Touch the World
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| Studio album by Earth, Wind & Fire | ||||
| Released | October 1987 | |||
| Recorded | 1987 | |||
| Genre | R&B | |||
| Length | 42:34 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Maurice White | |||
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| Allmusic |   |
| Robert Christgau | (B+) |
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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.
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.
"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.
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