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"That Girl" is a song by American R&B singer and songwriter Stevie Wonder. It was the leading single from Wonder's album-era 1982 greatest-hits compilation, Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium I , as one of four new songs from the collection.
Lula Mae Hardaway was born in Eufaula, Alabama, on January 11, 1930, the daughter of sharecropper Noble Hardaway. [1] Her childhood years were marked by hardship, and she was moved around among relatives before eventually reaching Saginaw, Michigan, where she married the much older Calvin Judkin, father of her first two children.
By 1976, Stevie Wonder had become one of the most popular figures in R&B and pop music, not only in the U.S., but worldwide. Within a short space of time, the albums Talking Book, Innervisions and Fulfillingness' First Finale were all back-to-back-to-back top five successes, with the latter two winning the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1974 and 1975, respectively.
"That Girl" Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium I, 1982: 5:13: 2. "Ribbon in the Sky" Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium I: 5:40: 3. "Do I Do" Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium I: 10:30: 4. "Love Light in Flight" Selections from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack "The Woman in Red", 1984: 6:54: 5. "I Just Called to Say I Love You ...
Happy Birthday (Stevie Wonder song) He's Misstra Know-It-All; Heaven Help Us All; Heaven Is 10 Zillion Light Years Away; Hey Harmonica Man; Hey Love (Stevie Wonder song) Higher Ground (Stevie Wonder song) How Come, How Long
The song, both in its sound and length, was a change of pace for Wonder, who was trying to establish his own identity outside of the Motown sound. Besides its floaty ambience, it featured the singer as a virtual one-man band. [1] Cash Box said of the song "Superwoman, superproduction, supersong, superhit: AM and FM, pop/soul and MOR." [2]
The original Stevie Wonder version was featured in The Best Man Holiday ' s predecessor The Best Man in a more lighthearted scene. In 2014 it was covered by American singer Camille for her Stevie Wonder tribute album I Sing Stevie: The Stevie Wonder Songbook, an album that received an Independent Music Awards nomination for Best Tribute Album. [48]
Happy Birthday (Stevie Wonder song) He's Misstra Know-It-All; Heaven Is 10 Zillion Light Years Away; Here We Go Again! (song) Hey Love (Stevie Wonder song) Hey Love (Can I Have a Word) Higher Ground (Stevie Wonder song) Hold On to Your Love (Smokey Robinson song) How Come, How Long