Earth Wind & Fire "Touch The World" (1987) -Contemporary R&B-

Label : Columbia Records

 Side One

01 - System Of Survival** (Skylark)
02 - Evil Roy* (Philip Bailey, Attala Zane Giles & Allee Willis)
03 - Thinking Of You* (Wayne Waughn & Maurice White)
04 - You And I*°° (Mark Mueller & Robbie Nevil)
05 - New Horizons (Musical Interlude) (Bill Meyers)

Side Two

01 - Money Tight* (Danny Sembello, Maurice White & Alle Willis)
02 - Every Now And Then*°° (Jon Lind & Brock Walsh)
03 - Touch The World*° (Rev. Oliver W. Wells)
04 - Here Today And Gone Tomorrow* (Philip Bailey, Marti Sharron & Glen Ballard)
05 - Victim Of The Modern Heart* (Ian Prince)


*Recorded at Studio Ultimo, Los Angeles, CA

Engineer : David Rideau
Assistant Engineers : Mitch Zlezny, Les Cooper

**Recorded at Studio D, Sausalito, CA

Engineer : Acar Key
Assistant Engineer : Jim Watts Vereecke
Additional Assistant Engineer : Red Davidson

°Additional Recording at Different Fur, San Francisco, CA

Engineer : David Rideau
Assistant Engineer : Mark Slagle

°°Tracking Recorded at Sound Castle, Los Angeles, CA

Engineer : David Rideau
Assistant Engineer : Liz Cluse

All Songs Engineered & Mixed by Tom Lord Alge

Assistant Engineer : Jeff Lorenzen

Mixed at Larrabee Sound, Los Angeles, CA

Except "New Horizons" Mixed by David Rideau at Lighthouse Studios, N. Hollywood, CA

Earth Wind & Fire :
Maurice White : Vocals, Kalimba, Drums & Percussion 
Verdine White : Bass 
Philip Bailey : Vocals, Conga, Percussion & Kalimba 
Ralph Johnson : Drums, Percussion & Vocals 
Sonny Emory : Drums & Vocals 
Andrew Woolfolk : Saxophone 
Sheldon Reynolds : Guitar & Vocals 
Dick Smith : Guitar & Vocals 
Vance Taylor : Keyboards


01 - System Of Survival

Produced by Maurice White for Kalimba Productions & Preston Glass for Glass Slipper Productions

Drums & Synthesizer Programming : Skylark

Electric Guitar, Synthesizer & Additional Drum Programming : Preston Glass

Horns : Jerry Hey, Gary Grant, Wayne Wallace, Marc Russo

Horn Arrangement : Jerry Hey

Vocoder : Maurice White

Lead & Background vocals : Maurice White, Philip Bailey

Additional Background vocals : Skylark

02 - Evil Boy

Produced by Maurice White for Kalimba Productions
Co-Produced by Philip Bailey
Associate Producer : Attala Zane Giles for Groove Specialist Productions, Inc. 

Arranged by Attala Zane Giles

Drum Programming & Synthesizer Arrangement : Attala Zane Giles

Fairlight Programming : Rhett Lawrence

Guitar : Sheldon Reynolds

Additional Guitar : Attala Zane Giles

Lead & Background vocals : Maurice White, Philip Bailey

Additional Vocals : Attala Zane Giles

03 - Thinking Of You

Produced by Maurice White for Kalimba Productions
Co-Produced & Arranged by Wayne Vaughn

Drum Programming, Fairlight & Synthesizer : Rhett Lawrence

Sequencing : Wayne Vaughn

Guitar : Ray Fuller

Lead vocal : Maurice White

Background vocals : Philip Bailey, Wanda Waughn, Jeanette Williams

04 - You And I

Produced by Maurice White for Kalimba Productions

Arranged by Bill Meyers

Drums : Jeff Porcaro

Bass : Nathan East

Guitar : Paul Jackson Jr.

Fairlight Programming : Rhett Lawrence

Additional Programming : Larry Williams

Piano : Bill Meyers

Lead vocal : Philip Bailey

Background vocals : Maurice White, Philip Bailey

05 - New Horizons (Musical Interlude)

Composed, Produced & Arranged by Bill Meyers

Drum, Keyboards & Synthesizer Programming : Bill Meyers, Dan DeSouza

Sax Solo : Andrew Woolfolk

Recorded at Amigo Recording Studio, N. Hollywood, CA
Engineer : Paul Brown
Mixed by David Rideau
Assistant Engineer : Jeffrey Woodruff
Mixed at Lighthouse Studios, N. Hollywood, CA

Side Two

01 - Money Tight - Money Tight

Produced by Maurice White for Kalimba Productions

Drum Overdub : Rick Lawson

Lead Guitar : Sheldon Reynolds

Drum Programming & Synthesizer Programming : Danny Sembello

Keyboards : Steve Lindsey

Horns : Jerry Hey, Gary Grant, Bill Reichenbach, Dan Higgins

Horn Arrangement by Jerry Hey

Lead vocal : Maurice White

Background vocals : Maurice White, Philip Bailey

02 - Every Now And Then

Produced by Maurice White for Kalimba Productions

Arranged by Bill Meyers

Drums : Jeff Porcaro

Bass : Nathan East

Guitar : Paul Jackson Jr.

Fairlight & Synthesizer Programming : Rhett Lawrence

Additional Programming : Larry Williams

Piano : Bill Meyers

Lead vocal : Philip Bailey

Background vocals : Maurice White, Philip Bailey

03 - Touch The World

Produced by Maurice White for Kalimba Productions
Co-Produced by Philip Bailey
Arranged by Rev. Oliver Wells
Drums : Rick Lawson

Bass : Nathan East

Guitar : Sheldon Reynolds
Fairlight & Synthesizer Programming : Rhett Lawrence
Lead vocal : Maurice White & Philip Bailey
Additional Lead vocals : Edwin Hawkins, Lynette Hawkins Stephens, Walter Hawkins

Background vocals : The Hawkins Family

04 - Here Today And Gone Tomorrow

Produced by Maurice White for Kalimba Productions
Co-Produced by Philip Bailey
Synthesizer Arrangement by Rev. Oliver Wells
Drums : Rick Lawson

Bass : Nathan East

Guitar : Sheldon Reynolds
Rhythm Arrangements : George Duke

Fairlight & Synthesizer Programming : Rhett Lawrence
Rhett Lawrence : Fairlight & Synthesizer Programming
Synthesizer Arrangements : Philip Bailey, Rev. Oliver Wells 

Piano : George Duke

Lead vocal : Philip Bailey
Background vocals : Maurice White, Philip Bailey

05 - Victim Of The Modern Heart

Produced by Maurice White for Kalimba Productions

Arranged by Maurice White & Ian Prince 

Drums & Synthesizer Programming : Ian Prince

Guitar : Sheldon Reynolds

Horns : Jerry Hey, Gary Grant, Wayne Wallace, Marc Russo

Horn Arrangement : Jerry Hey

Lead vocal : Maurice White

Background vocals : Maurice White, Philip Bailey