When this came out I was 11 years old and living on Bouvier Street in North Philly. It was the hottest thing happening. when Stevie was on American Bandstand, we all stopped playing, outside and went into our houses to see him. It was the first major media event that I really remember. The block was clear and it was the middle of the summer. Motown was brand new and he was their pop answer to Ray Charles
I first heard this on a juke box in Anchorage, Alaska in 1963. I had to jump up to see who we were listening to. I came back to the booth and told my friends, "Remember this name: 'Little Stevie Wonder!' We'll be hearding that name for a long time to come!" For once, I was RIGHT! LOL!
Woah, I really didn't know Stevie Wonder was this young when he broke through, shame on me! He is so brave to just go out there on the stage and perform this awesome on such an age.
Was fortunate enough to have seen this amazing young genius back then in concert a few times. Stevie and I are the same age. He was and is a Wonder...........
Thank you to you and your mother for not listening to the early critics..the ones who thought that your talent was just so-so . omg..talk about people who lack perception and vision..
We would've missed out on SO MUCH GENIUS..
They were correct to a certain extent in that you are so-so GREAT!
Love you so much for following your dreams and enriching our lives with your music for almost half a century !
At the end when the MC calls Stevie back out for his ovation and he starts to play again listen to the guys on the piano I gues the band wasn't expecting Stevie to start playing again. So in a panic you can hear the piano player say "What key....What key!"
My God this is a great track. Brilliant harmonica playing still stands up 50 years later. What a debut. He was kicking some ass right from the start. Love you Stevie!!!
@OgPsQd ok everyone has their opinion. like or dislike he was twelve that alone he gets high praise. i think he does not get enough credit. he is a musical genius.
@OgPsQd How old are you? Honestly I want to know. I think if you were like, 11 or something, your lack of taste in music would be fairly accounted for.
@jokerloc I fell off my chair laughing at your comment because I do that all of the time, but I would never have put it so...intriguingly! Thank you for a truly refreshing outlook on the drearily negative comments that one sees on youtube all the time! Looking forward to more...
We were hauling live chickens at night, traveling all night listening to AM, because the truck driver was busy on the CB and driving, he let me play with the AM radio. I drove him nuts whenever I heard this on hot summer nights heading for the chicken farms trying to get into the mood to pick thousands of live birds in the broiling night inside a suffocating chicken house, but we were young, all of us, old was over 30, and Stevie definitely knew how to kick it. Solid soul!
Like The Beginning of the End's "Funky Nassau," this song can only be best appreciated with both parts connected together. Just listening to Part 2 is just too damn short!
I HAVE BEEN READING STEVIE WONDER'S MOTHER'S BOOK "BLIND FAITH", BY LULA HARDWAY, SHE MADE SOME SERIOUS SACRIFICES FOR STEVIE, IT IS AN AWESOME BOOK, YOU WILL NOT PUT IT DOWN.
This was a truly musically historic moment, as it usher in not only Stevie Wonder's carreer, but was a pivotal moment in the evolution of rock to the newer sound of the mid-sixties
such a great recording...the audience with the kids is so into it, really part of the whole atmosphere. I never get tired of it....it's so exhilerating to listen to.
Stevie played this song tonight at his concert in Copenhagen, the crowd went CRACY!! It was just so close to the original recording, the technicians even changed his mic output, to sound like Stevie at the age of 12.... UNBELIVABLE!!
if you think this is good.. should check out Charlie McCoy's version of this song.. about 3 times faster..
