1981 Earth Wind & Fire – Raise!

Bill Meyers, Bill Reichenbach, Brenda Russell, Chuck Findley, David Foster, Earth Wind and Fire, Gary Grant, Greg Phillinganes, Jerry Hey, Maurice White, Mick Guzauski, Philip Bailey, Tom Saviano

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

Biography

Earth, Wind & Fire

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 – Maurice White
Producer (Assistant) – Larry Dunn, Verdine White
Co-producer – Philip Bailey (Track 7)
Arranged By (Horns, Strings) – Bill 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, Strings Overdubs) – Mick Guzauski
Engineer (Vocal Overdubs) – Tom Perry
Mixed By – Tom Perry, Mick Guzauski

Design, Art Direction – Roger Carpenter
Illustration – Shusei Nagaoka

Recorded At George Massenburg Studios
Recorded At Sunset Sound
Mastered At Customatrix
Mastered At The Mastering Lab
Phonographic Copyright CBS Inc
Copyright CBS Inc