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| Stevie Wonder - Greatest Hits | 
 enlarge | Artist: Stevie Wonder
Label: Motown
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 241792
Media: Audio CD
UPC: 737463028226
EAN: 0737463028226
ASIN: B000001A61
Release Date: May 14, 1991
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| Tracks:
| • | Uptight (Everything's Alright) | | • | I'm Wondering | | • | I Was Made to Love Her | | • | Hey Love - Stevie Wonder, Broadnax, Morris | | • | Blowin' in the Wind - Stevie Wonder, Dylan, Bob | | • | A Place in the Sun - Stevie Wonder, Miller, Ron [1] | | • | Contract on Love - Stevie Wonder, Bradford, Janie | | • | Work Out Stevie, Work Out | | • | Fingertips, Pt. 2 | | • | Castles in the Sand - Stevie Wonder, Davis, Hal | | • | Hey Harmonica Man - Stevie Wonder, Cooper, Marty | | • | Nothing's Too Good for My Baby |
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Motown had little idea what to do with the young Stevie Wonder, as this remaster of his first Greatest Hits album makes plain. A (great) novelty instrumental, "Fingertips, Part 2," provided Wonder's first hit in 1963, so the company's production line ran the concept into the ground with campy pieces like "Hey Harmonica Man" and "Work Out Stevie, Work Out." Fortunately, the selections here also include the killer singles that appeared after his work righted itself: "Uptight (Everything's Alright)," "I Was Made to Love Her," and Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind." A mixed bag, but an intriguing look at how this eventual great artist survived the marketplace in his early years. --Rickey Wright
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 His Early Hits Obviously Aren't What Made Him Great March 8, 1999
10 out of 14 found this review helpful
I just purchased this CD at the local Border's outlet....and I still think I spent too much. Outside of "Uptight" and "I Was Made To Love Her" there isn't much here to recommend. Do as I should and get his later compilations
Early Wonder February 14, 2001
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This greatest hits album collects Stevie Wonder's first hits from 1963 to 1967. The only song that really standouts from when he was known as Little Stevie Wonder is the explosive live performance of "Fingertips" which went to number one. The other songs from that time like "Workout Stevie, Workout" try to capture that explosiveness, but don't manage to find it. As he got older and matured, so did his music and the songs started to show off his immense talents. "Uptight" is a pure classic as is "I Was Made To Love Her". He also started to develop and show a social conscious side with the brilliant "A Place In The Sun" and he takes Bob Dylan's folk anthem "Blowin' In The Wind" and turns it into a call and response, gospel flavored number.
Great CD, Great March 22, 1999
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is a wonderful CD if you are a Stevie Wonder fan, and even if you aren't.
 Greatest Hits, yes, but things were only beginning March 15, 2004
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In its original vinyl incarnation (as Tamla LP 282) this appeared in April 1968. It carried a good overview of Wonder's singles output from "Contract On Love" (12/26/62) through "I'm Wondering" (9/14/67). Everything that's here is great, and shows Stevie's child voice maturing into the assured masculine adult one we've come to know since. And the hits are solid, a heaping helping of the kind Motown turned out on all its' artists in the production line days. By the time of "Uptight" and especially "I Was Made To Love Her" Wonder was another full-fledged confident star, the same one he is today.Not everything, however, from this maturation period was included in these 12 tracks. There were some commercially failed but interesting singles that didn't make the cut: "I Call It Pretty Music But The Old People Call It The Blues," a two-part single (Tamla 54061) from May 1962, "Happy Street" (Tamla 54103, September 1964), "Kiss Me Baby" (Tamla 54114, May 1965) and "High Heel Sneakers" (Tamla 54119, 7/23/65). Hard-core Wonder fans have their work cut out for them seeking these even on vinyl, let alone CD. One could carp too, that "Fingertips" isn't in its full seven-minute length here; after all, Part 1 was no slouch, either. ("Someday At Christmas" was a 45 too, Tamla 54142, in time for the '66 season.) And by the by, the last Wonder single to feature "Little" in front of his name was "Castles In The Sand" (Tamla 54090, 1/16/64); "Hey Harmonica Man" (Tamla 54096, 5/21/64) was the first without it. What's to be hoped for is that Stevie and Motown would consider re-issuing, in CD form, his 3-LP set from 1977, "Looking Back." It was essentially Stevie's entry in Motown's superb (and first) Anthology series on all the company's major artists. Ideally, a CD version would carry all 40 tracks that the three records did plus the missing nuggets mentioned above. (And, please, don't forget "Purple Rains Drops" this time around, either.) I'm glad I grabbed the vinyl version when I did; I've read elsewhere that Wonder had it quickly withdrawn. We'll see.
WOW! August 25, 2003
Motown was still "The Sound of Young America" and Wonder was only just stepping out from under the "Little Stevie Wonder" nickname when his first Greatest Hits package was released in 1968, but he had already demonstrated enough of the multi-talent genius that would make him one of the true giants of popular music to fill the album with great, great records.There are some of the classic Motown singles from his early days---"Contract on Love" and the incindiary "Fingertips" (has there ever been a more electric live recording? I love hearing the piano player trying to figure out what key Wonder's harmonica solo is being played in)---and a whole mess of songs from his incredible mid-60s stretch: "Uptight," "I Was Made To Love Her," and my favorite, "A Place In The Sun." Buy this CD, GREATEST HITS VOL. 2, and both volumes of ORIGINAL MUSIQUARIUM to build an overview of one of America's true musical geniuses.
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