Old Days


"Old Days" is a song written by James Pankow for the group Chicago and recorded for their album Chicago VIII, with lead vocals by Peter Cetera. The second single released from that album, it reached #5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and #3 on the Easy Listening chart.
Pankow has said that the song is a nostalgic piece about his childhood:
Pankow told group biographer James William Ruhlmann that the group stopped performing the song live because Cetera refused to sing it, calling the lyrics "corny".

Later uses

"Old Days" is featured on the soundtrack of the movie Starsky & Hutch. The band also reworked the song in 2009 to serve as the theme for the "Monsters in the Morning" show airing on Comcast SportsNet Chicago. The song has also gained some resurgent popularity among the Internet meme community.

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Personnel

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