Just You 'n' Me

"Just You 'N' Me"
Single by Chicago
from the album Chicago VI
B-side	"Critic's Choice"
Released	September 1973
Format	7"
Genre	Rock, blue-eyed soul
Length	3:42
Label	Columbia
Writer(s)	James Pankow
Producer(s)	James William Guercio
Certification	Gold
Chicago singles chronology
"Feelin' Stronger Every Day" (1973) "Just You 'N' Me" (1973) "(I've Been) Searchin' So Long" (1974)

"Just You 'N' Me" is a song written by James Pankow for the group Chicago and recorded for their album Chicago VI (1973). As "Just You and Me", the song has been covered by Canned Heat and John Lee Hooker, Maceo and The Macks 1974, and James Brown.

Background

The second single released from that album, it was more successful than the first single, "Feelin' Stronger Every Day", reaching #4 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. Walter Parazaider plays a soprano saxophone solo during the instrumental section whilst guitarist Terry Kath uses a wah-wah pedal and phase shifter on his guitar. "Just You 'N' Me" was written after a fight with Pankow's future wife Karen:

"We had a disagreement, and rather than put my fist through the wall or get crazy or get nuclear, I went out to the piano, and this song just kind of poured out. We wound up getting married shortly thereafter, and the lead sheet of that song was the announcement for the wedding, with our picture embossed on it."

"Just You 'N' Me" was the very last song played by Chicago radio station WLS before switching to a talk radio format in 1989.

Personnel

• Peter Cetera - bass guitar, lead vocals
• Robert Lamm - Fender Rhodes electric piano, acoustic piano, backing vocals
• Terry Kath - delayed/phased wah-wah electric guitar, backing vocals
• Danny Seraphine - drums, cowbell, tambourine, maracas
• James Pankow - trombone, backing vocals
• Lee Loughnane - flugelhorn, backing vocals
• Walter Parazaider - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone solo, backing vocals
• Joe Lala or Laudir Soares de Oliveira - congas

External links

• Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics