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"Happy Birthday" is a song written, produced and performed by Stevie Wonder for the Motown label. Wonder, a social activist, was one of the main figures in the campaign to have the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. become a national holiday, and created this single to promulgate the cause. [2]
Robert Christgau, that poll's creator, ranked the album eighteenth on his own year-end list [17] and wrote in a retrospective review that, while "Master Blaster" and perhaps "Happy Birthday" were the only "great Stevie here", the pleasure with which Wonder performed the songs was evident in "his free-floating melodicism and his rolling ...
Wonder receiving a standing ovation in the East Room of the White House in 2011 Handprint of Stevie Wonder with autograph: "LOVE IS THE KEY Happy Birthday Dr. King 9.26.83" Atlantic City Boardwalk New Jersey USA 2006. Wonder is one of the most notable popular music figures of the second half of the 20th century.
— Stevie Wonder, “Happy Birthday” Birthday Wishes “Everybody spread the word, we’re gonna have a celebration, all across the world, in every nation.”
Written by Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, and Henry Cosby. When Stevie Wonder first played the music to “Tears of a Clown” for Smokey Robinson at a Motown Records Christmas party, Robinson ...
Happy Birthday, a 2001 film featuring John Goodman and directed by Helen Mirren; ... "Happy Birthday" (Stevie Wonder song), 1980 "Happy Birthday", by B'z from Monster ...
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 ...
At the Close of a Century is a box-set album of Stevie Wonder's greatest hits from the 1960s through the 1990s. The box set spans four CDs and the songs are placed in chronological order. The box set spans four CDs and the songs are placed in chronological order.