
I am 47 and when I look at this crazy world now I feel sorry for the young people of this generation. We were so much at ease and free when I was a kid. We could run, play and ride bikes and did not have to worry about getting kidnapped. The whole neighborhood stood together and watched all the kids when they roamed. Such a wonderful time. It is a little sad for me when I listen to the music because so many people I loved, friends and family, are now gone. Just 24 hours to be young and care free again. I remember my parents and the extended family being so young and dancing to these songs.
Yeahh! We didn't have all the eletronics that have turned this new generation so indoor ...tasteless for good music and the world was much much more peaceful.. despite the Cold War .... Vietnam War
1977, when I separated with my girl, on d last day, she gave me this cassette. Then I worked abroad for almost 3 years. But, she has been my wife for 38 years now. What a world...
Over 40 years ago but I remember this like it was yesterday - some performances just stay with you. Peter Cetera, so expressive and watchable - lovely hair too! Beautiful, heart-rending song with a sublime orchestral blend, yet managing a focus on the guitars - a real masterpiece. Sheer class 💜🇬🇧
If he really wrote it, a complex chordal arrangement. Of course, beautiful vocal. Writing pussy whipped apology songs can make one a lot of money, and get you a lot of tail. John Lennon caught on to this when he wrote, “Woman”. The guitar gods are skillful, but when I look out at their crowds, it is all men. I would rather play to women whose panties are soaking from my songs. There might be a treat for me later too.
30/04/74, com apenas 03 anos eu me lembro dos meus pais dançando romanticamente e ouvindo essa música! Estou fazendo 49 anos hoje e ainda me lembro da linda cena e carinho! Amo essa música por demais!!! Alguém em 2023 ouvindo tb??? Amor! Jana 🇧🇷❤
I heard this around my elementary years. I’m 27 now. This song came out in the 70’s! Thank you dad for showing me diversity in music. Got this on my repeat list in 2021.
I was 10 years old when I heard this song on TV on a Saturday morning. I was playing chasey in the house and outside at the time. I stopped and heard how beautiful this song was and looked at the TV. I think this was the first song I liked. I thought the singing and the instruments sounded so smooth and soft like silk. It seemed like perfection.
This song has made me cry since I was a little girl. I vaguely remember hearing it on the radio as a preschooler, when we lived in a two-bedroom apartment in the projects. My one memory of this song was when my brother and sister’ dad took my mom and us to her father’s gravesite, and she couldn’t find it. Then we drove around the neighborhood…My mom is gone, their dad is gone, and the neighborhood has changed so much. It’s just sad how the older you get the more people you lose
The most beautiful ballad which the pop has ever produced. An absolute masterpiece. No musical group has surpassed this composition in brilliance and beauty. I grew up during this time and associate the most wonderful memories with this song.
I know this came out in 1976, but I was born in 1981. And when I first heard this I was 11 years old. My eleven year old heart was breaking over a love I never knew about. Lol I absolutely love this song and this group.
I was born 1968, in 1977 i witnessed my eldest brother and his wife argued all the time, my sister in law then played our toshiba player with this 45 single titled "if you leave me now"
CETERA STILL TOURS WITH HIS OWN BAND. SAW HIM AT FOXWOODS LIVE. HASN'T LOST A THING. DOESN'T USE AUTO TUNE, PRE RECORDED TRACKS, OR ANY TECHNO GIMMICKS. JUST INCREDIBLE TALENT AND VOICE. THE REAL DEAL. DON'T MISS HIM
I was in school and there were hard days. I remember that if I heard this song on the radio before I left for school, I took it as a good omen because it meant so much to me. What a beautiful and delicate song this was.
I agree with so many comments on here, the 70’s was a great time for being a teen. We use to couple roller skate to this song. Loved it!! Brings back special memories.🥰💗
A talented vocalist with the clearest of voices creates this song arrangement with the best musician’s he knows. The often told story is that they needed just one more song to complete their album, so Cetera sits down and composes this tune. It’s enough to make me believe in magic.
