Definitive Collection

~ Release by Earth, Wind & Fire (see all versions of this release, 3 available)

Tracklist

▼ CD 1
# Title Rating Length
1 Shining Star
4 2:50
2 That's the Way of the World
3 5:45
3 Sing a Song
3 3:24
4 Getaway
3 3:45
5 Fantasy
4 4:38
6 Got to Get You Into My Life
3 4:03
7 September
4.8 3:35
8 Boogie Wonderland
4 4:49
9 After the Love Has Gone
4:28
10 Star
4:25
11 Can't Let Go
3:28
12 And Love Goes On
4:05
13 Let's Groove
4.5 5:37
14 Fall in Love With Me
5:52
15 Magnetic
4:20
16 System of Survival
4:59
17 Thinking of You
4:40
▼ CD 2
# Title Rating Length
1 You Can't Hide Your Love
3 4:11
2 Saturday Nite
4:04
3 In the Marketplace (Interlude) / Jupiter
3:55
4 Serpentine Fire
5 3:52
5 In the Stone
4:50
6 Let Me Talk
4:10
7 Spread Your Love
3:54
8 Turn On (the Beat Box)
4:40

Credits

CD 1

arranger:
Charles Stepney (tracks 1–2)
Earth, Wind & Fire (tracks 1–2)
co-producer:
Charles Stepney (tracks 1–2)
composer:
Jon Lind (track 8)
Martin Page (track 15)
Skylark (Doobie Brothers support artist) (track 16)
engineer:
George Massenburg (tracks 1–2, 5)
lyricist:
Martin Page (track 15)
Skylark (Doobie Brothers support artist) (track 16)
Allee Willis (track 8)
producer:
Maurice White (Earth, Wind & Fire) (tracks 1–2, 5)
vocals:
The Emotions (Chicago soul, disco and R&B female vocal group) (track 8)
writer:
Philip Bailey (track 1)
Bill Myers (track 11)
Bill Champlin (track 9)
Peter Cor (track 4)
Eduardo Del Barrio (tracks 5, 10)
Larry Dunn (tracks 1, 12)
David Foster (Canadian music producer, arranger and composer) (tracks 9, 12)
Jay Graydon (track 9)
John Lennon (Beatle) (track 6)
Paul McCartney (track 6)
Al McKay (tracks 3, 7)
Brenda Russell (track 12)
Charles Stepney (track 2)
Bernard Taylor (guitarist, songwriter, vocalist, ex-member of Earth, Wind & Fire) (track 4)
Wayne Vaughn (tracks 13–14, 17)
Maurice White (Earth, Wind & Fire) (tracks 1–3, 5, 7, 10–14, 17)
Verdine White (tracks 2, 5, 12)
Allee Willis (tracks 7, 10–11)
phonographic copyright by:
CBS, Inc. (US broadcasting company; file no releases here!) (1975) (tracks 1–2)
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) (track 3)
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 6)
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 7)
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 13)
publisher:
Criga Music (track 5)
EMI April Music Inc. (track 1)
EMI Songs Ltd. (tracks 7, 13)
Northern Songs Ltd. (track 6)
Rondor Music (London) Ltd. (track 7)
Saggifire Music (track 5)
The International Music Network (track 7)
sampled by:
As One by Jay-Z feat. Memphis Bleek, Freeway, Young Gunz, Peedi Crakk, Sparks & Rell (track 5)
Boogie Down by Break Science & Gramatik (track 13)
Kobiety są gorące by Norbi (track 7)
part of:
The Rolling Stone Magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (as at 2016-06-10) (number: 329) (track 2)
cover recording of:
Got to Get You Into My Life (track 6)
is the basis for:
I’m Alive (track 8)
later parody versions:
Child of God (track 1)
later translated parody versions:
A Kapella (track 7)
later translated versions:
Je veux te graver dans ma vie (track 6)
Kaikki yhtä ympyrää (track 6)
recording of:
After the Love Has Gone (track 9)
And Love Goes On (track 12)
Boogie Wonderland (track 8)
Can't Let Go (track 11)
Fall in Love With Me (track 14)
Getaway (track 4)
Let's Groove (track 13)
Magnetic (track 15)
September (track 7)
Shining Star (track 1)
Sing a Song (track 3)
Star (Earth, Wind & Fire song) (track 10)
System of Survival (track 16)
That's the Way of the World (track 2)
Thinking of You (Earth, Wind & Fire song) (track 17)
Fantasy (1977-08) (track 5)
referred to in medleys:
Megamix: September, Let's Groove, Rock That!, Boogie Wonderland (tracks 7–8, 13)
The Music of The Beatles (track 6)

CD 2

composer:
David Foster (Canadian music producer, arranger and composer) (track 5)
Maurice White (Earth, Wind & Fire) (track 5)
Allee Willis (track 5)
Skip Scarborough (tracks 1, 1, 1)
engineer:
George Massenburg (track 4)
lyricist:
Skip Scarborough (tracks 1, 1, 1)
producer:
Maurice White (Earth, Wind & Fire) (track 4)
writer:
Philip Bailey (track 2)
Reginald "Sonny" Burke (Keyboard player) (track 4)
Al McKay (track 2)
Maurice White (Earth, Wind & Fire) (tracks 2, 4)
Verdine White (track 4)
phonographic copyright by:
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) (track 1)
compilation of:
In the Marketplace (interlude) by Earth, Wind & Fire (track 3)
Jupiter by Earth, Wind & Fire (track 3)
DJ-mixes:
Mixtape, Side A: Funky by Housse de Racket (track 3)
cover recording of:
You Can’t Hide Love (track 1)
live cover recording of:
You Can’t Hide Love (track 1)
live recording of:
You Can’t Hide Love (track 1)
recording of:
In the Stone (track 5)
Saturday Nite (track 2)
Serpentine Fire (1977-08) (track 4)

Release Group

Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/master/99449 [info]