"Old Days" is a song written byJames Pankow for the groupChicago and recorded for their albumChicago VIII (1975). It was the second single released from that album, with lead vocals byPeter Cetera.[1]
Pankow has said that the song is a nostalgic piece about his childhood:
"It touches on key phrases that, although they date me, are pretty right-on in terms of images of my childhood.The Howdy Doody Show on television and collectingbaseball cards andcomic books."[2]
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".[3]
Cash Box praised the "great horn work," "Danny Seraphine's fine drum parts," andTerry Kath's "great guitar licks."[4]Record World said that Chicago's "wall-to-wall sound returns, this time abetted by Pat Williams strings, on a side that's destined to be this year's 'Saturday in the Park.'"[5]
^Ruhlmann, James William (1991)."Group Portrait Essay".Album Liner Notes. p. 7. Archived fromthe original on February 13, 2016. RetrievedApril 27, 2019.
