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Skinny Boy

1974 studio album by Robert Lamm

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 24, 2024
Entity authorityQ104861688 ↗
Source-derived summary

Skinny Boy is the debut solo album by Chicago's keyboard player Robert Lamm released in 1974 on Columbia Records. It has the distinction of being the first solo effort by any Chicago band member. The title track, "Skinny Boy," was also used on Chicago VII with horns added and an extended outro.

The release sold poorly and failed to chart.

Track listing

All songs written by Robert Lamm, except where noted.

Editorial summary

“Skinny Boy” enters the record as 1974 studio album by Robert Lamm. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Skinny, studio and album can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1974—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Skinny, studio and album.
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Why this record matters

“Skinny Boy” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Skinny, studio and album provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 24, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q104861688. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1974.

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This entry incorporates text from “Skinny Boy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.