@@edwardlowe7260 I saw Golden Earring live in Leicester Ed,when they were just about to release that,they were a support band for Leo Sayer no less,in his pierrot days,Epic mate :)
The best part is having a 71yr old mum who used to listen this with me when I was young..she indicted me to this priceless music..at 33 i can't just get enough.
When I heard this song in the 70’s I told my mom I was going to marry this man. He could sing me to sleep. I listen to his songs all the time. Such a wonderful man. Great voice. 🥂
Love the 70s. The best music ever. I'm glad I got to experience it. Now this stuff is on oldies stations and that weirds me out. It doesn't feel that long ago.
One of the top five acts and groups of all time. I am not kidding. Match numbers, hits, quality, whatever you want. This is nearly the best band of all time. If I had to tell you how many times I've played their records..... oh man!
I was three years old when this came on the t.v. and i can still remember to this day that what riveted me to the spot, was the presence of all the other instrumentalists. I can also remember walking and sitting right next to the speaker, as to ( in my mind) hear all the instruments better & how they blended in with the vocal. That held me in good stead in later years when i worked with music ( my own and other people's) and with other musicians. It remained one of my favourite songs for years, and even when i became old enough to realise it's a plea and quite an angst laden lyric, the music never failed to move me. That remains to this day.
"If You Leave Me Now" If you leave me now, you'll take away the biggest part of me Ooohh no Baby please don't go And if you leave me now, you'll take away the very heart of me Ooohh no Baby please don't go Ooohh girl I just want you to stay A love like ours is love that's hard to find How could we let it slip away We've come too far to leave it all behind How could we end it all this way When tomorrow comes and we'll both regret The things we said today A love like ours is love that's hard to find How could we let it slip away We've come too far to leave it all behind How could we end it all this way When tomorrow comes and we'll both regret The things we said today If you leave me now, you'll take away the biggest part of me Ooohh no Baby please don't go Ooohh girl I just got to have you by my side Ooohh no Baby please don't go Ooohh mama I just got to have your loving here
I was 12yrs old and it was Christmas holidays in Australia when this song became popular. We had family visiting from interstate and it always reminds me of that time. More so as I get older because so many relatives have passed away and listening to this songs makes me take the time to stop and think of them and the family times that we shared.
Cetera came from a classical family , you can tell how comfortable he is with his persona, love the band and the sound , yes as someone said earlier70s ruled.
Peter Cetera with that melting buttery voice and just awesome performance. Helped to make Chicago the wonderful band it is! His voice is undeniable and recognizable. No one sings like Peter C!
Saudades desta música tempo foi rápido para nossas vidas a música é um intervalo deste tempo onde podemos lembrar as boas ou triste lembranças obrigado tempo
Thumbs up if you're listening to this classic in 2024
Słucham jest marzec2024
i play it everytime i travel with my motorcycle and singing it. this song is so difficult i cant keep up but good thing im wearing my helmet no one will hear haha
2024年3月に聴いてますよ🙋♀️
2026 over here
Lovely song
I was 20 years old and my first love said she wanted to see other people. This song came out the same week. It was excruciating. After pining away for her and exercising for a full year I walked into a bar and saw a gorgeous brunette. She gave me two great kids and is asleep beside me 45 years later.
Beautiful, man!!
Love when ppl share these kind of stories that intertwine with the track I’m listening to. I can imagine all the emotions, music is a powerful thing.
well ya better wake that chick UP and have some fun !
Have a good life my good sir 🫡👍
I bet the first one is regretting that decision all these years later. We are dumb as teenagers, We thought, we knew it all... We had no clue .. Haha
Don't care what anyone says, the 70's produced the best music ever!
Without a doubt!
@@cindyw7270 Por favor, apoyen a mis músicos, como el amor que les he dado, les deseo siempre felicidad.
Yes the best ever
The 70's were cool, but the 80's were better
@@tonytuffers Por favor apoyen a mis chicos de música, como el amor que les di, les deseo siempre felicidad.
Was 15 when this beautiful song hit the airwaves... It is march 2024 now and still enjoying as it sent me back to my teens. 😢
But you are getting old!!!
These songs brings tears of joy and sorrow at the same time . Back when music had a heart and soul
exactly!❤
Perfectly said 💯
Like many the 60s, 70s, 80s were the best years for songs and artists. The variety there for everyone. Something that this generation is in need of.❤️
Possibly one of the most perfect songs ever crafted. Timeless.
