YESTERME YESTERYOU YESTERDAY
STEVIE WONDER
SONGWRITERS: BRYAN
WELLS & RONALD N. MILLER
COUNTRY: U.
S. A.
ALBUM: MY
CHERIE AMOUR
LABEL: TAMLA RECORDS
GENRE: SOUL
MUSIC
YEAR: 1969
Stevland Hardaway Morris(born May 13, 1950),
known professionally as Stevie Wonder, is an American singer, songwriter,
musician and record producer. Wonder is credited as a pioneer and influence by
musicians across a range of genres that includes rhythm and blues, pop, soul, gospel, funk, and jazz. A virtual one-man band, his use
of synthesizers and
other electronic
musical instruments during the 1970s reshaped
the conventions of R&B.
He also helped drive the genre into the album era,
crafting his LPs as cohesive,
consistent socially conscious statements with complex compositions.
Blind since shortly
after his birth, Wonder was a child prodigy who signed with Motown's
Tamla label at the
age of 11, where he was given the professional name Little Stevie Wonder. In
1963, the single "Fingertips"
was a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 when Wonder was 13, making him the youngest artist ever to top the chart. Wonder's critical success was at its peak in the 1970s. His
"classic period" began in 1972 with the releases of Music of My Mind and Talking Book, the
latter featuring "Superstition",
which is one of the most distinctive and famous examples of the sound of the Hohner Clavinet keyboard.
His works Innervisions(1973), Fulfillingness'
First Finale(1974) and Songs in the
Key of Life(1976) all won the Grammy Award
for Album of the Year, making him the tied-record
holder for the most Album of the
Year wins, with three. He is also the only artist to have won the award
with three consecutive album releases.
His "classic period", which
culminated in 1976, was marked by his funky keyboard style, personal control of
production, and use of integrated series of songs to make concept albums. In
1979, Wonder used Computer Music Inc.'s early music sampler, the Melodian,
on his soundtrack album Stevie Wonder's Journey Through "The Secret Life
of Plants". This was his first digital recording and one of the earliest popular albums to use the technology, which
Wonder used for all subsequent recordings.
Wonder is one of the world's
best-selling musicians, with sales of over 100 million
records worldwide. He has won 25 Grammy Awards(the
most by a solo artist) and one Academy Award(Best Original
Song, for the 1984 film The Woman in
Red). Wonder has been inducted into the Rhythm and
Blues Music Hall of Fame, Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame and Songwriters
Hall of Fame. He is also noted for his work
as an activist for political causes, including his 1980 campaign to make Martin Luther
King Jr.'s birthday a federal
holiday in the U.S. In 2009, he was named a United
Nations Messenger of Peace, and in 2014, he was
honored with the Presidential
Medal of Freedom.
My Cherie Amour is an album by American
singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder released on the Tamla (Motown)
label on August 29, 1969, his eleventh studio album. The album yielded a couple
of Top 10 hits in the Billboard Hot 100, including the title track(#4)
and "Yester-Me,
Yester-You, Yesterday" (#7), as well as Wonder's
takes on the 1967 hit "Light My Fire"
by The Doors, "Hello, Young
Lovers" from The King and I and "The Shadow of
Your Smile" from the 1965 film The Sandpiper. It
reached #12 in the UK album chart and #34 in the Billboard 200 album charts.
Yester-me
Yester-you
Yesterday
Ooh, ooh
What happened to
The world we knew
When we would dream and scheme
And while the time away
Yester-me
Yester-you
Yesterday
Ooh, ooh
Mm, yeah
Where did it go?
(Where did it go?)
That yester-glow
When we could feel
The wheel of life turn our way
Yester-me
Yester-you
Yesterday
Ooh, ooh
I had a dream so did
you
Life was warm and love was true
Two kids who followed all the rules
Yester-fools and now
Now it seems (now it seems)
Those yester-dreams
Were just a cruel
And foolish game we used to play
Yester-me
Yester-you
Yesterday
Ooh, ooh
When I recall what we
had
I feel lost
I feel sad
With nothing but
The memory of yester-love
And now, now it seems (now it seems)
Those yester-dreams
Were just a cruel
And foolish game we had to play
Yester-me
Yester-you
Yesterday
Mm, mm, yeah (ooh, ooh)
Yester-me
Yester-you
Yesterday
Ooh, ooh
Sing it with me
Yester-me
Yester-you
Yesterday
Ooh, ooh
One more time
Yester-me.
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