Click through to take a look back at Earth, Wind & Fire's highest charting songs following the passing of founding member Maurice White, who died Wednesday at age 74. "Boogie Wonderland":
Al McKay/Wikimedia Commons. During their 45 years as a band, Earth, Wind & Fire had to have stumbled upon some sort of fountain, wellspring or tide pool of youth somewhere along the way. Though a rep surely aids the seminal R&B-soul-jazz fusion band, it’s the three OG members — Philip Bailey, Verdine White and Ralph Johnson — who set the
Andrew Woolfolk, whose jubilant saxophone made Earth, Wind & Fire hits like “September” impossible not to dance to, died after a six-year illness, band member Philip Bailey said.
If ever anything created by the hand of GOD was supposed to be. it is the creation of Maurice White and the group, Earth wind and Fire,the coolest name for a band, EVER! At age 14 my brother came home singing the song Reasons,it was newly released, and I hadn’t yet, heard it. Woolfolk, who grew up in Denver and was inducted into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame in 2017, was a member of Earth, Wind & Fire from 1973 to 1985, and again from 1987 to 1993. Outside of the R&B . 261 132 245 117 284 51 342 344 117