‘m cheatring a bit with this one…bu only slightly.

“Beginnings” by Chicago SHOULD have been a “Great Song of the ’60s,” but it didn’t chart until 1971.

Robert Lamm wrote “Beginnings” for Chicago’s first album, (1969’s “Chicago Transit Authority”), and it was the second single release after “Question 67 & 68,”

but for some reason, It didn’t even crack the Hot 100! 

Two years later, Columbia Records re-released the song (with a great new B-side called “Color My World”), and this “second beginning shot to #1 on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart…as well as #7 on the Hot 100.

Chicago was back on the map with “Beginnings: a Great song of 1969 AND 1971. And here’s a fun fact : Robert Lamm wrote the song on a guitar that was missing 2 strings!