Took me 3 month of listeningf to work out what he was playing.. and another 3 months to play it.. Steve is an inspirational player.. venturing where few harp players will go.. into Chromatic blues
Saw the Motown show...today,...at 12 years old. At this concert the audience did'nt want to hear the man playing harmonica but, Barry Gordy says, come on give the boy a break..and so on...the rest was history
@johnniewalker23 "Both the studio and live versions of the song featured drumming by future Motown star Marvin Gaye, who had been playing drums for Wonder and other Motown artists since he had signed with the label in 1960." thats the quote from the wikipedia article....u can find it if you google "fingertips stevie wonder" and click on the wikipedia page
@johnniewalker23 "Both the studio and live versions of the song featured drumming by future Motown star Marvin Gaye, who had been playing drums for Wonder and other Motown artists since he had signed with the label in 1960." thats the quote from the wikipedia article....u can find it if you google "fingertips stevie wonder" and click on the wikipedia page
@johnniewalker23 "Both the studio and live versions of the song featured drumming by future Motown star Marvin Gaye, who had been playing drums for Wonder and other Motown artists since he had signed with the label in 1960." thats the quote from the wikipedia article....u can find it if you google "fingertips stevie wonder" and click on the wikipedia page
@rgurgel Both the studio and live versions of the song featured drumming by future Motown star Marvin Gaye, who had been playing drums for Wonder and other Motown artists since he had signed with the label in 1960.
@ritaskeetaggo , yeah this is LOL, that you were not here to enjoy and experience a very critical and yet interesting time in history. This was created the year I was born, I'm so glad that I knew the world before IPODS and the internet.. .When playing outside all day with the neighborhood full of kids was the best thing in the world, and not shopping at the mall. I feel for ya youngster.
Absolutely the very first Motown record I ever bought in the summer of 1963 when I was 9 (and "Heat Wave" was right on its heels). I still love it every bit as much today and it hasn't lost any freshness, fun or energy. I feel like I owe the entire talented Motown family my perpetual thanks for nothing less than a happy childhood. They supplied plenty of that happiness. And if old age brings deafness, I'll be just as happy to read about the musical miracle Detroit gave all America.
@dvlaries LOL!!! Me too. It was my first album. I bought the 45 first and just about wore the grooves off!! Then I saved up my allowance for the lp. Still have it. Phenomenal...
true. we created it. then "white folks got involved and took it over , keeping us in the back while they made all the money. check out cadillac records. it tells the story of the chess record label and how our greatest greatest talents was snaked for their just dues and royalties
@ladylove326 Many if not all the black singers/groups where shafted in the 50's and 60s. Record companies financially raped them sometimes. Didn't get royalties off songs they wrote and performed. Their names weren't put on the songs they wrote,etc. Then a white singer would come along and remake it and get rich. As in a lot things back then, the blacks got ripped off.
@gotch09 BERRY GORDY MADE SURE THIS DIDN'T HAPPEN TO THE PEOPLE AT HITSVILLE, HE WAS VERY SERIOUS ABOUT HIS CRAFT, AND HAD EVERY SAY SO IN EVERY CORNER OF THE BUSINESS, FROM THE COLOR OF THE SHOES THE PERFORMERS WORE TO WHAT LUNCH WAS GOING TO BE IN THE KITCHEN AT HITSVITLLE USA..
actually r&b (rhythm&blues) was coined to describe the sound of black music that wasn't so much rocking, but more laid back. sortof like a "white" type of lyrics over a bluesy rhythm cut with a funky down beat. that is why it is easy on the ears for any one to hear. if you listen to people like robin thicke or micheal mcdonald per say, you'llunderstand where i'm coming from it's sort of the flip-side of pop music . :)) but, I could be wrong.
You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about and you really need to learn your musical history.Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of the blues, country music and gospel music Though elements of rock and roll can be heard in country records of the 1930s and in blues records from the 1920s, rock and roll did not acquire its name until the 1950s.
The immediate roots of rock and roll lay in the so-called "race music" and hillbilly music (later called rhythm and blues and country and western) of the 1940s and 1950s. Commentators differ in their views of which of these forms were most important and the degree to which the new music was a re-branding of African American rhythm and blues for a white market, or a new hybrid of black and white forms.
@ladylove326" rock&roll came before r&b." Are you serious? The phrase rock& roll had been used in several blues & r&b songs, it was slang for having sex. Wynonie Harris had "All She wants to Do is Rock, "Sixty Minute Man" by Dominos also refers to rocking & rolling. r&b came first, when non blacks started playing it, the music was called rock & roll. There is nothing "white type" about authentic r&b. Robin Thicke & Michael Mcdonald, again are you serious?
