Been fiddling around with Stevie Wonder
Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2020 8:27 pm
Well it'd be rude not to. Happy 2020 all and here’s a musical left turn from MOB to start the year.
Uptight (Everything’s Alright)
writers: Stevie Wonder, Sylvia Moy, Henry Cosby
performed: Steve Wonder (1965, Tamla Motown)
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Like a lot of kids of my generation, I listened to and loved the soul music of the Sixties – I was probably more of an Atlantic and Stax man but I loved Tamla Motown also. I also liked ska and reggae. My partner is a soul fan (an original Northern Soul girl) so I try and think of songs I might do for her, though I’m not really a soul singer, but I found myself singing Stevie Wonder’s ‘Uptight’ the other day. I used to love Little Stevie Wonder and that song especially. And then I thought hmmm – rather than do the original arrangement, maybe do it as dub reggae and do something new with the song. So I did, and I think it came out rather cool. Reading up on it on Wiki, I learned that:
“As Wonder presented his ideas, finished or not, "he went through everything," remembered [Syliva] Moy. "I asked, 'Are you sure you don't have anything else?' He started singing and playing 'Everything is alright, uptight.' That was as much as he had. I said, 'That's it.
On the day of the recording, Moy had completed the lyrics, but didn't have them in Braille for Wonder to read, and so sang the song to him as he was recording it. She sang a line ahead of him, and he simply repeated the lines as he heard them. In 2008, Moy commented that "he never missed a beat" during the recording.
So, hope you enjoy this homage to that song, please share it if you do, follow MOB on Soundcloud and/or Facebook at
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1465586503597444/
…and give me feedback if you can.
Uptight (Everything’s Alright)
writers: Stevie Wonder, Sylvia Moy, Henry Cosby
performed: Steve Wonder (1965, Tamla Motown)
https://soundcloud.com/mobbing_it_up/up ... ng-version
Like a lot of kids of my generation, I listened to and loved the soul music of the Sixties – I was probably more of an Atlantic and Stax man but I loved Tamla Motown also. I also liked ska and reggae. My partner is a soul fan (an original Northern Soul girl) so I try and think of songs I might do for her, though I’m not really a soul singer, but I found myself singing Stevie Wonder’s ‘Uptight’ the other day. I used to love Little Stevie Wonder and that song especially. And then I thought hmmm – rather than do the original arrangement, maybe do it as dub reggae and do something new with the song. So I did, and I think it came out rather cool. Reading up on it on Wiki, I learned that:
“As Wonder presented his ideas, finished or not, "he went through everything," remembered [Syliva] Moy. "I asked, 'Are you sure you don't have anything else?' He started singing and playing 'Everything is alright, uptight.' That was as much as he had. I said, 'That's it.
On the day of the recording, Moy had completed the lyrics, but didn't have them in Braille for Wonder to read, and so sang the song to him as he was recording it. She sang a line ahead of him, and he simply repeated the lines as he heard them. In 2008, Moy commented that "he never missed a beat" during the recording.
So, hope you enjoy this homage to that song, please share it if you do, follow MOB on Soundcloud and/or Facebook at
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1465586503597444/
…and give me feedback if you can.
) he's most definitely still got it, a couple of hours of Friedrich Hollaender (Google to the rescue!) classics.