It really is just fantastic. The melodies intertwined within the arrangement. The subtle use of brass, the incredibly immersive lyrics that just take you away. Let alone the melody/hook that is just one of those truly catchy songs. So much emotion within it.
Magical ❤the memories are magic too
Love this song. Still my fave 47 years later.
Lionel Richie hello еще на все времена песня
Canzone che mi faceva impazzire
Peter Cetera’s voice is incredible…..just shoots through the soul.❤
Yes it does
I so agree
Does have a calming affect.
His guitar sounds pretty good too!
There's a Russian group that does Chicago covers,dare I say it but could arguably be even better.
one of the best things about 64 years old,is the fact that i lived my teenage years in the 70's that is priceless and I am grateful!!!
Michele Lomartire I just saw this post although I have listened to this a million times and I'm 48. I wish I could have been a teenager during that time. You are so spot on.! This is Priceless 😃
I will be 58 this year and I am thankful every day that I grew up with this music.
Same here
Hello Michelle. We are of the same generation..66 years old. These times were the best times of my live. !!!!
Reminds me of a family vacation, in Bailey Island, Maine Summer of ‘77. Girlfriend down in Boston area had just broken up with me. Reading books on a deck overlooking the Harpswell Sound and bummin’ out.
I was 17 when this song came on the radio. I'm so grateful to have spent my teenage years in the 70s. Would love to return!! Such a great time.
И я ТОЖЕ в начале 1970-х была 11-12-летней девочкой.
Meine Teenagejahre waren auch in den 70zigern Wir hatten eine sehr gute Zeit! Erinnerung an Fly, Robin, Fly
I'm sure glad to have lived in our era of great music. Also much better minds
I also was 17! The best of times.
Me too
This song has always fascinated me. Not because of the lyrics, but how the instruments are used so subtle and simple, yet so perfectly. An instrumental masterpiece.
I agree!
I believe it's a perfect song! Nothing can be added to improve it's beauty. Takes you somewhere else everytime, and has enough interesting chords to keep you in the vibe.
Yes the use of a rhythm guitar in a world of electric guitars was inspired
Their manager and producer won an Emmy for the arrangement. I think Pete should have won one as the writer and composer not to mention performer.
Especially the trombone.
This was the song played at my High School Homecoming Dance that I had taken a beautiful girl name Mimi. Hearing this song always reminded me of her and just last month while visiting my mothers grave I noticed Mimi's gravestone just 2 graves away from my mothers. I was shocked at her untimely death and heart broken to see she had passed away and buried so close to my mother. Mimi had passed away 11 years ago while my mother had passed away 20 years ago. Even though we had not seen each other since High School I always thought of her and will always think of her when I hear this song.
you're a good man we owe you respect sorry for your loss
Sorry for your losses♥️🙏🏽
May they Rest In Peace🙏🏽♥️
😢😢
Awww man😞
I believe that somewhere in the world, there are people who feel the same emotions that I feel when I listen to masterpieces like this song.
i am 60 and cant believe where the time went ?? i look back and think we had so much great music x
Hi Rachel 💐💐
Here in 2022. Great music never dies 🙏🏿
I was 4 years old when this came out. My parents were going through a divorce. My dad was in the basement, crying like a baby and playing this over and over. Till this day he doesn't know I saw him at one the lowest most heartbreaking moments of his life. I love both my parents but I'm glad he eventually found someone who he didn't have to play this for again. He just listens to it now because, again, great music never dies 🙏🏿
Exactement..belle chanson .
🇫🇷🇫🇷
ALL PRE 2000 SONGS ARE FULL OF MEANINGS.....YR PA INSTANCE RELATED TO ME BUT WITH A TWIST, IN THE END, 15 YEARS LATER , THE SONGS LYRIC HAUNTED ME AGAIN .....BUT THIS TIME IT WAS ACTED THROUGHOUT.....YES.SAD, BUT UNLESS DEATH DESCEND ON ME, LIFE STILL HAD TO GO ON
Touching story
Thanks for sharing your story.
