Consumer Guide Album

Earth, Wind & Fire: The Best of Earth, Wind & Fire Vol. 1 [Columbia, 1978]
Despite some annoying omissions, notably "Serpentine Fire," this sums them up--ten exquisitely crafted pop tunes in which all the passion and resonance of black music tradition are blended into a concoction slicker and more sumptuous than any white counterpart since Glenn Miller. A-