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1980 studio anthology by Stevie Wonder

Hotter than July
Hotter July.jpg
Studio anthology past

Stevie Wonder
Released September 29, 1980
Recorded 1979–1980
Studio Wonderland (Los Angeles, California)
Genre
  • Pop
  • R&B
  • funk[ane]
  • jazz[2]
Length 45:52
Label Tamla
Producer Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder chronology
Journey through the Secret Life of Plants
(1979) 		Hotter than July
(1980) 		Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium I
(1982)
Singles from Hotter than July
  1. "Master Blaster (Jammin')"
    Released: September 1980
  2. "I Own't Gonna Represent Information technology"
    Released: October 1980
  3. "Lately"
    Released: January 1981
  4. "Happy Birthday"
    Released: April 1981
  5. "Did I Hear You lot Say You Dearest Me"
    Released: July 1981

Hotter than July is the nineteenth studio anthology past American singer, songwriter and musician Stevie Wonder, originally released on Motown'due south Tamla label on September 29, 1980. The recording sessions were primarily washed at Wonderland Studios, which Wonder had recently acquired, in Los Angeles where he became responsible for writing, producing and arranging his ain material for the new anthology.[3]

Following the commercial and critical disappointment of Wonder's Journey through the Cloak-and-dagger Life of Plants, Wonder felt struggle at the turn of the new decade.[iv] He insisted to the media that Journeying through the Hugger-mugger Life of Plants was not as critically acclaimed as his albums during his "classic menses" considering of Motown'southward weak promotion for the album.[v]

Hotter than July peaked at number three on the Billboard Top LPs & Tapes and was certified Platinum by the Recording Manufacture Association of America (RIAA) on February 3, 1981. Information technology was Wonder's most successful album in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, peaking at number two on the U.k. Albums Chart and producing four top 10 singles there. The first, third and fourth single were released with music videos.[6]

Hotter than July was nominated for Favorite Soul/R&B Anthology at the 1982 American Music Awards. Writing for The Rolling Rock Album Guide (2004), J. D. Considine found the album "buoyantly tuneful" and said fans viewed information technology as a return to form subsequently the commercial disappointment of Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants.[7]

Background [edit]

The commercial failure of his concluding album Journeying through the Secret Life of Plants with only one single "Send One Your Honey" making the top 5 of the Billboard charts left Stevie Wonder struggling at the plough of the new decade.[four] [eight] He let the media know that he felt that Motown had not promoted the album very well.[5] His talents kept him busy when he co-wrote the vocal "Let's Get Serious" with Lee Garrett for Jermaine Jackson's 1980 album of the same proper name and another with Eric Mercury called "You Are My Sky" which became a success for Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway on Atlantic Records. During this time of upheaval, he was besides in demand every bit a invitee artist on many other albums ranging from the likes of B.B. King, James Taylor, Quincy Jones and Smokey Robinson amid others.[8]

Wonder finally began piece of work on a new album which was to be titled Hotter than July.[viii] Inspired past his love for reggae music from meeting Bob Marley, Wonder was encouraged to write the first track, "Master Blaster (Jammin')", after their performance at the Black Music Association in Philadelphia in 1979.[ix] [10] The recording sessions were primarily done at Wonderland Studios in Los Angeles (which Wonder had recently acquired) where he became responsible for writing, producing and arranging his own material for the new album.[3]

Inspired by the growing popularity of Bob Marley'south music and its clear letters against war, "Main Blaster (Jammin')" (US No. 5; R&B No. 1) was Wonder's style of honoring Marley. The state-tinged "I Ain't Gonna Stand for Information technology" (U.S. No. 11; R&B No. 4), the ballad "Lately" (U.S. No. 64) and the upbeat "Happy Birthday" were other notable successes from the album. In the UK, all four singles reached the summit ten, with the kickoff and final releases peaking at No. ii in the charts.[eleven]

Track ii, "All I Do", had originally been written by a teenaged Wonder and collaborators Clarence Paul and Morris Broadnax in 1966. Tammi Terrell recorded the original version of the vocal that twelvemonth, but her version never saw release in her lifetime and remained in the Motown vaults until it was posthumously included on the compilation A Cellarful of Motown! in the UK in 2002, 32 years subsequently her death.This version was sampled by the British rapper Artcha on Proficient Love from the album Breakthrough Bound. Brenda Holloway also recorded a version that was released on her Motown Anthology set in 2005. Michael Jackson, Eddie Levert and Walter Williams of the O'Jays, and Betty Wright provided backing vocals for the song on Wonder's anthology. Charlie and Ronnie Wilson of the GAP Ring, handled backing vocals for "I Ain't Gonna Stand for It". Wonder'southward ex-wife Syreeta also shows up on "Every bit If Y'all Read My Mind".

