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"Happy Birthday" was released as a single in several countries. In the UK, the song became one of Wonder's biggest hits, reaching number two in the charts in 1981. [3] When Wonder performed the song at Nelson Mandela Day at Radio City Music Hall on July 19, 2009, he slightly changed the lyrics, "Thanks to Mandela and Martin Luther King!" in the ...
Stevland Morris a/k/a Stevie Wonder. To the right of this text is a thumbprint, presumably Stevie Wonder's (Stevland Morris's), serving as his signature. On the other side of the record sleeve is a collage of five historical photos: one filling the top third, three sharing the middle third, and one filling the bottom third.
American musician Stevie Wonder has released 23 studio albums, three soundtrack albums, four live albums, 11 compilations, one box set, and 91 singles. His first album, The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie, was released in 1962 when he was 12 years old, and his most recent, A Time to Love, was released in 2005.
Stevie Wonder recorded this song in 1967, but it remained unreleased for a decade, so no less a performer than the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, was the first to release it, doing so in 1973.
In 1975, Wonder brought the demo recording of the song to Crystal Sound studio in Hollywood, California, where he further developed its lyrics and chords. [2] Unlike the demo recording, Wonder decided to play the song in the key of E-flat, which he felt better suited his voice and overall "felt better, spiritually". [2]
Days after releasing ‘Innervisions’, Stevie Wonder narrowly escaped death. On the 50th anniversary of the car crash that nearly took the musician’s life, Martin Chilton chronicles that ...
"I Ain't Gonna Stand for It" is the second single from Stevie Wonder's 1980 album, Hotter Than July. It reached number four on the Billboard R&B singles chart and number 11 on the Hot 100. [3] It also hit number 10 on the UK Singles Chart. The song is famous for Wonder's imitation of a seasoned country-and-western crooner and his inspiring ...
The song was released in 1981 by Tamla, reaching number 3 on the UK Singles Chart and number 64 on the US Billboard Hot 100. It was later covered by American R&B group Jodeci and released as a promotional single for the live album Uptown MTV Unplugged in June 1993, which reached number one on the Billboard R&B chart and the top-5 on the ...