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  • My favourite Stevie tune luv the build up. and the beat is GANGSTA!

  • stevie wonder allll dayyyyyyyyy! im a fan!

  • Totally fuck off version of a totally fuck off song.

  • @Deepred67

    ye lyke init

  • Commented on this video 2 years ago. And it means so much more to me at present. So I am sobbing right now. Why do you do this to me, Stevie?

  • go love it thank you cool

  • Sounds better than todays music even with the bad filming.

  • Why is it that whenever I see Stevie Wonder on tv he is always singing stuff from the 1980s? not the best in my opinion. If I'm mistaken, then I apologize, but honestly, I don't hear him singing songs from way back in the 1960s and 1970s. If he thinks the hip crowd is remembering his songs from the 1980s, he's mistaken. Maybe some conservative nutjobs might bring up those memories and his songs from the 1980s, but I cringe whenever I hear it.

  • @203207ab Stevie still performs many of his biggest hits from the 60's, 70's and 80's. I went to his gig at Hyde Park last year and he covered a wide range of of songs going back to some of his earliest hits like Fingertips and Uptight as well as some more obsure songs that only hardcore fans would be familiar with.

  • heavy as fuck

  • stevie's finest moment

    

  • This song is intense, gives me chills every time. Awesome.

  • @Gilliganfrog Listen to it by lil Michael Jackson.....Masterpiece of emotion for such a young lad....

  • Such visceral emotion. This song gets to me

  • 240p - legendary videos.

  • love this song!!! micheal's version is pretty kool too......... is it me or does stevie look like a young eddie murphy????

  • @1hungtomahawk haha why do you think Eddie had "Stevie" in his routine?

  • @eyekeepmoving He did have! He did several Stevie Wonder impressions both in his live shows and on SNL.

  • @1hungtomahawk yes, i think so too. Good observation.

  • To write this at such an early age was incredible, this is how you do it live, the orchestra arrangement is beyond belief, he really puts his heart & soul into it & makes you feel as if you are there in the audience, one of my all time favourite Stevie tracks, the man is pure genious.

  • a haunting, yet powerful and soulful song...

  • Hey world, see this?

    Success without auto-tune.

  • I stand corrected on that one. First heard this on The London Years, Rolling Stones box set from 1989, thought they wrote it. Hats off to Stevie.

  • @zippobang Well they went on tour together in 72, and did a medley of Uptight and Satisfaction, so there was mutual respect between Stevie and the Rolling Stones. The Stones brought their own interpretation of the blues to audiences who were not as exposed to it in the pre-civil rights era of segregation and 'race' records. 

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  • There's a wonderful cover of this song by a young up and coming band young UK blues band - The Ben Poole Band. If you like this track google them and check it out.

  • it may never get this good again.

  • I love love this record..OMG.. awesome

  • Back when Music was good

  • This is masterful period. Oh if music could just come back to this... So much emotion and realness.

  • i don't know why i love the people who gave this a thumbs down. oh, that's right. i don't. haha!

  • I was always under the impression that Stevie wrote this for The Jackson Five, since theirs was the version I heard first...THEN I heard Stevie's original some years later. It only underscores not only his songwriting gifts, but Michael's scary knack for bringing a beyond-his-years interpretation to this kind of material.

  • @Survivor2002 Yeah, mike just absolutely killed and owned this song. But i dig Stevie's original version as well, such great music, they don't 'em like this anymore, that's for sure.

  • Check out the IMF live cover...

  • One of the top musicians on my list!

  • The Rolling Stones did a wonderful cover of this. :)

  • Love this song, have it on vinyl (showing my age) Never seen it performed live..thanks for posting

  • "I Don't Know Why" but Stevie Wonder reminds me of Eddie Murphy...oh yeah because of the Saturday Night Live skits.

  • G.O.A.T.

  • @VeteranARC hands down

  • Hormones? lol...I think....we was young when this came out.....

  • ....just goes to show.....talent always survives......BTW, this song always reminded me of something Jimi Hendricks would sound awesome on stretching it out with a guitar solo.....kinda has a Hendricks vibe.........

  • saw stevie in 69 at the bham odeon and as a 14 year old soul boy he set the measure for me that only a few acts since have even come near to.

    wonderful

  • pure inspiration.

