Does anyone know of a comprehensive Stevie Wonder discography on the web, that includes b-sides, remixes and alternate versions, and collaborations and contributions with/for other artists over his entire career???

Or the most comprehensive discography out there?

Thanks!

www.allmusic.com
is a very good site 4 discography etc.
/peace Manki

There's also a very good and detailed discography inside his 4-CD box set 'At The Close Of A Century'.

Even more difficult: any info about what's in his vault ?

Apparently there would be quite a lot of songs from the mythic period 1970-1976, it's been mentioned several times by former musicians...

DrD said:

Yeah,I heard that Stevie has alot of unreleased songs in the vaults.When they remastered his 70s albums a few years ago and prepared his 4-CD box set,he wasn't interested in adding any bonus tracks.Who knows if we'll ever get the chance to hear this stuff?

DavidEye said:

He jokes about it on the Classic Albums:SITKOL DVD...(he says he has lots ). I'd love to hear some too.

DrD said:

Go here: http://www.geocities.com/...eased.html

okaypimpn: I LOVE YOU!

PS: any idea what this stuff sound like ? Any bootlegs (hey...let me dream)

I WANT TO HEAR THIS STUFF NNNOOOWWW!!!

okaypimpn said:

Ohmigod!! Thanks for that link.Damn,I really really really wanna hear this stuff!!!

DrD said:

The ONLY bootleg I've heard is "Flipside Theme" (if you can believe it!!!) Stevie is very particular about keeping his unreleased songs to himself and not letting any bootlegs being leaked. I also have "Feeding Off The Love of the Land" (which was heard at the end of Jungle Fever), but it was actually intended for inclusion on "Fulfillingness First Finale."

"Yea Ya Do" (1975)
"I've Been Away Too Long" (1975)
"Lady Prima" (1975)
"We're Rollin" (1976)


Outtakes from 'SITKOL'??? I gotta hear these songs!!!

DavidEye said:

Yes! Along with...

Stand Up, Light Up, Let Your Light Shine - 1977
Not Science - 1977-1979
Reflections Of You - 1979
Garden Of Love - 1979
When You've Lost Your Way - 1979
Never Let You Down - 1979
Work Like You (Original Version of "Do Like You") - 1979
Take Me For What I Am - 1979
Barbara Walters Song - 1979
The Untitled Piece - 1979

Possible outtakes from "Journey..."??? How I'd love to get my hands on these!!!

Liks Manki said can't go wrong with AMG for any musical query, this site has a discography also: http://www.stevie-wonder.com

I once read an interview with Margouleff and Cecil (Stevie's one-time associate producers), and they spoke of how unfortunate it was that "The Future" was never released - they considered it one of Stevie's best songs.

Thanks for the site link, okaypimpn!

todd305 said:

Glad I could help. I think I also heard that story, too. I've always imagined it being some type of song similar to "Race Babbling" with a lot of synths and whatnot. Would be cool if he ever relased some of these songs...just a handful!

I remember reading somewhere that Stevie completed an album in 1983,and Motown was all set to release it,but it was abruptly cancelled (sound familiar? lol).Apparently,Stevie got asked to compose the soundtrack for a movie ('The Woman In Red') and he decided to make the soundtrack his next album instead.From looking at the list of unreleased recordings,you can see many of the songs that probably would've made up that unreleased 1983 album...


"Rise,Everybody"(1982)
"Whatcha Talking About?" (1982)
"It's Growing" (1983)
"Cold World,Warm Girl"(1983)
"Nobody Loves Me" (1983)
"Big Bad and Bold One" (1983)
"What You Don't Know" (1983)
"Broken Glass" (1983)

I read an interview somewhere with a close friend of Stevie's...In the interview he said that Stevie has a contract set up that upon his death...his unreleased stuff is to be destroyed...So unless he decides to release some of this stuff while he is here on this plane...we won't get a chance to hear them...I really wish he would let go some of this stuff though.

