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Certain Songs #2505: Stevie Wonder – “He’s Misstra Know-It-All”

December 12, 2022 by Jim Connelly

Album: Innervisions
Year: 1973

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That the final track on Innervisions — the utterly sublime “He’s Misstra Know-It-All” — was an anti-Richard Nixon song is something that I’ve known for awhile, but what I didn’t know was the genesis of the song. Apparently associate producer Malcolm Cecil had been giving Stevie shit for some time about all of the love songs he’d been writing, and challenged him to write some more topical songs. Thus, songs like “Too High,” “Living For The City” and, of course “He’s Misstra Know-It-All.”

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Filed Under: Certain Songs Tagged With: He's Misstra Know-It-All, Innervisions, Stevie Wonder

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