My Cherie Amour by Stevie Wonder

My Cherie Amour, Stevie Wonder's eleventh album, came out on Tamla on August 29, 1969, with Henry Cosby in the producer's chair, and it catches the one-time Little Stevie still in his teens, all soft-focus romance and silky Motown soul. The title track is the prize, a swooning, lighter-than-air love letter that went to No. 4 on the Hot 100, and "Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday" followed it into the top ten at No. 7, a wistful look back.

Elsewhere Wonder shows off his range on other people's songs: a take on the Doors' "Light My Fire", "Hello, Young Lovers" from The King and I, and "The Shadow of Your Smile" from The Sandpiper. It reached No. 12 on the UK albums chart and No. 34 on the US pop albums chart, and the harmonica-blowing kid genius was just a few years away from rewriting the rules altogether.

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