Stevie Wonder

Twenty-five of Stevie Wonder's singles, listed below, reached the Top Ten in either the United States or the United Kingdom. Louis Rams (won 1, lost 2; one loss as Los Angeles Rams)
2 - Baltimore Colts (won 1, lost 1; franchise now Indianapolis Colts)
2 - Kansas City Chiefs (won 1, lost 1)
2 - Cincinnati Bengals (lost 2)
2 - Philadelphia Eagles (lost 2)
1 - Baltimore Ravens (won 1)
1 - Chicago Bears (won 1)
1 - New York Jets (won 1)
1 - Tampa Bay Buccaneers (won 1)
1 - Atlanta Falcons (lost 1)
1 - Carolina Panthers (lost 1)
1 - San Diego Chargers (lost 1)
1 - Tennessee Titans (lost 1)
. The Official Stevie Wonder website (http://www.stevie-wonder.com/albums.html) features a discography with sound clips of his most significant material.. 8 - Dallas Cowboys (won 5, lost 3)
6 - Denver Broncos (won 2, lost 4)
5 - San Francisco 49ers (won 5)
5 - Pittsburgh Steelers (won 4, lost 1)
5 - Oakland Raiders (won 3, lost 2; one win as Los Angeles Raiders)
5 - Washington Redskins (won 3, lost 2)
5 - New England Patriots (won 3, lost 2)
5 - Miami Dolphins (won 2, lost 3)
4 - Green Bay Packers (won 3, lost 1)
4 - Buffalo Bills (lost 4)
4 - Minnesota Vikings (lost 4)
3 - New York Giants (won 2, lost 1)
3 - St. In accepting an honorary doctor of music degree at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1996, Wonder said: "Many years ago, but not so long ago, there were those who said, 'Well, you have three strikes against you: You're Black, you're blind and you're poor.' But God said to me, 'I will make you rich in the spirit of inspiration, to inspire others as well as create music to encourage the world to a place of oneness and hope and positivity.' I believed Him and not them.". (*) Note: New York City is scheduled to host Super Bowl XLIV in 2010 only if the proposed West Side Stadium, future home of the New York Jets, is built.. Stevie has received 22 Grammy Awards over the course of his career. Wonder also received Kennedy Center Honors in 1999, and was awarded the Billboard Music Awards Century Award in 2004. With the new television contracts beginning in 2006, NBC, which last telecast Super Bowl XXXII in 1998, will take ABC's place in the network rotation starting with Super Bowl XLIII in 2009.

Among the musicians and performers who list Wonder as one of their major influences are India.Arie, Musiq Soulchild, Alicia Keys, John Legend, and the members of Jodeci and Dru Hill. Super Bowl XXXVIII was shown on CBS, Super Bowl XXXIX was shown on FOX, and Super Bowl XL will be shown on ABC. Stevie Wonder's success as a multi-instrumentalist and socially conscious musical performer was significantly influential to both R&B and pop music. In the United States it is shared between three of the four major television networks - ABC, CBS, and FOX. King, The Supremes, The Temptations, Dionne Warwick, Julio Iglesias, and former Musical Youth lead singer Dennis Seaton. The television network showing the game changes from year to year. He has also collaborated with Quincy Jones, Barbara Streisand, B.B. While most home teams in the Super Bowl pick to wear their colored ones, only the Cowboys in XIII and XXVII and the Washington Redskins in XVII have worn white as the home team.

Among his most significant compositions or co-compositions are "The Tears of a Clown" by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, "It's a Shame" by The Spinners, and "You Are My Heaven" by Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway. The Dallas Cowboys wore their rarely-used blue uniform tops in Super Bowl V, and lost to the then-Baltimore Colts, which has led to the belief that many people believe that the Cowboys do not play well in their blue shirts. Besides creating his own material, Stevie Wonder has written and produced a number of songs for other artists. Prior to that, the home team always wore the dark jerseys. Wonder's first new album in 9 years, A Time 2 Love was scheduled to be released on July 27, 2004, but was delayed for release in 2005. The home team is given the choice of either wearing their colored jerseys or their white ones, this started with Super Bowl XIII. [1] (http://archives.cnn.com/1999/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/03/stevie.wonder/). The designated "home team" alternates between the NFC team in odd-numbered years (the Philadelphia Eagles in 2005), and the AFC team in even-numbered years (the New England Patriots in 2004).

