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  • i also want to find the complete version of this. ohh its so beautiful!!!

  • Talk Boxes are tha shit for West Coast, West Coast Gangsta, G-Funk, & Old School music homeboys...

  • how is it possible to find a full version of this?

  • this is the best minute long video on youtube

  • year i seen steve doing this it was awsume

  • Got my Banshee 2 talkbox!!!!!!

    so happy

    learned how to use it took about 4 days

    not very good though

    but can pronounce some words

  • just wicked...

  • Stevie is killing it! But in the R&B/Funk world, the master of the Talk Box is Roger Troutman & ZAPP! Search him.

  • @Phattazzass yeah and roger/zapp was inspired by stevie lol

  • Best version in my opinion.. wish there was a full version.

  • sexy talkboxin XD

  • I'm a "talk-boxer" & use AUTO-TUNE & 1 thing no one realizes is AUTO-TUNE can't "bend" notes! Talkboxing can "bend" ur notes into each other, like normal singing, but still sound "robotic!"

  • The Carpenters " (They Long To Be) Close To You" 1970

  • anybody have any guess which talk box he is using?

  • the name of the song? this is improvisation?

  • @Exdize1 No, no. It's "Close to you"

    I'll Be near to tears...

  • Where's the rest of the video? Upload the whole performance, please...

  • the carpenters!

  • I'm sure/I KNOW there were some assholes who thought the Talk Box and all the synths Stevie used were "fake" too...

    Remember -he Pioneered SYNTH BASS parts and Drum Machines.

    Most of the (brilliant) music he produced after 1980 has been soundly dismissed by the same fuckin assholes who dismiss most modern R&B...ASSHOLES.

    No doubt Stevie is a Giant...but dismissing every/all contemporary artists who use auto tune is LAME and Predictable..

  • i love this video a hilarious amount

  • @robfenner1992 mate that is so weird. i was just about to write something hilariously similar

  • damn where is the rest of the video

  • talkbox>autotune talkbox does forsure need skills and u have to actuallyknow how to play an instrument to use the talkbox...and stevie wonder is one of the greatestin music ever

  • where is the rest of the video?I wana see this performance so bad!

  • naw it was Peter Frampton who blew Troutmans mind. hahahha

  • genial!! Exelente version!!

  • wow your the best stevie!!!!!....one of the best artist

  • the name of the song please?

  • @juanperez0505 close to you- the carpenters

  • @ezgib421 really thanks

  • Original is carpenters .

    But sounds like Zapp

  • its weird, you can see his eyes just wandering around behind his sunglasses

  • @trollope4lyf2k8 he's blind.

  • @Rhukza i know, but just seeing it looks weird

  • can someone tell me the name of the original song?

  • Never compare talk box to autotune.

    talkbox needs skills

    autotune also needs skills... to install software onto the computer o_o

  • @TaterThao  Actually you have to know how to use auto-tune contrary to popular belief.... You have to stay in key with the beat which isnt easy to to do at ALL so do research before you speak

  • @TheKGreen420 yeah that's true. I'm just saying that talk box needs more skill to use.

  • @TaterThao Well, even autotune sounds better, the better singer you are, so....

  • @TaterThao Auto-Tune is not some magic bullet that makes bad singers good enough to get a record deal. It won't help you if you can't carry a tune to save your life, and these days you'd be hard-press to find a singer who doesn't use it at least occasionally. There's no shame in, for example, going back to fix a few flubbed notes to save time in the studio.

  • @Digitbig theres no shame in use, but abuse is something else entirely.

  • @Digitbig i understand what you mean. I'm pointing that comment towards artist who use AutoTune as a full use (ex. T-Pain).

  • @TaterThao Thankyou! Someone Finally gets it!

  • more more more

  • 1970`s autotune....thanks alot stevie...you`ve single handedly ruined music in the future

  • @stripes5150 This is NOT auto-tune at ALL. This is a device made to literally give a voice to instruments. Comparing this to today's auto-tune is lacking respect to those who used it for real music.

  • @FrankyDooDy0 I know man...I was just saying it isn't much different sounding

  • @stripes5150 Ah right, then!

  • @FrankyDooDy0 not really man.. what does auto tune do? keeps all the tones within a certain scale or key. which you can automate to change with the chord progression of the song. you have to play the keyboard within that same scale or key as you use the talk box as well. they really almost the exact same thing. T-pain could probably set up a full song in 20 minutes where it would take me or you days. is that not skill?

