Just You 'n' Me

"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^[1] and #1 on the Cash Box Top 100.^[2] 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

Chart performance

Weekly singles charts

Chart (1973-74)	Peak position
Australia	23
Canada	3
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	4
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary	7
U.S. Cash Box Top 100 ^[3]	1
WLS-AM survey (Chicago) ^[4]	2

Year-end charts

Chart (1973)	Rank
Australia	153
Canada	49
U.S. Cash Box ^[5]	62
WLS survey (Chicago) ^[6]	34

Chart (1974)	Rank
U.S. Cash Box ^[7]	60

References

External links

Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

Chicago

Robert Lamm Lee Loughnane James Pankow Walter Parazaider Jason Scheff Tris Imboden Keith Howland Lou Pardini Walfredo Reyes, Jr. Danny Seraphine Peter Cetera Terry Kath Laudir de Oliveira Donnie Dacus Chris Pinnick Bill Champlin Dawayne Bailey Drew Hester Daniel de los Reyes Touring musicians

Studio albums	Chicago Transit Authority Chicago Chicago III Chicago V Chicago VI Chicago VII Chicago VIII Chicago X Chicago XI Hot Streets Chicago 13 Chicago XIV Chicago 16 Chicago 17 Chicago 18 Chicago 19 Twenty 1 Night & Day: Big Band Chicago XXV: The Christmas Album Chicago XXX Chicago XXXII: Stone of Sisyphus Chicago XXXIII: O Christmas Three Chicago XXXV: The Nashville Sessions Chicago XXXVI: Now

Live albums	Chicago at Carnegie Hall Live in Japan Chicago Transit Authority Live In Toronto Chicago XXVI: Live in Concert Chicago XXXIV: Live in '75 Chicago at Symphony Hall

Compilations	Chicago IX: Chicago's Greatest Hits Greatest Hits, Volume II If You Leave Me Now Take Me Back to Chicago Greatest Hits 1982–1989 Group Portrait The Heart of Chicago 1967–1997 The Heart of Chicago 1967–1998 Volume II The Very Best Of Chicago: Only the Beginning The Box Love Songs The Best of Chicago: 40th Anniversary Edition

Related articles	Discography Peter Cetera Tom Dowd Tim Feehan David Foster James William Guercio Electra Glide in Blue Phil Ramone

Chicago singles discography

singles 1960s and 1970s	1969 "Questions 67 and 68" "Beginnings" 1970 "Make Me Smile" "25 or 6 to 4" "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" 1971 "Free" "Lowdown" 1972 "Saturday in the Park" "Dialogue (Part I & II)" 1973 "Feelin' Stronger Every Day" "Just You 'N' Me" 1974 "(I've Been) Searchin' So Long" "Call on Me" "Wishing You Were Here" 1975 "Harry Truman" "Old Days" "Brand New Love Affair" 1976 "Another Rainy Day in New York City" "If You Leave Me Now" 1977 "You Are on My Mind" "Baby, What a Big Surprise" 1978 "Little One" "Take Me Back to Chicago" "Alive Again" "No Tell Lover" 1979 "Gone Long Gone" "Must Have Been Crazy" "Street Player"

singles 1980s	1980 "Thunder and Lightning" "Song for You" 1982 "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" "Love Me Tomorrow" 1983 "What You're Missing" 1984 "Stay the Night" "Hard Habit to Break" "You're the Inspiration" 1985 "Along Comes a Woman" 1986 "25 or 6 to 4" (remix) "Will You Still Love Me?" 1987 "If She Would Have Been Faithful..." "Niagara Falls" 1988 "I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love" "Look Away" 1989 "You're Not Alone" "We Can Last Forever" "What Kind of Man Would I Be?"

singles 1990s and 2000s	1990 "Hearts in Trouble" 1991 "Chasin' the Wind" "Explain It to My Heart" "You Come to My Senses" 2008 "Let's Take a Lifetime"

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