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The Need of Love is the second studio album by American band Earth, Wind & Fire, released in November 1971 by Warner Bros. Records. [2] The album reached No. 35 on the Billboard Top Soul Albums chart. [3] The Need of Love would be the band's final album for Warner Bros. until 1993's Millennium on Reprise Records.
Earth, Wind & Fire (EW&F or EWF) is an American musical group. Their style and sound span over various music genres such as jazz , R&B , soul , funk , disco , pop , Latin , and Afro-pop . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They are among the best-selling music artists of all time , with sales of over 90 million records worldwide.
Larry Ridley of DownBeat, with a 5 out of 5 rating, exclaimed "go out and buy this record and keep your eyes and ears open to Earth. Wind and Fire." [14] Al Rudis of the Chicago Sun Times found "Earth, Wind and Fire brings to mind Bossa nova, Sly and the Family Stone, Ray Conniff, Afro-Cuban music and The 5th Dimension". [11]
"September" has a funk groove based on a four-measure pattern that is consistent between verses and choruses, built on a circle of fifths. [7]Written in the key of A major, and using a chord progression written by Earth, Wind & Fire guitarist Al McKay, vocalist Maurice White and songwriter Allee Willis wrote the song over one month.
During November 1988, EWF issued a compilation album titled The Best of Earth, Wind & Fire, Vol. 2. The album was certified US Gold. [221] [222] A new single, from the album, called "Turn on (The Beat Box)" reached No. 26 on the Billboard Hot R&B Songs chart. [223] EWF went on to be nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Best ...
With a 5 out of 5 stars rating Kit Aiken of Uncut called the album "near perfect" and "invaluable". [8] Andy Kellman of AllMusic gave a 3.5 out of 5 stars rating and noted "A truly "ultimate" Earth, Wind & Fire compilation would offer a larger assortment of highlights from the band's catalog, but this is a decent one-disc/20-track overview."
"Sunday Morning" is a song recorded by American band Earth, Wind & Fire, released in August 1993 by Reprise Records as the second single from their sixteenth album, Millennium (1993). [1] The song reached No. 10 on the US Billboard Adult R&B Songs chart, No. 20 on the Billboard Hot R&B Singles chart and No. 35 on the Billboard Adult ...
He then played on Dean James 1997 LP Intimacy and Reel Tight's 1999 album Back to the Real. Dunn also appeared on Ronnie Laws' 2000 LP Dream a Little and his 2004 album Everlasting. [4] Dunn later performed on Brian Culbertson's 2008 album Bringing Back The Funk, Raphael Saadiq's 2010 LP Stone Rollin' and Culbertson's 2014 album Another Long ...