With the big Hawaii Bone Marrow Donor Registry's Give2Live charity event (featuring Powerhouse) coming up tonight, I thought we'd revisit an MLC band with a ton of hits: Earth, Wind & Fire - or also known as EWF.  And I'm sure there will be at least a couple of EWF songs performed tonight.

Here's a little something to refresh your memory.

From Wikipedia:

Earth, Wind & Fire is an African American R&B band formed in Chicago, Illinois, in 1969 and led by founder Maurice White. Also known as EWF, the Elements or the Elements of the Universe, the band has won ten Grammy Awards and four American Music Awards. They have been inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Vocal Group Hall of Fame. Having sold over 90 million albums worldwide has earned them a place on the list of best-selling music artists, where they are ranked as the seventh best selling American band of all time. Rolling Stone has described them as "innovative, precise yet sensual, calculated yet galvanizing" and has also declared that the band "changed the sound of black pop". In 1998, they were ranked at number 60 on VH1's list of the 100 Greatest Artists of Rock N' Roll.

The band's music contains elements of African, Latin American, funk, soul, pop and rock music, jazz and other genres, as well. The band is known for the dynamic sound of their horn section and the interplay between the contrasting vocals of Philip Bailey's falsetto and Maurice White's tenor. The kalimba (African thumb piano) is played on all of the band's albums.

But you really have to hear the music to trigger the memories.  Here's a couple of my favorite EWF tunes:

Remember cruisin' to this one?

Or this one:

And this one:

Or remember slow dancing to this classic:
Gotta be the live version of course.

And a couple of boogie down songs:

Check out their official site: Earth, Wind & Fire
Click on the Discography link to see all their albums.  Any of them look familiar to you?
Click on the album cover to see the songs from that album then tell me which ones are your EWF favorites.