Happy Birthday Stevie!!!
Cosmo
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Yeah, between people arguing about what is good and not good about rap music, and sports, today Stevie turns 60...
He is a true American Treasure. I wrote a little about it Pon De Site...
He is a true American Treasure. I wrote a little about it Pon De Site...
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Wholeheartedly agree with you - incl. your bit about proper crowds losing their minds to As.
Seeing Stevie Wonder live was one of the happiest and most inspiring things I've ever done.
Just realised that the Youtube shows the wrong album for that cut...should be:
Original Musiquarium?
He made Positivity in 2005. It's a great record.
I didnt know he was just 60.
I was going to work with a saying that is something to the effect of "(your) love is like the air I breathe, so unnoticed and so necessary" drawing that parallel but Stevie's music is definitely not "unnoticed" in the slightest.
There were only two other dudes in there. Really really drunk Mexican dudes at the end of the bar. We started trading songs with them, and the Korean lady would occasionally get into the mix and drop some Korean logic on us in between. As the evening wound along, we started buying rounds of drinks for each other, and we were all getting pretty drunk. The only song the Mexican dudes wanted to sing at this point was the Spanish language version of "Feelings". We must have heard them belting that out five times -- Dime, solamente dime -- one of the dudes really got into it.
During the course of that epic trilingual karaoke night, I learned a valuable lesson: I should not try to karaoke to Stevie Wonder's "Living for the City." I do not have the chops. In case you think it won't be that hard, you haven't listened to the song recently with an ear to singing it yourself. There are about seven key changes, each one taking the song higher and higher. By the last verse, it's almost a whole octave higher, and you need either a wicked falsetto or a nutvice to stay on pitch. I had neither.
Towards the end of the night, we found ourselves -- all five of us -- doing a pass the mic bilingual karaoke version of I just called to say I love you. None of us is exactly sure how this happened, but it was without a doubt the most beautiful karaoke moment of my life. [color:white] (yes, even better than that time in Chinatown that the old chinese man put the money into my underpants - but that's a Wham! karoke story, not a Stevie Wonder karaoke story). [/color]
All of this and more, I owe to Stevie Wonder.
Happy 60th birthday.
is he still performing? anyone seen him recently? i'd love to catch him--for some reason i imagine that he'd bring it with a lot more freshness than a lot of the legendary 60s/70s folks these days.
on that note though, Earth Wind & Fire at Jazz Fest kiiiiiiilled it. Jeff Beck was pretty awesome too, with Narada Michael Walden on drums. anyone who reads the Lefsetz letter (i guess probably lots of y'all) has heard all the knob-slobberin, but seriously, he was great.
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My Ch?rie amour will be the opener to my wedding in sept
happy bday to a true
[color:white]This is gonna be sappy, but IDGAF.
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I was getting records together for tonight and threw on the "Do I Do" 12". After it starts, my son says "is this the one that goes..." and starts singing "when I see...you on the street!" right on cue. I have no idea how he even knows it. I've played it maybe 2 times in front of him. Shit is deep.
Someone said Stevie Wonder is the closest thing we have to God on earth. I agree.
On some real shit tho? This kills me every time. Corny video and all.
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Should've been #1 to me.
autotune...
Well, that makes sense haha.
Stern did an excellent interview here...
http://www.howardstern.com/rundown.hs?d=1135746000
Won't spoil it, but he does go into song.
Find the rest on the Tube.