“You Haven't Done Nothin'” by Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder aimed "You Haven't Done Nothin'" straight at Richard Nixon, and the timing was merciless: the single, pulled from Fulfillingness' First Finale in 1974, hit the stores two days before the President resigned. It's among the angriest political statements of Wonder's career, and he wrote it, arranged it, produced it and sang it, with Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff engineering and serving as associate producers.

The groove is funk with its fists up: a thick, chewy clavinet, Reggie McBride's bass and an early sighting of the drum machine, while the Jackson 5 answer Stevie's call in the chorus. Billboard heard it as subtler than most protest songs and singled out the synthesizer arrangement and the vocal. It gave Wonder his fourth pop number one and his tenth on the soul chart, and it topped the Canadian chart too.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.