All 'n All

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All 'n All was produced by Maurice White for Kalimba Productions. A month-long trip to Argentina and Brazil served as his main source of inspiration. All 'n All was also recorded at the Hollywood Sound Recorders and The Burbank Studios, both located in Los Angeles, California. A 1999 reissue of the album features two demos of Love's Holiday and Runnin' respectively. As well as a live rendition of Brazilian Rhyme.

"Serpentine Fire" reached number one on the Billboard Hot Soul Songs chart and number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100.{{cite magazine|title=Earth, Wind & Fire: Serpentine Fire (Hot Soul Songs)|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/earth-wind-fire/chart-history/bsi/|magazine=billboard}}{{cite magazine|title=Earth, Wind & Fire: Serpentine Fire (Hot 100)|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/earth-wind-fire/chart-history/hsi/|magazine=billboard}} Another single, "Fantasy", peaked at number 12 on the Billboard Hot Soul Songs chart and number 14 on the UK Pop Singles chart.{{cite magazine|title=Earth, Wind & Fire: Fantasy (Hot Soul Songs)|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/earth-wind-fire/chart-history/bsi/|magazine=billboard}} "Fantasy" also earned a Grammy nomination for Best R&B Song.{{cite web|title=Maurice White|url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/maurice-white|website=grammy.com|date=November 23, 2020|publisher=The Recording Academy}}

{{Music ratings

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| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/all-n-all-r6509 |title= Earth, Wind & Fire: All 'n All |first=Alex|last=Henderson|website=AllMusic}}

|rev2 = New Musical Express

|rev2score = (favourable){{cite magazine|title=Earth, Wind & Fire: All 'n All|date=February 11, 1978|last=White|first=Cliff|magazine=New Musical Express}}

| rev3 = Record Mirror

| rev3Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite magazine |url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-UK/Music/Archive-Record-Mirror-IDX/IDX/70s/78/Record-Mirror-1978-01-07-OCR-Page-0011.pdf#search=%22maurice%20white%22|title=Earth, Wind & Fire: All 'n' All|page=11|date=January 7, 1978|author=Cain, Barry|magazine=Record Mirror|via=americanradiohistory.com}}

|rev4 = The Village Voice

|rev4Score = B+{{cite news|url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=1113|title=Earth, Wind & Fire: All 'n All|author=Christgau, Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|newspaper=Village Voice|via=robertchristgau.com}}

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Joe McEwen of Rolling Stone opined, "As on past Earth, Wind and Fire records, All 'n All is filled with leaded brotherhood platitudes, Star Trek sci-fi and stiffly poetic love songs. This sounds overwrought and depressing (and maybe it is). But there's a catch: I like the record, for like much current black music, All 'n All elicits a schizophrenic response. If the album represents some of the worst in black music, it also has more than its share of the best."{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/all-n-all-255379/|title=Earth, Wind & Fire: All n' All|author=McEwen,Joe|date=January 26, 1978|magazine=Rolling Stone}} The Los Angeles Times said that "All n All includes only two ballads and for a change both are as nifty as the R&B rockers. Possibly EW&F's finest collection."{{cite news|author= |title=Top 40 Records to Tie Your Ribbon Around|url=https://newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-earth-wind-fire/151939063/|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|page=110|date=December 18, 1977|access-date=July 24, 2024}}

Robert Christgau of The Village Voice, in a B+ review, remarked, "Focusing soulful horns, high-tension harmonies, and rhythms and textures from many lands onto a first side that cooks throughout. Only one element is lacking. Still, unsympathetic as I am to lyrics about conquering the universe on wings of thought, they make me shake my fundament anyway." Within a 4/5 stars review, Barry Cain of Record Mirror hailed the album, saying, "the spirit of Maurice White reigns supreme...the singer, writer, and producer casts his giant bird like shadow across every note, every peerless piece of slickery, every eye - blinking device. If anyone can claim to be the Fellini of funk It's Maurice White..."It's an EW&F album and I like it. Unashamedly."