  • 28 dislikes, and I don't know why.

  • 28 people are retareded.

  • If Stevie had never done another song after this, he'd still be a legend. I think this is my favourite recording of him from the 60s. The way the intensity builds in his singing and the music just tugs at my heartstrings.

  • If this song were any longer I wouldn't be able to contain myself.

  • I think this is the way my girlfriend feels about me. I love her

  • 1:58 aaaaaayyeea lol

  • This song is dedicated to the One and ONLY, KRISTEN KREUK.....

  • My Cherie Amor was the b-side to this, and then it became a double sided hit

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  • goosebumps

  • thanks to this song, i'm now over a guy who i thought i was in love with but i wasnt bc he was only using me and treating me bad and it didn't sink in it until recently

    thanks for uploading and thankyou Stevie for knocking some sense into me lmao

  • Pure EMOTION thanks for uploading ♥

  • Stevie was 17 or 18 when he wrote and recorded this song. BTW- I always give extra points to the original artist of a song. Especially if he wrote it too.

  • I got chills, instantly!

  • I love this man. Talented jeez

  • Respect

  • ROLLING STONES ,MICHEAL JACKSON,ARETHA FRANKLIN THEY ALL CPY STEVIES SONGS

  • @sanucues Stones did one cover of this. That's not copying, just one cover.

  • @RollingOrmond And was a good one!!! Great Mick Taylor´s solo

  • I know - Why I Love You - Stevie!

  • This is one of my favorite Stones songs! Now i know!

  • legend ;)

  • A masterpiece! No one else can do what he did with HIS song! Bless ya Stevie.

  • A truly great song. I have to say i prefer the Stones version, which is on the "Metamorphasis" compilation album.

  • bad m-fuckah!!! maaaann listen..

  • Cool. Rolling Stones recorded a VERY good version of this on the Let It Bleed album sessions 1969

  • amazing. i didn't realize eddie murphy could sing this well! (joking). the strings and kick drum just bring it and a vocal for the ages. all you pop american idol wannabes take note of real soul.

  • I've never heard this song before! Holy crap! I wish that the band was visible, i would love to see the legends at work! Talk about the Offensive Line of music.

  • I just realized how similar the dynamics of this song are to Try a Little Tenderness, just sped up. No one's brave enough anymore to let a song start slow and build organically. F'n brilliant.

  • you throw my heart down in the dirt

    u made me crawl on this cold, black earth...my, my, my..love hurts so much sometimes.

  • @MsESQusiteAKA

    yeah but. was it written by wonder or jagger and richards.

    intro is just like gimme shelter

  • @MegaYnot2010 It was written by Wonder, with Henry Cosby and Sylvia Moy, and released as the B-side of "My Cherie Amour"

  • @littlenaitch2

    The order was actually the reverse. "I Don't Know Why" was released as the A-side, but was not a hit for Stevie Wonder. The B-side became a huge hit for him in the summer of 69.

  • @MsESQusiteAKA

    yeah but , , was it written by jagger and richards.???

    intro on their recording is the same as gimme shelter

  • powerful. beautiful.

  • am 60 an it still kicks ass,60s lad, england

  • Woweeee!! What a performance!!!

    If you are a singer, and you want to know how its done...... well there's your professor, right there.

  • this song is bad ass

  • It seems like if it wasn't for the network time constraints, Stevie would've kept on singin'...... and I wouldn't have minded . Not one bit.

  • Moving.

  • you throw my heart down in the dirt, oh, you make me crawl on this cold black earth, baby-yeah; i never knew how much love could hurt, 'til i loved you.... can you imagine loving somebody that much?

  • @revlooshin I can, and losing it in the same fashion as Stevie's song, It's a deep battle with yourself. Stevie Wonder helps =)

  • @poppinmycollar i think it's the unwillingness to be alone not wanting to start over. it makes you put up with a lot of drama you otherwise wouldn't put up with. i've had girls i was with that were dishonest and selfish, but i tolerated them because i was also a little dishonest and selfish myself. i don't know why i loved them, but i loved them. now i'm happily married, so i guess it's something i had to endure in order to learn and teach to my son.

  • @revlooshin Thank you for that. I do appreciate your honesty over that. Yeah in a way I do realize there's always someone that I do find that's better but it's the pain of being suddenly alone and fearful of the future that makes me willing to wait until that person is ready for me, when I should be the one to fix my flaws and find someone whose more likely to stick by me and be faithful and happy mutually.