Brother 9/15

I think Stevie feels that,once he completes an album,that is the finished project that he wants the world to hear.In his view,the unreleased songs were left off the albums for a reason.Since he's given us so many wonderful albums to enjoy,I can't argue with his decision to withhold the unreleased stuff.

Unlike Prince,he has done a great job of keeping his songs out of the bootlegger's hands...lol...

okaypimpn said:

I remember him singing this song to Barbara Walters on 20/20 from 1979. Anybody remember that interview around fall of 1979. It was in support of the Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants...album...I wonder if "The Barbara Walters Song" is that song..

I also remember during the interview Stevie was making up this song on the spot...just joking around..and a few seconds into the song he says..."Owww get back whitey" and Barbara had this funny look on her face.
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BRO915 said:

Hmmm... that's quite dramatic, isn't it? I'll be equally dramatic. If he didn't actually create a recording of these (1970s) songs during the time he conceived them, then I'm not sure I'm interested in hearing them. They might be great songs, but at this point, I doubt he knows how to shape them. Stevie as a producer was absolutely, supernaturally talented and creative. Unfortunately, he seems to have lost that talent. Conversation Peace had a couple of songs I could tell were pretty good tunes underneath, but his production was so meandering, so ho-hum and boring, that I haven't listened to the album but once. If, as I sort of suspect, some of those songs had been in the pipeline for awhile before being committed to an album in 1995, that doesn't bode well for any other songs being taken from the vault for his long-rumored forthcoming album.

I feel like a jerk for saying all this, considering I think Wonder's peak period flat out trumps just about anyone in pop music, but there it is.
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BRO915 said:

I'll try to dig up and provide the link at which I saw this interview...It was good, it also details some of Stevie's work habits in the studio...

For anyone who does not have it, I highly recommend the DVD that details the making of SITKOL -- a wealth of information, and quite inspiring as well. Great to see a genius at work in his studio, revisiting and recreating those classic songs.

todd305 said:

I have that documentary and it is great.

BRO915 said:

Damn! I'd love to get my hands on that tape!

okaypimpn said:

Funny I neva imagine Stevie doing jokes like this. Matta o' fact I can't get rid of thinking about Stevie being a "goodie goodie" brotha if you know what I mean. LOL I just can't picture him doing wild jokes or anything like that.

Harlepolis said:

I don't think he meant anything by it...All of it was done in a impromptu kind of way...I remember looking at it and saying ..."did he say what I thought he said"...Barbara Walters just kind of chuckled to herself, she didn't look offended...
It was 23 years ago, but I do remember various parts of that show...Barbara and Stevie were walking outside through a plant garden..and some of the interview was done in the plant garden. I remember Stevie talking how beautiful it was being amongst plants and trees that God created and he wanted to channel that beauty through music.


20/20 had it going on in late 79. Cause a few weeks after 20/20 did this Stevie Wonder special/segment...they did a segment on Michael Jackson...Barbara Walters also interviewed Jackson..showing footages of his Off The Walltour with his brothers. It was a VERY EXCELLENT interview...Mike had his nose {THEN..LOL}, the skin, the short jheri-curl and all of that.

I would like to have both the Jackson and Wonder 20/20 1979 interviews on tape...

BRO915 said:

Could u give us mo' info about the non-released movie "Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants" I have no clue about it whatsoever!

Harlepolis said:

Me neither...I'm totally oblivious to the movie and who's in it...maybe Dave knows...

I've heard conflciting stories about the "Journey through The Secret Life Of Plants" movie.Some people say it was never released,but I have talked to people who claim to have seen it.It reminds me of the 1975 Earth Wind and Fire movie 'That's The Way Of The World'.Everyone knows the soundtrack,but very few people have actually seen the film.

okaypimpn said:

Did he re-record that for Jungle Fever? I wondered what period that song was actually from because he borrows lyrics from Jesus Children of America.