The first Stevie Wonder album is only barely a Stevie Wonder album at all. Quincy Jones is pompous speaking of Wonder as an artist who is a "terminal" of God's creativity, and director David Heffernan uses slow motion, freeze frame, and hand-held camerawork. Best song: Fingertips or Some Other Time. We get to see Wonder performing on drums, which is unusual, but unfortunately his to-camera interviews are undermined by the bumps on his forehead. The album is placed in the perspective of Wonder's career, being a concept album that took 3 years to produce and delivered 1 year later than expected to Motown, and it's success led to Wonder's renewal of contract with the label. Top Stevie Wonder Songs Thats What Friends Are For I Just Called To Say I Love You Fingertips - Pt 2 Ebony & Ivory Uptight (Everythings Alright). However the borrowing of "Pastime Paradise" as template for Coolio's "Gangster's Paradise" is probably the most interesting subject, complete with footage from the video clip featuring Michelle Pfeiffer. Someday at Christmas The Christmas Collection: The Best of Stevie Wonder 1967. "I Wish" is actually deconstructed so much that you may not want to hear it again for a while, particularly as Wonder's music doesn't have the depth of great art. Find top songs and albums by Stevie Wonder including STOP TRYING TO BE. ALRIGHT) Artist: Stevie Wonder Written by: Stevie Wonder, Sylvia Moy. We also see period photographs, live performancs of "Sir Duke" and "I Wish", and as well as deconstruction of other songs like "Isn't She Lovely", "If It's Magic", "Pastime Paradise", "Saturn", "Village Ghetto Land", and "Black Man". He is most obviously one of the greatest, most talented musicians to ever walk the face of the Earth. up on the roof v 387 Year: 1968 Their biggest hit (and only appearance of the. He has had ten US number-one hits on the pop charts, as well as 20 R&B number one hits, and has sold over 100 million records, 19.5 million of which are albums. We get to-camera interviews with Wonder, Berry Gordy, Herbie Hancock, Quincy Jones, Gary Byrd, Coolio, Aisha Morris and Yolanda Simmons, and engineers John Fischbach and Gary Olazabal. This Classic Albums episode reunion of Stevie Wonder and the musicians who contributed to his 1976 album Songs in the Key of Life feels overlong and somewhat self-indulgent, which isn't a surprise since Wonder co-produced.
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