Part 1 is Jazz/ blues and Fingertips Part 2 is SOUL..early R&B...you must remember that Rock N Roll Comes from R&B...so part two sounds like Rock it's because Rock came from R&B...Be bop was in the 1940's..This is not Be-bop...LOL!
love this version of the song so much. it's the opening for Cooley High, one of my all time favorite movies and every time i hear it, i think of Preach and Cochise rushing to catch the city bus.
This song was so revolutionary for this land-locked white boy in 1963, small town Michigan. I had ONE 45 RPM record and it was Fingertips Part 1 and Part 2. I awoke one morning to see 9 yr old brother tossing it like a frisbee in the front yard - death would have been to kind for him
@alphashed -- ROFLMHO about the 9 year old brother. The visual image of that scenario is hystical. I'd have felt like tossing him like a frisbee as well. LOL.
I so wish I could have played like that at age twelve. hell, i cant play like that now, or anywhere close. man, that is a crapload of talent in one small boy. Thank you God, for giving us the 8th Wonder of the world!
u know marvin gaye is on the drums look it up on wikipedia if you dont believe me
bighead996 1 week ago
Who is the dentist?
marionknul 2 weeks ago
love stevies music but this harmonica sounds like a dentists drill..
georgegodley 2 weeks ago
marvin gaye on drums !
TheSamisaid 2 weeks ago 2
@TheSamisaid i know amazing isnt it!!!!!!!!
funkskywalker1 2 weeks ago in playlist More videos from johnniewalker23
just phenominal
ThePipi1951 1 month ago
"what key! what key!" You can here a musician in the background as Stevie starts over at the end of part two for one mo' time!
poetcomic1 1 month ago
When this came out I was 11 years old and living on Bouvier Street in North Philly. It was the hottest thing happening. when Stevie was on American Bandstand, we all stopped playing, outside and went into our houses to see him. It was the first major media event that I really remember. The block was clear and it was the middle of the summer. Motown was brand new and he was their pop answer to Ray Charles
MrBillc1023 1 month ago
I would still dance to this! What fun!!
sadagunga 1 month ago
I first heard this on a juke box in Anchorage, Alaska in 1963. I had to jump up to see who we were listening to. I came back to the booth and told my friends, "Remember this name: 'Little Stevie Wonder!' We'll be hearding that name for a long time to come!" For once, I was RIGHT! LOL!
judygrell 3 months ago 2
Ah the time when the little 12 year old teen star wasn't annoying to listen to :)
willwelsh816 4 months ago 6
MONTGOMERY WARDS CATALOG Christmas
PoppySandals 4 months ago
I did a biography on him... No wonder this was a number one hit single for 15 weeks :)
teeheeuser 4 months ago
Real Talent = Real Music..........Just sayin!
Tarabatchelor1974 5 months ago
Funny... kind of has a New York Italian sound to it
clarkbell 5 months ago
GRANTS
clarkbell 5 months ago
you can hear so much of what was to come just in his harmonica phrasing...
mispistoleros 6 months ago
Woah, I really didn't know Stevie Wonder was this young when he broke through, shame on me! He is so brave to just go out there on the stage and perform this awesome on such an age.
Familyguyaddict01 6 months ago
Twelve years and Giant .
atuuaolcom 6 months ago
Was fortunate enough to have seen this amazing young genius back then in concert a few times. Stevie and I are the same age. He was and is a Wonder...........
agape4tube 7 months ago
If you hadn't heard it, you'd never believe it...it's extraordinary that this is a 12-year old.
Singapom888 7 months ago
Thank you to you and your mother for not listening to the early critics..the ones who thought that your talent was just so-so . omg..talk about people who lack perception and vision..
We would've missed out on SO MUCH GENIUS..
They were correct to a certain extent in that you are so-so GREAT!
