Wonderful set of stories about Stevie Wonder’s harmonica playing. There’s no denying that Wonder’s harmonica sound is unique but I bet you haven’t given much thought as to why (I hadn’t). Well, these folks have.
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Prominent Motown studio musician and Funk Brothers member Bob Babbitt, whose bass playing pounded through the Temptations hit “Ball of Confusion” and Marvin Gaye’s “Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology),” has died. He was 74.
Babbitt died Monday of complications from brain cancer in Nashville, Tenn., where he had lived for many years, his manager David Spero said in a statement released by Universal Music, the label in which Babbitt contributed to numerous hit records.
J.I.P. (jam in peace) Bob Babbitt. Babbitt performed the bassline in Stevie Wonder’s “Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours.”
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Just got back from a minor league baseball game. Our team won 15-2, so that was fun.
The game was made even more enjoyable by the fact that the walk-out song for one of our players was “Superstition” by Stevie Wonder. Or, to be more specific, it was the very beginning with the drums and clavinet. So, here for you is Stevie Wonder performing “You Are the Sunshine of My Life” and “Superstition” at a concert in London in 1995.
Seriously, does it get any better than that clavinet riff?
Yes, it does, because the vocal riffing at the very end is whoa-mazing.
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