EARTH, WIND & FIRE Spirit (LP, 180g Vinyl)
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EARTH, WIND & FIRE: Spirit (LP, 180g Vinyl)
"Spirit" is the seventh studio album by Earth, Wind & Fire, released 45 years ago in 1976 on Columbia Records. The album entered both the Billboard 200 and Top Soul Albums charts at #2, with two singles becoming major hits. "Getaway" reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Soul Songs chart and No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. "Saturday Nite" reached #4 on the Billboard Hot-Soul Song chart and #21 on the Billboard Hot 100. "Spirit" was critically acclaimed, with the New York Times, for example, writing, "The most interesting thing about Maurice White and his musicians is their refusal to commit to any stylistic format."
Many describe the sound of Earth, Wind & Fire as "disco music," but in fact they are closer in parts to jazz or jazz-rock than to the pounding formulas of disco - and "Spirit" has one ballad to offer as well. Issac Hayes called the album one of the five essential recordings of Earth, Wind & Fire. "Spirit" was also nominated for the American Music Award for Best Soul / R&B Album. A song from the album titled "Earth, Wind and Fire" was also nominated for a Grammy in the category of Best Instrumental Composition.
Article properties: EARTH, WIND & FIRE: Spirit (LP, 180g Vinyl)
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Interpret: EARTH, WIND & FIRE
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Album titlle: Spirit (LP, 180g Vinyl)
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Label MUSIC ON VINYL
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Genre Soul
- Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
- Vinyl record size LP (12 Inch)
- Record Grading Mint (M)
- Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
- Vinyl weight 180g Vinyl
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Artikelart LP
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EAN: 8719262024151
- weight in Kg 0.3
| Earth, Wind & Fire - Spirit (LP, 180g Vinyl) LP 1 | ||||
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| 01 | Getaway | Earth, Wind & Fire | ||
| 02 | On Your Face | Earth, Wind & Fire | ||
| 03 | Imagination | Earth, Wind & Fire | ||
| 04 | Spirit | Earth, Wind & Fire | ||
| 05 | Saturday Nite | Earth, Wind & Fire | ||
| 06 | Earth, Wind & Fire | Earth, Wind & Fire | ||
| 07 | Departure | Earth, Wind & Fire | ||
| 08 | Biyo | Earth, Wind & Fire | ||
| 09 | Burnin' Bush | Earth, Wind & Fire | ||
Earth, Wind & Fire
Mighty Mighty
Earth, Wind & Fire
Mighty Mighty
The three elements of his astrological chart provided a new name for Maurice White’s band in 1970. Earth, Wind & Fire became one of the great sensations of the decade and beyond, combining spectacular visuals with a highly innovative sound blending R&B, jazz, rock, and African influences.
Born December 19, 1941 in Memphis, Maurice began singing in his church’s gospel choir when he was six. “I came from the ghetto in Memphis, and during that time there was a drum and bugle corps in the area. They had real shiny suits, marching through the neighborhood, and I wanted to join the band so I could get one of the suits,” he says. “I got into the band. That was the start of my instrumental career, in the sense of playing drums.” At 11, Maurice was performing with equally precocious keyboardist Booker T. Jones.
In 1960, White moved to Chicago, enrolling at Crane Junior College and then the Chicago Conservatory of Music. He hired on as Chess Records’ house drummer in ‘63. “When I auditioned, I brought down all the guys from school, which was about 20 musicians,” he says. “They chose five of us. They let everybody else go.” At Chess, White kept flawless time behind Little Milton, Fontella Bass, Jackie Ross, and Muddy Waters. Billy Stewart was a favorite. “He always gave me a lot of solos,” says Maurice. “I always felt like a hero at the end of the record.” Pianist Ramsey Lewis, Chess’ top jazzman, hired White as his trio’s new drummer in 1967.
“Ramsey met me at Chess. Being a performer there, he would come in and watch the sessions,” says White. “I would run into him all the time.” Maurice spent nearly three years as Ramsey’s drummer, during which time he picked up the Kalimba, or African thumb piano, that would be integral to EWF’s sound. Maurice was ready to do his own thing in 1969. “After working with Ramsey all the time, the next step was to form a group of my own that I would be able to communicate to my own age group, and be able to communicate something very high, a self-contained unit that could communicate music beyond just a certain kind of level,” he says.
Initially called The Salty Peppers and including ex-Vee-Jay label hitmaker Wade Flemons, the group debuted with La La Time on Capitol. Relocating to L.A., White changed their name to Earth, Wind & Fire, signing with Warner Bros. and charting R&B with Love Is Life in ’71 and I Think About Lovin’ You the next year. “I figured I would never be able to make it in Chicago, because at that particular time, what I was looking for was not just an R&B base,” says Maurice. “I wanted to be universal.”
White flipped the band, retaining his brother Verdine White on bass and recruiting keyboardist Larry Dunn and vocalist Philip Bailey, the latter born May 8, 1951 in Denver, Colorado. Columbia Records president Clive Davis watched them rock New York’s Rockefeller Center and purchased EWF’s contract from Warner. They cut their first Columbia album, ‘Last Days And Time,’ in the spring of ’72. ‘Head To The Sky,’ done in the winter of ’73, contained a pair of charters, Evil and the title item.
Laid down at Caribou Ranch in Nederland, Colorado in November of ’73, ‘Open Our Eyes’ proved EWF’s biggest album yet. With Maurice’s ex-Chess cohort Charles Stepney serving as associate producer and co-arranger, Al McKay and Johnny Graham manning the guitars, and Joe Wissert and Maurice producing, the set included the gloriously funky Mighty Mighty, a White brothers co-write that made it to #4 R&B and #29 pop. Earth, Wind & Fire was on the path to superstardom.
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Various - Sweet Soul Music 23 Scorching Classics From 1974
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