Love you so much for following your dreams and enriching our lives with your music for almost half a century !
vizbit 7 months ago
♫ EVERYBODY SAY YEEEAAAAHHHHH ! ... SAY YEAH ! ... SAY YEAH ! ... YEAH ... YEAH , YEAH , YEEAHHH ! ♫
MJRookieRook 8 months ago 3
wow!
memphisgrownman 8 months ago
Suck On This Justin Beiber!
llama40204 9 months ago 36
@llama40204 LOL
caprisassgirl 2 weeks ago
@llama40204 Of fuck man!Dont even dare mention bieber in a Stevie Wonder music video!
Tony132GR 1 week ago
At the end when the MC calls Stevie back out for his ovation and he starts to play again listen to the guys on the piano I gues the band wasn't expecting Stevie to start playing again. So in a panic you can hear the piano player say "What key....What key!"
GSBeliever 9 months ago
@GSBeliever Can you imagine actually being there?!!
jim6720 8 months ago
This was done live before the Beatles came over. I think thing sing was important in ushering in a new era in rock. It can not ne uunderestimated.
ConfessionsPew 9 months ago
he had a cute voice as a kid!! go stevie!!!
mjjcng8958 9 months ago
Man I wish music could be this good and genuine again....
calvinb2006 10 months ago 3
WOWEEEEE...OOOOOO...Too cool!! Thanks post-person!!
chinzebo 11 months ago
My God this is a great track. Brilliant harmonica playing still stands up 50 years later. What a debut. He was kicking some ass right from the start. Love you Stevie!!!
clarkewi 11 months ago 38
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I really never liked his music.I think he is over rated and is not one that I would spend a dime on to see.
OgPsQd 11 months ago
@OgPsQd ok everyone has their opinion. like or dislike he was twelve that alone he gets high praise. i think he does not get enough credit. he is a musical genius.
princealbertchild 11 months ago 2
@OgPsQd Go kill ur self u fucking idiot
RC187killa18 11 months ago
@OgPsQd stevie was blind, and you're deaf...apparently that doesn't keep you from trolling...
tabalitigi 10 months ago 2
@OgPsQd How old are you? Honestly I want to know. I think if you were like, 11 or something, your lack of taste in music would be fairly accounted for.
soccerballgoalie2 9 months ago
@OgPsQd Then why did you listen to this great song?
jimbobubbadj 9 months ago
Ahem. The JB of those days. Spam me, if u dare! *hiss*
good2goism 11 months ago
Big Stevie Wonder
atuuaolcom 1 year ago
this was belssed with amazin skills
QuoteNotes16 1 year ago
Stevie born in Saginaw MI.
dtq7388 1 year ago
:)
braveheart 1 year ago
phenominal talent, great song, one of my favorites. But , then he got political, and entertainment took a back seat.
radicright 1 year ago
Twelve years old. TWELVE YEARS OLD. Genius.
DrSimian 1 year ago
i have officially molested the refresh button.
jokerloc 1 year ago
@jokerloc I fell off my chair laughing at your comment because I do that all of the time, but I would never have put it so...intriguingly! Thank you for a truly refreshing outlook on the drearily negative comments that one sees on youtube all the time! Looking forward to more...
MsDynamo30 1 year ago
This is the best, makes you want to get up and dance!
eclectictybeegirl 1 year ago
the bass player didn't relies that there was an encore and walked of stage but ran back an at 5:57 you can here him ask "What key? What key?"
elikeeler 1 year ago 3
Grow up pointing that part of the song out to friends.
graphicmemories 1 year ago
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graphicmemories 1 year ago
@elikeeler C minor!
wildbilltexas 3 months ago
I LOVE MOTOWN!
simon4186 1 year ago
fuck yeah!
andredidiergijon 1 year ago
We were hauling live chickens at night, traveling all night listening to AM, because the truck driver was busy on the CB and driving, he let me play with the AM radio. I drove him nuts whenever I heard this on hot summer nights heading for the chicken farms trying to get into the mood to pick thousands of live birds in the broiling night inside a suffocating chicken house, but we were young, all of us, old was over 30, and Stevie definitely knew how to kick it. Solid soul!
nhgranite1 1 year ago
he sounds soo young :D
MaGs138 1 year ago
I remember seeing this on Shin Dig or Hullabaloo, one of those "hippy" music shows.
