
Raise! is the eleventh studio album by the American band Earth, Wind & Fire, released on November 14, 1981, by ARC/Columbia Records. The album spent 11 weeks atop the Billboard Top R&B albums chart and peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 chart. Raise! has been certified Platinum in the US by the RIAA, Gold in the UK by the BPI and Gold in Canada by Music Canada.
- “Let’s Groove” 5:37
- “Lady Sun” 3:39
- “My Love” 4:35
- “Evolution Orange” 4:37
- “Kalimba Tree” 0:25
- “You Are a Winner” 4:09
- “I’ve Had Enough” 4:36
- “Wanna Be with You” 4:36
- “The Changing Times” 5:54
- “Wanna Be with You” (single version) 3:58
- “Kalimba Tree” (12″ long version) 3:49
- “Let’s Groove” (special remixed holiday version) 6:44
- “Let’s Groove” (single version) 4:07
- “Let’s Groove” (instrumental) 4:01
- “I’ve Had Enough” (7″ version) 3:53
- “The Changing Times” (7″ version) 4:45
Maurice White – lead vocals, background vocals, kalimba, drums
Philip Bailey – lead vocals, background vocals, percussion
Ms. Pluto – additional background vocals
Michael Boddicker – vocoder, synthesizer, keyboards
Verdine White – bass guitar, additional background vocals
Selene Burford – cello
Larry Corbett – cello
Paula Hochhalter – cello
Jerome Kessler – cello
Frederick Seykora – cello
Mary Louise Zeyen – cello
Assa Drori – concertmaster
James Getzoff – concertmaster
Ralph Johnson – drums, percussion, additional background vocals
Fred White – drums, percussion
Roland Bautista – guitar
Johnny Graham – guitar
Marlo Henderson – guitar
Beloyd Taylor – guitar, additional background vocals
Larry Dunn – keyboards, piano, synthesizer, synthesizer programming
Greg Phillinganes – keyboards
David Foster – keyboards
Billy Meyers – keyboards
Wayne Vaughn – keyboards
Paulinho Da Costa – percussion
Don Myrick – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
Tom Saviano – additional saxophone
Andrew Woolfolk – tenor saxophone
Bill Reichenbach – trombone
Charles Loper – trombone
Dick Hyde – trombone
George Bohanon – trombone
Lew McCreary – trombone
Louis Satterfield – trombone
Chuck Findley – trumpet
Gary Grant – trumpet
Jerry Hey – trumpet
Larry G. Hall – trumpet
Michael Harris – trumpet
Oscar Brashear – trumpet
Rahmlee Michael Davis – trumpet
Alan DeVeritch – viola
Pamela Goldsmith – viola
Allan Harshman – viola
Virginia Majewski – viola
Gareth Nuttycombe – viola
Arnold Belnick – violin
Denyse Buffum – violin
Thomas Buffum – violin
Henry Ferber – violin
Ronald Folsom – violin
Irving Geller – violin
Endre Granat – violin
Reginald Hill – violin
William Hymanson – violin
Myra Kestenbaum – violin
William Kurasch – violin
Betty LaMagna – violin
Brian Leonard – violin
Norman Leonard – violin
Marvin Limonick – violin
Jerome Reisler – violin
Nathan Ross – violin
Sheldon Sanov – violin
Anton Sen – violin
Arkady Shindelman – violin
Haim Shtrum – violin
Mari Tsumura-Botnick – violin
John Wittenbert – violin