Phyl Garland of Stereo Review noted that "the music is delightfully earthy in its appeal, an aural collage of rich vocal and instrumental textures underscored by highly danceable rhythms that never surrender to triteness. Though the very name of this group partakes of astrological symbolism, and though the lyrics of their songs often hint of galactic mysteries, the nine men who compose Earth, Wind & Fire play a kind of music that might be called neo-progressive soul, for it is a full light-year beyond what most groups are doing these days, soaring to celestial heights while sending out waves of mundane thrills."{{cite magazine|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Audio/Archive-Stereo-Review-IDX/IDX/70s/HiFi-Stereo-Review-1978-03-OCR-Page-0079.pdf#search=%22earth%20wind%22|title=Earth, Wind & Fire: All 'n All|date=March 1978|author=Garland, Phyl|page=77|issue=3|volume=40|publisher=Stereo Review|website=americanradiohistory.com}} John Rockwell of The New York Times said, "All 'n All shows Maurice White and his cohorts pushing their music ever more in a febrile jazz-rock direction. There are parallels, here, to white rock groups like Queen and Yes, but the very sophistication and single-mindedness of Earth, Wind and Fire's vision sets it apart from the bulk of rock-and-roll."{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/11/archives/rocks-history-on-six-disks-rock-disks.html|title=Rock's History On Six Disks|date=December 11, 1977|author=Rockwell, John|author-link=John Rockwell|newspaper=The New York Times}} Monroe Anderson of the Chicago Tribune wrote that "the soul group's latest album release, All 'N All (Columbia), is a rare blend of poetry, passion, and artistic progression...All 'N All is a nice indication that EW&F is trying to expose its fans to other forms of American music and take them across international and cultural borders."{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune/35493221/|title=This week's listening lineup|page=152|date=December 11, 1977|author=Anderson, Monroe|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|via=newspapers.com|access-date=April 30, 2025}}

A retrospective review by The Guardian lauded the album, saying, "Maurice White began his career as a drummer, and his band can sound like one enormous kit, where every crash and beat has its funky place...the whole shebang is punctuated beautifully by Milton Nascimento's Brazilian Rhyme."{{cite news|url= https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/nov/19/1000tohearbeforeyoudie2|title=Artists beginning with E|date=November 19, 2007|newspaper=The Guardian}} Alex Henderson of AllMusic commented, "Earth, Wind & Fire's artistic and commercial winning streak continued with its ninth album, All 'n All...(the diverse jewel) was a highly rewarding addition to EWF's catalog."

All 'n All won a Grammy for Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus. The album's instrumental, "Runnin", won a Grammy for Best R&B Instrumental.{{cite web|url=https://www.grammy.com/artists/earth-wind-fire/14550|title=Earth, Wind & Fire|publisher=The Recording Academy|website=grammy.com|access-date=October 25, 2024}} All 'n All was also nominated for an American Music Award in the category of Favorite Soul/R&B Album.{{cite news |url=http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1978/1978ama.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20060327001042/http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1978/1978ama.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2006-03-27|title= 1978 6th American Music Awards|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|via=archive.li}}

{{track listing

| headline = Side oneEarth, Wind & Fire. “All 'n All”. Columbia / CBS. 1977.

| title1 = Serpentine Fire

| writer1 = Maurice White, Verdine White, Reginald "Sonny" Burke

| length1 = 3:51

| title2 = Fantasy

| writer2 = Maurice White, Verdine White, Eduardo Del Barrio

| length2 = 4:38

| title3 = In the Marketplace (Interlude)

| writer3 = Maurice White

| length3 = 0:43

| title4 = Jupiter

| writer4 = Maurice White, Verdine White, Larry Dunn, Philip Bailey

| length4 = 3:12

| title5 = Love's Holiday

| writer5 = Maurice White, Skip Scarborough

| length5 = 4:23

| title6 = Brazilian Rhyme (Beijo)

| writer6 = Maurice White

| length6 = 1:20

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{{track listing

| headline = Side two

| title1 = I'll Write a Song For You

| writer1 = Philip Bailey, Al McKay, Steve Beckmeier

| length1 = 5:23

| title2 = Magic Mind

| writer2 = Larry Dunn, Philip Bailey, Al McKay, Maurice White, Verdine White, Fred White

| length2 = 3:38

| title3 = Runnin

| writer3 = Maurice White, Larry Dunn, Eddie del Barrio

| length3 = 5:50

| title4 = Brazilian Rhyme (Ponta de Areia)

| writer4 = Milton Nascimento

| length4 = 0:53

| title5 = Be Ever Wonderful

| writer5 = Maurice White, Larry Dunn

| length5 = 5:08

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{{track listing

| headline = 1999 Reissue{{cite work|title=Earth, Wind & Fire - All 'n All (1999 Reissue)|date=1999|publisher=Columbia/Legacy}}

| title1 = Serpentine Fire

| writer1 = Sonny Burke (aka Reginald Burke), Maurice White, Verdine White

| length1 = 3:51

| title2 = Fantasy

| writer2 = Maurice White, Verdine White, Eduardo del Barrio

| length2 = 4:38

| title3 = In the Marketplace (Interlude)

| writer3 = Maurice White

| length3 = 0:43

| title4 = Jupiter

| writer4 = Philip Bailey, Larry Dunn, Maurice White, Verdine White

| length4 = 3:11

| title5 = September

| writer5 = Al McKay, Maurice White, Allee Willis

| length5 = 3:36

| title6 = Love's Holiday

| writer6 = Skip Scarborough, Maurice White

| length6 = 4:22

| title7 = Brazilian Rhyme (Beijo)

| writer7 = Maurice White (incorrectly credited to Milton Nascimento)