1ooman 1 year ago
Stevie Wonder's first #1 record.......the start of things to come........48 years later, he's a musical legend!
tljones9 1 year ago
Like The Beginning of the End's "Funky Nassau," this song can only be best appreciated with both parts connected together. Just listening to Part 2 is just too damn short!
lsmftymf 1 year ago
where did the good music im part of the new generation but i hate our music im so old school
MJWif3y 1 year ago 3
RIP music
91nickt 1 year ago
this stomps all over "whip my hair" by willow smith.
I mean I know she's only 10 and he's 12, but c'mon. How times have changed.
bookmaster89 1 year ago 2
i love this song! chaka khan sampled this for her song 'i feel for you'. stevie was 11 yrs old. and marvin gaye was not on this.
hotCHOCLATEful 1 year ago
I HAVE BEEN READING STEVIE WONDER'S MOTHER'S BOOK "BLIND FAITH", BY LULA HARDWAY, SHE MADE SOME SERIOUS SACRIFICES FOR STEVIE, IT IS AN AWESOME BOOK, YOU WILL NOT PUT IT DOWN.
smoton2 1 year ago
I was 11 year old awesome
DrVickiLeeJohnson 1 year ago
THANK YOU!!!!!!
Mamasan41 1 year ago
Mmmmmmm, I recognize that harmonica sample from "I Feel for You".
Chamillionare64 1 year ago
Lol,did he just play mary had a little lamb for a second?
Haha,good ol stevie!
ilovemusicalot07 1 year ago 2
@ilovemusicalot07 YEAH, THAT'S WHAT MADE IT SOOO UNIQUE!!
smoton2 1 year ago
@ilovemusicalot07 yup, he did. Way 2 go stevie
good2goism 11 months ago
Living legend. Proof that a young person can get into the business at an early age. As long as they have the proper people around them.
omoxus 1 year ago
@omoxus Exactly what do you mean by "the proper people"?
good2goism 11 months ago
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Not bad... LOL!!!
CHRISTMASBASTARD 1 year ago
YEAAAAAAAH!!!!
MIMI88998899 1 year ago
Yeah!!!
unknown77051 1 year ago
Sick Song!! Stevie was the man or boy lol.
The10men 1 year ago
Look up the "soul to the bone" in a dictionary ...you'll find Stevie Wonder listed there in the definition!
TheBbinca 1 year ago
Marvin Gaye was a bad-ass drummer! One of his most-underrated talents. Does a Marvin/Stevie drum-off exist? The mind boggles.
junedeon 1 year ago
Stevie Wonder has few peers when it comes to soul and funk.
hapzap13 1 year ago
This was a truly musically historic moment, as it usher in not only Stevie Wonder's carreer, but was a pivotal moment in the evolution of rock to the newer sound of the mid-sixties
DannyHHyde 1 year ago
@DannyHHyde I remember this well, I was 50 when this came out
DannyHHyde 1 year ago
@DannyHHyde So are you like 90 now?? LOL...
Teetee33 1 year ago
Fantastic. I remember when this came out in the summer of '64.
dw45761 1 year ago
such a great recording...the audience with the kids is so into it, really part of the whole atmosphere. I never get tired of it....it's so exhilerating to listen to.
imajeepster 1 year ago
Stevie played this song tonight at his concert in Copenhagen, the crowd went CRACY!! It was just so close to the original recording, the technicians even changed his mic output, to sound like Stevie at the age of 12.... UNBELIVABLE!!
trademark1874 1 year ago
if you think this is good.. should check out Charlie McCoy's version of this song.. about 3 times faster..
Took me 3 month of listeningf to work out what he was playing.. and another 3 months to play it.. Steve is an inspirational player.. venturing where few harp players will go.. into Chromatic blues
harpman2009 1 year ago
before micheal jackson there was little stevie wonder
daveycrocketjones 1 year ago
@daveycrocketjones i'd like to know how anyone even noticed jackson with this Wonder around.
waldoman7 11 months ago
OMG, Stevie killed this! Can we see a similar talent out of a kid like this today? Please show them to me--haven't seen yet!
