Released October 1987 Length 42:34 Touch the World
(1987) Heritage
(1990) Release date October 1987 Genre Rhythm and blues | Recorded 1987 Label Columbia Artist Earth, Wind & Fire Producer Maurice White | |
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Nominations Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Album - Group, Band or Duo Similar Earth - Wind & Fire albums, Rhythm and blues albums | ||
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Touch the World is the fourteenth studio album by Earth, Wind & Fire, produced by the band's leader Maurice White for Kalimba Productions, and released in 1987 on Columbia Records. Touch the World has been certified gold in the US for sales of over 500,000 copies by the RIAA. Touch The World also marked the debut of former Commodores guitarist Sheldon Reynolds to the lineup. The album ended a four-year hiatus for the band, with vocalists Maurice White and Philip Bailey reforming the group, bringing back longtime members Verdine White, Andrew Woolfolk and Ralph Johnson. Drummer Sonny Emory filled the drum chair vacated by Fred White.
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Reception
Spawned from the album, the singles "System of Survival" and "Thinking of You" both went to number 1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play charts and System of Survival went to number one on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks while Thinking Of You went to number three. Touch the World was nominated for a Soul Train Award in the category of Best R&B/Soul Album of the Year.
Covers and Samples
"Touch the World," the title track of the album, was covered by Whitney Houston in 1994 for Whitney: The Concert for a New South Africa. "System of Survival" was sampled by Italian rapper Jovanotti on the track "Funky Lab," featured on his 1988 album Jovanotti for President.
Songs
1System of Survival5:01
2Evil Roy4:52
3Thinking Of You4:42