Stevie Wonder's Classic Period : The Synths and Sounds of 1972-1976

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• CH

  @Chicago_Podcast_Authority · 3 years ago

  There aren’t nearly enough well made videos talking about Stevie let alone his golden era. Thanks for your work ❤

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• HU

  @husq48 · 2 years ago (edited)

  The seeds were sown on an album prior, "Where I'm Coming From", you could here where he was heading to...

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• PA

  @Paul-h4h3s · 5 months ago

  These 5 albums represent the most creative, innovative, soulful music ever recorded. His melodies, rhythms, chord progressions were timeless.

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• RE

  @redveinborneo4673 · 3 years ago

  I'm just realizing how impossible a task it would have had to have been for a blind guy to fiddle around with such an elaborate, gigantic synth.  Didn't think i could have more respect for Stevie wonder but here we are.  Crazy how much simpler every aspect of recording music has become in a relatively short time.

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• IS

  @issiewizzie · 3 years ago

  this is history

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• WE

  @wertj3977 · 2 years ago

  It's rare for me to find a truly informative video on my favourite artists nowadays, thank you! The moment you started talking mic choices and synths I knew this was going to be a good video! The deepest impression that Stevie's use of synths left on me we're when he'd use two warm pads, one panned left and the other right, playing together in a polyphonic texture. You hear it in the transition during Superwoman, in You and I from talking book, and in They Won't Go When I Go. Knowing that they won't go was written around the same time period, it makes so much sense! I personally love the "sound" and "aesthetics" of Music of my mind the most because of this, whereas the best album ever made being SITKOL of course!

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• MR

  @mr.w4904 · 1 year ago

  Musical genius

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• DF

  @dfreeman120 · 2 years ago

  The clavinet on Superstition is a Hohner model C the red and white one. Totally different from a D 6.

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• JO

  @JoshuaStMoblo · 3 years ago

  These videos are really great, man.  Keep doing them.

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• MU

  @musikman9103 · 2 years ago

  Really good documentary! Also worth mentioning that Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff also worked with the Isley Brothers during their golden period - from 1973's 3+3 album ('That Lady,' 'Summer Breeze,') to the 1976 album Harvest For The World. What a dream team! A shame they  never got fully credited or compensated for all their great work with Stevie.

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• TR

  @travelinman · 4 months ago

  Genius!!

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• JA

  @jayslpstapes519 · 1 year ago (edited)

  At <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx_bowP-lcw&amp;t=284">4:44</a> this is where everyone gets it wrong. Stevie Wonder used a Hohner Clavinet C the older brother to the D6 model everyone was using at the time. Stevie had that Clavinet from 1968 to 1974 replacing it with a D6 but all the early and classic Clavinet sounds you hear out of Stevie was from a Hohner Clavinet C model and the earliest real funk Clavinet sound dates back to 1969 with &quot;The Band&quot; a Canadian rock band. The tune was &quot;up on cripple Creek&quot; off the Self titled &quot;brown album&quot;

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