❤🩹
This 1976 hit doesn't age much. This is TIMELESS until 2021 and still counting!
The best music is timeless, the message might fade but the rhythms never will
I get what you’re saying but this song is pretty old 45 years
@@ianelder1648 Yeah, time waits for no one, time and time again; I do think it's important to remember the past, but if it's bad, don't dwell on it, at least that's what I think:-). Chicago here, well, I DEFINITELY think that's good!
They played this track from Chicago in discos in the 80s, many a slow dance was had by this. Timeless song.
Watching it now.💖💖💖
No matter what era, this diamond of a song is purely timeless.
Indeed
+mattyhasselhoff Totally agree. Like the saying goes, they just make music like this nowadays.
It may not happen Bae. Remember Peter Cetera in his own way "Was" Chicago. In the 1980's under David Foster's Tutelage, they had hit after hit, from Hard To Say I'm Sorry, You're The Inspiration, and it got to be Peter Cetera & Chicago. They still did well with songs like "Look Away" but to some fans the magic ended to a degree when Peter left.
Yes! Thanks so much for reminding me. David Foster is so amazing. I remember around 2001 when I was watching POPSTARS and boy the Man didn't "Play". He was demanding, a perfectionist, he knew who had it and who didn't. I remember when he played The Piano and he gave the Contestants A "Girl You Better Not Waste My Time" Look.
Oh my God I know right
I was 11 when this came out and remember first hearing this out in a store with my mum she smiled at me as I said I loved this song shes passed on now but memories of that day will stay with me forever best days of my life I wish I could go back life was better in the 70s ! 😢❤😪🙏
I'm by myself.....anyone🥵🥺
It's one of those songs. In my adolescence I thought it was OK. Listening to it again after more than 40 years, I realise it is a masterpiece.
Wonder why you weren't able to grasp that in your youth
If the emotion didn't get you first time, you missed the whole point. You must have been one of those rare creatures - a well-balanced and happy teenager. This song killed me, I was just 13, starting boarding school and missing home
I was. Kid in the 70s and a teenager in the 80s. Chicago was a great band. 70s & 80s were the best decades for music 🎶.
I was 6 years old when this charted. It moved me then the same way it moves me today. I became a HUGE Chicago fan in the mid 80's during their ' comeback ', but the Greatest Hits II cassette with this song got the most attention. During my crazy single 20's, I played this as my late night guilty pleasure, drunk ,alone,sing along . Married with a career into my 30's, I took advantage of technology and downloaded every Chicago album, through 18, onto my ipod(!) , enjoying every period of their incredible catalog of progressive jazz/prog rock to .....disco?...
Something about this song, though, always makes me stop and start singing. My wife of 22 happily married years wonders why such a melancholy song would make me so emotionally HAPPY.
It's just the SONG.... It's perfect
Ughhh, That voice!!! This surely is a timeless hit. I can never just listen to it once. I have to have it on repeat for a while and just let it sink in. Peter Ceteras voice captivates you. Definitely one of my top 10 best of all time. I'm 51 now and glad to have been alive during it's release. ❤
Music from the 70's and the 80's touched your heart, allowed you to express your love to your soulmate, and had meaning behind their lyrics! Music today doesn't even get close to what and how we felt and enjoyed during those times.
Some of it does, less, but some does if you’re willing to look
well said.
Love. This song so much love the lead singer sex on legs
40 years later and it sounds just as good as it did then. The 70's were the greatest decade for music!
racingdodger55 greatest decade for everything
70s 80s 90s greatest Decades and even the early 2000s
I grew up in the 70’s having the best of music from all groups not like today, and I’m taking a lot away from them because the oldies background singers were also good enough to be lead singers.
Not really,where I come from (New York City) there was a Plague in the 70's called disco..though I have come to like some of it now : /
@@merseybeat1963 saudi
Crazy how this song so deeply brings back the pains of young love.
If this song was released today, it could easily break the record of the longest stay at number 1
I lost my husband 6 months ago, this song hit me hard. Beautiful song, brought me to tears during their concert tonight. I've heard it many times but today, I felt it.
