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Chicago 18 is the fifteenth studio album by the American rock band Chicago, released on September 29, 1986. This album is the first without original vocalist Peter Cetera, and the first to feature Jason Scheff on bass and vocals.
With Cetera having left the band in 1985 for a solo career, Chicago eventually hired Scheff to fill Cetera's position as vocalist and bassist. With Scheff and Bill Champlin, who had joined the band in 1981, the most prominent voices in Chicago now belonged to its two newest recruits.
Chicago again hired producer David Foster to create a followup to Chicago 17.
The band recorded an updated, high-tech remake of their classic "25 or 6 to 4" (#48). Scheff recalled when he asked Foster on the way he should sing the song, the latter responded: "Just like Cetera." The following singles, "Will You Still Love Me?" (#3) and "If She Would Have Been Faithful..." (#17) became hits. Scheff was lead vocalist on all three releases. The album also features a brief instrumental horn riff, Pankow's "Free Flight."
Despite the success of its predecessor, Chicago 18 ultimately only went gold, peaking at #35 on the Billboard Top 200 charts.




Reception



Chicago 18 (Full Moon/Warner Bros. 25509) reached gold status and #35 in the US during a chart stay of 45 weeks. It did not chart in the UK.




Track listing



Notes:

A re-recorded version of "When Will the World Be Like Lovers?" (Robert Lamm/Tom Keane/David Foster) appears on Robert Lamm's 1995 solo album Life Is Good In My Neighborhood. The original recorded version from the Chicago 18 sessions also appears online.
"Free Flight", a 25-second unlisted instrumental composed by James Pankow, appears at the beginning of "Nothin's Gonna Stop Us Now".
David Boruff plays the saxophone solo on "Forever" instead of Walter Parazaider.




Personnel






= Chicago

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Bill Champlin – keyboards, vocals
Robert Lamm – keyboards, vocals
Lee Loughnane – trumpet
James Pankow – trombone, brass arrangements
Walter Parazaider – woodwinds
Jason Scheff – bass, vocals
Danny Seraphine – drums, drum programming
Vocal arrangements by Chicago, Bill Champlin, and David Foster




= Additional musicians

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David Foster – keyboards, additional arrangements, brass contributions
Tom Keane – keyboards, backing vocals
Michael Boddicker – synthesizer programming
David Boruff – synthesizer programming, tenor saxophone on "Forever"
Rhett Lawrence – synthesizer programming
Bo Tomlyn – synthesizer programming
Michael Landau – guitars
Howard "Buzz" Feiten – guitars
Steve Lukather – guitars
Jeremy Lubbock – string arrangements on "If She Would Have Been Faithful...", "Will You Still Love Me?", and "I Believe"
Jules Chaikin – string contractor
Gerald Vinci – concertmaster
Betty Joyce – kids choir contractor on "One More Day"
Jon Joyce – kids choir conductor on "One More Day"
Rebecca Clinger, Christopher Leach, Julie Leach, Myhanh Tran, Peter Wade, Jason Pasol, Brandon Roberts, Alitzah Wiener, Betty Joyce, Laurie Parazaider, Felicia Parazaider, Melody Wright and Bettina Bush – kids choir on "One More Day"




Production


Produced by David Foster
Engineered and Mixed by Humberto Gatica
Recorded at Chartmaker Studios (Malibu, CA) and Lion Share Recording Studio (Los Angeles, CA), assisted by Claudio Ordenes and Ray Pyle.
Horn Sessions recorded at Skyline Recording Company (Malibu, CA), assisted by Britt Bacon and David Garfield.
Mixed at Lion Share Recording Studio, assisted by Laura Livingston.
Originally mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound (New York, NY).
CDD Pre-mastering by WCI Record Group
Art Direction – Jeffrey Kent Ayeroff
Design – Hugh Brown and Jeri McManus
Album Cover (Mosaic) – Maria Sarno
Photography – Hugh Brown
Stylist/Wardrobe – Kali Korn
Group Photography – Guy Webster




Charts






Certifications






References






Further reading


Deriso, Nick (September 29, 2014). "Danny Seraphine, Bill Champlin on the complicated legacy of Chicago 18". Something Else!. Retrieved September 1, 2017.

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