In December 1999, Wonder announced that he was interested in pursuing an intraocular retinal prosthesis to partially restore his sight. However, Super Bowl XIV (which involved the then-Los Angeles Rams) was played in the Rose Bowl in nearby Pasadena; and Super Bowl XIX (which involved the San Francisco 49ers) was played at the nearby Stanford Stadium on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto. He recorded a soundtrack album for Spike Lee's film Jungle Fever in 1991, and released both Conversation Peace and the live album Natural Wonder during the same decade. No NFL team has ever played the Super Bowl on its own home turf. After 1987's Characters LP, Wonder continued to release new material, albeit at a slower pace. The chosen venues have either been located in the southern regions of the United States where the wintertime weather is expected to be mild, or in domed stadiums where weather is not an issue. The following year's In Square Circle featured the #1 pop hit "Part-Time Lover". The location of the Super Bowl is chosen well in advance, usually 3-5 years before the game.

It was placed 13th in the all-time list of best-selling singles in the UK issued in 2002. This ban includes the pre and post game shows. The lead single, "I Just Called to Say I Love You", was a #1 pop and R&B hit in the US, and is Motown's biggest-selling single ever in the United Kingdom. Las Vegas is the only city that is not allowed to run commericals during the game. 1984 saw the release of Wonder's soundtrack album for The Lady in Red. Prices have increased each year, reaching $2.4 million (US) for a 30 second spot during Super Bowl XXXIX in 2005. The album also included "Master Blaster (Jammin')", his tribute to Bob Marley, and "Ribbon in the Sky", one of his most often-covered compositions. Famous commercial campaigns include the Budweiser "Bud Bowl" campaign, and the 1999 and 2000 dot-com ads.

Martin Luther King's birthday as a national holiday. Following Apple Computer's 1984 commercial introducing the Apple Macintosh computer, directed by Ridley Scott, the broadcast of the Super Bowl became the premier showcase for high concept or simply extravagantly expensive commercials. Hotter Than July (1980) become Wonder's first platinum selling album, and its single "Happy Birthday" was a successful vehicle for his campaign to establish Dr. In terms of household percentage, the most watched was Super Bowl XVI in 1982 which was watched in 49.1% of households (73 share) or 40,020,000 households at the time. The album was panned at the time of its release but has come to be regarded as a classic album. The most watched Super Bowl was 1998's Super Bowl XXXII between the Denver Broncos and Green Bay Packers which received a 44.5 rating and 67 share, attracting 90 million viewers. Wonder's next album was a soundtrack album for the film Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants. Also it is estimated that 130-140 million tune into some part of the game.

(Wonder performed "Superstition" on the children's show Sesame Street in 1973.) Wonder's artistic growth continued on Fulfillingness' First Finale (1974) and his magnum opus, Songs in the Key of Life (1976). This means that on average, 80 to 90 million Americans are tuned into the Super Bowl at any given moment. Talking Book featured the #1 pop and R&B hit "Superstition", which is one of the most distinctive examples of the sound of the clavinet. households, and 60 percent of all homes tuned into television during the game). The critical and commercial successes Talking Book and Innervisions continued Wonder's critical and popular acclaim, addressing more and more political issues as his music progressed. on average, 40 percent of all U.S. Unlike most previous artist LPs on Motown, which usually consisted of a collection singles, b-sides, and covers, Music on My Mind was an actual LP, full-length artistic statement. The Super Bowl tends to have high Nielsen television ratings which usually come in around a 40 rating and 60 share (i.e.

