Songs In The Key Of Life [VINYL]

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Greatest Albums of All Time Rolling Stone's definitive list of the 500 greatest albums of all time". Rolling Stone. 2012 . Retrieved September 23, 2019.

Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums 1977". Billboard. November 17, 2007. Archived from the original on November 17, 2007 . Retrieved November 11, 2011. dutchcharts.nl Stevie Wonder – Songs in the Key of Life" (ASP). Hung Medien. dutchcharts.nl . Retrieved April 27, 2014. a b c Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.

Matrix / Runout ((7") Side B Runout Etched Variant 2): #14 T13340 EP 26505 06-D Δ 100706-X JS•2•XTAL PE It went on for two years almost every day, many hours and huge amounts of material. I guess it was really his most prolific time — he did more songs in those two years I think than he had done before. Something like 200 songs. […] Some would be sketched out, some were more finished than others and we just kept working until he had what he wanted. The last song we cut was ‘I Wish’ and that’s what he was waiting for. When that was done we knew that was at least the end of recording. Then began the very long and intricate mixing process.

On release: "Made and distributed by EMI-Bovema Holland" but matrix number & typography is typically for a CBS press. EMI-Bovema press has a matrix which is based on the 5C 156-97900/1 catalogue number. a b "Complete UK Year-End Album Charts". February 2016. Archived from the original on January 11, 2012 . Retrieved April 29, 2014. Matrix / Runout (Side A stamped / etched): 97900-A-0 W. Germany T·13340 C2 2645S 06 XTAL AB [MR] △ 21330 (1) Les Albums (CD) de 1976 par InfoDisc" (in French). infodisc.fr. Archived from the original (PHP) on May 21, 2012 . Retrieved April 23, 2014.

a b c Runtagh, Jordan (September 2016). "Inside Stevie Wonder's Epic Magnum Opus 'Songs in the Key of Life' ". Rolling Stone. Grow, Kory (January 15, 2015). "Stevie Wonder Adds More 'Songs in the Key of Life' Tour Dates". Rolling Stone . Retrieved February 10, 2015. In a 2001 interview with TapeOp, engineer John Fischbach provided some details about the album’s recording sessions: Wonder was again absent from the 19th Grammy Awards ceremony, as he was visiting Africa. In February 1977, he traveled to Nigeria for two weeks, primarily to explore his musical heritage, as he put it. A satellite hook-up was arranged so he could accept his Grammys from across the sea, but when Bette Midler announced the results during the ceremony, the audience was only able to see Wonder at a phone smiling and giving thanks, [30] as the video signal was poor and the audio inaudible. Andy Williams went on to make a public blunder when he asked the blind-since-birth Wonder, “Stevie, can you see us?” [28] In all, Wonder won in four out of the seven categories in which he was nominated at the Grammys that year: Album of the Year, Producer of the Year, Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, and Best Male R&B Vocal Performance (for "I Wish").

Songs in the Key of Life was released as a double LP with a four-song bonus EP. It debuted at number one on the Billboard Pop Albums Chart, becoming only the third album to achieve that feat, and the first by an American artist. [9] Both the lead single " I Wish" and follow-up single " Sir Duke" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. The album spent thirteen consecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard 200, becoming the album with the most weeks at number one during the year, and was the second best-selling album of 1977 in the US. In 2005, the album was certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), indicating sales of 5 million units for a double album. Stevie Goes Platinum" (PDF). Cash Box. July 30, 1977. p.49 . Retrieved November 25, 2021– via World Radio History. From 1973, Wonder's presence at the Grammy Awards ceremonies was consistent – he attended most of the ceremonies and also often performed on stage – but in 1976 he did not attend and was not nominated for any awards, as he had not released any new material during the previous year. When Paul Simon accepted the award for Album of the Year at the 18th Grammy Awards (for Still Crazy After All These Years), he jokingly thanked Stevie for not releasing an album that year, [29] as Wonder had won the award at the two preceding ceremonies (for Innervisions and Fulfillingness’ First Finale). [19] When, a year later, Wonder was again nominated in the category for Songs in the Key of Life (which also received six other nominations), the album was seen as the favorite by many critics to take the award. The other nominees were Breezin’ by George Benson, Chicago X by Chicago, Silk Degrees by Boz Scaggs, and the other favorite, Peter Frampton’s Frampton Comes Alive!, which was also a huge critical and commercial success. Grow, Kory (September 10, 2014). "Stevie Wonder to Take 'Songs in the Key of Life' on the Road". Rolling Stone.I'll never forget the day I bought this album. It was (one of) the first album(s) which had an international release date; that is, the day it was released in the States, it was also released in Germany. The release had been announced and postponed several times since '74. As a result, Stevie Wonder emerged as a mega-star, not only on the merits of the album's content but also by the media fuss created around it. On that day, I ditched school and hitchhiked to Cologne. The last driver dropped me on the highway on the city's outskirts and suddenly the police stopped. Some subterfuge saved me and somehow the whole adventure ended with the cops driving me to the record shop. Matrix / Runout (Side C Runout Etched Variant 10): T13340 C2 2647S EBF 06-A① XTAL FB Δ 21345 HK CBS #13 The 45 finds it's way into the used stores' 45 section often. There are LP covers with and without the 45 'holder' cutaway. norwegiancharts.com Stevie Wonder – Songs in the Key of Life" (ASP). Hung Medien. VG-lista . Retrieved April 27, 2014. LP1 has Seite 1 (Side A) together with Seite 4 (Side D), LP2 has Seite 2 (Side B) with Seite 3 (Side C).

McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1800–present: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–" . Retrieved May 28, 2023. Matrix / Runout (Side A Runout Etched Variant 6 ("10" in circle)): T-13340 C2 2645S EBF C6J 10 XTAL #13 AB Δ 21344 HK Matrix / Runout (Side E runout stamped/etched): 7F 665778-A-0 T13340 EP 2649 06 Δ100679 (2) JS-7-XTAL W. GermanyVote up content that is on-topic, within the rules/guidelines, and will likely stay relevant long-term.