Earth Wind & Fire ~ Fantasy 1977 Funky Purrfection Version

I have decided that "Fantasy" is my channel's theme song. The vibe, the words and the fabulous voice of Philip Bailey so embody what I am doing here. I fell in love with Earth, Wind & Fire's "Fantasy" during the winter side of spring in 1978. Lots of sunny days with bitter cold and white, white snow....and this on the radio driving to work and high school. A breathtaking anthem of love and positivity that was way too short, I loved the 12" version which was longer but it still was not long enough. Some years ago, I was attempting to remix this one and found The DJ Shelter remix that positively blew my mind with his artful touches exposing long instrumental and vocal parts and I immediately nixed my project and let it go. I mean, who could top that? But then, Eddie Gordon inspired me to do this remix with a story Maurice White told him about "Fantasy" over dinner one night. "Fantasy" came about after Maurice and his wife went to dinner after viewing "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind". He as fascinated by the five tones of communication and wrote those sequence of notes into the guitar part...he also felt the message of universality was important and used that thought to write the lyrics.