Stevie Wonder - Stevie Wonder - The Definitive Collection
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Free Music Review: One of the Best Stevie Wonder Collections
Hit: 5 Stars
I think this is by far one of the best collections of Stevie Wonder's music I've seen. If you're a lover of his music, this CD is the one to have because it includes many great songs that he's done. If you're into more recent stuff that he's put out, then this may not be for you, but if you're like me and love his older, feel good hits (many of which are often featured in a lot of period films and romantic comedies) then you'll love this disc. I am definately satisfied with it.Free Music Review: Lil Stevie is such a Wonder!
Hit: 4 Stars
I have been such a huge fan of Stevie Wonder since I was a little girl. I have bought other Stevie compilations before, but was really blown away by this in particular. It was well put together, and flows pretty well from one song to the other. A good buy for all the "popular" songs of Mr. Wonder. Buy this and pop it in the car cd player and settle in for a long drive across country. Will keep you entertained and smiling!Free Music Review: Wrong place to start
Hit: 4 Stars
It's kind of ironic because this album is my first Stevie Wonder CD I've bought. But now that I know what I was missing, I don't want it to happen to other people.
Let me list some of the BEST songs that this disc is missing
- Isn't She Lovely
- Golden Lady
- As
- Send One Your Love
- Ribbon In The Sky
- Visions
- Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing
- Send One Your Love
- Lately
etc.
I'm pretty sure there are people who think those missing songs can make up a better collection.
So don't even bother with this one and save money for these packages
- At The Close Of A Century (4 CD Box Set)
- Natural Wonder (2 CD Set LIVE)
- Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants (Tied with INNERVISIONS for Stevie's best album)
13 bucks was well worth for me to be introduced to the greatness of Stevie Wonder. So I don't regret anyway.
Free Music Review: Essential Stevie Wonder
Hit: 5 Stars
Stevie Wonder (born Steveland Judkins Morris) began singing in a choir with his mother and siblings at a very early age at the Whitestone Baptist Church, which lay in his hometown of Saginaw.
By the age of 10, Stevie Wonder was a child prodigy. He proved a master on the piano, harmonica and drums and was adept at poetry and song-writing. Stevie was soon recommended by John Glover (who he was extensivley working with at the time) to Ronnie White, then a member of the fantastic, Smokey Robinson And The Miracles, who were signed to Detroits, Tamla Motown Records, founded by Berry Gordy who was instantly astounded by this child genius.
Dubbed Little Stevie Wonder in his early career, he was rapidly signed to Motown Records, home to some of the most important names in the history of black music including Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye. It was clear from an early age that Stevie Wonder indeed was a deeply gifted singer/songwriter and muscian.
Fingertips, released in 1963, proved an exhilirating masterpiece. Fingertips was virtually a harmonica instrumental but its just so totally infectious and caught onto the public like a magnet. Fingertips quickly catapulted to the top of the U.S charts and became the first in a long line of classics.
It was clearly his Motown work that remained some of his most popular and compelling output. The vibrant, Uptight (Everything's Alright) was a highly infectious affair as was the more sparse production of Yesterme-Yesteryou-Yesterday. The rolling undertones of playful funk on the classic, Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours) were three classics that perharps were pure examples of how Stevie Wonder gradually adapted to more Pop styles where his work still vastly contained elements of traditional black rhythm and blues but was able to cross boundaries and break down many racial barriers (much in the way Diana Ross had). Though commercial in each of the tracks content, they all still firmly retained that earthy, soulful style, owing much to Stevies credible and unique vocal style.
Stevie proved to be a masterful lyric writer and conveyed an effortless flair for ballads such as on the passionate, timeless, My Cherie Amour (written with Henry Cosby) and the more subtle and profound, A Place In The Sun.
Like Marvin gaye, his work steadily progressed from the formulaic sounds of Motown to more creative, artistic and indepth material, releasing a string of quality studio albums throughout the 1970's. The startling Superstition was a sharp, nifty, funky number where Stevies voice effectivley cuts through the stark musical arrangements. He delivered a more anthemic message on the compelling, Higher Ground.
The awesome, Living For The City, was an exciting, severn-minute epic which echoed the restrictions and perils of ghetto life. Much of his work steered more into profound political and social issues that perfectly captured contemporary times and deservedly gained wide acknowledgement from critics.
Like Diana Ross (a close friend of the divas and he'd also written the dazzling compostion, Too Shy To Say for her 1977 studio album, Baby It's Me) his work eventually settled into the more Adult-Contemporary market that occupied the lower reaches of the charts yet fully remained an A-list novelty act. Such saccharine numbers like I Just Called To Say I Love You, may have become big cross-atlantic hits but this type of material lacks the dynamic of some of his earlier work.
Even so, Stevie Wonder continues to this day to enjoy a large and loyal following. This being the definitive collection of Stevie Wonders work makes it essential to any serious Soul/R&B/Motown collection.
Free Music Review: Exellent
Hit: 5 Stars
This was great, the cd was sent to my home in Iceland and it took very little time to get here from the day I ordered it.