Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4

[BillST4s]

Funny story: Earlier this week the Washington Nationals beat the NY Mets 25-4. Regarding the final score, a national sports commentator tweeted out 25 (or 6) to 4. One of our local sports radio talk show hosts, a millenial in his 30's, had no idea what the tweet meant. His co-hosts, one in his 50's and another in his 60's, had to explain it to him.

Tanglewood, 7/21/1970.

 

[Andy]

What an amazing song. I have never seen this video before. The lead is awesome!

 

[Andy]

This was written by Robert Lamm, who is a keyboard player and singer for Chicago. It's about trying to write a song, with the title referring to the time of day: either 3:35 a.m. (25 to 4) or 3:34 a.m. (26 to 4). Lamm explained on The Chris Isaak Hour: "I was living with a bunch of hippies up above Sunset Strip. One of the advantages of this particular house was that it was in the Hollywood Hills and I could look out over the city late at night. I wanted to try to describe the process of writing the song that I was writing. So, 'waiting for the break of day, searching for something to say, flashing lights against the sky' - there was a neon sign across the city. That song came from the fact that it was 25 or 6 to 4 a.m. in the morning when I looked at my watch - I was looking for a line to finish the chorus.

Most songs that were written, especially in the early days, whenever I got them to the band and we started rehearsing them, that's when the songs took shape - once these guys got hold of them. There was definitely a lot of raw material, I thought it was a song when I wrote the words down, I wrote the changes down and I brought the charts to rehearsal, but it wasn't really a song until they all played it."

Source: http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1197