Written-By Don Hunter, Lula Hardaway, Paul Riser, Stevie Wonder. Blowin' In The Wind.With a legend like Stevie Wonder, it's easy to focus on his abundance of hits. Stevie Wonder is among the most celebrated, influential and inspiring musicians of the past half-century. He has set new benchmarks of popularity and artistry throughout his career: the youngest to have a No.

Some of the most underrated Stevie Wonder songs are perhaps some of his best, depending on who you ask, of course. For an icon like Stevie Wonder who has so many hits, it's easy for other great tracks to get lost in the shuffle and there's a batch of songs that, for one reason or another, have been overlooked.So what are the most underrated Stevie Wonder songs? Well, this list can include any song outside of his greatest hits (you know those) and that means even singles are fair game. You'll see a number of songs you're familiar with, and others you aren't. But that's the joy of this list.

Enjoy Yourself 29 Michael Speaks, Whatever You Need 30 Stevie Wonder. In all, more than 130 musicians are given some kind of credit on the album. Horn players, percussion players, guitar players and a small community of backing singers are woven throughout the project's 21 tracks. But he also brought in the biggest support crew he'd had since declaring his creative independence from Motown on 1971's Where I'm Coming From. For Once In My Life Stevie Wonder This old love song existed as a slower ballad before Stevie Wonder got his hands on it and found gold.Like on his other records from the '70s, Wonder handled many of the instruments himself on Songs in the Key of Life, including keyboards, drums and harmonica. Top lyric: Anything the sun can do I’ll do it for you /Any kind of love you want, I’ll be with you.

(That's baby daughter Aisha Morris heard in the bathtub at the end of 'Isn't She Lovely,' which was written for her.) The music by turns is joyful, angry, sorrowful and romantic. Wonder worked nonstop during the long months, pushing his collaborators – even the famous ones like George Benson, Herbie Hancock and Minnie Riperton – to follow his lead.They emerged with one of the century's greatest albums, a boundary-smashing piece that spotlights inner-city living, jazz history, religion, the Black experience, the female experience and boundless love for friends and family. Recording was done across four studios: Crystal Sound in Hollywood, where the majority of Songs in the Key of Life was completed, and the Record Plants in Los Angeles and Sausalito and New York's the Hit Factory.

1 'Another Star' and 'As' made it into the Top 40. But unlike some of those later records that don't have room to breathe at times, these songs overflow with life and a room-filling sound that fits Wonder's last proper album in a decade where he became untouchable.Some of Key's best songs became hit singles: 'I Wish' and 'Sir Duke' both reached No. He'd become more polished, and less spontaneous, as the years went on, and that move begins here.

It also won a Grammy for Album of the Year, repeating the honors held by Wonder's two previous LPs. 1, only the third album to do so at the time (the first two were by Elton John for the pair of records he released in 1975, Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy and Rock of the Westies). Even at its ambitious two-LP-plus-EP length, the album rarely lags.Songs in the Key of Life debuted at No. The rest of the record falls in between those spectrums, venturing into pop, jazz, soul, New Age, funk and rock to reach their means.

But even with the list of Wonder's achievements – a No. He filled out the '70s with a quasi soundtrack, Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants, before starting the '80s with the more slimmed-down but still excellent Hotter Than July. In a way Songs in the Key of Life was his victory lap, following the legend-making decade he had up to the point.

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