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The Best of Earth, Wind & Fire, Vol. 1

Index The Best of Earth, Wind & Fire, Vol. 1

The Best of Earth, Wind & Fire, Vol. [1]

85 relations: Al McKay, Alan Hewitt (musician), All 'n All, Allee Willis, AllMusic, Andrew Woolfolk, Arrangement, Audio engineer, Audio mastering, Audio mixing (recorded music), Bass guitar, Billboard (magazine), Billboard 200, Billboard Hot 100, British Phonographic Industry, Can't Hide Love, Charles Stepney, Columbia Records, Compact disc, Conga, Crystal Waters (album), Don Myrick, Drum kit, Earth, Wind & Fire, Fantasy (Earth, Wind & Fire song), Flugelhorn, Flute, Fred White (musician), Getaway (Earth, Wind & Fire song), Ghostface Killah, Glenn Miller, Got to Get You into My Life, Grammy Award, Gratitude (Earth, Wind & Fire album), Guitar, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, I Am (Earth, Wind & Fire album), Jazz, Joe Wissert, John Lennon, Keyboard instrument, Larry Dunn, Legacy Recordings, Liner notes, Louis Satterfield, LP record, Maurice White, Mbira, Michael Harris (trumpeter), Moog synthesizer, ..., More Fish, Music Canada, Music recording certification, Organ (music), Paul McCartney, Percussion instrument, Philip Bailey, Piano, Pop music, Ralph Johnson (musician), Reasons (Earth, Wind & Fire song), Recording Industry Association of America, Rhythm and blues, Robert Christgau, Saxophone, September (Earth, Wind & Fire song), Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (film), Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (soundtrack), Shining Star (Earth, Wind & Fire song), Shusei Nagaoka, Sing a Song (Earth, Wind & Fire song), Singing, Skip Scarborough, Sonny Burke, Soprano saxophone, Soul music, Spirit (Earth, Wind & Fire album), That's the Way of the World, That's the Way of the World (Earth, Wind & Fire song), The Beatles, The Rolling Stone Album Guide, Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, Trombone, Trumpet, Verdine White. Expand index (35 more) »

Al McKay

Al McKay (born February 2, 1948, in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American guitarist, songwriter, producer, and former member of the American funk band Earth, Wind & Fire, and a recipient of six Grammy Awards.

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Alan Hewitt (musician)

Alan Hewitt (musician) is an American composer, producer, recording and performing artist.

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All 'n All

All 'N All is the eighth studio album by the American band Earth, Wind & Fire, released in 1977 on Columbia Records.

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Allee Willis

Allee Willis (born November 10, 1947) is an American songwriter, artist, set designer, multimedia artist, writer, collector, and director.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Andrew Woolfolk

Andrew Woolfolk (born October 11, 1950 in Texas, United States) is an American member of one of America's most proflific R&B bands, Earth, Wind & Fire.

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Arrangement

In music, an arrangement is a musical reconceptualization of a previously composed work.

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Audio engineer

An audio engineer (also sometimes recording engineer or a vocal engineer) helps to produce a recording or a performance, editing and adjusting sound tracks using equalization and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, and reinforcement of sound.

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Audio mastering

Mastering, a form of audio post production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device (the master); the source from which all copies will be produced (via methods such as pressing, duplication or replication).

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Audio mixing (recorded music)

In sound recording and reproduction, audio mixing is the process of combining multitrack recordings into a final mono, stereo or surround sound product.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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British Phonographic Industry

The BPI (British Recorded Music Industry) Limited, commonly known as the British Phonographic Industry or BPI, is the British recorded music industry's trade association.

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Can't Hide Love

"Can't Hide Love" is a song written by Skip Scarborough, originally recorded as "You Can't Hide Love" as the debut single of Creative Source in 1973.

