Earth Wind & Fire "I Am" (1979) -Funk / Westcoast Soul-

 

Label : CBS, Inc.

 Side 1

01 - In The Stone**/*** (Maurice White, Allee Willis & David Foster)
02 - Can't Let Go* (Maurice White, Bill Meyers & Allee Willis)
03 - After The Love Has Gone**/*** (David Foster, Jay Graydon & Bill Champlin)
04 - Let Your Feelings Show* (Maurice White, David Foster & Allee Willis)

Side  2

01 - Boogie Wonderland**** (Jon Lind & Allee Willis)
02 - Star* (Maurice White, Eduardo Del Barrio & Allee Willis)
03 - Wait*/** (Maurice White, David Foster & Allee Willis)
04 - Rock That! (Maurice White & David Foster)
05 - You And I* (Maurice White, David Foster & Allee Willis)

Bonus Track


Produced by Maurice White for Kalimba Productions

Maurice White : Vocals, Drums, Kalimba

Verdine White : Bass

Philip Bailey : Vocals, Congas, Percussion
Ralph Johnson : Drums & Percussion
Larry Dunn : Piano, Oberheim, Moog Synthesizer

Al McKay : Guitar

Fred White : Drums

Johnny Graham : Guitar

Andrew Woolfolk : Tenor Saxophone

Ralph Johnson : Percussion

Our Horn Section

Don Myrick : Alto, Tenor & Baritone Saxophones

Louis Satterfield : Trombone

Rahmlee Michael Davis : Trumpet

Lead & Background vocals by Maurice White & Philip Bailey

Special thanks to the following musicians 

Paulinho Da Costa : Percussion

Eduardo Del Barrio : Keyboards

David Foster : Keyboards

Marlo Henderson : Guitar

Steve Lukather : Guitar

Bill Meyers : Keyboards

Steve Porcaro : Synthesizer Programming

The Emotions - Wanda Hutchinson, Sheila Whitt & Janet Hawes for Additional Vocals on "Boogie Wonderland"

Trumpets : Oscar Brashear, Bobby Bryant, Michael Harris, Jerry Hey & Steve Madaio

Trombones : Geore Bohannon, Garnett Brown, Benjamin Powell, Bill Reichenbach & Maurice Spears

Saxophones : Fred Jackson Jr., Herman Riley & Jerome Richardson

French Horns : Barbara Korn, Sid Muldrow, Richard Perissi & Marilyn Robinson
Violins : Janice Grower (Concertmaster), Ronald Clark, Marcy Dicterow, Pavel farkas, Henry Ferber, Harris Goldman, Joseph Goodman, Jack Gootkin, William Henderson, Cynthia Kovac, Gina Kronstadt, Carl LaMagna, Joseph Livoti, Jerome Reisler, Sheldon Sanov, Anton Sen, Haim Shtrum, Ikka Talvi, Judith Talvi, Rosmen Torfeh, Jerome Webster, Pamela Gates, Henry Roth, Sherman Bryana & Leeana Sherman

Violas : Marilyn Baker, Rollice Dale, Virginia Majewski, James Ross, Linda Lipsett, Laurie Woods

Cellos : Jacqueline Lustgarten, Miguel Martinez, Daniel Smith, Kevan Torfeh, Larry Corbett, Delores Bing, Jan Kelley, John Walz

Harp : Dorothy Ashby

Timpani : Richard Lepore

Saxophone Solo on "After The Love Is Gone" by Don Myrick

Trumpet Solo on "Star" by Rahmlee Michael Davis

Horn & String Arrangements by Tom Tom 84*

Horn Arrangements by Jerry Hey**

String Arrangements by David Foster***

Horn & String Arrangements by Ben Wright****

Engineered by George Massenburg & Tom Perry

Re-mixing by George Massenburg

Assistant Engineers : Ross Pallone & Craig Widby

Recorded at Hollywood Sound Recorders, Sunset Sound Studio & Davlen Studio, Los Angeles, CA

"Boogie Wonderland" Produced by Maurice White & Al McKay