  • @jessesnowden t pain sing normally using an especial mic, with auto tune, then it automatically hits the notes. stevie wonder is playing the notes on a keyboard, then it goes through the tube and stevie sings modificating the voice

  • @bbs528 You're missing the point here. i know how both work, I'm a recording engineer. I was pointing out that they are both different medians of expression, and furthermore that auto tune has been applied much in the same way that talk boxs were used when they were popular. look at something like daftpunk. the song ROBOT ROCK, is it auto tune? or talk box? it could be both. because by that point the software had the capability to do it. its like arguing oil paint over pastel.

  • @FrankyDooDy0 the concept is the same tho ;)

  • @stripes5150 that's not autotune... that's a talk box, a tool that's there to be used, as the overdrive, flanger, reverbs or delays are used with guitars, pianos, voices, drums, etc. Don't be so closed minded,it's a very beautiful song.

  • @goikolkm i KNOW IT'S NOT AUTOTUNE! I worked in a studio for 3.5 years and know what effects are...I was simply making a comparison.

  • @stripes5150 Still I think he hasn't ruined anything.

  • @goikolkm OMG it was a joke....get over it!

  • @stripes5150 Ok i'm sorry man, I thought you were seriuos.

  • @goikolkm np

  • WHAT IS THIS SONG ???

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  • @MCsVoice97 carpenters, close to you

  • @brwnc thank you !

  • I would love to watch the entire performance of this! It sounds amazing.

  • the name of the music please

    ?

  • @etucomisso Close To You. The song was composed by Burt Bacharach. The most well known version of the song was recorded by The Carpenters. Karen Carpenter voice is the first that comes to mind but it has been recorded by many singers over the years. Stevie handles it with sensitivity and gives it a creative, original treatment.

  • Whyyy doo biirdds... sud den lee appeayaa - Eveytime... you are neaaar... ooowee babay - Just like me.....They long to beee...close to youwowowowo.. -. On the day that you where born... the angels get together - And decided to create a dream come trruuuueeeee.... - So they sprinkled moondust in your hair - Of gold and starlight in your eyes of bluuuooooowowowow! ===== I love singing along with him lool ^^,
  • Forreal i need to hear this whole song!!!

  • stevie can sing like that without talkbox, a little only =D

  • I love how Stevie has played blind his whole life!!!! LOL.....He's see's more than any of us! He has God's sight!!!

  • Excellent as ever from Stevie. The host is surely David Frost.

  • What a false grin the host have on his face, he clearly dont understand it!!

  • @trademark1874 The host clearly seems to be enjoying the performance from what I can see.

  • @bolder2009 Naa, he thinks its a joke, so do some of the audiens by the laughing. But hes dead serious Stevie. Just see the clip again!

  • @trademark1874 I suppose at the time the Talk Box was a bit of a novelty. Anyway its shows the openess of Stevie to embrace electronic sounds and treat them with the same respect as music made from acoustic instruments.

  • @musiclover77able you gay

  • God damn it , wheres the rest of the song?!!?

  • It was Stevie who influenced the group Zapp with the talkbox. Cool

  • Still waiting on/wishing for the whole clip!

  • @SiqMachine I think a lot of the audience saw this as novelty at first, and were quickly chagrined when they realized how very beautiful the performance was. This tears me up every time I watch it.

  • can someone upload a full version or tell me when he performed this song?

  • anyone know what talkbox he's using? the tube looks so much smaller than all the others.... One doesn't want to look like one's smoking cock on stage..... does one!

  • that's all their was.. you can hear at the last half second him begin to explain something regarding the talkbox

  • The great thing is that, Stevie doesn't even need a talk box. Stevie Wonder is legendary

  • @niteh4wk great comment.... Stevie doesn't need a talk box. ... doesn't need a keyboard then, perhaps no songs? Perhaps he just needs nothing to be a legend ....?  Of course the guy needs a damn talkbox.... how else would he demonstrate talkbox skills.....? Thin air?

  • @AntiPirateSquad I know he showing his skills on the fuckin talk box you idiot. I'm just saying that Stevie Wonder is one of the best singers ever to grace this planet and he doesn't need to be like some crap "singers" who need a talkbox or autotune to "sing"

  • @AntiPirateSquad ...

    THIN AIR!

    YES!

    DAMN IT Man!

    STEVIE IS THAT GOOD!

