All 'N All
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Cover art by Shusei Nagaoka
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| Studio album by Earth, Wind & Fire | ||||
| Released | November 21, 1977 | |||
| Recorded | August 1977 at Hollywood Sound and The Burbank Studios, California | |||
| Genre | R&B, soul, jazz, funk, pop | |||
| Length | 38:46 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Maurice White | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   |
| The Guardian | (very favourable) |
| Robert Christgau | B+ |
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| Warr.org | |
| Billboard Magazine | favorable |
All 'N All is the eighth studio album by the American band Earth, Wind & Fire, released in 1977 on Columbia Records. It is one of the group's most well known albums and has been certified triple platinum in the United States for sales of three million copies by the RIAA, gold in Canada by Music Canada and silver in the UK by the British Phonographic Industry.
All 'N All reached number three on the Pop Album chart and stayed at number one on the Black Album chart for nine weeks.All 'N All was also the bestselling R&B album of 1978. The album features hit songs such as "I'll Write A Song For You", "Serpentine Fire", "Love's Holiday", and the pop hit "Fantasy". A remastered version of the LP was issued in 2002.
All 'N All is described by Alex Henderson of Allmusic as a "diverse jewel" and he goes on to say that All 'N All was "a highly rewarding addition to EWF's catalog". The Guardian in its review of the album says that the "band can sound like one enormous kit, where every crash and beat has its funky place", and adds that "the whole shebang is punctuated beautifully by Toninho Horta's Brazilian Rhyme".
The album won a Grammy for Best R&B Vocal Performance By A Duo, Group Or Chorus and "Runnin'" also won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental in 1978. All 'N All also garnered an American Music Award nomination for Favorite Album- Soul/Rhythm & Blues.
A trip for a month to Argentina and Brazil by Maurice White inspired the recording of All 'N All.
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