  • @poppinmycollar i don't want to come off as giving advice, but what i learned from my experiences with women as a young man is that i was looking for love instead of allowing love to find me. i had female companionship from different women, but i wanted monogamy. monogamy is kind of a foreign concept to young people in our culture. we like variety. looking back, i wish i had learned to enjoy the variety more instead of chasing love. let it find you. when you chase it you catch hurt. this i know.

  • Excellent!

  • Can you Believe Stevie was only 20 when this was recorded? Pure Class. And you cant learn that, some people are born to greatness...he is one of them...:-)......

  • I've got this on 7" vinyl that's been hammered and you can hardly hear the song,but all the static just adds to the romance.You don't get that with MP3.Any truly great track should be released on record and be allowed to age with the artist,owner and memories of it's era.

  • This is the best performance by an artist that I have ever seen, felt, or heard. I'm in total Awe. Stevie, you see more without vision, than I do with.

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  • Dam that gave me chills sssoo good

  • This dude takes the p***. A teenager, when he did this. A teenager, FFS! He even hums like a genius. Amazing.

  • Can I just tell you how grateful I am for YouTube right now? This song...there are no words for how I feel about this song. I first heard young Michael Jackson cover it on the album "ABC" and I was transported to another place. I heard later that my other great love, Stevie Wonder, recorded it first, and I've wanted to see and hear it. Thank you thank you so much for posting this. Now I am going to go find Michael's version.

  • love dis....amazing

  • I remember Stevie singing this live on the UK TOTP show. The instrumentation provided by the BBC was lacking the passion and excitement of the 45.

    But it was wonderful to see how they tried to imitate the Motown Sound.

  • Just PHENOMENAL.

  • does someone can tell me why is there time which is winding on ??

  • @maxou623 , my guess is that the time count running is because whoever posted this had a copy of video that came from the television production studio itself. It looks like the kind of thing that one would need to have if you were directing/producing/editing, etc. .

  • I Love this. The Brand New Heavies (w/ N'Dea Davenport) took this to another level. Simple but powerful lyrics

  • sounds a bit hendrixie influence, never heard this before, did stevie wonder ever play with hendrix, miles davis played or tried to play with every one good

  • @Marcus538 Yes Stevie jammed with Hendrix in London. He played drums, and I think Noel was on bass and they performed an instrumental cover of this song and another. Its available on an official Hendrix compilation of BBC sessions.

  • @Marcus538 Oh here's the link for Stevie's jam session with Hendrix. 

    watch?v=tvMwStbZrpQ

  • Holy shit this might be the greatest video I've ever watched on YouTube!

  • he looks like eddie murphy

  • @gigaelena I think eddie murphy looks like stevie

  • @CoolestOstrich but you understand what i tried to say right?????????

  • @gigaelena i think so

  • @gigaelena LOLO I KNOW RIGHT

  • i love this song. i would like to sample this song but an other german rapper did it yet: 'Bass Sultan Hengzt Warum ich Dich liebe'

  • @kingsemihk hip hop is dead, because of the sampling mentality.. Think of something original.

    Youre the man stevie!!!

  • @TheJoeMusashi why do you think so? hiphop started with sampling and i think it is good...

  • @kingsemihk Only started from sampling cos dudes were ghetto and it was a simple way to get beats..hip hop is surley dead, see how eminem is tryna sing on his new track? Cos even he knows he's bitting his own flow..

  • @kingsemihk And It died when the flow ran dry. Even Eminem tries to sing on his tracks now cos he knows his flow is spent. There is no possible way to create an original flow in Hip Hop< it has all been done... All you'll be doing is at best dropping some wack shit over a poorly mixed classic.. Just listen to Stevie.

  • This song is dedicated to the one and only, Kristen Kruek ,written by Stevie 41 years ago.

  • This is the most emotional song i have ever heard. I can not praise it enough! It starts of kinda funky smooth, then a minute or so in Stevie steps it up a notch. After that the orchestration gets more and more intense to reach a climax at the end of the song. The only let down is the sudden fade out much too soon. I wish i could hear the master tapes when the tune continues. What a tresure!

