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Strong Songs

"I Wish" by Stevie Wonder

Strong Songs

Kirk Hamilton

Music Commentary, Music, Musicreviews

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Ever wish you could just be a kid again? Stevie does. STRONG SONGS ON PATREON Strong Songs has a Patreon! If you liked this episode (or, you know, any of them), we hope you'll consider supporting the show. Learn more here: https://www.patreon.com/strongsongs THE JOY THE DAY WOULD BRING Kirk breaks out the bass and digs into what makes Stevie Wonder's "I Wish" swing like it does, then looks back to some earlier Wonder tunes to guess at why his funkiest stuff tended to be in E-flat. Band/Artist: Stevie Wonder Album: Songs in the Key of Life, 1976 Composed by: Stevie Wonder Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify ------ ALSO FEATURED: "Superstition" by Stevie Wonder, from Talking Book, 1972 Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify "Higher Ground" by Stevie Wonder, from Innervisions, 1973 Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify "Wild Wild West" by Will Smith, Moe Dewese, Rob Fusari, and Stevie Wonder, from Willennium, 1999 Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify Classic Albums: Songs in the Key of Life: Amazon NEWSLETTER/MAILING LIST Sign up for Kirk's mailing list to start getting monthly-ish newsletters with music recommendations, links, news, and extra thoughts on new Strong Songs episodes: https://kirkhamilton.substack.com/subscribe STRONG MERCH! Visit the Strong Songs merch store for some very cool t-shirts, mugs, totes, and more: store.strongsongspodcast.com

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to Strong Songs a podcast about music. I am your host

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Kirk Hamilton and I'm so glad that you've joined me to talk about another very strong song.

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I've actually been surprised at how many people have been listening and that's been really really cool.

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Thank you so much everyone who's emailed and sent in a suggestion or some feedback.

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I've really appreciated it.

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I've also learned that one of the coolest things about doing a podcast about good songs is that people

0:34.4

will write you emails and send you tweets and they'll just send you their favorite music.

0:39.3

And so then you get to check out their favorite music, which is really cool.

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A lot of the times, you know know I've heard the stuff that people

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have sent in but sometimes I haven't and I've been discovering some very good bands just

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because people send them in so thanks everybody who sent something in. As always you can

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