OVERJOYED
STEVIE
WONDER
SONGWRITER: STEVE WONDER
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: TALKING BOOK
LABEL: TAMLA
GENRE: SOUL
YEAR: 1972
Stevland Hardaway Morris (né Judkins; May
13, 1950), known professionally as Stevie Wonder, is an American
singer-songwriter, who is credited as a pioneer and influence by musicians
across a range of genres that include rhythm and blues, pop, soul, gospel, funk and jazz. A virtual one-man band,
Wonder's 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.
Wonder's single "Fingertips"
was a Nº 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1963, at the age of 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. Wonder
began his "commercial period" in the 1980s; he achieved his biggest
hits and highest level of fame, had increased album sales, charity participation,
high-profile collaborations (including Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson), political
impact, and television appearances. Wonder has continued to remain active in music and
political causes.
Talking Book is the fifteenth studio album by
American singer, songwriter, and musician Stevie Wonder,
released on October 28, 1972, by Tamla,
a subsidiary of Motown Records. This
album and Music of My Mind,
released earlier the same year, are generally considered to mark the start of
Wonder's "classic period". The sound of the album is sharply defined
by Wonder's use of keyboards and synthesizers.
The album peaked at number three on the Billboard Top LPs chart and
finished at number three on Billboard's year-end chart for 1973. "Superstition"
reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Soul
Singles charts, and "You Are the
Sunshine of My Life" hit number one on the Hot
100 and Easy
Listening charts. Talking Book earned Wonder
his first Grammy Award, with
"You Are the Sunshine of My Life" winning Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the 16th Grammy
Awards; "Superstition" also won Best Male R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B
Song. Often included in lists of the greatest
albums of all time, Talking Book was voted number 322 in the third edition
of Colin Larkin's All Time Top
1000 Albums (2000), and Rolling Stone ranked it number 59 on its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
You are the sunshine of my life
That's why I'll always be around
You are the apple of my eye
Forever you'll stay in my heart
I feel like this is
the beginning
Though I've loved you for a million years
And if I thought our love was ending
I'd find myself drowning in my own tears
You are the sunshine
of my life
That's why I'll always stay around
You are the apple of my eye (love has joined us)
Forever you'll stay in my heart (love, sweet love)
You must have known
that I was lonely
Because you came to my rescue
And I know that this must be heaven
How could so much love be inside of you?
You are the sunshine
of my life, yeah
That's why I'll always stay around
You are the apple of my eye (love has joined us)
Forever you'll stay in my heart (love, sweet love)
you are the sunshine
of my life, baby
(Love has joined us) that's why I'll always stay around
(Love, sweet love).
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