Which is your favorite Stevie Wonder song

Signed, Sealed, Delivered

Saturn. Not even sure why.

Uptight (Everthing's All Right)

I'm not a fan so "favorite" is a relative term.

Sir Duke.

My Cheri Amour

That Girl

"You Haven't Done Nothing" - which was about Nixon, but in the age of Trump, the lyrics still apply:

It's not too cool to be ridiculed

But you brought this upon yourself

The world is tired of pacifier

We want the truth and nothing else

And we are sick and tired of hearing your song

Tellin' how you are gonna change right from wrong

'Cause if you really want to hear our views

You haven't done nothin'

I Wish

Ribbon in the Sky

[quote] Saturn. Not even sure why.

Because it is awesome. If Biden/Harris don't win I'm going back to Saturn.

We have come here many times before To find your strategy to peace is war Killing helpless men, women and children That don't even know what they're dying for We can't trust you when you take a stand With a gun and bible in your hand And the cold expression on your face Saying give us what we want or we'll destroy

Superwoman (Where were you?)

All is Fair in Love

Golden Lady

Part Time Lover

I Was Made to Love Her, among others

'Send One Your Love' from 'Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants'.

Superstition sent me into a frenzy as a 12 year old, still does.

If You Really Love Me

All I Do Is Think About You. Although I like the Tammi Terrell version even better.

You Haven't Done Nothin and Boogie On Reggae Woman

Cant stand him

Lately

I also like Ribbon in the Sky

Until you come back to me

My Cherie Amour

"No New Year's Day...to celebrate..."

Among many others, one little Christmas tree

Higher Ground.

When I came home after my first best friend died in the 1980s, I played "Overjoyed" without realizing what I'd put on. He'd been so sick...blind...his mind gone. I really was happy for him, for the first time in a long time. He no longer had to suffer.

I didn't mean to play it. It just happened.

Heaven Help Us All.

My favorites are If You Really Love Me & My Cheri Amour.

R14 I’m always a little embarrassed that I love that song but I do.

Living for the City.

Another Star

yasssss

Barbra — All Is Fair In Love, 1974.

Glorious.

As

He delivers a driving energy that keeps building. My hips get tired by the end and I’m only stealth rocking.

I like several, but this is the one we need right now.

I don't remember the song names. They were all good on 1974's Fulfillingness' First Finale album.

Golden Lady

My absolute favorite Stevie songs ( the first one being one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard in my life):

1) Never Dreamed You Leave in Summer 2) As 3) Overjoyed 4) Lately 5) Stay Gold 6) Love's in Need of Love Today 7) Happy Birthday (MLK tribute) 8) We Can Work it Out (Beatles cover)

It’s hard to choose, but right now the standouts are “Blame It on the Sun,” “Overjoyed,” “I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will be Forever),” and “Love Light in Flight.”

[quote]Barbra — All Is Fair In Love, 1974. Glorious.

I love the people who post gay versions.

[quote]Saturn. Not even sure why.

That was on a separate 45 record back in its day, along with also very good Ebony Eyes. I'd never seen that before or since.

You are the Sunshine Of My Life and My Cherie Amour are my favorites.

Too many to list all of them. The man owned the Grammys in the early 70s and rightly so. He's a genius. Off the top of my head:

Uptight (Everything's Alright)

Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours

If It's Magic

Maybe Your Baby

Don't You Worry 'bout A Thing

The more I list the more I think of other songs. His catalogue should be the envy of ANYONE south of the Beatles -- and maybe even the Beatles.

R5 here , for DL'er it should maybe be My Cheryl Amour

A most gifted man.

No votes for Jesus Children of America?

Really? But a couple for that pop schlock mess of Sir Duke?

OK then.

Heaven is 10 Zillion Light Years Away.

all of these songs

Many other singers associated with Motown have a quality that keeps their music sounding fresh, almost as if hearing it for the first time (if in reality for the X-hundredth time.) Stevie Wonder though, is played out for me. Seeing him trotted out and propped up, "a living legend," for more than 40 years of a thousand awards shows as a crowd pleaser to fill the time...I've lost my appreciation for Stevie Wonder, or at least the desire to hear him again in my lifetime.

Stevie Wonder is NOT blind.

My absolute favorite Stevie songs were always the 70's funk bangers...Superstition, I Wish, You Haven't Done Nothin', Livin' For the City, Higher Ground. THAT was the Stevie that I really, really loved.

I remember listening to the radio one morning in 1987, trying to drag myself out of bed, and the radio station announced a new Stevie Wonder song, and proceeded to play "Skeletons".

