One of those songs that just instantly cheers me up and gets me on my feet. Incredibly feel good song with no saccharine included.
I never really noticed it I was watching an episode of Entourage and this song came on near the end of the show as Ari danced with his wife around the car. Happy because he was about to make a new start. I guess you'd have to see it to know what I'm talking about. The thing is it starts with that rhythm guitar kinda shuffle and then just keeps going lifting higher and higher as they say.
I'm a big fan of songs used in TV shows and films and commercials. Sometimes it puts a song in a completely different perspective to what you thought it was. This song had been sitting in my collection for over twenty years and I might have played it maybe once or twice. And after CDs and when programming came along probably not at all.
But I catch it on the TV about six years ago and suddenly it makes sense and becomes one of my favourite songs. And I go out and explore more Stevie Wonder songs and find out what all the fuss was about. I probably stayed away from Stevie because of songs like "Ebony and Ivory" and "I just called to say I love you" which really did my head in I thought they were so bad. So it was great to go back and rediscover his music. I even went so far as to buy some of it on vinyl. To get some kind of authentic feel for soul going.
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