“My Cherie Amour” by Stevie Wonder

"My Cherie Amour" gave Stevie Wonder the title track of his 1969 album and his eighth top-ten hit, a lilting little love letter that climbed to number 4 on Billboard's pop chart that August. It started out in 1966 as "Oh, My Marsha", knocked off in an hour about a girl Wonder was seeing at Lansing's Michigan School for the Blind.

Berry Gordy heard something in it but wanted it developed, so Motown writers Henry Cosby and Sylvia Moy helped him finish it. Moy supplied the title, a mix of English and French in the spirit of the Beatles' "Michelle", and Cosby produced. The instrumental track went down at Hitsville USA on November 8, 1967, and Golden World Records hosted the horn and string overdubs nine days later.

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