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Does anybody really know what mumbler it is? (question about a Chicago hit)

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ixnay

During the final verse of "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?", as Robert Lamm(?) croons, there is somebody mumbling in the background. Who is it? Peter Cetera, say?

Doesn't anybody really care? ;D

ixnay
 
ixnay said:
During the final verse of "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?", as Robert Lamm(?) croons, there is somebody mumbling in the background. Who is it? Peter Cetera, say?

Doesn't anybody really care? ;D
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Doesn't really sound like Cetera. My 45s are in storage, but I somehow recall that part being mixed out of the single version.
 
What is said is pretty clear, with patience, on the re-mastered Rhino release of the CTA LP.

The Columbia releases are crap. They should be ashamed at the lack of quality on their early CD re-issues. Waiting for a clean remaster of the classic Blood Sweat and Tears on CD.
 
Just listened to it on ear phones and it sounds like Terry Kath. Here's the best of what I could get out of it.

"People just running around everywhere
Don't know whhere to go
Don't know where I am
Can't get past the next step
Don't have time to see past the last thought
Have no time to look around
Just running around, running around and saying why"

Kinda interesting that the same thing applies in 2007.

poops
 
poops said:
Just listened to it on ear phones and it sounds like Terry Kath. Here's the best of what I could get out of it.

"People just running around everywhere
Don't know whhere to go
Don't know where I am
Can't get past the next step
Don't have time to see past the last thought
Have no time to look around
Just running around, running around and saying why"

Kinda interesting that the same thing applies in 2007.

poops
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Wonder if that was part of Chicago's stage act in their early heyday (Kath mumbling just like he did on the record)?

ixnay
 
I do believe it is Bobby Lamm dubbed in. The 45 edit is a mono mix and doesn't have that in it. Top 40 stations back in 1971 didn't play the album version with that in it, the played the single mono edit. But since most oldies stations only had access to the cd versions the album version became heard more often, same thing goes for Beginnings, and BS&T's Spinning wheel, oldies stations again only had the almum versions on cd, so the original 45 edits weren't heard unless you actually spun the original 45. I have noticed a few oldies stations be politically correct and play the single edits but it's rare.
 
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