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Wonder, Stevie - Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours
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Stevie Wonder - Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours
The Independent - Stevie Wonder: Blind faith Friday 11 July 2008 23:00
It takes a person of unusual candour to confess, late in his career, that his mother helped him to write one of his most successful songs. Two weeks ago, on an early-morning TV show, Stevie Wonder explained how he was at home one day in 1969 (aged 19) when inspiration struck. As was his habit, he began with a melody line in search of a lyric. "And she was downstairs," he recalled, "and she said, 'You should write, like, about something – "Ooh baby, I'm yours. I'm signed, sealed, delivered, I'm yours" kind of thing like that.'" Instead of giving his mum a look of pity, Wonder used the line, had a monster hit with it in 1970, and still reaps the dividends.