Earth, Wind & Fire - That's The Way Of The World (1975) {1999 Columbia Legacy}

Earth, Wind & Fire - That's The Way Of The World (1975) {1999 Columbia Legacy}
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Genre: R&B, soul

That's The Way Of The World is the sixth album by Earth, Wind & Fire, released in 1975. This was the album that brought them to the top of the pop charts with hit songs "Shining Star" and the title track, plus album favorites like "Reasons", "Happy Feelin'", and "Africano". This 1999 remaster from Columbia Legacy also features bonus tracks of songs not on the original album. The MP3 version also adds an "alternate version" of "Shining Star" taken from The Eternal Dance box set.

Earth, Wind & Fire has delivered more than its share of excellent albums, but if a person could own only one EWF release, the logical choice would be That's the Way of the World, which was the band's best album as well as its best-selling. Open Our Eyes had been a major hit and sold over half a million units, but it was World that established EWF as major-league, multi-platinum superstars. Fueled by gems ranging from the sweaty funk of "Shining Star" and "Yearnin' Learnin'" to the gorgeous ballad "Reasons" and the unforgettable title song, EWF's sixth album sold at least five million units. And some of the tracks that weren't major hits, such as the exuberant "Happy Feelin'" and the gospel-influenced "See the Light," are equally powerful. There are no dull moments on World, one of the strongest albums of the 1970s and EWF's crowning achievement. (The 1999 CD reissue has five previously unreleased "sketches" from late 1974, including much briefer instrumental run-throughs of "Shining Star" and "That's the Way of the World," the first take alternate vocal of "All About Love," an alternate of "Happy Feelin'," and the jazz-oriented jam "Caribou Chaser" (the only one of the five not to be represented in a different version on the proper album).

01. Shining Star
02. That's The Way Of The World
03. Happy Feelin'
04. All About Love
05. Yearnin' Learnin'
06. Reasons
07. Africano
08. See The Light

ORIGINAL SKETCHES (Previously unreleased)
09. Shining Star (Future Star)
10. All About Love (First Impression)
11. Happy Feelin' (Anatomy Of A Groove)
12. Caribou Chaser (Jazzy Jam)
13. That's The Way Of The World (Latin Expedition)

14. Shining Star (Alternate Version) (Bonus Track) (MP3 only)

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Maurice White-vocals, drums, kalimba
Verdine White-vocals, bass, percussion
Philip Bailey-vocals, congas, percussion
Al McKay-vocals, guitar, percussion
Larry Dunn-piano, organ, Moog synthesizer
Ralph Johnson-drums, percussion
Andrew Woolfolk-soprano sax, flute
Johnny Graham-guitar, percussion
Fred White-drums, percussion

Produced by Maurice White
Co-produced by Charles Stepney
Engineered by George Massenburg

CD Mastered by Mark Wilder at Sony Music Studios, New York

Original Sketches (tracks 9-13) mixed by Paul Klingberg, Leo Sacks and Maurice White on February 24-25, 1999 at Magnet Vision Studios, Santa Monica, California
Assisted by Cameron Marcarelli

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