Don Braden: Earth Wind And Wonder

"Spirit" is the 7th studio album by Earth, Wind & Fire, released in September 1976 by Columbia Records. The album rose to #2 on both the Billboard 200 and Top Soul Albums charts. "Spirit" has also been certified Double Platinum in the US by the RIAA. As Charles Stepney died in the midst of its recording sessions, Maurice White went on to mostly arrange and produce the album. The LP was thus entitled "Spirit" in dedication to Stepney. "Getaway" reached #1 on the Billboard Hot Soul Songs chart. The single also rose to #12 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Disco Action Top 30 chart. "Saturday Nite, peaked at #4 & 21 on the Billboard Hot Soul Songs and Hot 100 charts, respectively. It also reached #12 on Billboard's Disco chart and #17 on the UK Singles chart.

Raise! is the eleventh studio album by Earth, Wind & Fire, Released on November 14, 1981 by CBS Records, it was produced by the band's leader Maurice White for Kalimba Productions. Raise! was the bestselling R&B album of 1982. The album featured the #1 R&B and # 3 Pop hit "Let's Groove". The single "Wanna Be With You" won EWF a Grammy for Best R&B Vocal Performance By A Duo Or Group. Raise! also marked the return to the band of guitarist Roland Bautista, last heard from on 1972's Last Days and Time. Ken Tucker of Rolling Stone describes Raise! as a reflection of "street-gritty black pop" and that on "Let's Groove" and the fast, cutting "Lady Sun", the horn section screams like a car running a red light". Music critic Robert Christgau says that on the album, he felt "a show of strength was due".

А 1975 cull film long out of print, That's The Way Of The World starred a young Harvey Keitel as an impassioned record company executive caught up in the politics of race, power and ambition. Earth, Wind & Fire, cast as a hungry band of hopefuls, were the pawns in a ruthless game. The film may have faded but the group's score was larger than life. Newly mastered with previously unreleased demos of "Shining Star," "All About Love" and the original bossa nova version of "That's The Way Of The World," this meditation on the rules of living ranks as one of pop's great masterworks. Simple Truths For The Ways Of The World.

Last Days and Time is the third studio album by American R&B group Earth, Wind & Fire, released in 1972, their first on Columbia Records. It was recorded at Sunset Sound Studios in Hollywood, California.

Millennium is the 16th album by Earth, Wind & Fire. Released on 14 September, 1993, this marks their return to the Warner Bros. Records family after 21 years of being with Columbia. This features the hit songs "Sunday Morning" "Two Hearts", and "Spend The Night".

Gratitude is the 1975 live album by Earth, Wind & Fire. The album also features studio cuts on Side 4, including the hit song "Can't Hide Love". This remaster was done by Columbia Legacy in 1999 and features a "Live Bonus Medley" from a television show featuring Natalie Cole.

This is the 2001 Columbia Legacy edition of Earth, Wind & Fire's 1976 album Spirit. Released on 10 April, 2001, this features the hit songs "Getaway" and "Saturday Nite" plus five tracks not on the original album.

All 'N All is the 1977 album by Earth, Wind & Fire. This Columbia Legacy edition was released on 27 July, 1999 and features the original album plus three tracks not on the original. This features the hit songs "Serpentine Fire", "Fantasy", "Jupiter", and "Magic Mind", plus album favorites "Love's Holiday", "I'll Write A Song For You" and "Runnin'".

Gratitude is a double album by Earth, Wind & Fire. It consists of mostly live concert material together with some newly recorded tracks. The album has been #1 in the charts & certified Triple Platinum in the US by the RIAA. EWF went on to win a Rock Music Award in the category of Best Soul Album for Gratitude. The album's title track was also Grammy nominated in the category of Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.