Maps of Music

My Cherie Amour (1969)

Where the lyrics of My Cherie Amour take you, and where it was really made.

The title track reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100, yet the album itself peaked only at No. 34 on the US pop albums chart.

Key places

Recorded at Hitsville U.S.A. (1969)

Recording site Hitsville U.S.A. Studio A — The album was recorded at the Hitsville U.S.A. studio in Detroit, Michigan. The studio is listed as the recording place for this album. Google Maps · Apple Maps

How to get there: See the map for directions.

Album story

Overview

• My Cherie Amour: eleventh album by American singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder
• Released 29 August 1969 on the Tamla (Motown) label
• Wonder's eleventh studio album
• Twelve tracks across two sides
• Title track and "Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday" were released as hit singles

Background

• Album includes Wonder's version of "Light My Fire", a 1967 hit by The Doors
• Also includes "Hello, Young Lovers" from The King and I
• Also includes "The Shadow of Your Smile" from the 1965 film The Sandpiper
• Title track credited to Henry Cosby, Sylvia Moy and Stevie Wonder
• Henry Cosby is credited as producer

Recording

• The album was recorded at the Hitsville U.S.A. studio in Detroit, Michigan
• Stevie Wonder plays harmonica and keyboards and sings
• James Jamerson plays bass
• Benny Benjamin plays drums

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Stevland Hardaway Morris, known as Stevie Wonder, was born May 13, 1950 in Saginaw, Michigan, and became blind shortly after birth.
• He signed with Motown's Tamla label at age 11 in 1961, receiving the name Little Stevie Wonder.
• His single "Fingertips" topped the Billboard Hot 100 when he was 13, the youngest solo artist ever to do so.

Career

• Music of My Mind and Talking Book (1972) marked the start of his classic period, moving away from the Motown sound toward synthesizer- and keyboard-driven music.
• Innervisions, Fulfillingness' First Finale and Songs in the Key of Life (1973–1976) won three consecutive Grammy Awards for Album of the Year, and he is the only artist to have done so.
• In the 1980s he campaigned to make Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a federal holiday and scored several number-one hits, including "Ebony and Ivory" and "I Just Called to Say I Love You".
• He has sold more than 100 million records and won 25 Grammy Awards, the most by a male solo artist.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• The album yielded a pair of top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100
• Title track "My Cherie Amour" reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100
• "Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday" reached No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100
• Other covers on the album include Wonder's takes on "Light My Fire", "Hello, Young Lovers" and "The Shadow of Your Smile"
• Side one opens with the title track and closes with "You and Me"
• Side two includes "Pearl", "Somebody Knows, Somebody Cares", "Angie Girl", "Give Your Love" and "I've Got You"
• The title track runs 2:49
• "Light My Fire" runs 3:34 and "Give Your Love" runs 3:42
• "Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday" is credited to Ron Miller and Bryan Wells
• "Hello, Young Lovers" is credited to Oscar Hammerstein and Richard Rodgers

Records

• UK albums chart: No. 12
• US pop albums chart: No. 34
• Billboard Hot 100 singles: title track No. 4, "Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday" No. 7

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The title track is credited to Henry Cosby, Sylvia Moy and Stevie Wonder
• The album includes Wonder's takes on a 1967 Doors hit and on songs from The King and I and The Sandpiper
• Henry Cosby is credited as producer
• James Jamerson plays bass and Benny Benjamin plays drums on the album
• The album reached No. 12 on the UK albums chart

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Maps of Ages ↗ (mapsofages.com)

Privacy · Contact