Summer Nights Concerts series: Fifty\u002Dfive years on the job and counting, Robert Lamm still loves holding down the keyboard duties
got a phone call from trombonist James Pankow to join a new group called The Big Thing as keyboardist and contribution singer/songwriter. Rechristened Chicago Transit Authority in 1968, the seven-piece band relocated to L.A. and in April 1969 released its debut self-titled album.One of the most successful American bands of all time, it can claim 23 gold, 18 platinum and eight multi-platinum titles to its credit with sales well in excess of 100 million.
Lamm penned seven of the 12 tunes on the breakout debut, including such enduring singles as Does Anybody Know What Time It Is? and live show fave Beginnings, and is credited with many of the group’s other big hits. As time passed, he wrote less for the group as other members assumed a greater role in generating new material. In the late 1970s, he launched a solo career that is ongoing.
Lamm doesn’t hesitate to pinpoint what was behind the explosion of musically dextrous acts such as his band, Tower of Power, Blood, Sweat & Tears and others all arriving at a particular time period. “Whenever we decided to do an album, we would each bring in the best of what we’d been working on and then begin hammering it out to see if it made the cut or not,” he said. “That meant someone like Peter Cetera didn’t emerge as a writer until many years in, but then hooked up with David Foster and wrote some really beautiful things. The only competition was in arriving at the very best of what we had going being recorded.
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