My iPod #296: Stevie Wonder - Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing

Time for a bit o' sooooul. Weren't expecting that were you? The D section has been very rock-oriented so far it has to be said, but it is not as if I just added this song yesterday to try and add some 'variety'. Admittedly I have known "Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing" for less time than the majority of the other tracks on here. I listened to its album some time last year when I was on a 'quest' to listen to the best albums ever. This is a very fine song though, so I had to add it. And it deserves to have a post.

"Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing" is the penultimate track on Stevie Wonder's 1973 album "Innversions". It has a Latin vibe to it, started off by the stomping piano and exotic percussion which occur throughout, and comically referenced by Wonder's mock-Spanish dialogue for the first forty seconds. After those forty seconds though, it's serious business. Wonder delivers an outstanding vocal performance becoming more passionate with each chorus and key change, rising octaves until he eventually starts belting the song title from the top of his lungs.

Essentially it's a song about being positive. If you didn't get that from the title. It is a classic.