I Was Made to Love Her by Stevie Wonder

I Was Made to Love Her, Stevie Wonder's seventh studio album, came out on Motown's Tamla imprint on August 28, 1967, cut at Hitsville U.S.A. in Detroit with Clarence Paul in the producer's chair. The kid who signed to Tamla at 11 is still a teenager here, but he's already one of the label's heaviest hitters, and it's easy to hear why: that high, eager voice leaps all over the melodies with wide-eyed, breathless excitement.

The title track is the one to hear, a thumping, joyful declaration that just won't sit still. It's bright, tough Hitsville soul from a young man whose synthesizer records a few years later would rewrite the rules of R&B altogether.

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