Behind the groove: Innervisions by Stevie Wonder . Premiere December 23, 2009.

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Studio album by Stevie Wonder

Released August 3, 1973

Recorded The Record Plant

(Los Angeles, California)
Media Sound Studios
(New York, New York)

Producer Stevie Wonder

Robert Margouleff
Malcolm Cecil

Innervisions is an album by Stevie Wonder, released on Tamla/Motown on August 3,

1973 (see 1973 in music). A landmark recording, it was the third of five consecutive
albums widely hailed as his "classic period", along with Music of My Mind, Talking
Book, Fulfillingness' First Finale, and Songs in the Key of Life. The nine tracks that
make up Innervisions encompass a wide range of themes and issues: from drug
references in "Too High" and "Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing"; social anger in "Higher
Ground" and "Living for the City"; to love in the ballads "All in Love is Fair" and
"Golden Lady." The album's closer, "He's Misstra Know-It-All", is a scathing attack on
then-U.S. President Richard Nixon, similar to his song "You Haven't Done Nothin'".[1]

Track listing
All songs written, produced and arranged by Stevie Wonder.

Side One
"Too High" – 4:37
"Visions" – 5:22
"Living for the City" – 7:22
"Golden Lady" – 5:00

Side Two
"Higher Ground" – 3:42
"Jesus Children of America" – 4:10
"All in Love Is Fair" – 3:42
"Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing" – 4:44
"He's Misstra Know-It-All" – 5:35

Personnel
Stevie Wonder - vocals, acoustic and Fender Rhodes piano, Clavinet, synthesizers, drums

Wonderlove:
Malcolm Cecil - bass on "Visions"
Dean Parks - acoustic guitar on "Visions"
David "T" Walker - electric guitar on "Visions"
Clarence Bell - organ on "Golden Lady"
Ralph Hammer - acoustic guitar on "Golden Lady"
Larry "Nastyee" Latimer - congas on "Golden Lady"
Scott Edwards - bass on "All in Love Is Fair"
Yusuf Roahman – shaker on "Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing"
Sheila Wilkerson - bongos and Latin gourd on "Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing"
Willie Weeks - bass on "He's Misstra Know-It-All"
with
Lani Groves - background vocals on "Too High"
Tasha Thomas - background vocals on "Too High"
Jim Gilstrap - background vocals on "Too High"
Minnie Riperton - background vocals on "Living for the City", "Don't You Worry 'bout a
Thing"
Deniece Williams - background vocals on "Living for the City", "Don't You Worry 'bout
a Thing"
Syreeta Wright - background vocals on "Living for the City", "Don't You Worry 'bout a
Thing"

Charts
Album – Cashbox Year Chart Position
1973 Pop Albums 1
Album – Billboard Year Chart Position
1973 Black Albums 1
1973 Pop Albums 4
Singles – Billboard Year Single Chart Position
1973 "Higher Ground" Adult Contemporary 41
1973 "Higher Ground" Black Singles 1
1973 "Higher Ground" Pop Singles 4
1973 "Living for the City" Black Singles 1
1974 "Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing" Adult Contemporary 9
1974 "Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing" Black Singles 2
1974 "Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing" Pop Singles 16
1974 "Living for the City" Pop Singles 8