"35% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 17 reviews. The soundtrack was composed by Stevie Wonder and features performances by Wonder and also Dionne Warwick. Wonder received an Academy Award for Best Original Song for the song ""I Just Called to Say I Love You."" The Woman in Red (1984 film) The Woman in Red is a 1984 American romantic comedy film directed by and starring Gene Wilder. Wilder also wrote the script, adapting it from the Yves Robert film ""Pardon Mon Affaire"" (""Un éléphant ça trompe énormément""). It co-stars Charles Grodin, Gilda Radner, Joseph Bologna, Judith Ivey and Kelly"
"failed to achieve a number one album in the UK. However, the single ""I Just Called to Say I Love You"", taken from ""The Woman in Red"", was a massive hit in the UK, reaching #1 and becoming the second best-selling single of 1984 (only behind Band Aid's ""Do They Know It's Christmas?"") and the third most successful single of the entire 1980s there. All songs written by Stevie Wonder, except ""It's More Than You"" by Ben Bridges. The Woman in Red (soundtrack) The Woman in Red: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the second soundtrack album released by American musician"
"The Woman in Red (soundtrack) The Woman in Red: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the second soundtrack album released by American musician Stevie Wonder on the Motown label. Also featuring Dionne Warwick, the album was released in 1984 for the film of the same name. It features Wonder's biggest hit, ""I Just Called to Say I Love You"", which hit #1 internationally and won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, and also features the follow-up hit, ""Love Light in Flight"" (a US top 20 hit) and ""Don't Drive Drunk"", the song and the accompanying music video for which were"
"Through the remainder of the decade, Wilder and Radner worked on several projects together. After ""Hanky Panky"", Wilder directed his third film, 1984's ""The Woman in Red"", which starred Wilder, Radner, and Kelly Le Brock. ""The Woman in Red"" was not well received by the critics, nor was their next project, 1986's ""Haunted Honeymoon"", which failed to attract audiences. ""The Woman in Red"" did win an Academy Award for Best Original Song for Stevie Wonder's song ""I Just Called to Say I Love You"". TriStar Pictures wanted to produce another film starring Wilder and Pryor, and Wilder agreed to do"
"in 1999 to honor Stevie Wonder at The Kennedy Center Honors. She sang ""I Just Called to Say I Love You"" arranged and accompanied by Herbie Hancock. Entertainment writer Jake Elyachar rated this as one of the top 20 best performances ever given on the Kennedy Honors series. Wonder was visibly emotionally moved by the performance. She was awarded the Helen Keller Achievement Award by the American Foundation for the Blind in 2000. Late in 2003, Schuur released ""Midnight"", featuring original songs written by Barry Manilow for the album. Manilow's long-time songwriting team, which included co-producer Eddie Arkin, and lyricists"
"Go Home (song) ""Go Home"" is a 1985 hit single performed by Stevie Wonder. The song showcased the narrator's plea to a young woman to go home, though the girl tries to get the narrator to stay with her. In the U.S., the song peaked at #2 on the R&B chart and #10 on the Hot 100 and, to date, is Wonder's last song to reach the U.S. top ten on the Hot 100. ""Go Home"" also topped both the dance chart and the Adult Contemporary chart. Stevie performed this song as early as the May 7, 1983, episode of"
"1984 (song) ""1984"" is a 1974 single by David Bowie, from his album ""Diamond Dogs"". Written in 1973, it was inspired by George Orwell's ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"" and, like much of its parent album, originally intended for a stage musical based on the novel, which was never produced because permission was refused by Orwell's widow Sonia. The centrepiece of Side Two of the original vinyl album, in the context of Bowie's adaptation of Orwell's story, ""1984"" has been interpreted as representing Winston Smith's imprisonment and interrogation by O'Brien. The lyrics also bear some similarities to Bowie's earlier song ""All the Madmen"","
"commented when he was interviewed by ""The New York Times"" that ""the accident opened my ears up to many things around me. Naturally, life is just more important to me now ... and what I do with my life"". Confirming Stevie's belief in destiny, Michael Sembello, Wonder's lead guitarist at the time, said Before the accident, Wonder had been scheduled to do a five-week, 20-city tour between March and April 1974. It was postponed, with the exception of one date in Madison Square Garden in late March. That concert began with Stevie pointing to his scarred forehead, looking up, grinning,"