My condolences. I pray god keeps you and bless you beyond measure. Stay encouraged
❤️
So sad...I'm sorry 😞😞
❤️
God Bless. It will get better. Take care of yourself and know it will get better
I’m 59. I did all me high school in the 70s. If I have to choose a decade to spend my teenage years again, it will be 70s over and over a million times.
Class of 74 here, couldn’t agree more
Graduated from high school in 1981, so I experienced the best of the 70s, and 80s. Those two decades had a lot of great music. I definitely feel sorry, for these Millennials.
Me too! I was class of 86 but the 70’s was the best decade
@@felixramos3078 It sucks man. Im 34 and was born in the wrong time. All I listen to is 70s.
One of my all-time favourites. How time has flies and I'm going into my 60s now.
I'm so glad I was born in 1958. I wouldn't change a thing.
September of 1958 for me and I agree.
Omgosh- 82, just discovered Chicago- friends telling me it was ungodly music- kicked out of Bible college for listening to it … such great memories 🥹
Whaaaat? Sounds like that school was set to suck out all the enjoyment from life
I was 12 when this came out now I'm 53 wow what a change in music God bless the 1970s
me too. Same age as yourself. When this song played, I broke up with my g/f. This song brings me right back to the time. Like a time machine.
56 here. I danced with my first girlfriend in Jr. High to this song. And just a couple of days ago I sang this song to my girlfriend before she had to fly back to the UK to tend to her ailing mother. Her and I are going to find a way to stay together even though we are 4500 miles apart.
While I like modern music the 70's spoke volumes about how to express your true feeling to the one you love.
It isn't music anymore. I wasn't alive in the 70s but the 70s and 80s were very much alive and kicking during my childhood. This is real music.
@@umarsattar1540 Great song please check out Chicago - Chicago X Album Review on my channel
god bless da gals of da 70s 2
I'm a millennial, this song was before my time, but i love it. It reminds me of the most precious thing i ever had in my life.. My mom. She use to sing it all the time. So this song stays in my heart where she remains eternally.
@The Weeping Willow WOW.. thanks so much 🙏
@The Weeping Willow Great song please check out Chicago - Chicago X Album Review on my channel
@@LukeBeGrubbin Great song please check out Chicago - Chicago X Album Review on my channel
Beautiful touching tribute
I'm a mum...your post has me in tears.
Love to you.
🖤
Peter Cetera é extremamente talentoso! Ele simplesmente reproduziu ao vivo a versão de estúdio. Absolutamente incrível!
Essa musica me emocionava quando eu tinha 16 anos e me emociona hoje que tenho 59. Da mesma forma
Tout comme moi..quand je l'écoute j'ai la chaire de poule
I am 47 and when I look at this crazy world now I feel sorry for the young people of this generation. We were so much at ease and free when I was a kid. We could run, play and ride bikes and did not have to worry about getting kidnapped. The whole neighborhood stood together and watched all the kids when they roamed. Such a wonderful time. It is a little sad for me when I listen to the music because so many people I loved, friends and family, are now gone. Just 24 hours to be young and care free again. I remember my parents and the extended family being so young and dancing to these songs.
Very true Sherry....
Beautiful Sherry
Yes, I'm 51 and feel the same way. I was 10 years old when this came out, and life was so simple and fun back then.
Yeahh! We didn't have all the eletronics that have turned this new generation so indoor ...tasteless for good music and the world was much much more peaceful.. despite the Cold War .... Vietnam War
it does take a community to raise a child.
1977, when I separated with my girl, on d last day, she gave me this cassette. Then I worked abroad for almost 3 years. But, she has been my wife for 38 years now. What a world...
You're a lucky man. Cherish her while I am hoping to meet my ex gf after 36 years ..... a wonderful girl, simple and kind .
Whats a 1977?
roedi gasik what a beautiful memory! Read that and it made me smile.
Congratulations 🎉🎊🍾🥂
Completely wonderful. 🧉
Here’s to many many more
Do it, brougham!!! Give us that gift!!!
After Peter left Chicago they have NEVER had a replacement singer as good as Peter !!!
Really?! You have an very unique taste though 😂
Replace Peter with Terry and your statement is more accurate
I agree
Cetera took them to a more pop sound and ruined them.