Teetee33 1 year ago 2
Zack and Tim!
corodobo 1 year ago
Saw the Motown show...today,...at 12 years old. At this concert the audience did'nt want to hear the man playing harmonica but, Barry Gordy says, come on give the boy a break..and so on...the rest was history
sprydo7 1 year ago
@johnniewalker23 Marvin Gaye was on both the studio and live version of this
PnSModels 1 year ago 6
@PnSModels You sure about that? A look at wikipedia says otherwise.
johnniewalker23 1 year ago
@johnniewalker23 "Both the studio and live versions of the song featured drumming by future Motown star Marvin Gaye, who had been playing drums for Wonder and other Motown artists since he had signed with the label in 1960." thats the quote from the wikipedia article....u can find it if you google "fingertips stevie wonder" and click on the wikipedia page
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@johnniewalker23 "Both the studio and live versions of the song featured drumming by future Motown star Marvin Gaye, who had been playing drums for Wonder and other Motown artists since he had signed with the label in 1960." thats the quote from the wikipedia article....u can find it if you google "fingertips stevie wonder" and click on the wikipedia page
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@johnniewalker23 "Both the studio and live versions of the song featured drumming by future Motown star Marvin Gaye, who had been playing drums for Wonder and other Motown artists since he had signed with the label in 1960." thats the quote from the wikipedia article....u can find it if you google "fingertips stevie wonder" and click on the wikipedia page
PnSModels 1 year ago
@johnniewalker23 dont trust wikipedia lol
navyinurface 1 year ago
@johnniewalker23 because wikipedia is so infallible.
juliajade 1 year ago
@johnniewalker23 Wikipedia is not omniscient.
thevisualboy37 5 months ago
how old is he? now
secretcrushgirl 1 year ago
FANTASTIC
merseymain 1 year ago
Stevie is a living legend. Much Much Respect for this wonderfull person. God bless all of us. PEACE
HyNiJo 1 year ago
my favorite!
mg1881 1 year ago
Detroit will never be forgotten for putting out groundbreaking music.
astyr77 1 year ago 19
@astyr77 Snakepit baby!
trademark1874 8 months ago
Funk borning !!! Marvin Gaye on drums !!! Fucking wonder-full !!!
rgurgel 1 year ago 2
@rgurgel Marvin wasn't on the live recording if I'm not mistaken, he was on the studio version of the song.
johnniewalker23 1 year ago
@rgurgel Both the studio and live versions of the song featured drumming by future Motown star Marvin Gaye, who had been playing drums for Wonder and other Motown artists since he had signed with the label in 1960.
Heartbear 1 year ago
wow i've been looking for part 1 for awhile!! nice very nice
tanker58p 1 year ago
Happy 60th Stevie!
timmy841212 1 year ago
A time when Black People were respected by other Nationalities for g00d music ! Great song .... _rob Atlantic City
cartoonist1975 1 year ago
i love that everyone commenting on this video is talking about liking it as a kid in the '60s, and i'm only 17 :) lol
ritaskeetaggo 1 year ago
@ritaskeetaggo , yeah this is LOL, that you were not here to enjoy and experience a very critical and yet interesting time in history. This was created the year I was born, I'm so glad that I knew the world before IPODS and the internet.. .When playing outside all day with the neighborhood full of kids was the best thing in the world, and not shopping at the mall. I feel for ya youngster.
LinksToYourHeart 1 year ago
This one goes out to "Opposing Counsel" -- here's what will happen if your cancel one more time. Better listen to the end, Babe.
JenGCinFLA 1 year ago
brilliant as usual stevie at his best
jominx55 1 year ago
I remember this song as a kid!
cinejan 1 year ago
"jump up and down and do anything you wanna do"
mg1881 1 year ago 3
GO STEVIE MAN
HendrixPrinceFlea89 1 year ago 14
and now what do we have in the way of young singers? hannh montana and justin bieber?
getstuff95 1 year ago
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what u talkin bout justin bieber is a genius
icablock28 1 year ago
justin barby a genius, are u joking or what?
davidmax2 1 year ago 3
@icablock28 dude...r u smoking crack?