    ;-)

  • Seriously, is there anything musically that Stevie Wonder CAN'T do?

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  • smoothest talkbox performance ever

  • BE-YOU-TEA-FULL! LOve this so much!

  • yeah, the guy's not laughing at stevie he's laughing cuz he's like "this is so badass"

  • Really relaxing, to hear Stevie's version. Agreed where is the full v.

  • Skumbag T-Pain... GET ON THIS LEVEL!

  • Come on i wana hear the rest of it =(

  • The song is by The Carpenters called "Close To You".

  • What song is he singing

  • i wonder if ppl hated the talkbox just like ppl hated the autoune back in the day

  • that the emu emulator he is using?

  • @reza990 Nope, this was filmed in the 70's and the e-mu emulator was introduced in 1981. At this time, Stevie had a different hair style. No need to have a sampler to use a talk box, you can use any electric amplified musical instrument...

  • He killing it

  • o cara é um fera da black music

  • better than the original

  • the grand dady of auto-tune :) i hate autotune. but this talk box is better

  • Hell, Peter Frampton used a talkbox on his Peter Frampton Comes Alive album.....and Steppenwolf!!! It’s not a cultural, hip-hop thing....you have to have a great deal of talent to sing and play the the melody that you want the box to produce.....unlike the Autotuner.

    Roger Troutman and Teddy Riley were also musical geniuses.....not many people can do this and make it sound good.

  • WONDERFULL !!!!

  • @ChugFour he's blind bitch...what's your excuse for being a dumbass idiot coon...

  • @ChugFour dude he fucking blind u dumb ass retard

  • wat song is he singing ? cuz idk lol

  • @alexisthemanandrock2 (They Long to Be) Close to You.

  • Breaks my heart that Stevie isn't a mainstream musical force today! We need his soul more than ever! Death to Autotune!

  • Absolutely fantastic. Not to mention the quality of the songwriting - those chords! and melody! What!?

  • @gotjuice9 u know tht the talk box has the natural voice and doesnt balance out. the auto tune makes the artist have 1 level of sound. basically its cheating. you dont evem have to master auto tune. the talk box is pretty hard to use. i had a go and it took me about 1 and a half years of 2 lessons a week to be good at it ( i still think i suck )

  • Mrbrockpeters should go and listen to some tpain then. Stevie's got way too much soul for him.

  • Stevie Wonder is the greatest musical genius of all time.

  • @MindellWishbaum Did The Carpenters redo the song?

  • Close to you by the carpenters

  • @ThisKid429 Try Burt Bacharach and Hal David

  • what song was this supposed to be?

  • I'm sorry but this is super slow and boring compared to Roger Troutman. I think I've been spoiled by Zapp and Rogers.

  • @mrbrockpeters Actually Stevie Wonder is the person who turned Roger Troutman on to the talkbox. As for the song being slow,Stevie is singing it the way it was written.

  • imma listen to dis everyday....

  • Please someone, find the full video, I am interested in what else the host spoke to Stevie about.

  • what song is this?

  • @fryeman34 - 'Close to you' by the Carpenters

  • Back in 2007 when I was given this account by a friend, this was the one of the first videos I faved, I was fourteen at the time.

    Good to know it has more than one million views now :D It was a bitch just finding it because it didn't have that many back then.

  • i wish he would record the whole song like this

  • God... what a beautiful rendition. Those floritures at 0:15 and at 0:28 just... ahh nevermind. Such a pleasure to see him enjoying his own playing, just like a child.

    Thanks for posting.

  • I bet that guy who laughs toward the beginning feels like such a dickhead as the song progresses and gets beautiful as hell.

  • @SiqMachine

    i think hes prbly laughing because its clever

  • @SiqMachine I Disagree, I think he laughed out of PURE AMAZEMENT!

  • @SiqMachine thats not what that run meant.. his response was perfect... stevie laughed aswell.. its like a kid w a toy you know.. doing somethign fun.. and the guy who laughed knew perfectly what stevie meant by that 'ooie baybe' run

  • @SiqMachine Im pretty sure thats not why he was laughing....That was one of those "thats Cool/Tight Laughs"...... I mean every laugh in the beganing ..

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  • @SiqMachine I wouldn't feel that way. A laugh is a natural reaction to something new and surprising too.

  • @SiqMachine im almost sure he's laughing at the song he's singing, not actually laugh at the talented blind guy lol... which is why steve is also laughing...

