Talking Book

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Talking Book
Talking Book.jpg
Studio album by
Stevie Wonder
ReleasedOctober 27, 1972 (1972-10-27)
RecordedMay–July 1972 [1] [2]
Studio
Genre
Length43:29
Label Tamla
Producer
Stevie Wonder chronology
Music of My Mind
(1972)		Talking Book
(1972)		 Innervisions
(1973)
Singles from Talking Book
  1. "Superstition"
    Released: October 24, 1972
  2. "You Are the Sunshine of My Life"
    Released: February 1973

Talking Book is the fifteenth studio album by American singer, songwriter, and musician Stevie Wonder, released on October 27, 1972, by Tamla, a subsidiary of Motown Records. This album and Music of My Mind , released earlier the same year, are generally considered to mark the start of Wonder's "classic period". [6] The sound of the album is sharply defined by Wonder's use of keyboards and synthesizers.

Contents

The album peaked at number three on the Billboard Top LPs chart and finished at number three on Billboard's year-end chart for 1973. "Superstition" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Soul Singles charts, and "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" hit number one on the Hot 100 and Easy Listening charts. Talking Book earned Wonder his first Grammy Award, with "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" winning Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the 16th Grammy Awards; "Superstition" also won Best Male R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B Song. Often included in lists of the greatest albums of all time, Talking Book was voted number 322 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000), [7] and Rolling Stone ranked it number 59 on its list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" in 2020. [8]

Recording

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Wonder c. 1972

As Talking Book saw Wonder enjoying more artistic freedom from Motown and relying less on Motown's head Berry Gordy for musical direction and expression, it is often seen as the beginning of his transition from a youthful prodigy into an independent and experimental artist. Speaking of the album in 2000, Wonder said: "It wasn't so much that I wanted to say anything except where I wanted to just express various many things that I felt—the political point of view that I have, the social point of view that I have, the passions, emotion and love that I felt, compassion, the fun of love that I felt, the whole thing in the beginning with a joyful love and then the pain of love." [9]

The sound of the album is sharply defined by Wonder's keyboard work, especially synthesizers. While the synthesizers give a funky edge to tracks like "Maybe Your Baby", the Hohner Clavinet embellishments on "Big Brother" evoke a six-string acoustic guitar, and the note-bending harmonica work on several tracks touches on some folk and blues influences. Wonder's use of the Clavinet Model C on "Superstition" is widely regarded as one of the definitive tracks featuring the instrument. [5] Wonder played the majority of the instruments on the album himself, but he received some support from such guest musicians as Jeff Beck, Ray Parker Jr., David Sanborn, and Buzz Feiten.

Robert Margouleff and Malcolm Cecil collaborated with Wonder on four of his "classic" albums: Music of My Mind , Talking Book, Innervisions and Fulfillingness' First Finale , as well as several albums by the Isley Brothers and others. Their unusual production technique of using multiple layers of instruments like the Clavinet, Fender Rhodes electric piano, and Arp and Moog synthesizers, rather than the more-typical string orchestra, helped to give Talking Book and these other three albums their distinctive sound.[ citation needed ]

Packaging

The cover of the album features a picture of Wonder with cornrows, wearing Indian jewelry and a velvet kaftan. [10]

The packaging of original pressings [11] of the album incorporated both the album's title and Wonder's name embossed in braille (as well as being printed in English), along with a message that was only embossed in braille until the 2000 release of the album. [12] The message reads:

Here is my music. It is all I have to tell you how I feel. Know that your love keeps my love strong.

— Stevie

Reception

Retrospective professional reviews
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [13]
The Austin Chronicle Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [14]
Christgau's Record Guide A [15]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg[ citation needed ]
The Great Rock Discography 9/10[ citation needed ]
Los Angeles Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [16]
MusicHound Rock 5/5[ citation needed ]
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [17]
Pitchfork 10/10 [18]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [19]

Released after Wonder toured with The Rolling Stones in 1972, Talking Book became a major hit, peaking at number three on the Billboard Pop Albums chart in February 1973, [20] and became the first album by Wonder to reach the top of the Top R&B Albums chart, where it remained for three weeks. [21] The popular appeal of the recording helped destroy the myth that R&B artists were incapable of creating music that could be appreciated by rock audiences, and marked a unique period for R&B artists (especially Motown artists).[ citation needed ] Wonder won three awards for Talking Book at the 1974 Grammys: Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "You Are the Sunshine of My Life", and both Best Male R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B Song for "Superstition". Incidentally, at the same ceremony, Wonder's next album, Innervisions , won Album of the Year, and Talking Book's associate producers, Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff, won the Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical award for their work on that album. [22] Reviewing the album for Rolling Stone at the time of its release, Vince Aletti called Talking Book "ambitious" and "richly-textured", writing that "even at its dreamiest, the music has a glowing vibrancy" and makes for an altogether "exceptional, exciting album, the work of a now quite matured genius". [23] Writing a few years later in The Village Voice about Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life (1976), Robert Christgau said that "Talking Book is closer to a perfect album", as "a more complex and satisfying delight—a delight that combines the freewheeling energy of Dylan and the Stones with the softer accessibility of a Carole King—is provided by an artist with the ambition to ride his own considerable momentum and the talent to do more than just hang on while doing so." [24] In Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Christgau said the album found Wonder taking artistic control and breaking through, continuing his "wild multi-voice experiments" and writing better ballads without losing "his endearing natural bathos"; Christgau also highlighted "Superstition" as a translation of Wonder's "way of knowledge into hard-headed, hard-rocking political analysis". [15] J. D. Considine, in The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), called the album "a pop tour de force". [17]

Talking Book has appeared in professional rankings of the greatest albums of all time. It was voted number 322 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000). [7] In 2003, Rolling Stone ranked it number 90 on the magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time;[ citation needed ] it maintained that ranking on the 2012 version of the list, [25] and was number 59 on the 2020 edition. [26]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Stevie Wonder, unless otherwise noted

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."You Are the Sunshine of My Life" 2:58
2."Maybe Your Baby" 6:45
3."You and I (We Can Conquer the World)" 4:39
4."Tuesday Heartbreak" 3:09
5."You've Got It Bad Girl"
4:55
Total length:22:13
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Superstition" 4:26
2."Big Brother" 3:35
3."Blame It on the Sun"
3:28
4."Lookin' for Another Pure Love"
  • Wonder
  • Syreeta Wright
4:45
5."I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever)"
  • Wonder
  • Yvonne Wright
4:48
Total length:21:16

Personnel

"You Are the Sunshine of My Life"

"Maybe Your Baby"

"You and I (We Can Conquer the World)"

"Tuesday Heartbreak"

"You've Got It Bad Girl"

"Superstition"

"Big Brother"

"Blame It on the Sun"

"Lookin' for Another Pure Love"

"I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever)"

Additional personnel

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [36] Gold50,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [37] Gold100,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

See also

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