This was good until it was ruined with the jokey synths. Nowhere near the original or Al's version. As for Kanye, he should not even be mentioned in the same sentence as Stevie, who walks all over him. Kanye samples real musicians, whilst Stevie gets sampled by rappers. I have listened to Kanye, his music has none of the beauty of Stevie, and Stevie's voice is so much better that there isn't even a discussion to be had.
Stevie Wonder's synthesizer work on this Beatles' "remake" is absolutely PRICELESS! It was a definite indication of the sheer musical GENIUS that was to follow for decades to come. Syreeta was, quite simply, just as talented as she was beautiful. She and Stevie LITERALLY made exquisite music together!
@WrightSounds1 please stop harping on the things you read from the media about kanye, your basing your opinion on something the media writes, the same media who have acquainted themselves the rights to attack kanye ever since the taylor swift incident
@WrightSounds1 What does Kanye West's mindset have to do with his music? Listen to Finding Forever's instrumental and say he's not in the same arena as Stevie. Forget who wrote it and just focus on the MUSIC.
Kanye is a clown, but he's a damn talented one and I for one LOVE his music. He's brilliant. Sadly, people won't really appreciate him until he's gone and you just have his music left behind.
Thank you Billy Mitchell, wherever you are, for turning me on to this in the 70's, when we were both being thrown out of the air force in Lompoc, CA. You rocked then, Billy, and wherever you are now, I'm sure you still do.
Stevie and Syreeta were in the forefront of experimental R&B in the early 70's. This album and Music of My Mind were released around the same time. These two albums must have messed peoples heads up back then!
Brilliant arrangement by Stevie. McCartney must have been really impressed. You can hear Stevie's excitement as he is using his new synthesizer "toys" in '71 and '72. Reminds me of a lot of his material on "Music of My Mind".
Damn!! I Didn't Know Kanye Sampled This! It's Not In The Credits For "Forever Begins". Only Thing That's Credited Is "50 Ways To Lose Your Lover" By Paul Simon. And I Know That's The Drum Sample By Steve Gadd. Damn! I Was Listenin' The Instrumental Earlier Today! I'm Definitely Gettin' This Record When I See It At My Record Store! Kanye Must Have Been Listenin' To This Album Alot. He Also Sampled "Black Maybe" For "U, Black Maybe". Great Tunes. All Of 'Em.
The sound s a hohner clavinet played through a talk box. Listen to Ebony Eyes from Songs in the Key of Life (it's the last track of vol. 1) and check out Stevie on seasame street here on youtube as well.
listen up everybody, that IS a talkbox played by Stevie. He did multiple tracks with it at the time...`To feed it, he's using an Arp 2600. he is not singing through a hose, just feeding the synth through it. ENJOY LISTENING TO THIS WONDERFUL TRACK!
It is not to much it is from a time and place and space. The record that we have her voice and this leading technique at time is something we should get into. Most of the people who are giving the background neg replyies never made a cd. Get into the history of what it is.
Syreeta has a great voice. However, Stevie should have kept his electronic distorted mouth shut. Now it seems the whole Donald Duck family is doing the background voices.
Actually, much of what you attribute to Stevie is NOT his actual voice. At the time, Stevie was promoting a new "technique" he was experimenting with, and that was making instruments sound like they were "talking". He uses it here and he used it on a couple of his own '70's albums.
Thank you for your information. I didn't realise that this could be the case. After listening again carefully, you could be right. Still, the effect used in this song is not very kind to the great voice of the singer, Syreetha.
it's still his voice. I can't remember what's it called, but he sings through a hose. there might also be a wah pedal involved, but the instrument is stevie. there was no other way of doing that kind of phonetics than human voice back then. you can also hear this sound in jeff beck's 'thelonius', which was written by stevie wonder. there's also a live clip in youtube where you can see stevie singing to a hose, making this sound you're referring to.
He is not singing through a hose, at least not here, and you're mistaken about what was available at the time. The sound is from arp and moog synthesizers that were programmed by Robert Margouleff and Malcom Cecil, associate producers of Stevie's 70's albums, in particular "Innervisions," and worked with him at the Record Plant Studio in LA on all his electronic tinkering at the time. The info. is in the liner notes of Innervisions and "Music of my Mind".
Mission94110: search "stevie wonder on the talk box" on youtube. sounds familiar? the method I tried to describe is called 'talk box' and it allows you to shape the sound of the instrument into more human-like, and as you can see on the stevie video I mentioned, it involves a rubber hose. there's also wikipedia page about it...
the technique has nothing to do with margouleff and cecil's synth programming (you can do the same with an electric guitar). their synths (TONTO) didn't produce the syllibals. and there's no mention of this method in the liner notes of the albums you mentioned.
