Earth Wind & Fire "Faces" (1980) -Funk / Westcoast Soul-

 

Label : CBS, Inc.

 Side 1

01 - Let Me Talk°/°° (Maurice White, Verdine White, Larry Dunn, Al McKay, Ralph Johnson & Philip Bailey)
02 - Turn It Into Something Good°/°°°° (Maurice White, James Newton Howard & Valerie Carter)
03 - Pride° (Maurice White, Verdine White, Larry Dunn, Al McKay, Philip Bailey & Fred White)
04 - You°/°° (Maurice White, David Foster & Brenda Russell)

Side 2

01 - Sparkle* (Maurice White, Eddie DelBarrio & Philip Bailey)
02 - Back On The Road* (Maurice White & Al McKay)
03 - Song In My Heart°/°° (Maurice White, Gary Glenn & Brenda Russell)
04 - You Went Away*/** (Ross Vannelli & Philip Bailey)

Side 3

01 - And Love Goes On°/°° (Maurice White, David Foster, Verdine White, Larry Dunn & Brenda Russell)
02 - Sailaway** (Maurice White, Eddie DelBarrio, Philip Bailey & Roxanne Seeman)
03 - Take It To The Sky* (Maurice White, Gary Glenn & Larry Dunn)
04 - Win Or Lose*/°°° (Jerry Peters & Jean Hancock)

Side 4

01 - Share Your Love* (Maurice White & Gary Glenn)
02 - In Time°/°° (Maurice White, Arlene Matza & Howard McCrary)
03 - Faces°/°° (Maurice White, Verdine White, Larry Dunn & Philip Bailey)


Produced by Maurice White for Kalimba Productions

The Group :
Maurice White : Vocals, Drums, Kalimba
Verdine White : Bass
Larry Dunn : Piano, Synthesizers, Synthesizer programming
Philip Bailey : Vocals, Congas, Percussion
Al McKay : Guitar
Fred White : Drums, Percussion
Johnny Graham : Guitar
Andrew Woolfolk : Tenor Saxophone
Ralph Johnson : Percussion

All Lead & Background vocals by Maurice White & Philip Bailey

Our Horn Section :

Louis Satterfield : Trombone

Rahmlee Michael Davis : Trumpet, Flugelhorn

Don Myrick : Alto, Tenor & Baritone Saxophones

Horns Solos on "Faces" by Don Myrick & Rahmlee Michael Davis

Saxophone Solo on "You" by Don Myrick

Trombone Solo on "Sailaway" by Louis Satterfield

Guitar Solo on "Back On The Road" & "You Went Away" by Steve Lukather

Guitar Solo on "Take It To The Sky" by Johnny Graham

Horn & String Arrangements by Tom Tom 84*

Horn Arrangements by Jerry Hey°

Horn & String Arrangements by Erich Bulling**

String Arrangements by David Foster°°

String Arrangements by Jerry Peters°°°

String Arrangements by James Newton Howard°°°°

Special Thanks to the following Musicians :

Paulinho Da Costa : Percussion
David Foster : Keyboards
Marlo Henderson : Guitar
Jerry Peters : Keyboards / Organ
Garry Glenn : Keyboards
Steve Lukather : Guitar

Trumpet : Jerry Hey, Oscar Brashear, Bobby Bryant, Chuck Findley, Gary Grant, Michael Harris, Steve Madaio, Nolan Smith Jr. 

Trombones : George Bohannon, Jeff Clayton, Bill Reichenbach, Fred Wesley

Saxophones / Flutes : Larry Williams & Fred Jackson Jr.

French Horns : Vincent DeRosa, Arthur Maebe, George Price, Alan Robinson, Marilyn Robinson

Tuba : John Johnson

Violins : Janice Gower (Concertmaster), Harris Goldman (Concertmaster), Assa Drori (Concertmaster), Endre Granat, Haim Shtrum, Joseph Goodman, Jerome Reisler, Reginald Hill, Michael Markman, Irving Giller, Bernard Kundell, John Wittenburg, Sid Page, Arkady Shindelman, Jerome Webster, Norman Caee, Glenn Dicterow, Sid Sharp, Don Palmer, William Henderson, Pavel Farkas, Mark Cargill, Gina Kronstadt, Jack Gootkin, William Kurasch, Henry Roth, Mary Lundquist, Robert Jung, Marvin Limonick, Karen Jones, Bobby Dubow, Harold Dicterow, Henry Ferber, Joy Lyle, Michael Nowack, Janet Lakatos, Joseph Schoenbrun, Ron Clark, Sheldon Sanov, Ronald Folsom, Vicki Sylvester, Barry Socher, Shari Zippert, Mari Tsumura Botnick, Robert Lipsett, Isabelle Daskoff

Violas : Rollice Dale, Marilyn Baker, Herschel Wise, Brenton Banks, James Ross, Laury Woods, Leanna Sherman, Bryana Sherman, Harry Hyams, Renita Koven, David Schwartz, Gareth Nuttycombe, Allan Harshman, Barbara Thomason, Ronald Strauss, Roland Kato, Patricia Mathews

Cellos : Ronald Cooper, Larry Corbett, Albert Gill, Miguel Martinez, Earl Madison, Jacqueline Lustgarten, Martson Smith, Nina Deveritch, Raymond Kelley, Oliver Nils, Louise Zeyen, Dennis Karmazyn, Frederick Seykora

Harp : Dorothy Ashby

Orchestra Bells : Gary Coleman

Arco Bass : Buell Neidlinger

Recorded thru September 1980

Recorded & Mixed by George Massenburg & Ken Fowler at George Massenburg Studios / ARC, West L.A. ; Ron Pendragon, Robert Wolstein

Air Studios, Montserrat, W.II.; Geoff Irons, Mark Touhy, George Morgan, Steve Jackson, John Silcott, Franklin Allen, Reuben & all our friends on Montserrat
Davlen Sound Studios, North Hollywood : Jeff Borgeson, Ernie Sheesley

Wally Heider / Filmways, Hollywood : Tchad Thompson

Royce Hall - UCLA ; Ray Gonzales

Custom Consoles & Processing Equipment by GML/Nova Research

Mastering by Michael Reese at The Mastering Lab

Special thanks to Doug Sax for his 'sound' advice