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Wonderful, and thanks for playing the request, but easily enough out there for a 60th birthday show next year! For example, Stevie does a very emotional "Blowing in the wind" on the Bob Dylan live tribute set.
You're right too about those old Motown songs – Berry Gordy used to have all his top acts record the songs and then they would choose who to use for the single
Thanks for the Mutual Admiration Society cover! Glen Phillips is one of my all-time favorite vocalist.
My spouse and I constantly argue about Stevie. Is Stevie Wonder's music mediocre disposable schmaltz or is he the king of soulful funk? "I just called to say I love you", "My Cherie Amor" and "Ebony and Ivory" may be heartfelt by Stevie but it's all just so much muzak to us. That said, if I had to list off my favorite songs of all time, "Superstition" and "Sir Duke" would come very close to the top. All I have to do is hear the first few notes to either of these and I involuntarily grin ear to ear. I wasn't that big on "I Wish" but after hearing this version I'm pumped about it. That was spectacular.
Thanks for this great Coverville and thanks also for focusing on his funk era.
I guess I was surprised to hear "You Met Your Match" described as a "deep cut," but inasmuch as it only made #35 on Billboard's pop chart (it was #2 on the soul chart), I suppose it's fair enough – though stations on the Carolina coast where I grew up blasted it just as often as "My Cherie Amour" or "For Once in My Life."
One of my favorite latter-day (which, I guess, means after "Songs in the Key of Life") Stevie bits is his brief appearance on Chaka Khan's 1984 cover of Prince's "I Feel for You" – it fits amazingly well.
For a humorous Stevie Wonder reference, check out They Might Be Giants' album Dial-a-Song. In the live version of She's Actual Size (on disc 2), they have a fairly lengthy drum solo where the drummer emulates the styles of a number of different bands, including "any song by Stevie Wonder from 1974 to 1985" and then later, "any song by Stevie Wonder from 1984 'til now."
The Cadence track — wow!!