Composer: Stevie Wonder.
Instrumentation: Piano, Vocal & Guitar (with Chord Boxes).
116 pages.
Published: Music company, INC & Black Bull Music, INC.
1976.
Songs in the Key of Life (1976) was the highest high point of Stevie Wonder's career. More sprawling than Innervisions and Talking Book, this two-LP-plus-EP was also less of a consistent stunner than either of those masterworks. That Songs retains an enormous amount of visionary relevance, though, is demonstrated not only in Coolio's borrowing of "Pastime Paradise" as a template for "Gangsta's Paradise," but in the cold-as-ice synthesized string quartet of "Village Ghetto Land." This is Stevie, so naturally that cut's anger is balanced by the ultra-buoyant "I Wish," "Sir Duke," and "Another Star.".
Love's in Need of Love Today (Wonder).
Have a Talk with God (Hardaway/Wonder).
Village Ghetto Land (Byrd/Wonder).
Contusion (Wonder).
Sir Duke (Wonder).
I Wish (Wonder).
Knocks Me Off My Feet (Wonder).
Pastime Paradise (Wonder).
Summer Soft (Wonder).
Ordinary Pain (Wonder).
Isn't She Lovely (Wonder).
Joy Inside My Tears (Wonder).
Black Man (Byrd/Wonder).
Ngiculela - Es Una Historia - I Am Singing (Wonder).
If It's Magic (Wonder).
As (Wonder).
Another Star (Wonder).
Saturn (Sembello/Wonder).
Ebony Eyes (Wonder).
All Day Sucker (Wonder).
Easy Goin' Evening (My Mama's Call) (Wonder).