Over 40 years ago but I remember this like it was yesterday - some performances just stay with you. Peter Cetera, so expressive and watchable - lovely hair too! Beautiful, heart-rending song with a sublime orchestral blend, yet managing a focus on the guitars - a real masterpiece. Sheer class 💜🇬🇧
This song has been the number one in my "Top 10 list" for almost 20 years and I still love it!
correct
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My favorite Chicago song. Peter has great vocals for this song.
Agreed!!
If he really wrote it, a complex chordal arrangement. Of course, beautiful vocal. Writing pussy whipped apology songs can make one a lot of money, and get you a lot of tail. John Lennon caught on to this when he wrote, “Woman”. The guitar gods are skillful, but when I look out at their crowds, it is all men. I would rather play to women whose panties are soaking from my songs. There might be a treat for me later too.
Peter has great vocals for any song.
Loco por ela
30/04/74, com apenas 03 anos eu me lembro dos meus pais dançando romanticamente e ouvindo essa música! Estou fazendo 49 anos hoje e ainda me lembro da linda cena e carinho! Amo essa música por demais!!! Alguém em 2023 ouvindo tb??? Amor! Jana 🇧🇷❤
When Peter left Chicago, the band lost someone special. It was never the same for me.
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Cetera voice amazing. No auto tune, no bullshit. Just talent
You're absolutely right!!! He has an Amazing Distinctive Voice !!!!🎶🎵🎼🎤💗
Yes one of the best!
Quiet boomer
Amazing, indeed!
Actually he could have used auto tune here.
I heard this around my elementary years. I’m 27 now. This song came out in the 70’s! Thank you dad for showing me diversity in music. Got this on my repeat list in 2021.
Hi dear how are you doing over there ?
Keep loving.♥️🤙😇If they walk they will know what they lost later.Hearts never forget but they forgive. That’s real love. Thanks for sharing.
I was 10 years old when I heard this song on TV on a Saturday morning. I was playing chasey in the house and outside at the time. I stopped and heard how beautiful this song was and looked at the TV. I think this was the first song I liked. I thought the singing and the instruments sounded so smooth and soft like silk. It seemed like perfection.
This song is a masterpiece & I love it just as much now as I did back in the 70's.
Same here! ❤
Great version! Cetera killing it! Hard song to sing too!
La canteremo ancora per 100 mila anni, Immensa,super meravigliosa ,fantastica, dove una volta si faceva musica di straordinaria qualità.
The vibes they created with this song... are something special!✨
Music does not get any better than this, wow
This song has made me cry since I was a little girl. I vaguely remember hearing it on the radio as a preschooler, when we lived in a two-bedroom apartment in the projects. My one memory of this song was when my brother and sister’ dad took my mom and us to her father’s gravesite, and she couldn’t find it. Then we drove around the neighborhood…My mom is gone, their dad is gone, and the neighborhood has changed so much. It’s just sad how the older you get the more people you lose
Abril de 2023 estou ouvindo essa música lindíssima. Saudades deste tempo que não volta mais 😢😢
Julho de 2023❤❤❤❤❤❤
MOMENTOS BEM PASSADOS
The most beautiful ballad which the pop has ever produced. An absolute masterpiece. No musical group has surpassed this composition in brilliance and beauty. I grew up during this time and associate the most wonderful memories with this song.
I know this came out in 1976, but I was born in 1981. And when I first heard this I was 11 years old. My eleven year old heart was breaking over a love I never knew about. Lol I absolutely love this song and this group.
The classics are beautiful😢♥️
I remember when you brought your ventriloquist dummy into school 🏫 and he started shouting at me and my mom 🌃🎄🥳🥳💃🏼💃🏼🤡🤓
@@TheKonga88 🤣 wtf
@@VnnDgd 🤭🤭🤭🤭💃🏻
4-9-1981 And this song gives me such nostalgia of riding in my dad's caddy. Times were simple and no stress
I feel you Trevor...
There is a place for both sides of Chicago. This song has spoken to many people.
rip trever+patrica 2013-2013
Trevor* Patricia*
Xi xxii
Trevor... Patricia
This damn music suddenly drags me back in time when I was still in high school. The times of my life where everything is good and carefree.
