NOVEL ATTEMPTS by ashraya gupta

Willie Hutch, “I Choose You”, 1973, from The Mack.

Recognize that? Yeah.

The whole soundtrack is good.

Also, I recently happened upon the craziest version of Stevie Wonder’s “I Love Every Little Thing About You”:

Syreeta (Rita Wright), was married to Stevie Wonder and composed a lot of his early hits with him (i.e. “Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I’m Yours)” and “If You Really Love Me”). They got divorced pretty soon, but kept working together—Wonder produced her first album, Syreeta (1972, MoWest), which opens with this track. Wonder’s version came out later that year, on Music of My Mind. Anyway, the syncopation on this first version is awesome, as is the wacky bass.

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