Your favorite Stevie Wonder single

Cafe Society
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DesertRoomie and I got to talking about Stevie Wonder and she asked how long he’d been performing. I said since 1963 at age 12 with Fingertips, pt. 2 – forty-five years. (Turns out there were a couple the year before that, but I’ve never heard them – Discography. ) Anyway, she didn’t recall it so I dug up a copy on Youtube and it came back to her.

Unfortunately, Superstition (Youtube warning) came up in the related videos column, I clicked on it, and now I got this earworm. It’s okay, though because it’s my favoritest S W tune – who can resist that klavinet hook?*

But that’s just my opinion. What’s your favorite single Mr. Wonder has done?
*I especially love the little girl in red at 0:38 and again at 4:10 I wonder where she is today.

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Master Blaster.

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Sixties: “I Was Made to Love Her.”

Post-sixties: “Living for the City.”

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upbeat: “I Wish”

mellow: “My Cherie Amour” (Although my French teacher said that was bad grammar.)

Incidentally, Stevie Wonder is playing in Reno tonite at one of the casinos.

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Me, I go for the classics.

“Fingertips, Pt 2”, “I Was Made To Love Her”, & “Ma Cherie Amour” from the early days; “Sir Duke” and “Boogie On Reggae Woman” from the later years.

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“I Just Called To Say I Love You” was my first thought, although there are many that are my faves.

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60s: A Place in the Sun & For Once in My Life
70s: I Wish & Boogie On Reggae Woman
I seriously can’t pick one favorite.

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Higher Ground. I’m kicking myself for not being home in Chicago. Apart from wanting to spend the holiday with my sweetie, Stevie played Taste of Chicago.

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Hmm… close call.

“Higher Ground” is right up there.

“Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours” is second.

But “Superstition” wins. And it’s WAY better than the Beck, Bogert & Appice version (which actually came first).

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“For Once In My Life” is one of my favorite songs ever. So it stands to reason that it’d be my favorite Stevie song :slight_smile:

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“Uptight” (Baby, everything is all right, uptight, out of sight) is my favorite of many excellent Stevie Wonder songs.

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My favorite is As. But a close second is I Wish.

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“Superstition” has already been mentioned so I’ll pick an underrated lesser-known song from his early period, “I Don’t Know Why”. Also, I like the righteous anger of"You Haven’t Done Nothing". It was written about Tricky Dick but it could just as well apply to the current occupant of the White House.

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#1 Superstition

#2 Fingertips (IIRC, it consisted of pts. 1 & 2.)

#3 Higher Ground

#4 Living for the City

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“You Are the Sunshine of My Life”

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Pastime Paradise

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I tried to meet my son at the Taste to see Stevie, but I missed the train. TWICE. I guess it wasn’t meant to be this time. He said it was a great show.

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high-fives astorian, since I thought I was the only person on the planet who remembered BB&A. That was a great freakin’ album. [/OT]

The only one of his albums I’ve bought on CD is Innervisions, and from that I’d pick “Don’t You Worry About a Thing.”

All-time: “You Are the Sunshine of My Life.”

Will, in curmudgeonly fashion, single out “I Just Called to Say I Love You” as a song I would gladly nuke from orbit as intolerably sappy and unworthy of Mr. Wonder’s considerable talents.

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That Girl

Now I’m gonna have to go dig our Original Musiquarium for this evening’s party and it’s all your fault! :cool:

  • side note - that’s one of the neatest things about having kids, introducing them to good music. I loved watching my son catch Seal’s beat on Crazy last summer; he picked up on Brick House two years ago. Time to put the focus on Little Stevie.
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“As”
“That Girl”
“Living Just Enough for the City”