"the occasion of his 35th birthday, Stevie Wonder was honored by the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid for his stance against racism in South Africa that same year (1985). The album also featured a guest appearance by Dionne Warwick, singing the duet ""It's You"" with Stevie and a few songs of her own. Following the success of the album and its lead single,Wonder made an appearance on The Cosby Show,in the episode ""A Touch of Wonder"" where he demonstrated his ability to sample. The following year's ""In Square Circle"" featured the No. 1 pop hit ""Part-Time Lover"". The album"
"capitalize on the single's success. It also garnered Wonder his first two career Grammy Award nominations for Best R&B Song and Best Male R&B Vocal Performance. The single was a watershed in Wonder's career for several reasons. Aside from the number-one hit ""Fingertips"", only two of Wonder's singles had reached the Top 40 of ""Billboard's"" Pop Singles chart, (""Workout, Stevie Workout"" reached #33 in late 1963 and ""Hey Harmonica Man"" reached #29 Pop in the Summer of 1964) and the fifteen-year-old artist was in danger of being let go. In addition, Wonder's voice had begun to change, and Motown CEO"
"whom insist he has no right to tell them they are wrong in their ways. He reads in the newspaper that another war is on its way, and he remembers the 'many happy families that have been ruined.' Front Line (Stevie Wonder song) ""Front Line"" is a 1983 song written and produced by American R&B singer and songwriter Stevie Wonder, off his greatest hits compilation ""Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium I"" (1982). The song is sung from the perspective of a Vietnam War veteran. The protagonist tells the story of how he volunteered to go to Vietnam in 1964 at age"
"""Saturday Night Live"" and nearly two years later at the 1985 Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, California, in a synthesizer jam with other contemporaries Howard Jones, Herbie Hancock, and Thomas Dolby. Like ""Part-Time Lover,"" the song was released with a special 12-inch version, which demonstrated Wonder's ability to reverse-sample. Instrumental group Groovopolis, led by guitarist Chris Cortez, covered the song for their self-titled first and only album in 2002. Go Home (song) ""Go Home"" is a 1985 hit single performed by Stevie Wonder. The song showcased the narrator's plea to a young woman to go home, though the girl"
"Tell Me Something Good ""Tell Me Something Good"" is a song by Rufus and Chaka Khan, written by Stevie Wonder and released in 1974. The single was a hit in the United States, peaking at number three on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and spent one week at number one on the ""Cash Box"" Top 100. It was among the earliest hits to use the guitar talk box, by Tony Maiden. The song has been described as having "".. rude metallic guitar"" (by Al Ciner) and "".. a beautiful bass, clav and heavy breathing groove."" The song can be difficult to"
"Talk to Me (Stevie Nicks song) ""Talk to Me"" is a song recorded by American singer Stevie Nicks for her third solo studio album ""Rock a Little"" (1985). Written by Chas Sandford, the song was released as the lead single]from ""Rock a Little"" on October 1985, through Modern Records. The single became a big hit for Nicks, peaking at number four on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart for two weeks and peaking at number one on the ""Billboard"" Top Mainstream Rock Songs chart for two weeks in 1985. The song was written by Chas Sandford, who co-wrote John Waite's 1984"
"come. Side One Side Two ""I'd Be a Fool Right Now"" would be remixed in 1977 for Wonder's ""Looking Back"" Anthology. For Once in My Life (Stevie Wonder album) For Once in My Life is the ninth (tenth overall) studio album by American singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder on Motown Records, released in November 1968. Then eighteen years old, Wonder had established himself as one of Motown's consistent hit-makers. This album continued Wonder's growth as a vocalist, songwriter and producer. It featured songs like the title track, ""Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day"" and the modest hits ""I Don't Know Why"" and ""You Met Your Match"". It"
"For Once in My Life (Stevie Wonder album) For Once in My Life is the ninth (tenth overall) studio album by American singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder on Motown Records, released in November 1968. Then eighteen years old, Wonder had established himself as one of Motown's consistent hit-makers. This album continued Wonder's growth as a vocalist, songwriter and producer. It featured songs like the title track, ""Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day"" and the modest hits ""I Don't Know Why"" and ""You Met Your Match"". It also marked the debut of the Hohner Clavinet on a Stevie Wonder album, which would become a mainstay on albums to"
