"Spread Your Love"
Single by Earth, Wind & Fire
from the album Powerlight
B-side"(US) Freedom Of Choice (EU) Hearts to Heart"
ReleasedJune 1983
Recorded1982
Genre
Length3:51
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Maurice White
Earth, Wind & Fire singles chronology
"Side by Side"
(1983)		 "Spread Your Love"
(1983)		 "Magnetic"
(1983)

"Spread Your Love" is a song recorded by R&B/funk band Earth, Wind & Fire and released as a single in June 1983 by Columbia Records.[1] The single reached No. 48 on the Dutch Pop Singles chart and No. 57 on the US Billboard Hot R&B Singles chart.[2][3]

Overview

"Spread Your Love" was produced by EWF bandleader Maurice White and composed by White, Azar Lawrence and Beloyd Taylor. The single's b-side was a tune called Hearts to Heart. Both songs came from Earth, Wind & Fire's 1983 studio album Powerlight.[1]

Critical reception

Chip Stern of Musician noted that "Robert Greenidge's slithery steel drums featured on the Eastern-tinged Spread Your Love".[4] Craig Lytle of Allmusic proclaimed "the (song's) sonically aggressive special effects are contrasted with a soothing chanting chorus."[5]

Charts

Chart (1983) Peak
position
Dutch Pop Singles[2] 48
US Billboard Hot R&B Singles[3] 57

References

  1. 1 2 Earth, Wind & Fire: Spread Your Love. Columbia Records. June 1983.
  2. 1 2 "Earth, Wind & Fire: Spread Your Love". dutchcharts.com. Dutch Charts.
  3. 1 2 "Earth, Wind & Fire: Spread Your Love (Hot R&B Singles)". billboard.com. Billboard.
  4. ↑ Stern, Chip (April 1983). "RECORD REVIEWS: Earth, Wind & Fire". Musician. No. 54. p. 93. ProQuest 964123490.
  5. ↑ Lytle, Craig. "Earth, Wind & Fire: Powerlight". Allmusic.com. Allmusic.


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