Along Comes a Woman

"Along Comes a Woman"
Single by Chicago
from the album Chicago 17
B-side"We Can Stop the Hurtin'"[2]
ReleasedFebruary 11, 1985[1]
GenrePop rock
Length
  • 4:14 (album version)[3]
  • 3:47 (single version)[4]
LabelFull Moon/Warner Bros.[4]
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)David Foster[4]
Chicago singles chronology
"You're the Inspiration"
(1984) 		"Along Comes a Woman"
(1985) 		"25 or 6 to 4"
(1986)

"Along Comes a Woman" is a song written by Peter Cetera and Mark Goldenberg[5] for the group Chicago and recorded for their album Chicago 17 (1984), with Cetera singing lead vocals. The fourth single released from that album,[6] it is the last Chicago single released with original singer/bassist Cetera, who left the band in the summer of 1985.[7][8]

Upon its release in 1985, Billboard magazine highlighted the single in its "Singles: Pop: Picks" section, as a "new release with the greatest chart potential," and called it a "hard rocker."[4] At the end of the year, Billboard magazine music critic, Linda Moleski, listed the single among her top ten highlights of the year as, “An excellent funk-pop sound that’s reflective of 1985.”[9]

The original album version was 4:14 in length.[3] It was remixed to a more high-tech mid-80's sound for the single release which runs 3:47 in length.[4]

  1. ^ "FMQB" (PDF). p. 26.
  2. ^ "Chicago - Along Comes A Woman". 45cat. 45cat website. Retrieved July 27, 2017.
  3. ^ a b Chicago (1984). Chicago 17 (vinyl LP record). U.S.A.: Warner Bros. Records, Inc. 25060-1.
  4. ^ a b c d e f "Singles: Pop: Picks". Billboard. Vol. 97, no. 9. USA: Billboard Publications, Inc. March 2, 1985. p. 75. Retrieved July 27, 2017 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ Pollock, Bruce (1986). Popular music: an annotated index of American popular songs, Volume 10. Gale Research Co. p. 24. ISBN 9781810308494. Retrieved 2012-01-04.
  6. ^ Grein, Paul (February 23, 1985). "Chart Beat: Fast Facts". Billboard. Vol. 97, no. 8. USA: Billboard Publications, Inc. p. 6. Retrieved July 27, 2017 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ Pell, Nicholas (December 8, 2015). "Unpopular Opinion: Chicago, the Kings of Soft Rock, Are Awesome". L.A. Weekly. LA Weekly, LP. Retrieved July 27, 2017.
  8. ^ Wink, Roger (June 8, 2017). "Review: "The Very Best of Peter Cetera"". VVN Music. Retrieved March 26, 2019.
  9. ^ "The Critics' Choice: Top 10 Disks, Videos, Shows". Billboard. Vol. 97, no. 52. USA: Billboard Publications, Inc. December 28, 1985. p. T34, T48. Retrieved July 27, 2017 – via Google Books.