Fulfillingness’ First Finale by Stevie Wonder

Fulfillingness' First Finale landed on July 22, 1974, on Motown's Tamla imprint, and it catches Stevie Wonder in the middle of the hot streak now called his classic period, the album that came between Innervisions and Songs in the Key of Life. Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff are credited as producers, and the synthesizers and keyboards that were reshaping R&B in Wonder's hands bubble and purr all over the grooves.

Both sides of the man are right there: "You Haven't Done Nothin'" is a tight, funky jab, and "Boogie on Reggae Woman" is pure loose-limbed fun. The album topped the Billboard album chart and spent eight weeks on top of the soul chart, and at the 17th Grammy Awards it took Album of the Year, his second in a row, plus Best Male Pop Vocal and a Best Male R&B Vocal award for "Boogie on Reggae Woman".

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