06/12/2021

Earth, Wind & Fire ‎"Powerlight" (1983) -Contemporary R&B / Smooth Soul-



Label : CBS, Inc.


États-Unis Side 1

01 - Fall In Love With Me° (Maurice White, Wayne Vaughn & Wanda Vaughn)
02 - Spread Your Love° (Maurice White, Beloyd Taylor & Azar Lawrence)
03 - Side By Side** (Maurice White, Wayne Vaughn & Wanda Vaughn)
04 - Straight From The Heart°° (Philip Bailey, Eddie Del Barrio, Fred Washington & Roxanne Seeman)

Side 2

01 - The Speed Of Love* (Maurice White, Wayne Vaughn, Wanda Vaughn & Tony Hayes)
02 - Freedom Of Choice* (Maurice White, Beloyd Taylor & Azar Lawrence)
03 - Something Special* (Maurice White, Wayne Vaughn & Wanda Vaughn)
04 - Hearts To Heart* (Maurice White, Beloyd Taylor & Azar Lawrence)
05 - Miracles*°° (Maurice White, Jon Lind, Eddie Del Barrio & Mary D'Astugues)


Produced by Maurice White for Kalimba Productions

Maurice White : Vocals, Drums, Kalimba
Verdine White : Bass
Fred White : Drums, Percussion
Philip Bailey : Vocals, Percussion
Larry Dunn : Piano, Synthesizer, Synthesizer Programming
Ralph Johnson : Percussion
Andrew Woolfolk : Tenor Saxophone
Roland Bautista : Guitar

All Lead vocals by Maurice White & Philip Bailey
Background vocals by Maurice White, Philip Bailey & Beloyd Taylor
Additional Vocals by Ms. Pluto

Solos 
Don Myrick : Soprano Sax on "The Speed Of Love" & Various Reeds on the instrumental interlude "Mizar"
Roland Bautista : Guitar on "Hearts To Heart & "Freedom Of Choice"
Robert Greenidge : Steel Drums on "Side By Side"

Horn Arrangement by Jerry Hey*
Horn & String Arrangements by Bill Meyers°
Horn & String Arrangements by Tom Tom 84**
Horn & String Arrangements by George Del Barrio°°

Special thanks to the following musicians :
Beloyd Taylor : Guitar
Wayne Vaughan : Keyboards
Azar Lawrence : Profit
Paulinho Da Costa : Percussion
Eddie Del Barrio : Keyboards
Rick Kelly : Keyboards
George Del Barrio : Keyboards
Skip Scarborough : Keyboards
Robert Greenidge : Steel Drums
Zakir Hussein : Tabla Drums
Steel Drums made by Rodolph Chiles
Maxanne Lewis : Piano
And a special thanks to Jon Lind

Trumpets : Jerry Hey, Gary Grant, Chuck Findley, Rahmlee Davis, Michael Harris, Oscar Brashear
Trombones : Bill Reichenbach, Lew McCreary, Charles Loper, Louis Satterfield, George Bohannon
Saxophones : Don Myrick
Violins : Assa Drori (Concertmaster), David Frisina (Concertmaster), Brenton Banks, Myer Bello, Arnold Belnick, Harold Bluestone, Nicole Bush, Ron Clark, Bill Hybel, Karen Jones, Anatol Kaminsky, George Kast, Janet Lakatos, Robert Lipsett, Stanley Plummer, Nathan Ross, Bob Sanov, Sheldon Sanov, Haim Shtrum, Marshall Sosson, Robert Sushel, Pamela, Tomkins, Shari Zippert & Miwako Watanabe
Violas : Rollice Dale, Alan Deveritch, Pamela Goldsmith, Allan Harshman, Roland Kato, Milton Kestenbaum, Carole Mukogawa, David Schwartz, Joel Soultanian & Linn Subotnick
Cellos : Ronald Cooper, Larry Corbett, Douglas Davis, Susie Katayama, Earl Madison & Fredrick Seykora
String Bass : Arni Egilsson
Harp : Dorothy Remsen

Recorded & Mixed by Mick Guzauski
Additional Mixing by Tom Perry
Assistant Engineers : Robert Spano & Steve Crimmel
Recorded at The Complex Studios, West Los Angeles, California & Oceanway Recording Studio, Hollywod, Califonria
Mastered at A&M Recording Studios, Hollywood, California by Bernie Grundman