That Girl (Stevie Wonder song)

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"That Girl"
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Single by Stevie Wonder
from the album Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium I
B-side "All I Do"
ReleasedDecember 30, 1981
RecordedFall 1981
Studio Wonderland (Los Angeles, California)
Genre Electropop, R&B
Length5:13
Label Tamla
Songwriter(s) Stevie Wonder
Producer(s) Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder singles chronology
"Did I Hear You Say You Love Me"
(1981)
"That Girl"
(1981)
"Do I Do"
(1982)

"That Girl" is a song by American R&B singer and songwriter Stevie Wonder. It was the leading single from Wonder's album-era 1982 greatest-hits compilation, Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium I , as one of four new songs from the collection. The song spent nine weeks at number one on the Billboard R&B singles chart, the longest time a Stevie Wonder single spent at the top spot. [1] It also peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 for three consecutive weeks from March 20 to April 3, 1982. [2] [3]

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Charts

Other versions

The song was sampled into other recordings, most notably:

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