Tuesday, 24 May 2011

Stevie Wonder - Overjoyed (1986)

The song was written first for the 1979 album Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants, but was left off the album, and re-recorded for In Square Circle. In the liner notes for the song, "crickets, nightingale & additional bird sounds, ocean, pebbles in pond, stone dropped, crushing leaves" are listed under "environmental percussion". Indeed.


And just for added variety, the original first take:





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