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Earth, Wind & Fire Sing A Song, Chicago band's Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?, EWF Shining Star medley performed live on official broadcast live from the outdoor Hollywood stage, April 2015. Philip Bailey sings lead vocals for Earth, Wind & Fire; Robert Lamm for Chicago musical group. See them both together in concert on their Heart And Soul US Tour 2015.

With seven guys, a dozen songs spread over two discs and a sound big enough to fit elements of rock, jazz and classical music, Chicago‘s first album announced the arrival of a band with ambition to spare.
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When they released their self-titled debut in April 1969, they were still called the Chicago Transit Authority — a name they’d soon be forced to shorten under threat of a lawsuit from the city’s mass transit operator — but many of the other elements that would come to define the group’s music during the string of multi-platinum albums that followed over the ensuing decade were already firmly in place for The Chicago Transit Authority, including layered arrangements that took full advantage of the lineup’s three-piece horn section.

Although the band’s brassy sound had the commercial good fortune to arrive around the same time (and on the same label, not to mention through the same producer) that Blood, Sweat & Tears were enjoying success with a similar approach, The Chicago Transit Authority wasn’t the result of a quick attempt to cash in on someone else’s work. In fact, the band started coming together in 1966, when sax and woodwinds player Walter Parazaider linked up with drummer Danny Seraphine and bassist Terry Kath to form the Missing Links.