Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life

[edit] Guide Note

Songs in the Key of Life is the twenty-first album released by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame artist, Stevie Wonder. The album reached ten times platinum and peaked at number one on the Billboard charts.^{1 2}

[edit] Fast Facts

1. Genre: R&B, pop music, and soul
2. Release Date: September 28, 1976
3. Label: Motown Records
4. Producer: Stevie Wonder
5. Peak Chart Position: #1²
6. Singles: "I Wish," "Sir Duke," "Isn't She Lovely, "As" and "Another Star"
7. Ranked Number fifty-six on the Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time³
8. 1976 won Album of the Year Grammy Award⁴

1. "Love's in Need of Love Today"
2. "Have a Talk with God"
3. "Village Ghetto Land"
4. "Confusion"
5. "Sir Duke"
6. "I Wish"
7. "Knocks Me Off My Feet"
8. "Pastime Paradise"
9. "Summer Soft"
10. "Ordinary Pain"
11. "Saturn"
12. "Ebony Eyes"
13. "Isn't She Lovely"
14. "Joy Inside My Tears"
15. "Black Man"
16. "Ngiculela - Es Una Historia/I Am Singing"
17. "If It's Magic"
18. "As"
19. "Another Star"
20. "All Day Sucker"
21. "Easy Goin' Evening (My Mama's Call)"

"It's Wonder's music, his spirit, that dominates here and seems to fill up the room."—Vince Aletti, Rolling Stone Magazine⁵

"Sculpted from Wonder's unique amalgam of jazz, pop and R&B, it is a bold effort that flirts with genius."—John Kreicbergs, PopMatters⁶

"'Song in the Key of Life' is one of Wonder's finest musical achievements, a double-album that, like his other work in the decade, shirks the pure pop hits sensibilities of Berry Gordy in hopes of making an overreaching artistic statement."—Hubert Vigilla, Treble⁷