Despite the wide disquisitional acclaim for Wonder's previous works such as Songs in the Key of Life and Innervisions, Hotter than July was his showtime album eligible for platinum status, every bit Motown sales records before 1977 were not audited by the RIAA.

Sleeve liner design and Martin Luther Rex 24-hour interval activism [edit]

Wonder wrote "Happy Birthday" in club to honor Martin Luther Rex Jr. and used the song to campaign for Male monarch'due south birthday, January 15, to become a national holiday in the United states of america (Martin Luther King Jr. Mean solar day would be declared a federal vacation in 1983, beginning celebrated in 1986). The sleeve liner pattern (of the 1980 Motown LP issue) is entirely defended to these 2 purposes. Both sides are printed in a black-and-white semi-glossy photographic process. I side features a large square photograph portrait of Male monarch inset on a blackness background with white lettering higher up and below. Above the photo is printed "Martin Luther King, Jr." "Jan 15, 1929 -- April 4, 1968" (on two lines, centered), and below it appears a passage of text written by Wonder. The text below the photo reads:

Information technology is believed that for a human to lay downwards his life for the beloved of others is the supreme sacrifice. Jesus Christ by his own case showed us that there is no greater honey. For about ii thousand years now we take been striving to take the strength to follow that example. Martin Luther King was a man who had that strength. He showed usa, non-violently, a better manner of life, a way of mutual respect, helping us to avoid much bitter confrontation and inevitable mortality. We still have a long road to travel until we reach the world that was his dream. We in the The states must not forget either his supreme sacrifice or that dream.

I and a growing number of people believe that it is fourth dimension for our country to prefer legislation that will make January 15, Martin Luther King's birthday, a national holiday, both in recognition of what he achieved and as a reminder of the distance which yet has to exist traveled.

Join me in the observance of Jan xv, 1981 as a national vacation.
Stevland Morris a/chiliad/a Stevie Wonder

To the right of this text is a thumbprint, presumably Stevie Wonder's (Stevland Morris's), serving as his signature.

On the other side of the sleeve is a collage of v historical photos. Ii images, one above the other, form the groundwork. The top paradigm shows an aerial view of a low-lying urban area with a six-lane highway passing through information technology and thick smoke rising from many of the buildings on both sides of the highway—apparently a riot scene. The lesser paradigm shows a confrontation, in an urban street four of five lanes broad, betwixt a large grouping of African Americans standing in not-violent disobedience and police force enforcement officers with white helmets and weapons who are manifestly advancing on them. The other iii, smaller photos are laid out horizontally across the midline where the background images meet and are about 40% of the tiptop of the sleeve. In the center is a wide rectangular photo of a large peaceful sit-in march, with both blackness and white participants, beingness led by Martin Luther Male monarch Jr. To either side are two square photos of apparent police brutality: in the photo to the left, three officers in white helmets seize a male African-American youth by his arms and i leg; i officer holds equally a lodge what appears to exist a long nightstick turned around with the thicker handle end out. In the photo to the right, an African-American human being lies in a pool of blood on the sidewalk in front of an urban store, while in the foreground an officer in a white helmet stands at a distance and looks toward him, and in the groundwork another Africa-American man crouches with his back against the wall and looks away. (King direct mentioned police brutality in his famous "I Have A Dream" speech.)

These images dissimilarity with the full general mood of the album, which is upbeat and positive, including "Happy Birthday". Exceptions are the few songs almost romantic turmoil ("Rocket Love", "I Ain't Gonna Stand for It", "Lately") and the socially critical "Cash In Your Face", which protests racial housing bigotry.

Critical reception [edit]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic [12]
Christgau's Record Guide A−[13]
Pitchfork 9.4/ten[14]
Rolling Stone [1]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide [vii]
Sounds [xv]

In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone, Stephen Holden said Hotter than July proved Wonder was all the same "our near gifted popular muralist" considering of his evocative, unique synthesis of popular and African elements.[1] Information technology was voted the 8th best album of 1980 in The Hamlet Voice 'southward almanac Pazz & Jop critics poll.[16] Robert Christgau, the poll's creator, ranked information technology eighteenth on his own year-end list and,[17] in a retrospective review, wrote that while "Master Blaster" and perchance "Happy Altogether" were the only "neat Stevie hither", the pleasure in which Wonder performed the songs was axiomatic in "his complimentary-floating melodicism and his rolling overdrive, his hope and his cynicism".[13] In The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), J. D. Considine found the record "buoyantly tuneful" and said fans viewed it as a return to grade later on the commercial thwarting of Journey Through the Hole-and-corner Life of Plants.[seven]

Track listing [edit]

All songs written, produced and arranged by Stevie Wonder except where noted.