I remember clearly what he said in the interview I mentioned. You may claim what you wish, until I hear otherwise from Mr. Wonder, I don't accept your explanation.
"In 1973, Heil [inventor of Talk box] gave his talk box to Peter Frampton as a Christmas present. Frampton first heard the talk box when Stevie Wonder was using it for his upcoming album Music of My Mind." ok, I've provided enough evidence. be deaf and blind, I dont care.
dopppeeee
ebobts 1 month ago
This was good until it was ruined with the jokey synths. Nowhere near the original or Al's version. As for Kanye, he should not even be mentioned in the same sentence as Stevie, who walks all over him. Kanye samples real musicians, whilst Stevie gets sampled by rappers. I have listened to Kanye, his music has none of the beauty of Stevie, and Stevie's voice is so much better that there isn't even a discussion to be had.
benwellesley 3 months ago 2
Al Jarreau has a great version too. All three - this one, Jarreau and, of course, the Beatles, are unique and exquisite.
ddddaly 5 months ago
70年代､ｽﾃｨｰヴｨｰの恋人､ﾓｰﾀｳﾝの歌姫のひとり､ｼﾘｰﾀ･ﾗｲﾄ､アレンジが光るﾋﾞｰﾄﾙｽﾞ"SHE'S LEEVING HOME"
blackandtanful 8 months ago
werid and wonderfull, this truley is good music
nightimelady 8 months ago
amazing
jazzmoran 11 months ago
Whilst some may say it's sacrilege, I honestly believe this cover is infinitely better than the Beatles original.
TommyCola5775 1 year ago
@TommyCola5775 Actually I agree with you. This cover hits hard.
cheetarathundercat 1 year ago
Forever Begins....Oh Yes It Does
datkidepik93 1 year ago 5
Stevie Wonder's synthesizer work on this Beatles' "remake" is absolutely PRICELESS! It was a definite indication of the sheer musical GENIUS that was to follow for decades to come. Syreeta was, quite simply, just as talented as she was beautiful. She and Stevie LITERALLY made exquisite music together!
aliquippawill 1 year ago
omg someone else remade this song like more than 5 years ago and i cant figure out who it was. but i love this.!
missalexbishes01 1 year ago
Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes. Yes.
futsal1958 1 year ago
Yow ! I can not believe I have not heard this piece of wonder-ful ness until now.
GO Syreeta ! Bee U ti Full !
Thank U much for the post -yosh95wilde-
godhelpme2009 1 year ago 2
KANYE IS THE NEW STEVIE OF THE RAP GAME !!! GENIUS !!!!!
KILLAEAGS38 1 year ago
@KILLAEAGS38
Are you serious?
Kanye will never be in the same arena of "musical aptitude" or "spiritual awareness" as Stevie Wonder. Not in a million years!
Kaynye is a very unstable spoiled, brat, IMHO!
He might do some things well, but he has a lot of growing up to do as well.
WrightSounds1 1 year ago
@WrightSounds1 !!! SHUT YOUR DUMN LOOKING ASS UP !!!! KANYE MAKE MUSIC SOUND GREAT !!! THEY BOTH GENIUSES !!!!
KILLAEAGS38 1 year ago
@WrightSounds1 please stop harping on the things you read from the media about kanye, your basing your opinion on something the media writes, the same media who have acquainted themselves the rights to attack kanye ever since the taylor swift incident
Adjei88 1 year ago
@WrightSounds1 What does Kanye West's mindset have to do with his music? Listen to Finding Forever's instrumental and say he's not in the same arena as Stevie. Forget who wrote it and just focus on the MUSIC.
Kanye is a clown, but he's a damn talented one and I for one LOVE his music. He's brilliant. Sadly, people won't really appreciate him until he's gone and you just have his music left behind.
SoulfulBrutha5805 11 months ago
@SoulfulBrutha5805 yes so true
RossMane95 10 months ago
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@KILLAEAGS38
Are you serious?
Kanye will never be in the same arena of "musical aptitude" or "spiritual awareness" as Stevie Wonder. Not in a million years!
Kaynye is a very unstable spoiled, brat, IMHO!
He might do some things well, but he has a lot of growing up to do.