  • Funk Brother Paul Riser and Lula Mae Hardaway (Stevie's Mom) are co-credited along with Stevie as composers of this great soulful and moving song. Stevie was just so amazing and, at a mere 19-years of age in this video, he had already been performing for 8 years. He was (and is) as smooth as Kentucky Bourbon on a Summer Eve.

    Yeah the Stones' version of this song certainly can't hold a candle to it. Kind of like Jack Daniels in the Spring. But it was a tribute to Stevie's genius ... spiritual.

  • Man, his voice is like velvet.  I love the shit out of this music. THIS embodies everything that music is and stands for. You feel this shit in your being when you listen to it. LOVE love :)

  • 41 years old, and still kicks the shit out of anything in today's chart.

  • @JunkieJay3000 this song is bad ass

  • @JunkieJay3000 41? he is 60

  • @redheadonfire2 I was referring to the age of the recording :)

  • @JunkieJay3000 ....isnt steve much older than 41? i dont get that comment...am i missing something?

  • @JunkieJay3000 ....isnt steve much older than 41? i dont get that comment...am i missing something? or is he 41 in this recording?

  • @JamieWilliamsAus 41's how old this recording was when I posted that comment.. Guess it should be 42 now : )

  • @JunkieJay3000 & probably always will

  • @JunkieJay3000 Don't you mean 60 years old?

  • @lilhavin I see what you mean, but at the time I meant 41. I was referring to the age of the recording.

  • @JunkieJay3000 OKAY OKAY! Good stuff. :-)

  • @JunkieJay3000 mangles, destroys, annihilates.

  • I love the way he moves! Stevie the best forever!

  • Don't get me wrong, I love modern music, but I really wish I grew up in the era of Soul

  • stevie wonder wrote and performed this song way before the rolling stones got it and destroyed it.

  • @MrNathan791

    Nah, Stones version has its own soul.

  • gah...what power. this is so soulful. so heavy. so groovy

  • you the man.

  • Great!

  • brilliant!

  • The jackson 5 did a version of this song as well on their ABC album and it sounded good as well with Michael doing lead.

  • AMAZING!!!!!! Thank you

  • Does anything get better than Stevie Wonder!!!!!!! The answer is no!

  • Genius at work a rare Living Legend +)

  • wow...michael jackson's version as a kid had more passion...but stevie is still the best

  • @wingchundragon I completely disagree. Oh well only certain people understand soul....LOL!!!

  • didn't my Stones do this tune first?

  • "i don't know why I love you" one of my favorite Stevie Wonder songs...

  • Go head Steven go head>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

  • Michael Jacksons Version Is the Best 1!

  • Come on now, Stevies version has more of an adult sound and deep soul sound. Jackson5's is good also.

  • @rjam1974 I completely agree with you

  • @rjam1974 mike puts more soul and emotion into his version. you're right though, stevie's is more 'adult'.

  • It's like Stevies limited vision is suddenly orchestrated and filled by that lying cheating bitch, but he still gets down on his knees...

  • the best ever Stevie Wonder track ever,,,,,,,,,,, 3 mins in you will see why he his a legend what a voice ,

  • Tim,you are not wrong.This great number penned by the Rolling Stones is also my favourie Stevie number!

  • @TheBones48

    'Not trying to be a jerk, but this is a Stevie Wonder song, not a song "penned by the Rolling Stones."

    'Love the Stones, but for the record, their version is atrocious.

  • @TheBones48 it's a stevie penned song.

  • love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!

  • sounds like Steve Crocker on guitar.

  • this is playback

  • Wait till you here Joe Cocker's Version! Thankyou, STEVIE. This baddest song ever made!

  • ...everything/k -stops- and my whole mind is filled with the atmosphere that is created by this song with Stevie at the center , with Stevie's voice AS THE CENTER.

    It's like the center of storm that's s starting to build.... and it builds ! ! ! !

  • I REALLY LOOOOVE this song!!!

  • i think i first found this performance on you-tube 2 or 3 months ago .... every time i come back & that opening distorted bass line starts, when SW starts singing , RIGHT when he starts singing everything STOPS  _ * *

  • Had only ever heard the Stones version... this is much deeper...

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  • Steve wonder amazing!!

  • Simply genius. I also love the fact its an old battered video. Amazing!