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Charles Stepney

Charles Stepney (March 26, 1931 – May 17, 1976) was an American record producer, arranger, songwriter and musician, noted for his orchestral psychedelic soul sound with Chicago's Cadet/Chess records in the 1960s and 1970s and afterwards with Earth, Wind & Fire.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Compact disc

Compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony and released in 1982.

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Conga

The conga, also known as tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed drum from Cuba.

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Crystal Waters (album)

Crystal Waters is the third studio album by singer-songwriter Crystal Waters, released on June 24, 1997 by Mercury Records/Polygram.

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Don Myrick

Donald Myrick (April 6, 1940 – July 30, 1993) was a saxophonist.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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Earth, Wind & Fire

Earth, Wind & Fire (EWF) is an American band that has spanned the musical genres of R&B, soul, funk, jazz, disco, pop, rock, Latin, and Afro pop.

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Fantasy (Earth, Wind & Fire song)

"Fantasy" is a song written and composed by Maurice White, Verdine White, and Eddie del Barrio.

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Flugelhorn

The flugelhorn (—also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or Flügelhorn—from German, wing horn, or flank horn) is a brass instrument pitched in B which resembles a trumpet, but has a wider, conical bore.

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Flute

The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.

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Fred White (musician)

Fred White (born Frederick Eugene Adams January 13, 1955 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American drummer.

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Getaway (Earth, Wind & Fire song)

"Getaway" was a hit song for R&B/funk band Earth, Wind & Fire in 1976 and written by Beloyd Taylor and Peter Cor Belenky.

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Ghostface Killah

Dennis Coles (born May 9, 1970), better known by his stage name Ghostface Killah, is an American rapper and member of the Wu-Tang Clan.

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Glenn Miller

Alton Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 – December 15, 1944) The website for Arlington National Cemetery refers to Glenn Miller as "missing in action since Dec.

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Got to Get You into My Life

"Got to Get You into My Life" is a song by the Beatles, first released in 1966 on the album Revolver.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Gratitude (Earth, Wind & Fire album)

Gratitude is a double album by the band Earth, Wind & Fire.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs

The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop/Rap Songs is a record chart that ranks the most popular R&B and hip hop songs in the United States and is published weekly by Billboard.

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I Am (Earth, Wind & Fire album)

I Am is the ninth studio album by the R&B band Earth, Wind & Fire, released on June 9, 1979 on CBS Records.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Joe Wissert

Joe Wissert is an American record producer.

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John Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon (9 October 19408 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter, and peace activist who co-founded the Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music.

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers.

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Larry Dunn

Larry Dunn (born Lawrence Dunn on June 19, 1953) is an American keyboardist, musical director and one of the early members of the music group Earth, Wind & Fire.

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Legacy Recordings

Legacy Recordings is an American record label that is a division of Sony Music.

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Liner notes

Liner notes (also sleeve notes or album notes) are the writings found on the sleeves of LP record albums and in booklets which come inserted into the compact disc jewel case or the equivalent packaging for vinyl records and cassettes.

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Louis Satterfield

Louis Edward Satterfield (April 3, 1937, Shaw, Mississippi, United States – September 27, 2004, Chicago, Illinois), also known with the stage names of Lui-Lui and Sat, was an American bass and trombone player, primarily noted as a session musician and for his tours as a sideman with a large number of highly visible and commercially successful blues rock performers including B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Earth, Wind & Fire, and Phil Collins.

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LP record

The LP (from "long playing" or "long play") is an analog sound storage medium, a vinyl record format characterized by a speed of rpm, a 12- or 10-inch (30 or 25 cm) diameter, and use of the "microgroove" groove specification.

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Maurice White

Maurice White (December 19, 1941 – February 4, 2016) was an American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, arranger, and bandleader.

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Mbira

The mbira is an African musical instrument consisting of a wooden board (often fitted with a resonator) with attached staggered metal tines, played by holding the instrument in the hands and plucking the tines with the thumbs.

