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| Uptight (Everything's Alright) | ||||
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| Studio album by Stevie Wonder | ||||
| Released | May 4, 1966 | |||
| Recorded | 1965 - 1966 | |||
| Genre | Soul | |||
| Length | 33:16 | |||
| Label | Tamla | |||
| Producer | Henry Cosby, William "Mickey" Stevenson, Clarence Paul, Brian Holland & Lamont Dozier | |||
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Uptight (Everything's Alright) is a 1966 album by US singer Stevie Wonder. It was his fifth studio release.
[edit] Background
Uptight (Everything's Alright) was the breakthrough album for Stevie Wonder, released in 1966 on Motown Records' Tamla label. The album features the U.S. Top 5 single "Uptight (Everything's Alright)", which Wonder co-wrote with Sylvia Moy and Henry Cosby.[2] The tracks on Uptight (Everything's Alright) were the beginning of Wonder's development into a mature recording artist, independent of his earlier "Little Stevie Wonder" moniker and his image as a young Ray Charles imitator.
Also included on the album are "Nothing's Too Good For My Baby", another Wonder-cowrite, and a cover of folk star Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind", which made Wonder popular with crossover audiences,and a cover of the standard, Teach Me Tonight, featuring vocals with Levi Stubbs and The Four Tops.
The album reached No.33 on the Billboard Pop Album charts and No.2 on the R&B Albums charts.[3]
[edit] Track listing
- "Love a Go Go" (Beth Beatty, Ernie Shelby) - 2:46
- "Hold Me" (Morris Broadnax, Clarence Paul, Wonder) - 2:36
- "Blowin' in the Wind" (Bob Dylan) - 3:46
(additional vocals by Clarence Paul) - "Nothing's Too Good for My Baby" (Henry Cosby, Sylvia Moy, Willam "Mickey" Stevenson) - 2:39
- "Teach Me Tonight" (Sammy Cahn, Gene De Paul) - 2:39
(additional vocals by Levi Stubbs of the Four Tops) - "Uptight (Everything's Alright)" (Wonder, Moy, Cosby) - 2:54
- "Ain't That Asking for Trouble" (Moy, Paul, Wonder) - 2:49
- "I Want My Baby Back" (Harvey Fuqua, Cornelius Grant, Eddie Kendricks, Norman Whitfield) - 2:49
- "Pretty Little Angel" (Paul, Mike Valvano, Wonder) - 2:12
- "Music Talk" (Ted Hull, Paul, Wonder) - 2:52
- "Contract on Love" (Janie Bradford, Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland) - 2:06
- "With a Child's Heart" (Vicky Basemore, Cosby, Moy) - 3:08
[edit] References
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