| length7 = 1:20

| title8 = Got to Get You Into My Life

| writer8 = John Lennon, Paul McCartney

| length8 = 4:03

| title9 = I'll Write a Song For You

| writer9 = Philip Bailey, Al McKay, Steve Beckmeier

| length9 = 5:23

| title10 = Magic Mind

| writer10 = Philip Bailey, Larry Dunn, Al McKay, Maurice White, Verdine White, Fred White

| length10 = 3:38

| title11 = Runnin{{'-}}

| writer11 = Eddie del Barrio, Maurice White, Larry Dunn

| length11 = 5:50

| title12 = Brazilian Rhyme (Ponta de Areia)

| writer12 = Milton Nascimento

| length12 = 0:53

| title13 = Be Ever Wonderful

| writer13 = Maurice White, Larry Dunn

| length13 = 5:07

| title14 = Would You Mind (Demo version of 'Love's Holiday')

| writer14 = Skip Scarborough, Maurice White

| length14 = 2:21

| title15 = Runnin' (Original Hollywood Mix)

| writer15 = Eddie del Barrio, Maurice White, Larry Dunn

| length15 = 3:19

| title16 = Brazilian Rhyme (Beijo) (Recorded Live)

| writer16 = Maurice White

| length16 = 2:32

| all_writing =

| total_length =

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• Dorothy Ashby – harp
• Phil Ayling – flute
• Philip Bailey – vocals, percussion, congas
• Blanche Belnick – violin
• Roger Bobo – tuba
• George Bohanon – trombone
• Oscar Brashear – trumpet
• Garnett Brown – trombone
• Ronald Clark – violin
• Ronald Cooper – cello
• Paulinho Da Costa – percussion
• Eduardo del Barrio – piano
• Eumir Deodato – horn arrangement, string arrangement (7, 10)
• Warren Dewey – additional recording engineer
• David Duke – French horn
• Larry Dunn – assistant producer, piano, Moog synthesizer, Oberheim synthesizer
• Chuck Findley – trumpet
• Norman Forrest – viola
• Harris Goldman – violin
• Jack Gootkin – violin
• Janice Gower – violin, concertmaster
• Johnny Graham – guitar solo (5), additional guitars
• Terry Harrington – flute
• Michael Harris – trumpet solo (9), additional trumpets
• Ruth Henry – violin
• Fred Jackson Jr. – flute
• Ralph Johnson – drums
• Jan Kelly – cello
• Richard Klein – French horn
• Paul Klingberg – audio mixing (12–14)
• Renita Koven – viola
• Betty LaMagna – violin
• Carl LaMagna – violin
• Mary D. Lindquist – violin
• Linda Lipsett – viola
• Art Macnow – direction
• Steve Madaio – trumpet
• Cameron Marcarelli – mixing assistant (12–14)
• George Massenburg – recording engineer
• James M. McGee – French horn
• Al McKay – guitar solo (9), additional guitars
• Abe Most – flute
• Don Myrick – saxophone solo (9), alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone
• Susan Ranney – acoustic bass
• Alan Robinson – French horn
• Gale Robinson – French horn
• Marilyn Robinson – French horn
• Jack Rouben – assistant recording engineer
• Meyer Rubin – acoustic bass
• Leo Sacks – audio mixing (12–14), reissue producer
• Richard Salvato – direction
• Sheldon Sanov – violin
• Louis Satterfield – trombone
• Skip Scarborough – piano
• Haim Shtrum – violin
• Daniel Smith – cello
• Barry Socher – violin
• Lya Stern – violin
• David Stockhammer – violin
• Barbara Thomason – viola
• Tom Tom 84 – horn arrangement, string arrangement
• Marcia Van Dyke – violin
• Fred White – drums
• Maurice White – audio mixing (12–14), original recording producer, vocals, drums, kalimba
• Verdine White – assistant producer, vocals, electric bass
• Mark Wilder – mastering
• Andrew Woolfolk – tenor saxophone

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{{Certification Table Entry|region=Canada|artist=Earth Wind & Fire|title=All 'n All|award=Gold|type=album|relyear=1977|certyear=1978|access-date=July 16, 2022}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=Japan|type=album|artist=Earth Wind & Fire|title=All 'n All|nocert=true|relyear=1977|salesamount=127,340|salesref={{cite book|title=Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970-2005|publisher=Oricon Entertainment|location=Roppongi, Tokyo|year=2006|isbn=4-87131-077-9}}}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=Netherlands|artist=Earth Wind & Fire|title=All 'n All|award=Gold|type=album|relyear=1977|certyear=1979|access-date=July 16, 2022}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|artist=Earth Wind & Fire|title=All 'n All|award=Silver|id=389-2049-2|type=album|relyear=1977|certyear=1978|access-date=July 16, 2022}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|artist=Earth Wind & Fire|title=All 'n All|award=Platinum|number=3|type=album|relyear=1977|certyear=1994|access-date=July 16, 2022}}

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