Let's Groove
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| Single by Earth, Wind & Fire | |||||||||||
| from the album Raise! | |||||||||||
| B-side | "Let's Groove" (Instrumental) | ||||||||||
| Released | 1981 | ||||||||||
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| Length | 5:37 (album version) 3:55 (radio edit) |
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| Label | Columbia | ||||||||||
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| Producer(s) | Maurice White | ||||||||||
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| Single by CDB | ||||
| from the album Glide with Me | ||||
| Released | 1995 | |||
| Format | CD | |||
| Length | 4:17 | |||
| Label | Sony Music | |||
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| Single by David Foster, Anggun, Melanie C and Vanness Wu | |
| Released | 14 May 2015 |
| Format | Digital download |
| Length | 3:32 |
| Label | Universal |
| Producer(s) | David Foster |
"Let's Groove" is a song performed by American group Earth, Wind & Fire, taken from their studio album Raise! Written by Maurice White and Wayne Vaughn (with additional production by White), the song was chosen as the first single from the studio album. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, disco music was undergoing a severe backlash. In spite of this, the band decided to revive the disco sound that was later included on their previous works and records. Musically, "Let's Groove" is a post-disco, pop and funk song which includes instrumentation of synthesizers and keyboards along with live electric guitars.
Originally, "Let's Groove" received mixed reviews from music critics, where many praised its catchiness, while some felt it was generic within its timeline of the disco era. However, many contemporary reviews have been well-received, many citing it as memorable and a great disco influenced song. The song was a commercial success, with it being their highest-charting single in various territories. The song peaked inside the top 20 in countries including the United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Canada and other component charts in America.
Prior to the production of Raise! and the song, the group had started to revive contemporary disco and funk music, as it declined within the late 1970s. While the band's albums I Am (1979) and Faces were critically and commercially acclaimed for reviving disco influenced composition, this was the same exact era where disco music was in fear of scrutiny and criticism. By the late 1970s, a strong anti-disco sentiment developed among rock fans and musicians, particularly in the United States. The punk subculture in the United States and United Kingdom was often hostile towards disco.
Ed Hogan from AllMusic said, "He brought in guitarist Roland Bautista and began co-writing, with Emotions member Wanda Vaughn and her husband Wayne Vaughn, a song that reflected the then-emerging electronic sound of the '80s. Not to be confused with the same-named hit by Archie Bell & the Drells, "Let's Groove" certainly was a change. Starting off with a robotic-sounding vocoder riff, it served up a more gritty-sounding EWF for the 1980s, laced with Brecker Brothers-supplied horn blasts that rival those of EWF's 1976 gold single 'Getaway'." However, reviewing the parent album, William Ruhlmann said the song was a recycled mid-tempo tune from the mid-'70s, and stated that everything else sounded desultory and uninspired. He, however, highlighted the song as an album standout.
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