Greatest Hits (BMG Direct)

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

Tracklist

▼ CD 1
# Title Rating Length
1 Shining Star
4 2:51
2 That's the Way of the World
3 5:43
3 September
4.8 3:35
4 Can't Hide Love
3 4:07
5 Got to Get You Into My Life
4:10
6 Sing a Song
3 3:22
7 Gratitude
3:27
8 Serpentine Fire
5 3:50
9 Fantasy
4 4:37
10 Kalimba Story
4:01
11 Mighty Mighty
3:03
12 Reasons
2 4:59
13 Saturday Nite
4:02
14 Let's Groove
4.5 5:35
15 Boogie Wonderland (feat. The Emotions)
4 4:48
16 After the Love Has Gone
4:25
17 Getaway
3:56

Credits

CD 1

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