1981 Earth Wind & Fire – Raise!
Raise! is the eleventh studio album by Earth, Wind & Fire, Released on November 14, 1981 by CBS Records (now Sony Music). The album rose to Nos. 1 & 5 on the Billboard Top R&B Albums and Billboard 200 charts respectively. Raise! has been certified platinum in the US by the RIAA for sales of over a million copies and gold in the UK and Canada by the British Phonographic Industry and Music Canada respectively.
Tracks
1 Let’s Groove (Wayne Vaughn, Maurice White) 5:38
2 Lady Sun (Bernard Taylor) 3:39
3 My Love (Wayne Vaughn, Maurice White) 4:34
4 Evolution Orange (David Foster, Nan O’Byrne, Maurice White) 4:37
5 Kalimba Tree (Maurice White, Verdine White, Jerry Hey) 0:25
6 You Are A Winner (Bernard Taylor) 4:10
7 I’ve Had Enough (Philip Bailey, Greg Phillinganes, Brenda Russell) 4:36
8 Wanna Be With You (Wayne Vaughn, Maurice White) 4:36
9 The Changing Times (Bernard Taylor, Wayne Vaughn, Maurice White) 5:54
Musicians
| Bass | Verdine White |
| Drums | Fred White |
| Piano | Larry Dunn |
| Synthesizer | Larry Dunn |
| Sax | Don Myrick |
| Sax | Tom Saviano |
| Sax | Andrew Woolfolk |
| Sax | George Bohanon |
| Trombone | Bill Reichenbach |
| Trombone | Charlie Loper |
| Trombone | Dick Hyde |
| Trombone | Lew McCreary |
| Trombone | Louis Satterfield |
| Trumpet | Michael Harris |
| Trumpet | Chuck Findley |
| Trumpet | Jerry Hey |
| Trumpet | Gary Grant |
| Trumpet | Larry Hall |
| Trumpet | Oscar Brashear |
| Trumpet | Rahm Lee Davis |
| Percussion | Fred White |
| Percussion | Maurice White |
| Percussion | Philip Bailey |
| Percussion | Ralph Johnson |
| Guitar | Johnny Graham |
| Guitar | Roland Bautista |
| Strings | David Foster |
| Background Vocals | Beloyd Taylor |
| Background Vocals | Ralph Johnson |
| Vocals | Maurice White |
| Vocals | Philip Bailey |
Strings
Cello – Frederick Seykora, Jerome Kessler, Larry Corbett, Mary Louise Zeyen, Paula Hochhalter, Selene Burford
Viola – Alan DeVeritch, Allan Harshman, Gareth Nuttycombe, Pamela Goldsmith, Virginia Majewski
Violin – Anton Sen, Arkady Shindelman, Arnold Belnick, Betty LaMagna, Brian Leonard, Denyse Buffum, Endre Granat, Haim Shtrum, Henry Ferber, Irving Geller, Jerome Reisler, John Wittenberg, Mari Tsumura-Botnick, Marvin Limonick, Myra Kestenbaum, Nathan Ross, Norman Leonard, Reginald Hill, Ronald Folsom, Sheldon Sanov, Thomas Buffum, William Hymanson, William Kurasch
Liner Notes
Producer (Production Assistant) – Verdine White, Larry Dunn
Co-producer – Philip Bailey (Track 7)
Arranged By (Horns, Strings) – Bil Meyers (Tracks 1, 3, 7)
Arranged By (Horns) – Jerry Hey (Tracks 2, 4, 5, 8, 9)
Arranged By (Strings) – David Foster (Tracks 5)
Concertmaster – Assa Drori, James Getzoff
Engineer – Ken Fowler, Ron Pendragon
Engineer (Assistant) – Stephen McManus
Engineer (Horn, String Overdubs) – Mick Guzauski
Engineer (Vocal Overdubs) – Tom Perry
Mixed By – Tom Perry, Mick Guzauski
Design (Album), Art Direction – Roger Carpenter
Illustration (Album) – Shusei Nagaoka
Recorded at ARC/George Massenburg Studio, West Los Angeles, CA
Recorded at Sunset Sounds Recording Studio, Hollywood, CA
Mastered at Mastering Lab, Hollywood, CA