[2] It made it into the Billboard 200 top ten,[3] and produced their second number one single in the United States, "Hard to Say I'm Sorry".
[4]: 202 The album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in August, 1982, two months after its release, and platinum in December, 1982.
[5] "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.
In 2015 former Chicago drummer Danny Seraphine defended this choice to change their sound: David Foster really tried to maintain the integrity of the band.
Robert Lamm was also unavailable for the majority of the album's production because of personal issues,[8] and the once-prolific writer only shared a sole partial writing credit on the release, with no lead vocal contributions.
[16][17] "Love Me Tomorrow", the second single lifted off the album, features a lengthy orchestration at the end.
The former was replaced with its single edit, and the latter had two bars of the sequence (prominently featuring strings) that begins the instrumental bridge removed.
However, this remastered version does include a Bill Champlin demo, called "Daddy's Favorite Fool", as a bonus track.
A subsequent international release in 2010 (included in the Studio Albums 1979-2008 box set from 2015) has the original album restored, with additional bonus tracks of the single versions of "Hard To Say I'm Sorry", "What You're Missing", and Love Me Tomorrow" as well as "Daddy's Favorite Fool.