If you know a little about Wonder’s career and recordings, please help me out here.
I only recently heard the song ‘Ribbon In The Sky’ for the first time, and for various reasons it has come to mean quite a lot to me. I’ve checked with the All Music Guide site, and it seems that this song was only ever released on ‘The Original Musiquarium’, which was essentially a ‘greatest hits so far’ package with a few new songs thrown in, ‘Ribbon’ being one of them.
Is this correct? Is this the only time that ‘Ribbon’ was released? It seems WAY too good a song just be used to ‘fill up’, or enhance the commercial appeal of, a greatest hits package. Did it feature on any other of Wonder’s studio albums? I’m only interested in studio recordings, not live albums.
Thanks for your help and clarification, and for anything else you can tell me about this wonderful love song.
I’ve got a Billboard Top Pop Albums book that covers every album to hit the Top 200 charts from 1955-2001 and it verifies what The All Music site said.
Doesn’t anyone else have any info about this song? Among Wonder aficionados, is it regarded as one of his better efforts, or a bit of an also-ran piece?
That’s a pretty common trick. The idea is get the diehard fans who already own every album by an artist (and thus all the greatest hits) to buy the product by putting a previously unreleased song on it. (I believe Sting was a good one for doing that.