The Friday Forgotten 45 at 3:45 was the #1 song in the nation 50 years ago today! It was the first ever #1 song for the band, from 1976 it’s Chicago with “If You Leave Me Now”.
The legendary band hit the top ten 21 different times in the 70’s and 80’s, and #1 three different times in 1982 with “Hard To Say I’m Sorry” and in ’88 with “Look Away”. But their first trip to the top of the charts happened in 1976 with the ballad “If You Leave Me Now”. It appears on Chicago X and the song not only hit #1 here in America but was their biggest international hit as well topping the charts in England, Australia, Canada, and the Netherlands.
Written and sung by Peter Cetera, it’s Chicago with “If You Leave Me Now” it’s today’s Forgotten 45.
