Stevie Wonder got his second #1 pop hit with the lead single off his "Talking Book" LP with "Superstition" an incisive and angry sounding song. In very short order, that album provided him with a third #1, the valentine tune "You Are The Sunshine Of My Life".

The unusual intro had vocalists Jim Gilstrap and Gloria Barley open the tune and then Stevie takes over for the rest of the song. It has become such an anthem that it has been recorded by the best in the business, Frank Sinatra, Andy Williams, Liza Minnelli, Johnny Mathis and Tom Jones.

"Talking Book" was the first album of Stevie's new contract that effectively gave him control over everything he did after he discovered that Motown was going to pay him only one million dollars in salary even though he brought thirty million into the Motown coffers.

The song also won him a Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Performance Male. The National Association of Record Merchandisers also awarded him for Best Soul Song, but he turned it down saying "The song wasn't on that should be played for a certain kind of people. All of us can feel love. When music is categorized, yet all of us can relate to it, I wouldn't be thankful for accepting it."

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