# Little Stevie blunder

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-stevie-blunder/590144>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 24, 2011, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-stevie-blunder/590144 "2011-07-24T03:36:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![skepticus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/97f17d/32.png) [@skepticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skepticus)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2011, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-stevie-blunder/590144/1 "2011-07-24T03:36:38Z")

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My memory has some things perhaps only I know, and one of them is this-  
Stevie Wonder, during his TV appearances while his rendition of ‘Blowin’ in  
the Wind’ was in market, showed up on a teen dance show on what I remember  
as channel 8 in New Haven CT. He did the usual lip-syncing on the show, and  
the unusually clueless host asked him- ‘wow, Stevie, that’s a great song,  
did you write it?’ and Stevie nodded in his usual way and said, ‘yeah’. I  
practically threw something at the TV set, because I knew, as apparently  
this host, and none of the hapless teens in the studio, did, that Dylan  
wrote that song. Anyway, I’m hoping for some corroboration for this story,  
and am starting here.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2011, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-stevie-blunder/590144/2 "2011-07-24T04:31:25Z")

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Moving to Cafe Society from GQ.

Colibri  
General Questions Moderator

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**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2011, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-stevie-blunder/590144/3 "2011-07-24T06:32:04Z")

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> [@skepticus](#):
>
> My memory has some things perhaps only I know, and one of them is this-  
> Stevie Wonder, during his TV appearances while his rendition of ‘Blowin’ in  
> the Wind’ was in market, showed up on a teen dance show on what I remember  
> as channel 8 in New Haven CT. He did the usual lip-syncing on the show, and  
> the unusually clueless host asked him- ‘wow, Stevie, that’s a great song,  
> did you write it?’ and Stevie nodded in his usual way and said, ‘yeah’. I  
> practically threw something at the TV set, because I knew, as apparently  
> this host, and none of the hapless teens in the studio, did, that Dylan  
> wrote that song. Anyway, I’m hoping for some corroboration for this story,  
> and am starting here.
> 
> Thanks.

I don’t care it it is true. That’s funny.

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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2011, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-stevie-blunder/590144/4 "2011-07-24T06:38:35Z")

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Little Stevie was, shall we say, _open_ regarding what he consumed Back In the Day. As were many of us. One shouldn’t be too specific.