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Written by: Wonder
Produced by: Wonder, Malcolm Cecil, Robert Margouleff
Released: Nov. '72 on Tamla
Charts: 16 weeks
Top spot: No. 1
Wonder debuted this hard blast of funk live while opening for the Rolling Stones in the summer of 1972, intent on expanding his au- dience beyond Motown. The twenty-two-year-old former child star had written it at the drum set, humming the other parts to himself. Wonder had been collaborating with Jeff Beck and initially intended for Beck to record the song, but when Beck hadn't finished his album it became the first single from Talking Book -- and Wonder's first Number One hit in nearly a decade.
Appears on: Talking Book (Motown)