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Stevie Wonder “My Cherie Amour”

sfilzen — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 18:58:36 +0000

Stevie Wonder “My Cherie Amour” 1969, Motown Records (ours is a 1984 reissue on Tamala Motown with an alternate cover). Today’s pull is a soulful, mellow Monday spin of Wonder’s 11th studio album is a mix of originals and wildly eclectic covers including one from The Doors (“Light My Fire”), a Broadway musical (“Hello Young Lovers” from The King and I) and film musicals (“At Last” from Sun Valley Serenade and “The Shadow of Your Smile” from The Sandpiper). The title track “My Cherie Amour” is a Wonder original and single from the LP which went to #4 in the US and the UK. The other single from the album “Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday” is a cover, though not as well known as the other covers (written by Ron Miller and Bryan Wells, first recorded by Chris Clark in ‘66); it went to #7 in the US and #2 in the UK. My top track is the funky groover “Somebody Knows, Somebody Cares” (a Wonder original that he co-wrote with his mom, Lula Mae Hardaway, which in my mind makes the song that much better ❤️).

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Soundtrack to “The Big Chill”

sfilzen — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 14:45:09 +0000

Soundtrack to “The Big Chill” 1983. Motown Records. It’s currently 3 degrees with a windchill of -12 and the Vault’s furnace is broken, a quite literal Big Chill. I wasn’t even into my teens when The Big Chill came out – it was really aimed at my parents’ then-thirtysomething generation – so many of the classic Motown hits that appear on the soundtrack only remind me of the 80′s rather than the 60′s and early 70′s (with the exception of Three Dog Night’s “Joy to the World” which had been on heavy rotation during my childhood). The soundtrack reached #17 on the Billboard album chart in ‘83 and the film was nominated for three Oscars. My favorite tracks are “Joy to the World,” “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg” by The Temptations, The Rascals’ “Good Lovin’” and “A Whiter Shade of Pale” by Procol Harum. Also great, of course, is the Rolling Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” which does not appear on this original soundtrack LP; it was later included on a re-release deluxe CD version in 2004.

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