As soon as it started, I felt this instant jolt of energy and thought "he's BACK!" It'd been a long while since he'd done anything that funky. It was definitely a throwback to the style of "You Haven't Done Nothin'". I'd liked a lot of the songs he'd done in the intervening years, but there was also some pretty lame shit (Ebony and Ivory, I Just Called to Say I Love You). I was convinced it was going to be a huge hit, and eventually be regarded alongside the aforementioned classics.

I was wrong. It barely scraped into the top 20, and was quickly forgotten. It was the last time Stevie graced the top 40. The album it came from, "Characters", was his first album in decades not to make the top 10 (although it had a lot of good songs on it: You Will Know, Dark and Lovely, My Eyes Don't Cry, With Each Beat of My Heart). The universe had decided that Stevie's time as a current, culturally relevant artist was ending.

It's still bangs, though.

And the video has Karen Black, a cross-dresser, a young, handsome hunk, and a super brief appearance by John Travolta. What's not to like?

My absolute favorite Stevie songs were always the 70's funk bangers...Superstition, I Wish, You Haven't Done Nothin', Livin' For the City, Higher Ground. THAT was the Stevie that I really, really loved.

I remember listening to the radio one morning in 1987, trying to drag myself out of bed, and the radio station announced a new Stevie Wonder song, and proceeded to play "Skeletons".

As soon as it started, I felt this instant jolt of energy and thought "he's BACK!" It'd been a long while since he'd done anything that funky. It was definitely a throwback to the style of "You Haven't Done Nothin'". I'd liked a lot of the songs he'd done in the intervening years, but there was also some pretty lame shit (Ebony and Ivory, I Just Called to Say I Love You). I was convinced it was going to be a huge hit, and eventually be regarded alongside the aforementioned classics.

I was wrong. It barely scraped into the top 20, and was quickly forgotten. It was the last time Stevie graced the top 40. The album it came from, "Characters", was his first album in decades not to make the top 10 (although it had a lot of good songs on it: You Will Know, Dark and Lovely, My Eyes Don't Cry, With Each Beat of My Heart). The universe had decided that Stevie's time as a current, culturally relevant artist was ending.

It's still bangs, though.

And the video has Karen Black, a cross-dresser, a young, handsome hunk, and a super brief appearance by John Travolta. What's not to like?

Somebody already mentioned "Superstition," so this is my second favorite: "I'll Be Loving You Always."

Another Star

You have all listed my top favorites, but in this moment of heightened political awareness, I need to add Stevie's contribution in support of establishing Martin Luther King Day, 'Happy Birthday'.

There are some great lesser-known gems from the late 60s.

What I love about good 60s Motown how they often start sort of OK...but listen on and slowly they grab you - the hook kicks in and you're on your way.

Yes, "Skeletons" really is a good song. He was mad about Reagan.

Golden Lady.

This performance on the Grammys 2014 shook the room. Stevie Wonder jamming with Pharrell Williams, Daft Punk and Nile Rodgers, a cumulation of their songs, ending in Stevie's Another Star.

I’m with r22 and “Lately”

R57 thanks for posting that one. I'd never heard it before, but I really enjoyed it. His singing on that is fucking amazing. So much vocal charisma, and such interesting note choices. His voice really takes that song to the next level.

He's such a phenomenal instrumentalist and composer, he almost gets taken for granted as a singer, but he's right up there with the very best.

Here's another overlooked gem from the mid-60's period.

My favorite is Superwoman, Where were you? I love how the playful loving Superwoman segues into the wistful and soulful yearning of Where were you?

I can't believe he was only 21 years old when he wrote this album. Stevie ruled the music scene in the 70's.

There's something kind of sexist about Superwoman.

“If it’s magic”

Also “All I Do”, with little Michael Jackson on the chorus.

Can’t forget about the gorgeous Do I Do with a solo by Dizzy Gillespe.

[quote][R57] thanks for posting that one. I'd never heard it before, but I really enjoyed it.

I know Hey Love very well, gurl. Hey...I love it.

Here's another one you might not have heard. This whole album is great. My parents had it so I grew up with it. But this is one of the best. Very mid 60s Stevie.

What's odd is that he sings the line "How could I be so blind?"

[quote]with little Michael Jackson on the chorus

The Jackson 5 also sing backup on "You Haven't Done Nothin" (which went to number 1 on the pop charts and makes me wonder why we can't get great songs on the pop charts anymore).

Ebony and Ivory

Do I do - Original Musiquarium

Stand Back

Edge of Seventeen