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Friday, November 28, 2003

"That Girl," Stevie Wonder" (2/20/82)
It's all about the moment at 1:36 into Stevie's last masterpiece single, when the drums start cascading and the chorus of "ah"s comes in atop his stripped-down simply funky tableau: the chorus really does sound angelic, and Stevie sounds tough and forthright, while lovelorn. One of two new, perfect-fit tracks on Original Musiquarium, which not only finely summed up his past decade but made a case for Stevie as one of the artists of the '70s. It was all downhill from here - but how could it not be? A

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