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Songs in the Key of Life

Songs in the Key of Life is a landmark album by Stevie Wonder, released on September 28, 1976 (see 1976 in music). A highly ambitious and experimental double LP, Songs in the Key of Life became one of the best-selling albums of his career.

Songs in the Key of Life won a Grammy Award for Pop Male Vocal and Album of the Year. The album also topped Billboard's Pop Albums and Black Albums charts.

Table of contents
1 Track listing
2 Personnel
3 Remakes
4 Charting singles

Track listing

  1. Love's in Need of Love Today (Wonder) - 7:05
  2. Have a Talk With God (Hardaway/Wonder) - 2:42
  3. Village Ghetto Land (Byrd/Wonder) - 3:25
  4. Contusion (Wonder) - 6:23
  5. Sir Duke (Wonder) - 3:45
  6. I Wish (Wonder) - 3:54
  7. Knocks Me off My Feet (Wonder) - 4:12
  8. Pastime Paradise (Wonder) - 3:36
  9. Summer Soft (Wonder) - 3:27
  10. Ordinary Pain (Wonder) - 4:14
  11. Isn't She Lovely (Wonder) - 6:34
  12. Joy Inside My Tears (Wonder) - 6:29
  13. Black Man (Byrd/Wonder) - 8:29
  14. Ngiculela-Es Una Historia-I Am Singing (Wonder) - 3:48
  15. If It's Magic (Wonder) - 3:12
  16. As (Wonder) - 7:08
  17. Another Star (Wonder) - 8:28
  18. Saturn (Sembello/Wonder) - 4:53
  19. Ebony Eyes (Wonder) - 4:08
  20. All Day Sucker (Wonder) - 5:05
  21. Easy Goin' Evening (My Mama's Call) (Wonder) - 3:56

Personnel

Remakes

Charting singles

1976	Another Star	Club Play Singles	        No. 2
1977	Sir Duke	Adult Contemporary	        No. 3
1977	Another Star	Pop Singles	                No. 32
1977	I Wish	        Pop Singles	                No. 1
1977	Sir Duke	Pop Singles	                No. 1
1977	Another Star	Black Singles	                No. 18
1977	As	        Black Singles	                No. 36
1977	I Wish	        Black Singles	                No. 1
1977	Sir Duke	Black Singles	                No. 1
1978	As	        Pop Singles	                No. 36