Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius

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Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius
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Live album by
Little Stevie Wonder
ReleasedMay 21, 1963 [1]
RecordedJune 1962
Venue Regal Theater, Chicago
Genre Soul
Length23:36
Label Tamla
Producer Berry Gordy [1]
Little Stevie Wonder chronology
Tribute to Uncle Ray
(1962)		Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius
(1963)		 With a Song in My Heart
(1963)
Singles from Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius
  1. "Fingertips"
    Released: May 21, 1963 [1]
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Tom Hull B+ ( Five Pointed Star Solid.svg Five Pointed Star Solid.svg ) [3]
New Record Mirror Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]

Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius is the first live album by Little Stevie Wonder. The album was released on the Tamla record label (catalog #240) in May 1963, the same month as the single release of "Fingertips" (catalog #54080). [1] "Fingertips" topped both the Billboard Hot 100 chart and the R&B Singles chart, [5] and Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius topped the Billboard 200, [6] all of which happened in 1963. This is the last album to use the "Little" in Stevie Wonder's name. Starting with the next album, he would go by the name of just "Stevie Wonder." Wonder was the second and youngest solo artist to chart on the Billboard Top LPs under the age of 18. He was only 13 years old when that occurred. [7]

Contents

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Little Stevie on:Length
1."Fingertips"
 bongos, harmonica and vocals 6:40
2."Soul Bongo"
bongos3:01
3."La La La La La"Paul drums and vocals2:34
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Little Stevie on:Length
1."(I'm Afraid) The Masquerade Is Over"
vocals5:13
2."Hallelujah I Love Her So" Ray Charles piano and vocals2:48
3."Drown in My Own Tears" Henry Glover vocals3:23
4."Don't You Know"
piano and vocals3:19

Chart positions

Chart performance for Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius
YearChartPosition
1963Billboard Pop Albums (Billboard 200) [2] 1

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 The Definitive Collection (CD liner). Stevie Wonder. United States: UTV Records/Motown Records. 2002. p. 10. 440 066 164-2.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  2. 1 2 Unterberger, Richie (n.d.). "Stevie Wonder – The 12 Year Old Genius". AllMusic . RhythmOne . Retrieved July 4, 2023.
  3. ↑ Hull, Tom (November 2013). "Recycled Goods (#114)". A Consumer Guide to the Trailing Edge. Tom Hull. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  4. ↑ Watson, Jimmy (September 14, 1963). "Little Stevie Wonder: Recorded Live, The Twelve Year Old Genius" (PDF). New Record Mirror . No. 131. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 8, 2022. Retrieved August 6, 2022.
  5. ↑ "Stevie Wonder - Billboard Singles". Allmusic . United States: Rovi Corporation . Retrieved November 25, 2010.
  6. ↑ "Stevie Wonder - Billboard Albums". Allmusic . United States: Rovi Corporation . Retrieved November 25, 2010.
  7. ↑ Lynch, Joe (April 29, 2015). "Solo Artists Who Scored a No. 1 Album Before Turning 18". Billboard. Retrieved May 23, 2021.
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