Course Title: Music 503, Stevie Wonder

Prerequisite:  None

Credits:  5

By anyone's estimation, Stevie Wonder is one of the select musicians of the last half of the twentieth century. His is a career that spans 5 decades, and is still going strong with the release of his 26th album on October 18, 2005 entitled A Time of Love.

Some of the albums considered classics by Stevie Wonder include Music of My Mind, Talking Book, and Innervisions. Talking Book includes the #1 hit Superstition which Wonder performed famously on Sesame Street in 1973.

Music 503, Stevie Wonder, is a course designed to introduce to the RSU music student the five studio albums put out during the 1970's that were considered the best of his collection.

Music of My Mind
 released: March 3, 1972
 Accolades: 
  1972:
   Billboard:
    #21 Pop Album
    #6 Black Album
 
  #284 Rolling Stone All-Time Album
  
  
     1. "Love Having You Around" (Wonder, S. Wright) - 7:23
   
     2. "Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You)" (Wonder) - 8:07
      #13 Black Singles 
          #33 Pop Singles 
         
     3. "I Love Every Little Thing About You" (Wonder) - 3:55

     4. "Sweet Little Girl" (Wonder) - 4:59

     5. "Happier Than the Morning Sun" (Wonder) - 5:18

     6. "Girl Blue" (Wonder, Y. Wright) - 3:36

     7. "Seems So Long" (Wonder) - 4:22

     8. "Keep on Running" (Wonder) - 6:40
      #36 Black Singles  
      #90 Pop Singles 
    
     9. "Evil" (Wonder, Y. Wright) - 3:33

Talking Book
 released:  October 27, 1972
 Accolades: 
  
   1974 Grammy's:
    Best Male Pop Vocal Performance: "You Are the Sunshine of My Life"
    Best Male R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B Song: "Superstition"
    Producers Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff won Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
 
 
  #90 Rolling Stone All-Time Album
  
     1. "You Are the Sunshine of My Life"

     2. "Maybe Your Baby"

     3. "You and I (We Can Conquer the World)"

     4. "Tuesday Heartbreak"

     5. "You've Got It Bad Girl"

     6. "Superstition" ****

     7. "Big Brother"

     8. "Blame It on the Sun"

     9. "Lookin' for Another Pure Love"

    10. "I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever)"

Innervisions
 released:  1973
 Accolades:

  Grammy's:
    Album of the Year
    Best Engineered, Non-Classical Recording
    Best R&B Song: "Living for the City"
  
  Billboard:
   #1 Black Album
   #4 Pop Album
   
  
   
  #28 Rolling Stone All-Time Album
  
     1. Too High - 4:36

     2. Visions - 5:23

     3. Living for the City - 7.22
   #1 Black Singles
   #8 Pop Singles

     4. Golden Lady - 4:58

     5. Higher Ground - 3:42
   #1 Black Singles
   #4 Pop Singles

     6. Jesus Children of America - 4:10

     7. All in Love Is Fair - 3:41

     8. Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing - 4:44
   #2 Black Singles
   #16 Pop Singles
   
     9. He's Misstra Know It All - 5:35

Fulfillingness' First Finale
 released:  July 22, 1974
 Accolades:
  
  1972:
   Billboard:
    #1 Pop Album
    #1 Black Album
    
  

     1. "Smile Please" (Wonder) - 3:28

     2. "Heaven Is 10 Zillion Light Years Away" (Wonder) - 5:02

     3. "Too Shy to Say" (Wonder) - 3:29

     4. "Boogie on Reggae Woman" (Wonder) - 4:56
   #1 Black Singles
   #3 Pop Singles
   
     5. "Creepin'" (Wonder) - 4:22

     6. "You Haven't Done Nothin'" (Wonder) - 3:22
   #1  Pop Singles
   #1 Black Singles
   
     7. "It Ain't No Use" (Wonder) - 4:01

     8. "They Won't Go When I Go" (Wonder, Y. Wright) - 5:58

     9. "Bird of Beauty" (Wonder) - 3:48

    10. "Please Don't Go" (Wonder) - 4:07

Songs in the Key of Life
 released date: September 28, 1978
 Accolades:
 
  Grammy Awards:
   Best Male Pop Vocal
   Album of the Year
 
   1976:  The Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll.
  1998:   Q magazine readers 88th greatest album
  2003:  VH1, #7  all-time album
  
  56 Rolling Stone All-Time Album

  Disc One
  
     1. "Love's in Need of Love Today" (Wonder) - 7:05

     2. "Have a Talk With God" (Hardaway/Wonder) - 2:42

     3. "Village Ghetto Land" (Byrd/Wonder) - 3:25

     4. "Contusion" (Wonder) - 6:23

     5. "Sir Duke" (Wonder) - 3:45
   #1 Pop Singles
   #1 Black Singles
   #3 Adult Contemporary
   
     6. "I Wish" (Wonder) - 3:54
   #1 Pop Singles
   #1 Black Singles
   
     7. "Knocks Me off My Feet" (Wonder) - 4:12
   #4 Black Singles
   #11 Pop Singles
   
     8. "Pastime Paradise" (Wonder) - 3:36

     9. "Summer Soft" (Wonder) - 3:27

    10. "Ordinary Pain" (Wonder) - 4:14

    11. "Saturn" (Sembello/Wonder) - 4:53

    12. "Ebony Eyes" (Wonder) - 4:08
  
  
  Disc Two
  
     1. "Isn't She Lovely" (Wonder) - 6:34

     2. "Joy Inside My Tears" (Wonder) - 6:29

     3. "Black Man" (Byrd/Wonder) - 8:29

     4. "Ngiculela-Es Una Historia-I Am Singing" (Wonder) - 3:48

     5. "If It's Magic" (Wonder) - 3:12

     6. "As" (Wonder) - 7:08
   #36 Black Singles
   #36 Pop Singles

     7. "Another Star" (Wonder) - 8:28
   #2 Club Play Singles
   #18 Black Singles
   #32 Pop Singles
   
     8. "All Day Sucker"  (Wonder) - 5:05

     9. "Easy Goin' Evening (My Mama's Call)"  (Wonder) - 3:56