Stevie Wonder - Innervisions (1973) Part 1 (Full Album)

Track List: 1-3

1. Stevie Wonder - Too High (0:00)
2. Stevie Wonder - Visions (4:36)
3. Stevie Wonder - Living For The City (10:00)

Innervisions is the sixteenth studio album by American singer, songwriter and musician Stevie Wonder, released August 3, 1973, on the Tamla label for Motown Records, a landmark recording of his "classic period". It is also regarded as Wonder's transition from Little Stevie Wonder and romantic ballads to a more musically mature, conscious and grown-up artist. With Wonder being the first major artist to experiment with the revolutionary TONTO (The Original New Timbral Orchestra) synth, developed by Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff, and the ARP synthesizer on a large scale, Innervisions became hugely influential on the subsequent future of commercial soul and black music.

As with many of Wonder's albums, the lyrics, composition and production of Innervisions are almost entirely his own work, with the ARP used prominently throughout the album. The instrument was a common motif among musicians of the time because of its ability to construct a complete sound environment. Wonder also played all or virtually all instruments on six of the album's nine tracks, making most of Innervisions a representative one-man band.

Innervisions peaked at number four on the Billboard Top LPs & Tapes and number one on the Billboard Soul LPs, eventually finishing at number four on the magazine's Top Pop Albums chart for 1974. At the 16th Grammy Awards, it won Album of the Year and Best Engineered Non-Classical Recording, while "Living for the City" won Best R&B Song. Innervisions is widely considered by fans, critics, and colleagues to be one of Wonder's finest works and one of the greatest albums ever made. It was ranked number 34 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time"

Credits:
Dan Barbiero - Audio Engineer, Recorder
Clarence Bell - Main Personnel, Organ
Mathieu Bitton - Package Design
Malcolm Cecil - Associate Producer, Bass, Engineer, Main Personnel, Producer
Rick Collins - Mastering
Scott Edwards - Bass, Main Personnel
Jim Gilstrap - Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Austin Godsey - Audio Engineer, Recorder
Margaret Goldfarb - Production Coordination
Lani Groves - Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Ralph Hammer - Guitar (Acoustic), Main Personnel
Ralph Hammer - Guitar, Guitar (Acoustic)
John Harris - Coordination
Larry Latimer - Congas, Main Personnel, Percussion, Vocals
Robert Margouleff - ARP Synthesizer, Associate Producer, Electrician, Engineer, Moog Synthesizer, Producer, Programming
Gary Olazabal - Tape Operator
Dean Parks - Guitar, Guitar (Acoustic), Main Personnel
Kevin Reeves - Remastering
Yusuf Roahman - Main Personnel, Percussion
Tasha Thomas - Vocals, Vocals (Background)
David T. Walker - Guitar, Guitar (Electric), Main Personnel
Willie Weeks - Bass, Main Personnel
Sheila Wilkerson - Bongos, Gourd, Main Personnel, Percussion
Efram Wolff - Illustrations
Stevie Wonder - Arranger, Audio Production, Bass, Composer, Drums, Fender Rhodes, Harmonica, Keyboards, Main Personnel, Moog Bass, Moog Synthesizer, Multi Instruments, Piano, Primary Artist, Producer, Vocals, Writer

[katelesage]

He is a wonder. And this whole album was progressive. I was just a kid at the time but I was still impacted forever.

[peterlargent]

This should have a million comments all mr wonders early stuff was 🔥Pete knows

[carlenejenniferroberts]

So many people love you and we can see your kind ❤️

[jaimecueva]

Textured, insightful, rich in inspiration and contemporaneity. Makes you think-feel..."can a place like this exist so beautiful?" WUOU

[carlenejenniferroberts]

Ive always felt i had INNERVISION l can tell who are genuinely good people❤

[carlenejenniferroberts]

I love everything about Stevland
His music🎶 of course but also his kindness, to everyone. I wish all ĥumans had such a good kind nature ❤️

[JoaquimRaminhos]

Stevie's best album ever! With "Talking Book" in a very close second.

[Sharone_GodsChild]

Best Album I've heard that I could play from start to finish and not skip a song .... until I heard an album called "Songs in the key of life". Now I keep both albums in heavy rotation along with another album called "Hotter than July"... #StartToFinishAlbumParty

[davidlees]

Think he wrote all his own music BLIND wot a legend

[peterhoghead]

When I first heard this album age 13/14 the lyrics made perfect sense to me, until a higher percentage of the human race feel the same basically there is no future for the species.

[JohnWilborn-biby]

Tuesday Heartbreak from Talking Book has incredible intro chords.