Song · Earth, Wind & Fire
“Let's Groove” by Earth, Wind & Fire
From the album Raise! (1981)
“Let's Groove” by Earth, Wind & Fire appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 2020 and 2026. It was first released in 1981 on the album Raise!. Its best result is #118 on The Colorado Sound Top 800 Mood Booster Songs. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #6,794 indie & aaa song of all time.
"Let's Groove" was the song Earth, Wind & Fire chose to lead off Raise!, their 11th studio album, and Columbia sent it out as a single in November 1981. Maurice White wrote it with Wayne Vaughn and produced it himself.
The timing was bold. Disco had taken a savage beating in 1979 and the early '80s, and the band charged straight back onto the dance floor anyway, cutting post-disco, pop and funk together with synthesizers and keyboards and live electric guitar in the mix. The gamble paid off: the single went top 20 in the US, the UK, Canada and New Zealand, and in a number of countries it became the highest-charting single the band ever had.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1534 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
| 2025 | 118 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 800 Mood Booster Songs | 800 |
| 2026 | 416 | WFPK | WFPK Top 500 Songs of the '80s | 498 |
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