  • @ezgib421 they are all laughing because they are all on dope. Imagine hearing this shit in 1972..fucking off the hook type shit. Make your grandma giggly.

  • @oatstao your absolutely right dude.

  • i can see him covering one ways mr groove

  • Roger was great on the talkbox no denying that, and yes he was even a master on it too...But what you failed to realize is by the time Roger mastered the talk box, Stevie had already mastered it in the late 60's and 70's and then went on to something else..Stevie has so much talent that he didn't have to use a talkbox on every song in order to get a hit, he can actually sing..

  • Isn't he using a Vocoder?

  • @blueleadguitar no, talkbox

  • @Synthasism yes, I saw the tube in his mouth after I posted that, I thought I'd deleted my post lol. Thanks for your reply. The man is a complete genius.

  • @blueleadguitar No, that's a talkbox. A talk box is usually an effects pedal that sits on the floor and contains a speaker attached with an airtight connection to a plastic tube. Look up Peter Frampton or Zapp and Roger. They've been using that WAY before T-Pain...

  • Nice :)

  • Screw Autotuning, this is the shit!

  • "like" a million times

  • which song is this?!

  • @njehehe

    "Close to You" by The Carpenters (Richard and Karen Carpenter) probably originally recorded in the 1970's. Unfortunately Karen is no longer with us; she had the voice of an angel. Richard wrote the music ajnd orchetrations, and Karen did the vocals.

  • @YankeeWarlock Thanks! Do you happen to know if the complete song ( cover from SW) could be found online? Thx!

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  • that s*** sounded good!

  • Esperanza Spalding set the bar real high. She, like Stevie Wonder, revisits the African-American spirit that was prevalent during the Civil Rights movement and shortly thereafter. Her ascent represents progress in the best way. I'm not really sure she has too many equals in today's Black music. And she will probably never use the N-word in any of her lyrics unless she is doing some serious teaching.

  • I downloaded this song and its on repeat.

    Hell yez.

  • @disgorgedguts amen

  • this is the best shit everrrrr> can i get an amen!

  • @disgorgedguts AMEN!

  • sadly this is how auto tuning was born

  • @NKairsoft1 but autotune sucks ass compared to talkboxing. At least talkboxing requires the player to mouth the lyrics and play well at the same time

  • "on the day that you were born

    The angels got together and decided

    To create a dream come true

    So they sprinkled moondust in your hair

    Of gold and starlight in your eyes of blue"

    <3

  • what's the concert name?

  • Great! But one technical question, how are we able to hear the sound without a microphone at stevies mouth?

  • @Electroacha the signal is fed thru an amp and is very loud and too loud can vibrate your skull! seriously..so he just mouths or whispers the words around the sound and there you have it. so its kinda like having a loud amplifier put into a tube and into your mouth..there is a mic there..but he doesn't have to be up on it because of the volume of it..you want to be close to it but didn't necessarily have to in this case.

  • @alphaqnow yeah thats what I thaught too. In fact I couldn`t find another explanation. I was just surprised, I mean, the mic gots to have a really defined characteristic to not absurb too much from the noise around. Anyway, just wondering, cause I`d like to get a talkbox too, and if there was like a self-recording type of talkbox (which technically sounds pretty ridiculous, I know) it would have saved myself a lot of recording difficulties. so thanks anyway

  • Talkbox Rules

    Autotune Sucks!!

  • @TheHeartbreack But stupid people can't tell the difference between the two.

  • i REALLY wish i could see the whole thing.

  • the guy just knocks me out... love it

    Bless

  • someone please upload the whole song!!!!!!

  • I've tried to use a Talk Box in the past with my guitar and keyboard but unfortunately putting that tube in my mouth made me vomit each time, which I regret because I really love that sound.

  • LOVE

  • I say this out of love and respect , and because I love him so and I don't want him to leave us sooner than need be. My intentions were not to offend him or his family. I have been a fan for over 35 years, and I will remain a fan forever. I want to thank you for your music and sacrifices and the many times you have put your career on the line for us. I love you, Good Brother.

    Sincerely one of your truly and most devoted fans.

  • With the weight he is carrying he is a prime candidate for heart disease, stroke, diabetes, arthritis and many other ailments associated with being overweight. My intentions are not to hurt Stevie, but with the sudden passing of Michael Jackson almost two years ago and the sudden passing of Teena Marie this past holiday, I want to make sure that my idol is around for a long, long time.