WrightSounds1 1 year ago
voice of an angel brilliant composition wow
dwalaniga 1 year ago
An underrated, forgotten singer. She was almost chosen to replace Diana Ross with the Supremes, but they chose Jean Terrell instead
mackjay2 1 year ago
loved common and kanye's sample for 'forever begins"...
Ostee1 1 year ago 6
delicious ,she's great !
caritacruzsur 1 year ago
E' stata la compagna di SWonder o sbaglio?
Una versione psichedelico/soul molto vocoderizzata.
Interessante, stile Tommy versione film quindi un pò una porcheria in realtà.
Quella versione di Tommy è pura pornografia della produzione musicale.
Insomma non è male questa versione....
Malobo62 1 year ago
Thank you Billy Mitchell, wherever you are, for turning me on to this in the 70's, when we were both being thrown out of the air force in Lompoc, CA. You rocked then, Billy, and wherever you are now, I'm sure you still do.
vernonmoreaux 1 year ago
Very different from the original version by the Beatles and yet so perfect!
Tazzi1083 2 years ago 3
kanye west sampled this for common forever begins
mrfreestyle86 2 years ago 2
Wonderful version by a great artist
Tazzi1083 2 years ago 4
who got the original??
chingchongbobloblaw 2 years ago
Syreeta Wright and Stevie Wonder!!!!
Thank You, GOD!!!!!!
For allowing that union to happen.
iluvmyboba 2 years ago 4
Respect to The Beatles. This is a good version, of a great song.
FalconSparks 2 years ago 4
oh wow, I've been looking for this tune - beautiful!
bigbenhillman07 2 years ago 2
Stevie and Syreeta were in the forefront of experimental R&B in the early 70's. This album and Music of My Mind were released around the same time. These two albums must have messed peoples heads up back then!
DarrylM65 2 years ago 16
RIP Syreeta Wright
70sbaby80schild321 2 years ago 3
WTF IS THIS!?!??!
matrixpb64 2 years ago
@matrixpb64 Its called real music.
drequan7954 6 months ago
Al Jarreau does a great version of this tune on 'All Fly Home'
FCntertainr 3 years ago
where did u get this song?? i really want it
bubuthefool 3 years ago
can buy it from itunes or amazon for download
normanhathaway 2 years ago
Respect to The beatles too
Junyar 3 years ago 2
this gives me chills when I hear it
Junyar 3 years ago 4
Common - Forever Begins
Main sample (1:26-1:31)
Course (1:01-1:14) (1:17-1:21)
JustSimplyBrandon 3 years ago 6
Stevie was going NUTS on production on this track! CRACK!
cbmuzik 3 years ago 2
My haert is breaking when I think of Syreeta. She had to leave so early. Thank God and Stevie for give her the chance to conquer our hearts.
jeromefreymond 3 years ago 2
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I just vomited a little in my mouth.
Pianoismyantidrug 3 years ago
Brilliant arrangement by Stevie. McCartney must have been really impressed. You can hear Stevie's excitement as he is using his new synthesizer "toys" in '71 and '72. Reminds me of a lot of his material on "Music of My Mind".
gnukev 3 years ago 20
@gnukev First time i hear this!! Awesome. Stevie plays the synth like a walk in the park!!
trademark1874 1 year ago 2
I love Stevie on this one.
Mojofilter17 3 years ago
KAnye ......jus perfect sampling
tegopolus 3 years ago
Damn!! I Didn't Know Kanye Sampled This! It's Not In The Credits For "Forever Begins". Only Thing That's Credited Is "50 Ways To Lose Your Lover" By Paul Simon. And I Know That's The Drum Sample By Steve Gadd. Damn! I Was Listenin' The Instrumental Earlier Today! I'm Definitely Gettin' This Record When I See It At My Record Store! Kanye Must Have Been Listenin' To This Album Alot. He Also Sampled "Black Maybe" For "U, Black Maybe". Great Tunes. All Of 'Em.
orlandez22 3 years ago
wuuuuuuurd...i have Forever Begins already :) tract 12 is ma fav...this sample! origin is forever
tegopolus 3 years ago
wow...