Side i
  1. "Did I Hear You Say You lot Love Me" – iv:07
  2. "All I Do" (music: Wonder; lyrics: Wonder, Clarence Paul, Morris Broadnax) – five:06
  3. "Rocket Dearest" – four:39
  4. "I Ain't Gonna Correspond It" – 4:39
  5. "As If Yous Read My Mind" – three:37
Side 2
  1. "Master Blaster (Jammin')" – five:07
  2. "Exercise Like You" – 4:25
  3. "Cash in Your Face" – 3:59
  4. "Lately" – four:05
  5. "Happy Birthday" – 5:57

Personnel [edit]

  • Stevie Wonder – atomic number 82 vocals, synthesizer (1-3, 7, 8), drums (2-4, seven, viii, 10), Fender Rhodes (2, iii, half-dozen, 8), bass synthesizer (three, eight, 9), clavinet (iv-6), groundwork vocals (3), ARP (seven, 10), vocoder (1), piano (4, 5, 9), harpsichord (7), celesta (five), keyboards (10), harmonica (5), cabasa (four), bells (2), handclaps (8), flute synthesizer (2), bass melodian (x)
  • Nathan Watts – bass guitar (i, 4-6), background vocals (1)
  • Benjamin Bridges – guitars (1, iii-half-dozen), background vocals (ane)
  • Dennis Davis – drums (i, 5, vi)
  • Earl DeRouen – percussion (i, 5, half dozen, 8), background vocals (1)
  • Isaiah Sanders – pianet (i), keyboards, piano, Fender Rhodes (4, v), organ (6), background vocals (i)
  • Hank Redd – saxophone (1, 2, half dozen), handclaps (8)
  • Robert Malach – saxophone (ane, 7)
  • Larry Gittens – trumpet (one, six, 7)
  • Nolan A. Smith Jr. – trumpet (1)
  • Paul Riser – string organisation (3)
  • Hank DeVito – steel guitar (4)
  • Rick Zunigar – guitars (5, 6)
  • Delores Barnes (7), Shirley Brewer (ane, vi, seven), Ed Brown (1), Susaye Greene Brown (1), Charlie Collins (i), Alexandra Brown Evans (ane, 6, 7), Mary Lee Whitney Evans (one), Marva Holcolm (6), Michael Jackson (2), Eddie Levert (ii), Melody McCulley (7), Jamil Raheem (2), Walter Williams (two), Charlie Wilson (4), Ronnie Wilson (4), Angela Winbush (6), Betty Wright (2), Syreeta Wright (five) – groundwork vocals
  • Stephanie Andrews, Kimberly Jackson, Trevor Lawrence, Dennis Morrison, Nib Wolfer[18] – handclaps (8)

Singles [edit]

Year Name US[19] US

R&B

U.k.[20] US

Club Play

1980 Master Blaster (Jammin') 5 1 2 ten
1981 I Ain't Gonna Stand For It xi 4 10 -
Lately 64 29 3 -
Happy Birthday - 70 2 -
Did I Hear You Say You lot Love Me - 74 - -

Charts [edit]

Certifications and sales [edit]

See besides [edit]

  • List of number-one R&B albums of 1980 (U.Southward.)
  • Listing of number-one R&B albums of 1981 (U.South.)

References [edit]

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  2. ^ Brhel, John (May i, 2010). "Meridian 10 Best R&B Albums of the '80s". Fabricated Men. Defy Media. Archived from the original on Baronial 19, 2018. Retrieved July 8, 2016.
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  13. ^ a b Christgau, Robert (1990). Christgau'south Record Guide: The '80s . Pantheon Books. p. 444. ISBN067973015X.
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  15. ^ Phil Sutcliffe. "Sounds review". Rocksbackpages.com. Retrieved 2013-12-27 .
  16. ^ "The 1980 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll". The Village Voice. New York. February nine, 1981. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
  17. ^ Christgau, Robert (Feb 9, 1981). "Pazz & Jop 1980: Dean's List". The Hamlet Voice. New York. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
  18. ^ "Neb Wolfer | Credits | AllMusic".
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External links [edit]

  • Unofficial website reviewing album with audio clips
  • "Cash in Your Face: exploring the harder edge of Stevie Wonder"
  • Stevie Wonder interview past Pete Lewis, Blues & Soul, March 1995

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotter_than_July

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