TheKElizabeth 1 year ago
Unbelievable control of time, music, form, technique.... everything!
chantdonchant 2 years ago 4
I totally agree with you ! :-)))
Coletta100 1 year ago
This AWESOME !!!!! Thanks a bunch for posting this boy wonder.... just 12-13 years old ..incredible ....... BRAVO !!!!
tejastiger61 2 years ago 2
Not trying to argue here, but you can't overlook the influence of gospel in early rock and roll.
oshngrl 2 years ago 4
Not just rock and roll. It influences everything right up till now my friend
BullyBeat 2 years ago 2
well said
morenaso1 1 year ago
marvin gaye on the drums!
MrPhillyrick1 2 years ago
Where was this recorded???
Jerseysson27 2 years ago
The Motown Sound!
This song is essential to the early sounds of rock & roll despite what some of y'all are saying lol
timmy841212 2 years ago 2
COOLEY HIGH!!!!!!!!!
Capricorn91Nerd 2 years ago
marvin gaye on drums
BROKEDOWN1965 2 years ago 2
retinothapy of prematurity.. too much O2 pumped into his incubator.. so not born blind but was not long after..
lobeye1977 2 years ago
i thought he became blind due to an infection... still theMOST naturally talented musician ever and will ever be
lobeye1977 2 years ago
WHAT KEY?...WHAT KEY?
mysticmrsam 2 years ago 3
Stevie tore that shit up omfg!!!!!!!!!
TRACKSANGUINIS1 2 years ago 3
never forget DETROIT please
boobay2 2 years ago
Absolutely the very first Motown record I ever bought in the summer of 1963 when I was 9 (and "Heat Wave" was right on its heels). I still love it every bit as much today and it hasn't lost any freshness, fun or energy. I feel like I owe the entire talented Motown family my perpetual thanks for nothing less than a happy childhood. They supplied plenty of that happiness. And if old age brings deafness, I'll be just as happy to read about the musical miracle Detroit gave all America.
dvlaries 2 years ago 27
@dvlaries LOL!!! Me too. It was my first album. I bought the 45 first and just about wore the grooves off!! Then I saved up my allowance for the lp. Still have it. Phenomenal...
Torihope 1 year ago
Ever seen the video where they played together? It was some show honoring Toots, check it out.
johnniewalker23 2 years ago
that's why he called genius...I love Stevie...
zoelynnkendrick 2 years ago
For the record, what key is Stevie playing this song in?
truegeechie 2 years ago
C minor
wikipedia is your friend
mikeyburns319 2 years ago
the key of life my friend :)
or C minor.
nventi 2 years ago
What do you call this kind of music? Bebop?
Thoemas 2 years ago
@Thoemas
NO SWEET HEART, IT'S ACTUALLY THE EARLY SOUNDS OF R&B.BUT, THEY THREW IT IN WITH ROCK AND ROLL BECAUSE OF ALL THE "WHITE "PEOPLE WHO LOVED IT :)
ladylove326 2 years ago
back then black people also loved rock and roll..
TheHitez 2 years ago
true. we created it. then "white folks got involved and took it over , keeping us in the back while they made all the money. check out cadillac records. it tells the story of the chess record label and how our greatest greatest talents was snaked for their just dues and royalties
ladylove326 2 years ago 2
@ladylove326 Many if not all the black singers/groups where shafted in the 50's and 60s. Record companies financially raped them sometimes. Didn't get royalties off songs they wrote and performed. Their names weren't put on the songs they wrote,etc. Then a white singer would come along and remake it and get rich. As in a lot things back then, the blacks got ripped off.
gotch09 1 year ago 4
@gotch09 BERRY GORDY MADE SURE THIS DIDN'T HAPPEN TO THE PEOPLE AT HITSVILLE, HE WAS VERY SERIOUS ABOUT HIS CRAFT, AND HAD EVERY SAY SO IN EVERY CORNER OF THE BUSINESS, FROM THE COLOR OF THE SHOES THE PERFORMERS WORE TO WHAT LUNCH WAS GOING TO BE IN THE KITCHEN AT HITSVITLLE USA..
smoton2 1 year ago
No, Rock came from R&B and that's why it sounds like Rock...Rock stole this sound and coined it as Rock.