"Stevie Wonder composition which had been a single for The Supremes in 1973. According to Arista president Clive Davis upon hearing the ""Caravan"" tracks he felt the album as planned would not afford Manchester the Top 40 hit required to revive her career and at Davis' strong suggestion Manchester recorded the Peter Allen and Carole Bayer Sager composition ""Don't Cry Out Loud"" with Harry Maslin producing. Manchester has stated that in fact the idea of recording ""Don't Cry Out Loud"" was her own, although she had anticipated recording it in the intimate manner evinced by its writer Peter Allen on"
"poor and the audio inaudible. Andy Williams went on to make a public blunder when he asked the blind-since-birth Wonder, “Stevie, can you see us?” In all, Wonder won four out of seven nominations at the Grammys: Album of the Year, Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, Best Male R&B Vocal Performance and Producer of the Year. Over time, the album became a standard, and it is considered Wonder's signature album. ""Of all the albums,"" he told ""Q"" magazine (April 1995 issue), """"Songs in the Key of Life"" I'm most happy about. Just the time, being alive then. To be a"
"live after the soul tour in 1975. 1984 (song) ""1984"" is a 1974 single by David Bowie, from his album ""Diamond Dogs"". Written in 1973, it was inspired by George Orwell's ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"" and, like much of its parent album, originally intended for a stage musical based on the novel, which was never produced because permission was refused by Orwell's widow Sonia. The centrepiece of Side Two of the original vinyl album, in the context of Bowie's adaptation of Orwell's story, ""1984"" has been interpreted as representing Winston Smith's imprisonment and interrogation by O'Brien. The lyrics also bear some similarities"
"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. A note-for-note re-recording of Wonder's version was used as the backing track for Bill Cosby's 1967 musical comedy single, ""Little Ole Man (Uptight, Everything's Alright)"". Bill Cosby is not related to the song's co-writer Henry Cosby. Uptight (Everything's Alright) ""Uptight (Everything's Alright)"" is a 1965 hit single recorded by American singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder for"
"There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart) ""There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)"" is a 1985 song written and performed by the British musical duo Eurythmics. Released as the second single from their fifth album ""Be Yourself Tonight"", the song features a harmonica solo by the American musician Stevie Wonder. The song became a worldwide success; most notably in Ireland, Norway and the United Kingdom, where it became the duo's only chart-topping single to date. The song has been covered by several musical artists, including Brittany Murphy, Fantastic Plastic Machine, Leningrad Cowboys, Luciano Pavarotti, Kylie"
"Stevie's 1973 car accident. The harmonic progression is very similar to Chopin's Etude Opus 10 number 4, measures 5 and 6, although at a much slower pace. They Won't Go When I Go ""They Won't Go When I Go"" is a song co-written and performed by Stevie Wonder from his 1974 album ""Fulfillingness' First Finale"". This song is the only one on the album that Wonder did not write by himself. His co-writer was Yvonne Lowrene Wright, who co-wrote songs with Wonder for other albums. Wright's sister, Syreeta Wright, was Wonder's first wife. Wonder performed this song, along with ""Never"
"Stevie at the Beach Stevie at the Beach is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder released on the Tamla (Motown) label on June 23, 1964. With the exception of the mild hit, ""Hey Harmonica Man"", it was a concept album of sorts, focusing on beach and surfer anthems as an attempt to get Wonder to now sing surf tunes. However, much like the label's attempts to first make him the teenage version of Ray Charles and then for one album as a lounge singer, it failed to connect with audiences. Wonder would not have another hit until"
"Lately (Stevie Wonder song) ""Lately"" is a song by American singer Stevie Wonder recorded for his album ""Hotter than July"" (1980). The song was covered by R&B group Jodeci and released as a promotional single for the live album ""Uptown MTV Unplugged"" in June 1993. Jason Elias at Allmusic retrospectively praised the song, believing that unlike some of Wonder's similar material, ""Lately"" in particular hit all the perfect emotional and musical notes. Of the song's emotional power itself Elias stated, ""it's enough to make a listener fall prey to an old-fashioned cry."" ""Lately"" was notably covered by R&B group Jodeci"
"#1 for three weeks on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, and at #1 for two weeks on its Black Singles chart. The song was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1984 but lost to Stevie Wonder's ""I Just Called to Say I Love You"" from ""The Woman in Red"". Parker's song secured him a 1984 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance. Other hits from this period included ""I Still Can't Get Over Loving You"" (Pop #12) and ""Jamie"" (Pop #14). Parker was one of the first black artists to venture into the then-fledgling world of"