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Michael Harris (trumpeter)

Michael Harris (born August 4, 1953) is a trumpet player in the Phenix Horns, which played for Earth, Wind & Fire and Phil Collins.

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Moog synthesizer

Moog synthesizer (pronounced; often anglicized to, though Robert Moog preferred the former) may refer to any number of analog synthesizers designed by Robert Moog or manufactured by Moog Music, and is commonly used as a generic term for older-generation analog music synthesizers.

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More Fish

More Fish is the sixth studio album by rapper Ghostface Killah, released on December 12, 2006 through the Def Jam label.

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Music Canada

Music Canada (formerly Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA)) is a Toronto-based, non-profit trade organization that was founded 9 April 1963 to represent the interests of companies that record, manufacture, produce, promote and distribute music in Canada.

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Music recording certification

Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.

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Organ (music)

In music, the organ (from Greek ὄργανον organon, "organ, instrument, tool") is a keyboard instrument of one or more pipe divisions or other means for producing tones, each played with its own keyboard, played either with the hands on a keyboard or with the feet using pedals.

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Paul McCartney

Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer.

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Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.

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Philip Bailey

Philip Irvin Bailey (born May 8, 1951) is an American R&B, soul, gospel and funk singer, songwriter, percussionist and actor, best known as an early member, and one of the two lead singers (along with group founder Maurice White) of the band Earth, Wind & Fire.

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Piano

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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Ralph Johnson (musician)

Ralph Johnson (born July 4, 1951) is an American singer, songwriter, musician and producer.

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Reasons (Earth, Wind & Fire song)

"Reasons" is a love ballad by Earth, Wind & Fire from their sixth album, That's the Way of the World.

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Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the recording industry in the United States.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Robert Christgau

Robert Thomas Christgau (born April 18, 1942) is an American essayist and music journalist.

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Saxophone

The saxophone (also referred to as the sax) is a family of woodwind instruments.

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September (Earth, Wind & Fire song)

"September" is a song by the American funk band Earth, Wind & Fire.

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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (film)

Sgt.

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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (soundtrack)

Sgt.

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Shining Star (Earth, Wind & Fire song)

"Shining Star" is a 1975 song by Earth, Wind & Fire from their album That's the Way of the World.

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Shusei Nagaoka

was a Japanese illustrator.

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Sing a Song (Earth, Wind & Fire song)

"Sing a Song" is a hit song by R&B/funk band, Earth, Wind & Fire, which was written by Maurice White and Al McKay.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Skip Scarborough

Clarence Alexander "Skip" Scarborough (November 26, 1944 – July 3, 2003) was an American songwriter, best known for romantic ballads.

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Sonny Burke

Sonny Burke (born Joseph Francis Burke; March 22, 1914 in Scranton, Pennsylvania – May 31, 1980) was an American musical arranger, composer, big band leader and producer.

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Soprano saxophone

The soprano saxophone is a higher-register variety of the saxophone, a woodwind instrument, invented in the 1840s.

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Spirit (Earth, Wind & Fire album)

Spirit is the seventh studio album by Earth, Wind & Fire, released in September 1976 by Columbia Records.

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That's the Way of the World

That's the Way of the World is the sixth studio album by Earth, Wind & Fire, released on March 15, 1975 by Columbia Records.

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That's the Way of the World (Earth, Wind & Fire song)

"That's the Way of the World" is a 1975 song by the R&B band Earth, Wind & Fire and is also the title track of their album That's the Way of the World.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.

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The Rolling Stone Album Guide

The Rolling Stone Album Guide, previously known as The Rolling Stone Record Guide, is a book that contains professional music reviews written and edited by staff members from Rolling Stone magazine.

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Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums

Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales in the United States and is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan.

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Trombone

The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family.

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Trumpet

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.

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Verdine White

Verdine White (born July 25, 1951) is an American musician, best known as the bassist for Earth, Wind & Fire and the younger brother of band founder Maurice White.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_of_Earth,_Wind_%26_Fire,_Vol._1

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