On this day in music history: August 3, 1973 - “Innervisions, the sixteenth album by Stevie Wonder is released. Produced by Stevie Wonder, Robert Margouleff, and Malcolm Cecil, it is recorded at The Record Plant in Los Angeles, CA and Media Sound Studios in New York City from March - June 1973. Following the major breakthrough success with his previous album “Talking Book, Stevie Wonder will continue his remarkably prolific streak of creativity when he begins work on his next album. Covering a wide variety of social issues and topics from relationships to drug abuse. Wonder will be a virtual one man band, playing nearly all of the instruments on six of the albums nine tracks. Like its predecessor, it will be another artistic and commercial triumph, and is widely regarded as one of Stevie Wonders most important and influential works. It will spin off three hit singles including “Higher Ground (#1 R&B, #4 Pop), “Living For The City (#1 R&B, #8 Pop) and “Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing (#2 R&B, #16 Pop). The album will win three Grammy Awards including Album Of The Year. “Innervisions will spend 2 weeks at number one on the Billboard R&B album chart, and number four on the Top 200.
Posted on: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 20:00:14 +0000
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