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*SIDE 1*
“YOU ARE THE SUNSHINE OF MY LIFE”
“MAYBE YOUR BABY”
“YOU AND I”
“TUESDAY HEARTBREAK”
“YOU’VE GOT IT BAD, GIRL”
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*SIDE 2*
“BIG BROTHER”
“BLAME IT ON THE SUN”
“LOOKIN’ FOR ANOTHER PURE LOVE”
“I BELIEVE WHEN I FALL IN LOVE, IT WILL BE FOREVER”
*dopey title alert*
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Talking Book is the fifteenth studio album by American singer, songwriter and musician Stevie Wonder, released on October 28, 1972, on the Tamla label for Motown Records.
The album is widely noted for being the signal recording of Wonder’s “classic period”.
The sound of the album is sharply defined by Wonder’s keyboard work, especially with the synthesizers he incorporated.
His use of the Hohner clavinet model C on “Superstition” is widely regarded as one of the definitive tracks featuring the instrument.
Relying less on Motown’s head Berry Gordy for musical direction and expression, Talking Book is often considered as the beginning of the turning point in Wonder’s career from a youthful prodigy to an independent and experimental artist.
Speaking on the album in 2000, Wonder said, “It wasn’t so much that I wanted to say anything except where I wanted to just express various many things that I felt—the political point of view that I have, the social point of view that I have, the passions, emotion and love that I felt, compassion, the fun of love that I felt, the whole thing in the beginning with a joyful love and then the pain of love”
Talking Book peaked at number three on the Billboard Top LPs chart and finished at number three on the Billboard 200 Albums Year-End of 1972.
The album’s first track “You Are the Sunshine of My Life” hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and Easy Listening chart.
The album’s first single, “Superstition”, also reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart. 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.
Reviewing for Rolling Stone in 1973, Vince Aletti regarded Talking Book “ambitious” and “richly-textured”, writing that “even at its dreamiest, the music has a glowing vibrancy … Altogether, an exceptional, exciting album, the work of a now quite matured genius”.
Talking Book is often included in lists of the greatest albums of all time.
It was voted number 322 in the third edition of Colin Larkin’s All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000).[6]
(rolling stone ranked it #90 on the its list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time)
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👈👈👈 ☜ *“MUSIC OF MY MIND”*
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👈👈👈☜*THE SONGS OF ‘STEVIE WONDER’* ☞ 👉👉👉
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💕💝💖💓🖤💙🖤💙🖤💙🖤❤️💚💛🧡❣️💞💔💘❣️🧡💛💚❤️🖤💜🖤💙🖤💙🖤💗💖💝💘
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