HaliB75 2 years ago
sorry babe, but rock&roll came before r&b.
actually r&b (rhythm&blues) was coined to describe the sound of black music that wasn't so much rocking, but more laid back. sortof like a "white" type of lyrics over a bluesy rhythm cut with a funky down beat. that is why it is easy on the ears for any one to hear. if you listen to people like robin thicke or micheal mcdonald per say, you'llunderstand where i'm coming from it's sort of the flip-side of pop music . :)) but, I could be wrong.
ladylove326 2 years ago
talkshit.. rock n roll comes from blues/r&b/country
Pied777 2 years ago
You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about and you really need to learn your musical history.Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of the blues, country music and gospel music Though elements of rock and roll can be heard in country records of the 1930s and in blues records from the 1920s, rock and roll did not acquire its name until the 1950s.
HaliB75 2 years ago 2
The immediate roots of rock and roll lay in the so-called "race music" and hillbilly music (later called rhythm and blues and country and western) of the 1940s and 1950s. Commentators differ in their views of which of these forms were most important and the degree to which the new music was a re-branding of African American rhythm and blues for a white market, or a new hybrid of black and white forms.
Source: Wikipedia.Please do more research.
HaliB75 2 years ago
wrong
MrPhillyrick1 2 years ago
@ladylove326" rock&roll came before r&b." Are you serious? The phrase rock& roll had been used in several blues & r&b songs, it was slang for having sex. Wynonie Harris had "All She wants to Do is Rock, "Sixty Minute Man" by Dominos also refers to rocking & rolling. r&b came first, when non blacks started playing it, the music was called rock & roll. There is nothing "white type" about authentic r&b. Robin Thicke & Michael Mcdonald, again are you serious?
luvureally 1 year ago
Part 1 is Jazz/ blues and Fingertips Part 2 is SOUL..early R&B...you must remember that Rock N Roll Comes from R&B...so part two sounds like Rock it's because Rock came from R&B...Be bop was in the 1940's..This is not Be-bop...LOL!
HaliB75 2 years ago 2
The great Stevie!
wailflower 2 years ago
STEVIE WONDER: THE MOVIE!!!
motowninvestor 2 years ago
love this version of the song so much. it's the opening for Cooley High, one of my all time favorite movies and every time i hear it, i think of Preach and Cochise rushing to catch the city bus.
SoShi83 2 years ago
This song was so revolutionary for this land-locked white boy in 1963, small town Michigan. I had ONE 45 RPM record and it was Fingertips Part 1 and Part 2. I awoke one morning to see 9 yr old brother tossing it like a frisbee in the front yard - death would have been to kind for him
alphashed 2 years ago 21
@alphashed -- ROFLMHO about the 9 year old brother. The visual image of that scenario is hystical. I'd have felt like tossing him like a frisbee as well. LOL.
Torihope 1 year ago
@alphashed LOL
downloadmystuff 1 year ago
I so wish I could have played like that at age twelve. hell, i cant play like that now, or anywhere close. man, that is a crapload of talent in one small boy. Thank you God, for giving us the 8th Wonder of the world!
rhythmandblues1 2 years ago
Jamesrachael@ Fingertips 2
wolfdavid1 2 years ago
The most ridiculous thing is not only is Stevie Wonder 12 when this was recorded but Marvin Gaye is rocking out on the drums!!!
Arthurt2468 2 years ago 4
PURE TALENT!!!!
itsbrean86 2 years ago 2
truly talented and amazing artist indeed.....and he is from Saginaw, MI....gotta give props to Saginaw too!!!! Yeah!!
jennadyann 2 years ago