Natural Wonder
Natural Wonder | ||||
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Live album by Stevie Wonder | ||||
Released | November 21, 1995 | |||
Recorded | March and August 1995 | |||
Genre | R&B | |||
Length | 112:18 | |||
Label | Motown | |||
Producer | Stevie Wonder | |||
Stevie Wonder chronology | ||||
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Natural Wonder is a live album by American musician Stevie Wonder, released in 1995 and recorded in Osaka, Japan and Tel Aviv, Israel.[1] The tour featured different symphony orchestras at some venues, conducted by touring conductor Henry Panion III.[2] It is his fourth live album after Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius (1963), Stevie Wonder Live (1970), and Live at the Talk of the Town (also 1970), and his only one as a mature artist.
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Content
The album comprises songs from throughout his career, spanning 1969's My Cherie Amour to 1995's Conversation Peace, in addition to the debut of three new songs – "Dancing to the Rhythm", the Stevie Ray Vaughan tribute "Stevie Ray Blues", and "Ms. & Mr. Little Ones". Wonder also performs "Stay Gold", a song he sang and co-write with composer Carmine Coppola for Coppola's score to The Outsiders.
Track listing
- Disc one
- "Dancing to the Rhythm" – 7:07
- "Love's in Need of Love Today" – 6:02
- "Master Blaster (Jammin')" – 3:36
- "Stevie Ray Blues" – 2:27
- "Higher Ground" – 3:59
- "Rocket Love" – 4:47
- "Stay Gold" – 4:21
- "Ribbon in the Sky" – 8:37
- "Pastime Paradise" – 3:22
- "If It's Magic" – 3:34
- "Ms. & Mr. Little Ones" – 4:17
- "Village Ghetto Land" – 3:26
- "Tomorrow Robins Will Sing" – 4:20
- Disc two
- "Overjoyed" – 3:59
- "My Cherie Amour" – 3:20
- "Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours" – 2:45
- "Living for the City" – 4:26
- "Sir Duke" – 2:46
- "I Wish" – 4:06
- "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" – 2:21
- "Superstition" – 5:37
- "I Just Called to Say I Love You" – 4:38
- "For Your Love" – 5:06
- "Another Star" – 5:55
Personnel
- Stevie Wonder – vocals, keyboards, grand piano, harmonica
Band
- Herman Jackson – keyboards
- Isaiah Sanders – keyboards
- Rick Zunigar – guitars
- Nathan Watts – bass, musical director
- Gerry Brown – drums
- Munyungo Jackson – percussion
- Keith John – backing vocals
- Panzie Johnson – backing vocals
- Marva King – backing vocals
Orchestra
- Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
- Paul Riser – orchestrations and arrangements
- Dr. Henry Panion, III – conductor
- Fredrick Charley – orchestra librarian
- Steve Torok – orchestra librarian
Production
- Stevie Wonder – producer, arrangements
- Peter Edmonds – production manager
- George Packer – production manager
- Danny Leake – recording engineer, FOH engineer
- Tohru "Kiku" Kikuchi – system engineer
- Gary Adante – editing, mixing
- Robert A. Arbittier – editing, mixing
- Chris Bellman – mastering at Bernie Grundman Mastering (Hollywood, California)
- Brian O'Neal – liner notes
- Jackie Salway – art direction, design
- James Minchin III – photography
- David Safian – photography
- Eddie Wolfl – photography
References
- v
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- The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie
- Tribute to Uncle Ray
- With a Song in My Heart
- Stevie at the Beach
- Up-Tight
- Down to Earth
- I Was Made to Love Her
- Someday at Christmas
- Eivets Rednow
- For Once in My Life
- My Cherie Amour
- Signed, Sealed & Delivered
- Where I'm Coming From
- Music of My Mind
- Talking Book
- Innervisions
- Fulfillingness' First Finale
- Songs in the Key of Life
- Hotter than July
- In Square Circle
- Characters
- Conversation Peace
- A Time to Love
- Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius
- Stevie Wonder Live
- Live at the Talk of the Town
- Natural Wonder
- Stevie Wonder's Journey Through "The Secret Life of Plants"
- The Woman in Red
- The Last Dragon
- Jungle Fever
- Looking Back
- Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium I
- Song Review: A Greatest Hits Collection
- At the Close of a Century
- The Definitive Collection
- The Complete Stevie Wonder
- "Fingertips"
- "Hey Harmonica Man"
- "Uptight (Everything's Alright)"
- "With a Child's Heart"
- "Blowin' in the Wind"
- "A Place in the Sun"
- "Someday at Christmas"
- "Hey Love"
- "I Was Made to Love Her"
- "I'm Wondering"
- "Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day"
- "You Met Your Match"
- "Alfie"
- "For Once in My Life"
- "I Don't Know Why"
- "My Cherie Amour"
- "Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday"
- "Never Had a Dream Come True"
- "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours"
- "Heaven Help Us All"
- "We Can Work It Out"
- "Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer"
- "If You Really Love Me"
- "What Christmas Means to Me"
- "Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You)"
- "Superstition"
- "You Are the Sunshine of My Life"
- "Higher Ground"
- "Living for the City"
- "Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing"
- "He's Misstra Know-It-All"
- "You Haven't Done Nothin'"
- "Boogie On Reggae Woman"
- "I Wish"
- "Sir Duke"
- "Another Star"
- "As"
- "Pops, We Love You (A Tribute to Father)"
- "Send One Your Love"
- "Master Blaster (Jammin')"
- "I Ain't Gonna Stand for It"
- "Lately"
- "Happy Birthday"
- "That Girl"
- "Ebony and Ivory"
- "Do I Do"
- "Ribbon in the Sky"
- "Front Line"
- "I Just Called to Say I Love You"
- "Love Light in Flight"
- "Part-Time Lover"
- "That's What Friends Are For"
- "Go Home"
- "Overjoyed"
- "Stranger on the Shore of Love"
- "Skeletons"
- "You Will Know"
- "Get It"
- "Gotta Have You"
- "For Your Love"
- "So What the Fuss"
- "From the Bottom of My Heart"
- "All About the Love Again"
- "Faith"
- "Can't Put It in the Hands of Fate"
- "My Love"
- "How Come, How Long"
- "California Roll"
- "You and I (We Can Conquer the World)"
- "I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever)"
- "Golden Lady"
- "All in Love Is Fair"
- "They Won't Go When I Go"
- "Love's in Need of Love Today"
- "Knocks Me Off My Feet"
- "Pastime Paradise"
- "Isn't She Lovely"
- "Black Man"
- "We Are the World"
- "Just Good Friends"
- "Seasons of Love"
- "True to Your Heart"
- "Stop Trying to Be God"
- "It's a Shame"
- "Tears of a Clown"
- "Tell Me Something Good"
- "Uptown Festival"
- "Let's Get Serious"
- "You're Supposed to Keep Your Love for Me"
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