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In honor of #StevieWonder70 one of my favorite lines in the entire music tradition is when Donny Hathaway opens his version of Superwoman--in tribute to Stevie--with "in the Black pool of genius" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld4tpcLU9Rg">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Along with his recognition of Stevie& #39;s "genius" Donny locates it (and himself) in a long tradition, makes both #StevieWonder70& #39;s brilliance and his own tribute communal, rooted in tradition as opposed to just being individual
#StevieWonder70 repays the tribute years later in one of his sets in 2008 in a tribute to #DonnyHathaway, doing a rendition of Donny& #39;s "I Love You More Than You& #39;ll Ever Know" and transitions into "The Ghetto": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqxT3OSpxD4">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
The fact that #StevieWonder70 calls #DonnyHathaway "incredible" in 2008, along with Donny locating #StevieWonder as being "in the Black pool of genius"--their mutual respect and affection for each other--makes me incredibly happy.
I& #39;m going to add this clip of @lalahhathaway doing a version of #StevieWonder70& #39;s Golden Lady to this thread just because y& #39;all know my love for Lalah& #39;s brilliance and commitment to craft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWf6kHVGdWA">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
We also get this treat: Lalah and #StevieWonder70 doing "Where Is The Love" from the brilliant Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack album in 72 (an album I reference regularly on here): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhulWJnUdhY">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
I& #39;ll be posting thoughts and songs in celebration of #StevieWonder70 all day, but on this last post, I really don& #39;t know if we (collectively) understand the GIFT that Lalah Hathaway is to our lives and to the music. Jesus. Speaking of the #BlackPoolOfGenius, she is steeped in it
The album from #StevieWonder70 that sits with me the most, that is most present with me is Talking Book. In the 3 album suite with Where I& #39;m Coming From and Music Of My Mind, it still blows my mind that my man was 21 and 22 when he dropped these albums
Gotta add this moment with #StevieWonder70 and @SheilaEdrummer singing Happy Birthday to @lalahhathaway in 09: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2TKWqX1cus">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Which means of course I have to say #HAPPYBIRTHDAY to #StevieWonder70 who gave us all so much over such a long time. Even his Happy Birthday song--which we never do justice by singing the verses!--was in tribute to Martin Luther King and connected to his pursuit of a King holiday
Here& #39;s #StevieWonder70 with @lalahhathaway and @SheilaEdrummer at that same party doing Glamorous Life, including a wonderful moment with Stevie on harmonica: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLMjyOftxm8">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
And here& #39;s #StevieWonder70 performing Overjoyed at the Library of Congress on the occasion of his having been awarded the Gershwin Prize: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IziIAbG2DSU">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
One of my absolute faves from #StevieWonder70: I Was Made to Love Her, with a heavy focus on The Funk Brothers backing him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4H_pWQaa2I">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Here& #39;s a vid of #StevieWonder70 in the studio with his classic As: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_sG0weS1d8">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
One of my FAVORITE moments on video from #StevieWonder70 is this clip of him on Soul Train: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bldPBR6rOks">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
"I& #39;m telling you people for your information" #StevieWonder70 I was barely on this earf when he made this appearance, but I& #39;m just old enough to remember when people said "for your information" as part of the slang of the day. It was a hilarious phrase!
Here& #39;s #StevieWonder70 and @herbiehancock doing St. Louis Blues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzpYpg1eoCs">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
And of course we have to get the classic All I Do in the #StevieWonder70 rotation. I can& #39;t believe he had this all star rotation singing backing vox for him: Eddie Levert, Betty Wright, Michael Jackson, Walter Williams and Jamil Raheem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bnx_Qwy7w4">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
One of #StevieWonder70& #39;s all time funkiest songs is Maybe Your Baby from Talking Book in 72: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ItPnIG6abg">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
And one of #StevieWonder70& #39;s most hopeful, most idealistic songs is on that same album: I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfDZNwJ3jVU">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
So my first "job" ever was sweeping up, mopping, and taking out the garbage in a record store in Cleveland when I was a shorty and I still have vivid memories of #StevieWonder70& #39;s double album Original Musiquarium being out then. Here& #39;s Ribbon In the Sky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWd1NZckbBs">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
I made all of $2 a day at that job and loved it. Price Rite record store, in the Martin Luther King Plaza on Wade Park in Cleveland. I vividly remember That Girl and Do I Do from that album too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6f6BOKXXxg">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
The guy who owned that record store, Mr. Thomas Wheatt, used to give kids quarters for the video games if they got honor roll or merit roll, so I definitely used to bring my report cards in and play plenty of Pac Man and Centipede and everything else that was out in the early 80s
