Happy Birthday to you, Stevie Wonder: The story of "Fingertips, Pt. 2"

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Happy Birthday to my favorite musical artist.

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Still amazes me:

SO MANY GREAT SONGS!

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Indeed:

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A nice relative obscurity:

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Another version of same:

EDIT:
This might be my favorite thing he’s done; I hadn’t seen this video until now:

When it gets to the chorus, that just gets me every time…

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Good one; I don’t know too many of his instrumentals, as they didn’t get as much air play.

One of my all time favorites which speaks to my secret inner optimist:

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Sesame Street Superstitious is Best Superstitious.

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One of my favorite uses of Stevie Wonder music in TV

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And something from this millennium:

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When, in1962, we arrived fom England half the music on the radio was familar and half was rather lame. But one day (Jersey City train station) i heard this. At first it was alien; then it was alien but good! That moment has stuck with me.

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In that first video, he comes right back playing in the same key they’ve been in all along, so… the “what key, what key” query seems a bit weird…

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That’s because the performance was supposed to be over, but Stevie started improvising and kept going.

Keeping the song celebration going:

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Ah! Ok…

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I grew up in Stevie Wonder’s heyday, when the Grammy awards (which we watched faithfully) seemed to basically be the Stevie Wonder awards. He deserved them all.

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