Dammit Butters, putting this song in my head...
I kept scrolling to see if anyone else came from South Park 😂😂 Butters' version tops everything tho..
Lol I thought I was the only one here from South Park
Lol
I just watched it myself... 😂
😅😅😅😅That's why I'm here.
Wow... sounded exactly the same live as on the radio. That voice was such a gift and so effortless! ❤️
True!
You’re right about that!!!
If you ask him it wasnt effortless
NO, taped over is the much better version. Sounds a lot different live………
@@myroom4640 not at all
I never tire of this song, it kinda takes me back to a time of innocence in my youth, a hopeless romantic trying to find love
Peter Cetera is such a great talent! He sounds just like the record.. Absolutely Amazing!
Let me close my eyes then open them to have me back in 1977 just for a day or so. The music was so great back in the day.
Linda Garcia This was from 1976, but you make a good point.
Without a doubt....we were a better caliber of people also ...majority of homosapieans today are Neanderthals ...😈😉 ...just say'n ...😶
Not bell bottoms, but Hash jeans.
Not to mention Star Wars
@@punipuk8507 heck, yeah
! Don't forget Star Jeans and Brittanias!
My husband as been in ICU for six weeks, this song comes on everytime I get in my car.
amy Amy I do hope that your husband is on the mend 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I hope he gets well soon🙏🏻🙏🏻
he should have a speedy recovery
Prayers of love and good health!!!❤️🙏🏻
Did he make it through?
So many parts of the is song are beautiful.
The strings, the brass exclamations, the lyrics.
I was born 1968, in 1977 i witnessed my eldest brother and his wife argued all the time, my sister in law then played our toshiba player with this 45 single titled "if you leave me now"
One of the most beatiful love songs ever writen,,,,,,,, thanks Peter Cetera
CETERA STILL TOURS WITH HIS OWN BAND. SAW HIM AT FOXWOODS LIVE. HASN'T LOST A THING. DOESN'T USE AUTO TUNE, PRE RECORDED TRACKS, OR ANY TECHNO GIMMICKS. JUST INCREDIBLE TALENT AND VOICE. THE REAL DEAL. DON'T MISS HIM
I was in school and there were hard days. I remember that if I heard this song on the radio before I left for school, I took it as a good omen because it meant so much to me. What a beautiful and delicate song this was.
Remembering my sweet husband got married in "76" this was always playing on the radio. Thinking of u Tom!
I still have a wooden plaque I made....( in junior high) ...the best group around for its time. You can't find music like this anymore ......
very special classic, Peter Cetera and Chicago, solid gold standard of excellence for 50 years, great music & great memories of life
One of my favorite Chicago songs when i was a teenager in the 1970s. 🕊 🌻
Chicago.....doesn't get any better.....
I agree with so many comments on here, the 70’s was a great time for being a teen. We use to couple roller skate to this song. Loved it!! Brings back special memories.🥰💗
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Anyone growing up in the 70's as soon as you hear those first few beats, you know what's coming ........
N C I loved the 70s
Yes!!! It came out the year I graduated high school so very memorable for that year.
Love love love!!!!!
EXACTLY...!
@@patdino222 l
Tenho 63 anos, Vivi tudo isso, simplesmente fantástico. Agradeço a Deus por ter vivido tudo isso. 🙏🙏
A talented vocalist with the clearest of voices creates this song arrangement with the best musician’s he knows. The often told story is that they needed just one more song to complete their album, so Cetera sits down and composes this tune. It’s enough to make me believe in magic.
Wow! That’s awesome 🥰
I love Cetera. My hopeless romantic imagination needs and craves music from the 70’s and 80’s.
no need to panic,,,the music of life will sustain your forever,,,,put on the earphones,,,pour the wine ,,and turn up the volume,,,then phone me
then play RADAR LOVE
@@edwardlowe7260 I saw Golden Earring live in Leicester Ed,when they were just about to release that,they were a support band for Leo Sayer no less,in his pierrot days,Epic mate :)
The best part is having a 71yr old mum who used to listen this with me when I was young..she indicted me to this priceless music..at 33 i can't just get enough.
