Raise! / Earth, Wind & Fire(1981)
This album starts from the "Let's Groove " everyone loves very much.
You can't separate a song of ear to the last 8 numbers .
Because a body hangs upon this music, and cuts rhythm, it would be able to say that this album is unsuitable for BGM.
Thrilling fusion of a powerful horn and an electric ring like vocoder is here.
" Wanna Be With You" got "Best R&B performance by a group" of Grammy.
Everybody Let's Groove!with this album!
1. Let's Groove
(M White, W Vaughn)
2. Lady Sun
(B Taylor)
3. My Love
(M White, W Vaughn)
4. Evolution Orange
(M White, D Foster, N O 'Byrne)
5. Kalimba Tree
(M White)
6. You Are a Winner
(B Taylor)
7. I've Had Enough
(P Bailey, G Phillinganes, B Russell)
8. Wanna Be With You
(M White, W Vaughn)
9 The Changing Times
(B Taylor)
Produced by Maurice White
Horn Arrengements/ Jerry Hey(2,4,5,6,8,9)
Strings Arrengements/ David Foster (4)
Horn & Strings Arrengements/ Bill Meyers (1,3,7)
Vocals, Drums, Kalimba / Maurice White
Bass / Verdine White
Vocals, Percussion / Philip Bailey
Piano, Synthesizer / Larry Dunn
Guitar / Roland Bautista
Drums / Ralph Johnson
Guitar / Johhny Graham
Saxphones / Andrew Woolfolk
Drums, Percussion / Fred White
Horn Section
Saxphones/ Don Myrick
Trombones/ Louis Satterfield
Trumpet/ Ramlee Michael Davis
Trumpet/ Michael Harris
Guitar / Beloyd Taylor
Keyboards/ David Foster
Keyboards/ Bill Meyers
Keyboards/ Wayne Vaughn
Vocoder&Synthesizer/ Michael Boddicker
Trumpet/ Jerry Hey
Trumpet/ Oscar Brashear
Trumpet/ Gary Grant
Trumpet/ Chuck Findley
Trumpet/ Larry G Hall
Trombones/ Georege Bohanon
Trombones/ Bill Reichenbach
Trombones/ Lew McCreary
Trombones/ Chales Loper
Trombones/ Dick Hyde
Saxphones/ Tom Saviano
Violins/ James Getzoff, Assa Drori, Anton Sen, Brian Leonard, Irving Geller
Wiiliam Kurasch, Arkady Shindelman, Norman Leonard, Thomas Buffum
Ronald Folsom, Jerome Reisler, Henry Ferber, Haim Shtrum, William Hymanson
Endre Granat, John Wittenbert, Betty LaMagna, Denyse Buffum, Myra Kestenbaum
Sheldon Sanow, Nathan Ross, Arnold Belnick, Mari Tsumura Botnick
Marvin Limonick, Reginald Hill
Violas/ Pamela Goldsmith, Allan Harshman, Virginia Majewski, Gareth Nuttycombe, Alan DeVeritch
Cellos/ Paula Hochhalter, Selene Burford, Larry Corbett, Frederick Seykora,
Mary Louise Zeyen, Jerome Kessler
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