Hotter Than July

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List Price: £7.99 (GBP)
  • Lowest New Price: £3.22
  • Lowest Used Price: £1.98
  • Total New: 42
  • Total Used: 9
  • Total Collectible: 0
  • Total Refurbished: 0
  • Artist : Stevie Wonder
  • Binding : Audio CD
  • EAN : 0601215736328
  • Format : Original recording remastered
  • Is Adult Product? : No
  • Label : Universal / Island
  • Manufacturer : Universal / Island
  • Number Of Discs : 1
  • Package Dimensions : 0.40 inches (Height) x 5.50 inches (Length) x 0.20 pounds (Weight) x 4.90 inches (Width)
  • Package Quantity : 1
  • Product Group : Music
  • Publisher : Universal / Island
  • Release Date : 2000-05-08
  • Running Time : 46
  • SKU : S601215736328
  • Studio : Universal / Island
  • UPC : 601215736328

By the time Hotter Than July was released, in 1980, Stevie Wonder's most fertile period was already over. The smash run that began 1972 (Music of My Mind and Talking Book) and ran through Innervisions (1973), Fulfullingness' First Finale (1974) and 1976's Songs in the Key of Life was winding down. There was still enough magic left in Wonder for one last hurrah, however--and while July isn't its forerunner's equal in the heights it scales or consistency, it's still bears the marks of Wonder's best work: there's the regretful "I Ain't Gonna Stand For It", the reggae-crossover "Master Blaster (Jammin')", an oft-imitated classic (see Elvis Costello's "Watching the Detectives", for one); and the enormously successful paean to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., "Happy Birthday". --Randy Silver

- Amazon.co.uk Review

Tracks:

  • Disc 1

    • 1: Did I Hear You Say You Love Me
    • 2: All I Do
    • 3: Rocket Love
    • 4: I Ain't Gonna Stand For It
    • 5: As If You Read My Mind
    • 6: Master Blaster (Jammin')
    • 7: Do Like You
    • 8: Cash In Your Face
    • 9: Lately
    • 10: Happy Birthday

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