The Ultimate Collection

~ Release by Earth, Wind & Fire (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Tracklist

▼ CD 1
# Title Artist Rating Length
1 Boogie Wonderland
Earth, Wind & Fire with The Emotions 4 4:49
2 Shining Star
Earth, Wind & Fire 4 2:50
3 That's the Way of the World
Earth, Wind & Fire 3 5:43
4 September
Earth, Wind & Fire 4.8 3:35
5 Can't Hide Love
Earth, Wind & Fire 3 4:08
6 After the Love Has Gone
Earth, Wind & Fire 4:25
7 Got to Get You Into My Life
Earth, Wind & Fire 4:10
8 Sing a Song
Earth, Wind & Fire 3 3:22
9 Gratitude
Earth, Wind & Fire 3:27
10 Serpentine Fire
Earth, Wind & Fire 5 3:50
11 Fantasy
Earth, Wind & Fire 4 4:37
12 In the Stone
Earth, Wind & Fire 4:26
13 Reasons
Earth, Wind & Fire 4:59
14 Saturday Nite
Earth, Wind & Fire 4:02
15 Let's Groove
Earth, Wind & Fire 4.5 5:36
16 Getaway
Earth, Wind & Fire 3:57
17 September 99 (Phats & Small remix)
Earth, Wind & Fire 3:43
18 Let's Groove (Merchant of Menace remix)
Earth, Wind & Fire 3:45
19 Boogie Wonderland (Stretch & Vern remix)
Earth, Wind & Fire with The Emotions 3:43

Credits

CD 1

arranger:
Charles Stepney (tracks 2–3)
Earth, Wind & Fire (tracks 2–3)
co-producer:
Charles Stepney (tracks 2–3)
composer:
David Foster (Canadian music producer, arranger and composer) (track 12)
Jon Lind (tracks 1, 19)
Maurice White (Earth, Wind & Fire) (track 12)
Skip Scarborough (tracks 5, 5, 5)
Allee Willis (track 12)
engineer:
George Massenburg (tracks 2–3, 10–11)
lyricist:
Skip Scarborough (tracks 5, 5, 5)
Allee Willis (tracks 1, 19)
performer:
The Emotions (Chicago soul, disco and R&B female vocal group) (track 19)
producer:
Maurice White (Earth, Wind & Fire) (tracks 2–3, 10–11)
remixer:
Phats & Small (track 17)
Stretch & Vern (track 19)
vocals:
The Emotions (Chicago soul, disco and R&B female vocal group) (track 1)
writer:
Philip Bailey (tracks 2, 13–14)
Reginald "Sonny" Burke (Keyboard player) (track 10)
Bill Champlin (track 6)
Peter Cor (track 16)
Eduardo Del Barrio (track 11)
Larry Dunn (track 2)
David Foster (Canadian music producer, arranger and composer) (track 6)
Jay Graydon (track 6)
John Lennon (Beatle) (track 7)
Paul McCartney (track 7)
Al McKay (tracks 4, 8, 14, 17)
Charles Stepney (tracks 3, 13)
Bernard Taylor (guitarist, songwriter, vocalist, ex-member of Earth, Wind & Fire) (track 16)
Wayne Vaughn (tracks 15, 18)
Maurice White (Earth, Wind & Fire) (tracks 2–4, 8–11, 13–15, 17–18)
Verdine White (tracks 3, 9–11)
Allee Willis (tracks 4, 17)
phonographic copyright by:
CBS, Inc. (US broadcasting company; file no releases here!) (1975) (tracks 2–3)
Sony Music Entertainment (not for release label use! company owned by Sony Corporation of America since Oct 1, 2008; operates worldwide except in JP) (1975) (tracks 5, 8)
Sony Music Entertainment Inc. (not for release label use! company owned by Sony Corporation of America from 1991–2004; operated worldwide except in JP) (1978) (track 4)
Sony Music Entertainment Inc. (not for release label use! company owned by Sony Corporation of America from 1991–2004; operated worldwide except in JP) (1981) (track 15)
publisher:
Criga Music (track 11)
EMI April Music Inc. (track 2)
EMI Songs Ltd. (tracks 4, 15, 17–18)
Northern Songs Ltd. (track 7)
Rondor Music (London) Ltd. (tracks 4, 17)
Saggifire Music (tracks 9, 11)
The International Music Network (tracks 4, 17)
sampled by:
As One by Jay-Z feat. Memphis Bleek, Freeway, Young Gunz, Peedi Crakk, Sparks & Rell (track 11)
Boogie Down by Break Science & Gramatik (track 15)
Kobiety są gorące by Norbi (track 4)
part of:
The Rolling Stone Magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (as at 2016-06-10) (number: 329) (track 3)
cover recording of:
Got to Get You Into My Life (track 7)
You Can’t Hide Love (track 5)
is the basis for:
I’m Alive (tracks 1, 19)
later parody versions:
Child of God (track 2)
later translated parody versions:
A Kapella (tracks 4, 17)
later translated versions:
Je veux te graver dans ma vie (track 7)
Kaikki yhtä ympyrää (track 7)
live cover recording of:
You Can’t Hide Love (track 5)
live recording of:
You Can’t Hide Love (track 5)
recording of:
After the Love Has Gone (track 6)
Boogie Wonderland (tracks 1, 19)
Getaway (track 16)
Gratitude (track 9)
In the Stone (track 12)
Let's Groove (tracks 15, 18)
Reasons (track 13)
Saturday Nite (track 14)
September (tracks 4, 17)
Shining Star (track 2)
Sing a Song (track 8)
That's the Way of the World (track 3)
Fantasy (1977-08) (track 11)
Serpentine Fire (1977-08) (track 10)
referred to in medleys:
Megamix: September, Let's Groove, Rock That!, Boogie Wonderland (tracks 1, 4, 15, 17–19)
The Music of The Beatles (track 7)

Release

ASIN: UK: B0000259O6 [info]