“Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours)” by Stevie Wonder

"Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours)" is the sound of a 20-year-old Stevie Wonder taking the controls: the title song of his 1970 album and the first single he produced himself, released on Motown's Tamla label in June 1970. He wrote it with Lee Garrett, Lula Mae Hardaway and Syreeta Wright, and it's a plea from a man who walked out on his girl and now knows it was a mistake.

It was also the debut of his own backup singers, Lynda Tucker Laurence, Venetta Fields and Wright herself, who would later marry him. Paul Riser arranged it, and Eddie "Chank" Willis plays the electric sitar that twangs through it like a doorbell nobody can ignore. It sat at the top of the US R&B chart for six weeks and got as high as number three on the Hot 100.

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