"Boz Scaggs, and the other favorite, Peter Frampton’s ""Frampton Comes Alive!"", which was also a huge critical and commercial success. Wonder was again absent from the ceremony, as he had developed an interest in visiting Africa. In February he traveled to Nigeria for two weeks, primarily to explore his musical heritage, as he put it. A satellite hook-up was arranged so that Stevie could be awarded his Grammys from across the sea. Bette Midler announced the results during the ceremony, and the audience was only able to see Wonder at a phone smiling and giving thanks. The video signal was"
"unforced but also, sadly, unearned."" Just Good Friends (song) ""Just Good Friends"" is a song from American recording artist Michael Jackson's 1987 album ""Bad"". The song is one of two duets on the album, the other being ""I Just Can't Stop Loving You"". The song features Jackson and American musician Stevie Wonder quarrelling over a girl in a light, cheerful manner. ""Just Good Friends"" is the fifth track on ""Bad"" with a duration of 4:06. It and ""Speed Demon"" are the only two tracks from the album never to be released as singles. ""Just Good Friends"" is one of only"
"Happy Birthday (Stevie Wonder song) ""Happy Birthday"" is a 1981 single written, produced and performed by Stevie Wonder for the Motown label. Wonder, a social activist, was one of the main figures in the campaign to have the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. become a national holiday, and created this single to make the cause known. Besides being released as a single, the song also appears on Wonder's album ""Hotter Than July"". The song, one of many of Wonder's songs to feature the use of a keyboard synthesizer, features Wonder lamenting the fact that anyone would oppose the idea"
"in 1976, he did not attend as he was not nominated for any awards (as he had not released any new material during the past year). Paul Simon, who received the Grammy for Album of the Year in that occasion (for ""Still Crazy After All These Years"") jokingly thanked Stevie “for not releasing an album” that year. A year after, Wonder was nominated for ""Songs in the Key of Life"" in that same category, and was widely favored by many critics to take the award. The other nominees were ""Breezin’"" by George Benson, ""Chicago X"" by Chicago, ""Silk Degrees"" by"
"that Wonder wrote and sang in the first person, and ""Ribbon in the Sky"", one of his many classic compositions. He also gained a No. 1 hit that year in collaboration with Paul McCartney in their paean to racial harmony, ""Ebony and Ivory"". In 1983, Wonder performed the song ""Stay Gold"", the theme to Francis Ford Coppola's film adaptation of S. E. Hinton's novel ""The Outsiders"". Wonder wrote the lyrics. In 1983, he scheduled an album to be entitled ""People Work, Human Play"". The album never surfaced and instead 1984 saw the release of Wonder's soundtrack album for ""The Woman"
"Cope wrote that despite being less strident than purely electronic krautrock, some of the passages on ""Zero Time"" anticipated the ""quieter paces"" on side two of Kraftwerk's ""Autobahn"" (1974). Stevie Wonder had a chance encounter with ""Zero Time"" and became a big fan of the album, steering him in a new direction as he began using synthesisers in his music. He was so impressed with ""Zero Time"" that, taking a copy of the album with him, he met with Tonto's Expanding Head Band and said ""I don't believe this was all done on one instrument. Show me."" Despite Wonder's blindness,"
"just ""Stevie Wonder."" Side One Side Two Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius is the first live album by Stevie Wonder. The album was released on the Tamla record label (catalog #240) in May 1963, the same month as the single release of ""Fingertips"" (catalog #54080). ""Fingertips"" topped both the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart and the R&B Singles chart, and ""Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius"" topped the ""Billboard"" 200, all of which happened in 1963. This is the last album to use the ""Little"" in Stevie Wonder's name. Starting with"
"and giving ""thanks to God that I'm alive"". 21,000 people in the crowd roared with applause, and as a ""Post"" critic noted, ""it was hard not to be thrilled."" Although ""Innervisions"" was recorded and released before Wonder's accident, most people associated it with the musician's fast recovery. As with both ""Music of My Mind"" and ""Talking Book"" the previous year, ""Innervisions"" was received warmly by music critics. Wonder's versatile musical skills were praised by critics. ""Billboard"" published that ""the liner credits Stevie with playing all the instruments on seven of the nine tunes. So in essence this is a one-man"