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Uptight (Everything's Alright)
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
Stevie Wonder chronology
Stevie at the Beach
(1964)
Uptight (Everything's Alright)
(1966)
Down to Earth
(1966)
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Review scores
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Allmusic 4.5/5 stars[1]

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

  1. "Love a Go Go" (Beth Beatty, Ernie Shelby) - 2:46
  2. "Hold Me" (Morris Broadnax, Clarence Paul, Wonder) - 2:36
  3. "Blowin' in the Wind" (Bob Dylan) - 3:46
    (additional vocals by Clarence Paul)
  4. "Nothing's Too Good for My Baby" (Henry Cosby, Sylvia Moy, Willam "Mickey" Stevenson) - 2:39
  5. "Teach Me Tonight" (Sammy Cahn, Gene De Paul) - 2:39
    (additional vocals by Levi Stubbs of the Four Tops)
  6. "Uptight (Everything's Alright)" (Wonder, Moy, Cosby) - 2:54
  7. "Ain't That Asking for Trouble" (Moy, Paul, Wonder) - 2:49
  8. "I Want My Baby Back" (Harvey Fuqua, Cornelius Grant, Eddie Kendricks, Norman Whitfield) - 2:49
  9. "Pretty Little Angel" (Paul, Mike Valvano, Wonder) - 2:12
  10. "Music Talk" (Ted Hull, Paul, Wonder) - 2:52
  11. "Contract on Love" (Janie Bradford, Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland) - 2:06
  12. "With a Child's Heart" (Vicky Basemore, Cosby, Moy) - 3:08

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