| Signed, Sealed and Delivered |  | Artist: Stevie Wonder
Label: Motown
Category: Music
Buy Used: $11.98
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 830856
Media: Vinyl
UPC: 050109517619
EAN: 0050109517619
ASIN: B00008FEZZ
Publication Date: 1970
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| Tracks:
| • | Never Had a Dream Come True | | • | We Can Work It Out | | • | Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours | | • | Heaven Help Us All | | • | You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover | | • | Sugar | | • | Don't Wonder Why | | • | Anything You Want Me to Do | | • | I Can't Let My Heaven Walk Away | | • | Joy (Takes over Me) | | • | I Gotta Have a Song | | • | Something to Say |
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 First Class Delivery February 14, 2001
Thomas Magnum (NJ, USA)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Signed, Sealed & Delivered is a great album from Stevie Wonder. The title track is among his most popular with its ringing guitars, blazing horns, southern fried sound and fiery vocals it is a r&b classic. Many of the songs point towards his movement into more social and political commentary. His cover of the Beatles' "We Can Work It Out" turns it from a song about a love relationship into a song about racial unity. "Never Had A Dream Come True" is another song about inequality. The album's most moving and emotional song is "Heaven Help Us". The song has a powerful orchestral movement and is a plea for change. The album showed a more mature artist and is a forerunner of the work he would explore later in the decade.
 A hidden gem in Stevie's catalog! October 9, 2005
D. Lee (Baltimore, Md United States)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Man this album is good! I mean really, really good! When you open up the cd case, in the upper right hand corner of the cover it reads, "The Motown Sound", which basically means that you are in for a taste of the world's greatest rhythm section and some of the catchiest and most infectious harmonies ever captured on record (of which The Funk Brothers, led by bass virtuoso James Jamerson, were primarily responsible). But of course, that goes without saying if you're at all familiar with Motown. I basically assumed that all of Stevie's albums prior to re-negotiating his contract and gaining full creative control over his material pretty much had the same flaw that many Motown albums from that period had: several brilliant outstanding singles with some left over material used to fill the album out. That is NOT the case with this outstanding piece of work. Don't let that cheesy album cover turn you away, because this is a young Stevie Wonder in top form here, which means that this is likely one of the greatest albums that you'll ever hear. Not that there is no filler at all but even the "lesser" material here, and there is very little (two songs tops) , are still solid efforts. Stevie Wonder is probably the single greatest composer/songsmith in the history of popular music, not to mention one of the greatest vocalists. There may not be a whole lot here in terms of innovation, especially compared to his later work, but Stevie's sense of song here is so incredibly strong that he excels in every aspect of songcraft to the point that I have to simply sit back and marvel. Just listen to everything about "Sugar", especially Stevie's drumming...!!! Songs on this album range from the warm, melodic, and contemplative "Never had a Dream Come True" and "Heaven Help us All" to the hard rockin' "Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm yours" and his outstanding cover of The Beatles' "We Can Work It Out". Most Beatles covers by other artist leave much to be desired to put it kindly, but Stevie not only matches The Beatles here, he and The Funk Brothers actually manage to out do their original. Other highlights include "Anything you want me to do" which once again makes me marvel and wonder how it is even humanly possible for someone to have such a strong basic sense of melody (the same can easily be said of the absolutely phenomenal "Something to Say"), and the near awe-inspiring "Joy". This album is not as groundbreaking or innovative as some of his work, but it's still extremely solid, and easily just as essential as some of his later work from the 70's. So, you're in for a real treat if you make it a part of your collection.
Classic Motown sound May 13, 2004
zeca azevedo
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I really love this album. NEVER HAD A DREAM COME TRUE, HEAVEN HELP US ALL, SIGNED SEALED & DELIVERED, WE CAN WORK IT OUT and SUGAR are Soul/Pop masterpieces. This is a true gem, one of the last Motown albums that sounds like classic Motown. Truly wonderful, in spite of the album cover.
SW's best from this period January 10, 2002
The Feefmeister (underwater)
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
I like all of SW's albums from the late sixties and early seventies but think this one is the best. Highly recommended if you like SW's joyous, uplifting, three-minute pop songs of that period.
Stevie Wonder At The Crossroads October 20, 2005
Andre S. Grindle (Brewer Maine)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I am almost a Stevie Wonder completist,strictly on the basis I think most of his music is brilliant.But listening to this album even so 'Signed Sealed Delivered' is a transitional recording."Never Had A Dream Come True" starts of the album and it has the same musical sound as standard Funk Brothers-style Motown but more of Wonder's individual flair for melody comes through.The exact same thing happens on "I Gotta Have A Song" and "Sugar",which is a more uptempo song.Some of the songs here are pure varitations on the classic title song like the quircky "I Can't Let My Heaven Walk Away" but the two tracks that stand right out are "Heaven Help Us All",Wonder's first self written stab at political commentary with very heavy gospel overtones.This album could hardly be called a brilliant masterstroke because Stevie Wonder was still working the last remaining threads of his assembly line-type Motown style music out of his system and this happens on a significant number of cuts.But when he whips his funky clavinet out on the grooving version of "You Can't Judge A Book By It's Cover" the times for Wonder are a-changin'.
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