Kanye made me like this
siapha 3 years ago 2
its another dude tht sampled ths song before kanye, dude named JACPOT... i dunno maybe nt befre cus kanye gt lik a million beats he hasnt used
chickenwang4 3 years ago
wow man kanye has amazing sample skills!!!
jeritastic 3 years ago
Kanye's sampling has really helped me find some pearls that I would under normal circumstances have never come across. This is one of em
bertista3000 3 years ago
Same Here.
orlandez22 3 years ago
The sound s a hohner clavinet played through a talk box. Listen to Ebony Eyes from Songs in the Key of Life (it's the last track of vol. 1) and check out Stevie on seasame street here on youtube as well.
nickmorgan19457 3 years ago
listen up everybody, that IS a talkbox played by Stevie. He did multiple tracks with it at the time...`To feed it, he's using an Arp 2600. he is not singing through a hose, just feeding the synth through it. ENJOY LISTENING TO THIS WONDERFUL TRACK!
r0nes 3 years ago 2
It is not to much it is from a time and place and space. The record that we have her voice and this leading technique at time is something we should get into. Most of the people who are giving the background neg replyies never made a cd. Get into the history of what it is.
davidatobin 3 years ago
Just how beautiful is this?
Beautifully sung by Syreeta, adding her own unique touches.
Mission94110 4 years ago 3
Oh God! How I wish that Stevie had made a Beatles covers album in the early 70s! He just gives something new, something great, to their songs.
Lewelltam 4 years ago
I like this alot..
evacuee 4 years ago
This is great
twokee3 4 years ago
fantastic, can't stop playing this track.
LIAMDAWN 4 years ago
Syreeta has a great voice. However, Stevie should have kept his electronic distorted mouth shut. Now it seems the whole Donald Duck family is doing the background voices.
heindegraaf1 4 years ago
haha. yeah it is a bit much.
ambelle 4 years ago
Actually, much of what you attribute to Stevie is NOT his actual voice. At the time, Stevie was promoting a new "technique" he was experimenting with, and that was making instruments sound like they were "talking". He uses it here and he used it on a couple of his own '70's albums.
Mission94110 4 years ago
Thank you for your information. I didn't realise that this could be the case. After listening again carefully, you could be right. Still, the effect used in this song is not very kind to the great voice of the singer, Syreetha.
heindegraaf1 4 years ago
it's still his voice. I can't remember what's it called, but he sings through a hose. there might also be a wah pedal involved, but the instrument is stevie. there was no other way of doing that kind of phonetics than human voice back then. you can also hear this sound in jeff beck's 'thelonius', which was written by stevie wonder. there's also a live clip in youtube where you can see stevie singing to a hose, making this sound you're referring to.
drvector 3 years ago
He is not singing through a hose, at least not here, and you're mistaken about what was available at the time. The sound is from arp and moog synthesizers that were programmed by Robert Margouleff and Malcom Cecil, associate producers of Stevie's 70's albums, in particular "Innervisions," and worked with him at the Record Plant Studio in LA on all his electronic tinkering at the time. The info. is in the liner notes of Innervisions and "Music of my Mind".
Mission94110 3 years ago
Mission94110: search "stevie wonder on the talk box" on youtube. sounds familiar? the method I tried to describe is called 'talk box' and it allows you to shape the sound of the instrument into more human-like, and as you can see on the stevie video I mentioned, it involves a rubber hose. there's also wikipedia page about it...
drvector 3 years ago
continued..
the technique has nothing to do with margouleff and cecil's synth programming (you can do the same with an electric guitar). their synths (TONTO) didn't produce the syllibals. and there's no mention of this method in the liner notes of the albums you mentioned.
drvector 3 years ago
Let's ask Stevie.
I remember clearly what he said in the interview I mentioned. You may claim what you wish, until I hear otherwise from Mr. Wonder, I don't accept your explanation.
Mission94110 3 years ago
"In 1973, Heil [inventor of Talk box] gave his talk box to Peter Frampton as a Christmas present. Frampton first heard the talk box when Stevie Wonder was using it for his upcoming album Music of My Mind." ok, I've provided enough evidence. be deaf and blind, I dont care.
drvector 3 years ago 2
that's incorrect
stevie and syreeta use the talkbox on this track
normanhathaway 2 years ago 5
do you know some songs where he used that technique for ?
appreciate it
010les 3 years ago
I'll search through my seventies CD's and see what I can find and get back to you.
Mission94110 3 years ago
search "Stevie Wonder Pappa Was a Rolling Stone with talkbox" on youtube
drvector 3 years ago
also herbie hancock's trust me
drvector 3 years ago
no wait, that was just plain vocoder
drvector 3 years ago
Listen to "Love Having You Around" from Stevie Wonder's album, "Music of My Mind" (1972).
gnukev 3 years ago 3
STEVIE WONDER
stolson 4 years ago 2
This song is great- for that matter, the whole album is. Classic 70's Stevie Wonder production!
rjtexas 4 years ago
sweet voice
PonCorleone 4 years ago 2