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Certain Songs #2507: Stevie Wonder – “Boogie On Reggae Woman”

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Album: Fullfillingness’ First Finale
Year: 1976

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One of the things I thought was hilarious as I did my patented half-assed research for yet another killer Stevie Wonder mid-1970s single, “Boogie on Reggae Woman” was how many folks have claimed that the song has any ties to actual reggae music.

Which, of course, it doesn’t: “Boogie on Reggae Woman” is a straight funk song, anchored by Wonder’s fuzzed up Moog bassline and a piano riff that you don’t even notice until it’s stuck forever in your head.

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Certain Songs #2506: Stevie Wonder – “You Haven’t Done Nothin'”

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Album: Fullfillingness’ First Finale
Year: 1974

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Life moved fast in 1974: if the anti Nixon sentiments of “He’s Misstra Know-It-All” weren’t quite fit to release as a single in the spring, there were no such qualms by summer, as Wonder’s utterly vicious screed — the aural equivalent of what Hunter S. Thompson was writing about the man — “You Haven’t Done Nothin'” was released as the lead single from his 1974 album, Fullfillingness’ First Finale.

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