Stevie Wonder - Talking Book (1972). butchT Greatest Albums of all Time - Copy

Talking Book is the fifteenth album by Stevie Wonder, released on October 28, 1972. A signal recording of his "classic period", in this one he "hit his stride."[1] The album's first track, "You Are the Sunshine of My Life", earned Wonder his first Grammy Award, for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.
Released after Wonder toured with the Rolling Stones in 1972, Talking Book became an immediate hit.[citation needed] The popular appeal of the recording helped destroy the myth that R&B artists were incapable of creating music that could be appreciated by rock audiences, and marked a unique period for R&B artists (especially Motown artists).

Talking Book peaked at #3 on the Pop Albums chart, and became the first album for Wonder to top the Top R&B Albums chart where it remained for three weeks.[6]

Wonder won three awards for Talking Book at the 1974 Grammys: Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "You Are the Sunshine of My Life", and both Best Male R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B Song for "Superstition". Incidentally, at the same ceremony, Wonder's next album, Innervisions, won Album of the Year and Talking Book's producers Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff won the Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical award for their work on that album.

In 2003, the album was ranked number 90 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Released October 28, 1972
Recorded 1972
Genre Soul, funk
Length 43:31
Label Tamla
Producer Stevie Wonder, Robert Margouleff, Malcolm Cecil

Original pressings[7] contain Braille lettering of Wonder's name and the album title, along with a message not transcribed until the 2000 pressing:[8]

Here is my music. It is all I have to tell you how I feel. Know that your love keeps my love strong.
—Stevie


Malcolm Cecil - Programming, Engineer, Associate Producer
Robert Margouleff - Engineer, Associate Producer, Photography
Austin Godsey - Engineer, Recording
Joan Decola - Recording
George Marino - Mastering

Produced by Stevie Wonder.

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