Gently I Wake You - Chicago X (Drum Cover)

I’m flying home from Buffalo NY this morning with Mrs Hammer! We’re up at 3 AM to catch out flight home! It’s was not a gentle wake up today! 😂😂😂 Maybe I can make a drum cover when I get home!
Chicago X (affectionately called "the Chocolate Album" by fans) is the eighth studio album by the American rock band Chicago. It was recorded at Caribou Ranch and it was released by Columbia Records on June 14, 1976. The album made it to number three on the Billboard 200, and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on June 21, 1976, a week after its release. It was the band's first album to be certified platinum, on September 14, 1976, and has since been certified multi-platinum. In honor of the group's platinum album achievement, Columbia Records awarded the group a 25-pound bar of pure platinum, made by Cartier. (Billboard magazine reported it as a 30-pound bar.)
Chicago X was nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year, and it won a Grammy Award for Best Album Package.
The album produced Chicago's first number one single in the United States, "If You Leave Me Now". The single went on to win two Grammy Awards: for Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus, the band's first Grammy Award; and for Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists, for arrangers James William Guercio and Jimmie Haskell. It was also nominated for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year. It would later go on to be featured in the 2013 video game Grand Theft Auto V on the Los Santos Rock Radio station.
After recording Chicago VIII in a state of exhaustion, Chicago did not return to the studio until the spring of 1976, feeling refreshed after a substantial break away. Chicago X was released on June 14, 1976, to a receptive audience, giving Chicago a number three album on the Billboard 200 in the United States, and their first album to chart in the UK in years, at number 21. This was the group's most pop-oriented effort up to that point given that every song on the album starts with the 3-minute mark, coming in stark contrast to the lengthier and more complex compositions of the albums that had preceded it.
"If You Leave Me Now" was one of the last to be completed and, according to reports, was very nearly left off the final product. Band member Walter Parazaider has been quoted as saying he heard the song on the radio while cleaning his pool and initially thought "it sounded like McCartney," not realizing it was his own band's work. The song became the band's first number one hit in the US and the UK. Some band members felt the song's success changed the public's perception of the band, leading to more demand from Columbia Records for ballads, although Robert Lamm has since acknowledged that the band had started moving away from their politically-oriented music into the mainstream years earlier, beginning with 1972's Chicago V.
In 2002, Chicago X was remastered and reissued by Rhino Records with an early rendition of Chicago XIV's "I'd Rather Be Rich" by Lamm, as well as Kath's "Your Love's An Attitude" - both cut in 1975 - as bonus tracks. This album was mixed and released in both stereo and quadraphonic.
Designed by Art Director of Columbia/CBS Records, John Berg, the album art depicts a partially unwrapped chocolate bar with the Chicago logo on it, resembling a Hershey's chocolate bar as it was packaged at the time, and winning for Berg a Grammy Award for Best Album Package. The cover design is labeled "chocolate bar" on the band's official web site.
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[@3L3V3NDRUMS]

Amazing cover my friend! 3AM.... That's in the middle of the night man! Happy Sunday man!🤘🤘🤘

[@earldrum]

Thanks for the feedback Toby! Yup, I flew home from Buffalo NY, 6 AM ET flight … but first release a drum cover 😎😎😎😎👍🏻🙏🏻😎thanks for watching … have a great week!

[@gregwonhoff7161]

Love those tomtastic tidbits of top tier tomfoolery. The Earlistic ending made everything better. Well played, my friend.❤️❤️👏❤️🙏👏❤️

[@earldrum]

Thank you kindly Greg! I appreciate the daily tidbit of poetic commentary! 🙏🏻👍🏻😎🤘🏻

[@gregwonhoff7161]

@@earldrum With all the time and effort you put in these daily videos, you deserve something extra.❤️❤️❤️

[@earldrum]

@@gregwonhoff7161 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻👍🏻😎🤘🏻😊

[@continumdrums2297]

Very well groovy played , with nice tom work on the long run .... good job and super sound as ever, Earl 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@earldrum]

Thanks for the feedback and kind words Lutz! I love playing Chicago songs! 🙏🏻😎👍🏻🤘🏻🥁

[@canalmeunomeerose]

Que música maravilhosa ❤️ obrigada por compartilhar está maravilha

[@earldrum]

Thanks for the feedback and encouragement my friend! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻😎👍🏻🤘🏻🥁

[@bryandrums32]

Exceptional performance Earl!!!!!!! You never cease to amaze me!!!!!!!! Your one of my favorite ❤️

[@earldrum]

Wow, thank you Bryan! I always appreciate your encouragement! Thank you! 😎🙏🏻👍🏻🤘🏻🥁

[@bryandrums32]

@@earldrum anytime for a friend like you

[@drumman190]

Great job Earl. Sounds awesome.

[@earldrum]

Thanks a bunch Matthew! I hope all is well!

[@jametz66]

Just another Chicago tune I've never heard, but again, so cool!! Great job Earl!!🥁👍😎🥁👍😎

[@earldrum]

Thanks for watching Jeff! It’s another Chicago X song! It appropriate for today’s flight home!

[@jametz66]

@earldrum ouch! That's an early flight my friend!!

[@earldrum]

Yes, it was Jeff … the slightly early start messed me up most of the day … yesterday … but I did do a few covers and short videos! But I crashed last night at 8:30 pm! 💤💤💤💤😎🙏🏻👍🏻🤘🏻

[@mickeyf3730]

Great job my friend!!

[@earldrum]

Thank you very much Mickey! 🙏🏻😎👍🏻🤘🏻🥁

[@jameslyons1661]

Happy Sunday hammer

[@earldrum]

Good morning Jimmy!

[@jameslyons1661]

❤️🥁❤️

[@earldrum]

🙏😁🥁👍

[@jimflys2]

Sounding good!

[@earldrum]

Good morning Jim! Flying home from Buffalo NY on Delta! Free wifi! I’m looking forward to playing some drums today! 😊🙏🏻👍🏻😎🤘🏻🥁

[@Phe_onix_Officiel]

Good job !❤❤

[@earldrum]

Thanks for the feedback and kind words! 🙏😁🥁👍

[@stratjammer80]

Nice deep cut.. my fav off the chocalate lp

[@earldrum]

Thanks for watching my friend! It’s one of my favorite albums too!

[@stratjammer80]

@@earldrum I subscribed, you kick ass

[@Claes_Isacson]

👏👏👏🥁 Does this conclude the X-album playlist?

[@earldrum]

Hi Claes, no I have one more and I missed one song that has very minimal drums. But I might be done with Chicago X! 😁 For now! Thanks for watching my friend!