Songs in the Key of Life



         


Songs in the Key of Life is a landmark album by Stevie Wonder, released on September 28, 1976 (see 1976 in music). A highly ambitious and experimental double LP, Songs in the Key of Life became one of the best-selling albums of his career.

Songs in the Key of Life won a Grammy Award for Pop Male Vocal and Album of the Year. The album also topped Billboard's Pop Albums and Black Albums charts.

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Track listing

  1. "Love's in Need of Love Today" (Wonder) - 7:05
  2. "Have a Talk With God" (Hardaway/Wonder) - 2:42
  3. "Village Ghetto Land" (Byrd/Wonder) - 3:25
  4. "Contusion" (Wonder) - 6:23
  5. "Sir Duke" (Wonder) - 3:45
  6. "I Wish" (Wonder) - 3:54
  7. "Knocks Me off My Feet" (Wonder) - 4:12
  8. "Pastime Paradise" (Wonder) - 3:36
  9. "Summer Soft" (Wonder) - 3:27
  10. "Ordinary Pain" (Wonder) - 4:14
  11. "Isn't She Lovely" (Wonder) - 6:34
  12. "Joy Inside My Tears" (Wonder) - 6:29
  13. "Black Man" (Byrd/Wonder) - 8:29
  14. "Ngiculela-Es Una Historia-I Am Singing" (Wonder) - 3:48
  15. "If It's Magic" (Wonder) - 3:12
  16. "As" (Wonder) - 7:08
  17. "Another Star" (Wonder) - 8:28
  18. "Saturn" (Sembello/Wonder) - 4:53
  19. "Ebony Eyes" (Wonder) - 4:08
  20. "All Day Sucker" (Wonder) - 5:05
  21. "Easy Goin' Evening (My Mama's Call)" (Wonder) - 3:56
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Personnel

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Cover Versions

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Charting singles

1976 Another Star Club Play Singles No. 2 1977 Sir Duke Adult Contemporary No. 3 1977 Another Star Pop Singles No. 32 1977 I Wish Pop Singles No. 1 1977 Sir Duke Pop Singles No. 1 1977 Another Star Black Singles No. 18 1977 As Black Singles No. 36 1977 I Wish Black Singles No. 1 1977 Sir Duke Black Singles No. 1 1978 As Pop Singles No. 36






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