The Very Best of Chicago: Only the Beginning is a double greatest hits album by the American band Chicago, their twenty-seventh album overall. Released in 2002, this collection marked the beginning of a long-term partnership with Rhino Entertainment which, between 2002 and 2005, would remaster and re-release Chicago's 1969–1980 Columbia Records catalog. In Europe, a greatest hits compilation was released as The Chicago Story: Complete Greatest Hits with a different track listing. The Very Best of Chicago: Only the Beginning combines almost all of Chicago's greatest successes from their entire recording career up to that point, excerpting material from all of their regular studio albums with the exception of 1979's Chicago 13 and 1980's Chicago XIV. Several songs appear in an edited form, including "I'm a Man", which is missing the Danny Seraphine drum solo, and "Dialogue (Part I & II)", which is presented in its shortened single version. There is a new edit of “Make Me Smile”—which bridges the namesake part and the “Now More Than Ever” part of the “Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon” together as in the original single, but without omitting the full intro or guitar solo of the former or the full outro of the latter,—and a new version of “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?”—which is a stereo version of the original single, including all but the free-form piano intro. Track listing Disc 1 "Make Me Smile" (James Pankow) – 4:26 (From the album Chicago) New edit "25 or 6 to 4" (Robert Lamm) – 4:50 (From the album Chicago) "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" (Lamm) – 3:20 (From the album Chicago Transit Authority) New edit "Beginnings" (Lamm) – 6:26 (From the album Chicago Transit Authority) GH edit "Questions 67 and 68" (Lamm) – 4:52 (From the album Chicago Transit Authority) "I'm a Man" (Jimmy Miller, Steve Winwood) – 5:44 (From the album Chicago Transit Authority) New edit "Colour My World" (Pankow) – 3:00 (From the album Chicago) "Free" (Lamm) – 2:17 (From the album Chicago III) "Lowdown" (Peter Cetera, Danny Seraphine) – 3:34 (From the album Chicago III) "Saturday in the Park" (Lamm) – 3:56 (From the album Chicago V) "Dialogue (Part I & II)" (Lamm) – 5:00 (From the album Chicago V) Single version "Just You 'n' Me" (Pankow) – 3:42 (From the album Chicago VI) "Feelin' Stronger Every Day" (Cetera, Pankow) – 4:14 (From the