Gratitude (album)

Infobox Album | Name = Gratitude
Type = Live album
Artist = Earth, Wind & Fire


Released = Original: November 1975
Re-issued: May 9, 2000
Recorded =
Genre = R&B
Length = 66:22
Label = Columbia/Legacy
Producer = Maurice White, Charles Stepney, Joe Wissert (Live shows)
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:7q4tk6ax9kr3 link]

Last album = "That's the Way of the World"
(1975)
This album = "Gratitude"
(1975)
Next album = "Spirit"
(1976)

"Gratitude" is an album by the band Earth, Wind & Fire. It was released in December 1975 (see 1975 in music), and re-issued on May 9, 2000 (see 2000 in music).

Track listing

#"Introduction by MC Perry Jones" (Jones) – 0:21
#"Africano/Power" (Dunn, M, White) – 5:56
#"Yearnin' Learnin'" (Bailey, Stepney, White) – 4:16
#"Devotion" (Bailey, White) – 5:07
#"Sun Goddess" (Lind, White) – 7:41
#"Reasons" (Bailey, Stepney, White) – 8:23
#"Sing a Message to You" (White) – 1:19
#"Shining Star" (Bailey, Dunn, White) – 4:55
#"New World Symphony" (Maurice White, Verdine White) – 9:28
#"Musical Interlude #1" – 0:15
#"Sunshine" (Bailey, Dunn, McKay, White) – 4:16
#"Sing a Song" (McKay, White) – 3:23
#"Gratitude" (Bailey, Dunn, White, White) – 3:27
#"Celebrate" (Bailey, Stepney, White) – 3:06
#"Musical Interlude #2" – 0:27
#"Can't Hide Love" (Scarborough) – 4:10
#"Live Bonus Medley: Serpentine Fire/Saturday Nite/Can't Hide Love/Reason" (Bailey, Burke, McKay, Scarborough, Stepney, White, White) – 6:13

Personnel

*John Graham - guitar
*Al McKay - guitar, percussion
*Verdine White - bass, percussion, vocals
*Don Myrick - saxophone
*Michael Harris - trumpet
*Louis Satterfield - trombone
*Larry Dunn - organ, piano, Moog synthesizer
*Andrew Woolfolk - percussion, saxophone
*Fred White - percussion, drums
*Ralph Johnson - percussion, drums
*Maurice White - drums, timbales, vocals, kalimba, producer, mixing, original recording producer, remix producer, original album producer
*Philip Bailey - percussion, conga, vocals Additional personnel
*Joseph Wissert - producer, original recording producer, original album producer
*Charles Stepney - producer, original recording producer, original album producer
*Leo Sacks - producer, reissue producer, mixing
*Joy Gilbert - project director
*Richard Salvato - director, direction
*Art Macnow - direction
*Howard Fritzson - art direction
*Steve Hall - mastering
*Mark Wilder - mastering
*Paul Klingberg - mixing, remix producer
*George Massenburg - engineer, mixing
*Cameron Marcarelli - assistant engineer, mixing assistant
*Shusei Nagaoka - artwork
*Steve Newman - design
*David Redfern - photography, inlay photography
*Michael Cimicata - packaging manager

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Singles - Billboard (North America)