“Boogie on Reggae Woman” by Stevie Wonder

"Boogie on Reggae Woman" came off Fulfillingness' First Finale, Stevie Wonder's 17th album, in 1974 as its second single, and don't let the title fool you: there's no boogie and no reggae in it, just deep, rubbery funk. Wonder wrote, arranged and produced it himself, and the bottom end is his own pulsing Moog synthesizer bass line, bouncing like a waterbed, with a player credited only as Rocky on congas.

He blows harmonica too, not his usual chromatic but a diatonic blues harp in A-flat, and once the singing's done he lets it ride for the last 70 seconds, all the way to the fade. The lyric flirts back and forth between nice and naughty. It kept his pop Top Ten run rolling at number three, sat two weeks atop the soul chart, and won him the Grammy for Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male.

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