Very distinctive voice, effortless, unparalelled. I get goosebumps whenever I watch him esp his live performances.
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When I heard this song in the 70’s I told my mom I was going to marry this man. He could sing me to sleep. I listen to his songs all the time. Such a wonderful man. Great voice. 🥂
My ex husband looked similar to him..
@@hilaryharris5770 smiles, how are you doing Hilary?
Beautiful Songs.....Love Chicago!!!
I miss this kind of music
ME ...... ME TOO!
Lo Quiero ha🏧🚸🏧 apoyo
Me tooooooo! 70s had the best melancholy songs, bar none.
Straight to the heart
When bands and music were great !!
Love the 70s. The best music ever. I'm glad I got to experience it. Now this stuff is on oldies stations and that weirds me out. It doesn't feel that long ago.
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So thankful I can watch this this
One of the top five acts and groups of all time. I am not kidding. Match numbers, hits, quality, whatever you want. This is nearly the best band of all time. If I had to tell you how many times I've played their records..... oh man!
Ronald McReynolds ikr one of the best selling of all time
Ronald McReynolds chicago is up there in the conversation
Beatles
Rolling stones
Eagles
Led zeppelin
Fleetwood Mac
U2
Chicago
Theyre up.there
Jason Raczkowski it's nice to finally come across someone who knows what the hell he's talking about! You hit the nail directly on the head Jason.
@@jasonraczkowski6001 lynyrd skynyrd
Fabulous vocal instrument - magnetic, true and so “tugging-ly”....heartfelt!
Pure seduction of his audience.
This group was absolutely phenomenal. I'm 44 yrs old and I appreciate the passion that they put into music. This arrangement is so soothing. ❤❤
Us old people are watching for a quick trip down memory lane😊
I was three years old when this came on the t.v. and i can still remember to this day that what riveted me to the spot, was the presence of all the other instrumentalists. I can also remember walking and sitting right next to the speaker, as to ( in my mind) hear all the instruments better & how they blended in with the vocal. That held me in good stead in later years when i worked with music ( my own and other people's) and with other musicians.
It remained one of my favourite songs for years, and even when i became old enough to realise it's a plea and quite an angst laden lyric, the music never failed to move me. That remains to this day.
"If You Leave Me Now"
If you leave me now, you'll take away the biggest part of me
Ooohh no
Baby please don't go
And if you leave me now, you'll take away the very heart of me
Ooohh no
Baby please don't go
Ooohh girl
I just want you to stay
A love like ours is love that's hard to find
How could we let it slip away
We've come too far to leave it all behind
How could we end it all this way
When tomorrow comes and we'll both regret
The things we said today
A love like ours is love that's hard to find
How could we let it slip away
We've come too far to leave it all behind
How could we end it all this way
When tomorrow comes and we'll both regret
The things we said today
If you leave me now, you'll take away the biggest part of me
Ooohh no
Baby please don't go
Ooohh girl
I just got to have you by my side
Ooohh no
Baby please don't go
Ooohh mama
I just got to have your loving here
ha he obrigada!!!!
Qui saudadi desse tempo
Mantap
I was 12yrs old and it was Christmas holidays in Australia when this song became popular. We had family visiting from interstate and it always reminds me of that time. More so as I get older because so many relatives have passed away and listening to this songs makes me take the time to stop and think of them and the family times that we shared.
Cetera came from a classical family , you can tell how comfortable he is with his persona, love the band and the sound , yes as someone said earlier70s ruled.
Peter Cetera with that melting buttery voice and just awesome performance. Helped to make Chicago the wonderful band it is! His voice is undeniable and recognizable. No one sings like Peter C!
The strings, horns, and Peter's voice really set this band apart from others!
When people had a song tell a story…😔
Saudades desta música tempo foi rápido para nossas vidas a música é um intervalo deste tempo onde podemos lembrar as boas ou triste lembranças obrigado tempo
Such a distinctive voice. Love Cetera and Chicago!
An most beautiful Song with an most beautiful Singer with an most beautiful voice.❤Chicago❤ forever.🤗🥰😘❤💛💙🧡💜💚👍
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