Eivets Rednow (album)

Eivets Rednow (featuring "Alfie")
Studio album by Eivets Rednow (Stevie Wonder)
Released	November 20, 1968
Recorded	1967–68
Genre	R&B
Label	Gordy Records
Producer	Henry Cosby
Eivets Rednow (Stevie Wonder) chronology
Someday at Christmas (1967) Eivets Rednow (1968) For Once in My Life (1968)

Eivets Rednow (prominently featuring "Alfie" by Burt Bacharach and Hal David) is a 1968 instrumental album released by Stevie Wonder under the pseudonym Eivets Rednow on the Gordy (Motown) label. This was Wonder's ninth studio album.

The album was released almost in secret.^{[citation needed]} Because of Motown establishing Wonder as a soul-pop shouter, the label agreed to release the album with Wonder's name backwards. This would be copied by other musicians over the years. Wonder only plays harmonica, drums, and clavinet on this album and doesn't sing on any of the tracks. On some reissues, "How do you spell Stevie Wonder backwards" is printed on the top corner of the album sleeve in small print, serving as a hint to the record buyer.

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Track listing

1. "Alfie" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – 3:14
2. "More than a Dream" – 3:48
3. "A House Is Not a Home" (Bacharach, David) – 3:32
4. "How Can You Believe" – 3:04
5. Medley: "Never My Love/Ask the Lonely" – 2:30
6. "Ruby" – 6:48
7. "Which Way the Wind" – 2:47
8. "Bye Bye World" (Wonder) – 3:21
9. "Grazin' in the Grass" (Harry Elston, Philemon Hou) – 2:57

Personnel

• Stevie Wonder – harmonica, piano, clavinet
• Benny Benjamin – drums
• James Jamerson – bass guitar