He independently recorded and released two albums, which he used as a bargaining tool while negotiating with Motown. Eventually, the label agreed to his demands for full creative control and the rights to his own songs, and Wonder returned to Motown in 1972 with Music of My Mind, an album which is considered a classic of the era. (See: Professional American football championship games and National Football League championships). His final album before his departure was Where I'm Coming From, which Gordy had strongly fought against releasing. The game was called the "All-America Football Conference Championship Game", the "AFL Championship Game" or the "NFL Championship Game", depending on the league playing it. After a number of arguments with Berry Gordy over allowing Wonder to have his own creative control, Wonder allowed his Motown contract to expire, and left the label on his twenty-first birthday in 1971. Previous to the 1966 football season, American professional football's championship games were played for various league championships, and games were not played between league champions. Stevie Wonder, along with Marvin Gaye, was one of the few Motown stars to contest the label's factory-like operation methods: artists, songwriters, and producers were usually specialized fields with little or no overlap, and artists had no creative control. The trophy was named prior to Super Bowl V in his honor following his death in 1970.

Wonder and Wright divorced eighteen months later, but continued to collaborate on musical projects. The winning team receives the Vince Lombardi Trophy, named for the coach of the Green Bay Packers, who won the first two Super Bowl games. Besides being one of the first songs on which Wonder serves as both songwriter and producer, "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" is one of the main showcases for his backup group Wonderlove, a trio which included at various times Minnie Riperton, Deniece Williams, Lynda Laurence, and Syreeta Wright, whom Wonder married on September 14, 1970. After the 1970 season, the game reverted from an essentially interleague championship to the NFL championship, featuring the champions of the NFL's two conferences, the American Football Conference and the National Football Conference. By 1970, Wonder had scored more major hits, including "My Cherie Amour" and "Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours)". The name was inspired by Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt's daughter playing with a small rubber ball with high bouncing powers called a super ball. He also began to work in the Motown songwriting department, composing songs both for himself and his labelmates. The third such game, after the 1968 season, was called the "Super Bowl", and that name is now used to refer to the first two AFL-NFL Championship Games as well.

Dropping the "Little" from his moniker, Wonder went on to have a number of other hits during the mid-1960s, including "Uptight (Everything's Alright)", "With a Child's Heart", and "Blowin' in the Wind", a Bob Dylan cover which was one of the first songs to reflect Wonder's social consciousness. The game was a result of the merger agreement between the two leagues that took full effect for the 1970 season. The song, featuring Wonder on vocals, congas, and harmonica, was a #1 hit on the US pop charts and launched him into the public consciousness. An AFL-NFL Championship Game was first played after the 1966 football season on January 15, 1967, between the champions of the American Football League and the NFL. 2)", a live recording from a Motortown Revue performance. It is held annually on the last Sunday in January or the first Sunday in February, and is one of the most watched television broadcasts of the year. Little Stevie Wonder's first major hit came in 1963 with "Fingertips (Pt. The game is almost like a national holiday in the United States.

In 1962, at the age of eleven, he was signed by Berry Gordy to the Motown label as Little Stevie Wonder. The Super Bowl is the championship game of the National Football League, the pinnacle of American football. He learned to play a number of instruments, most notably the piano, congas, and harmonica, at an early age, and was proclaimed a child prodigy. Super Bowl XXXIX was the first such game to be tied after three quarters of play. Steveland Judkins was born prematurely, and became blind after being exposed to excessive oxygen levels in his incubator. Also, because of the attacks, the Super Bowl was a National Special Security Event. A multi-instrumentalist, Wonder plays the drums, guitar, harmonica, congas, and most famously the piano and the keyboard. Most of the events two years afterward were scheduled in February.

He has recorded several critically acclaimed albums and hit singles, and writing and producing songs for many of his labelmates and outside artists as well. This was the first Super Bowl to be played in February. Blind nearly from birth, Wonder became one of the most successful and well-known artists on the Motown label, with seven #1 hits to his name. But the game was moved back one week to February 3, 2002 because of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Stevie Wonder (real name: Steveland Hardaway Judkins, born on May 13, 1950 in Saginaw, Michigan) is an African American singer, songwriter, producer, musician, humanitarian and social activist. Super Bowl XXXVI was originally scheduled to be played on January 27, 2002. of Stevie Wonder's cover of Bob Marley's "Redemption Song". The reason for this was that "XXX" is usually associated with pornography, and proxy servers thought those trying to visit that site were trying to access pornography.

2005: A Time 2 Love. In the months leading up to Super Bowl XXX (30) it was discovered that some proxy servers were blocking the web site for the event. 1995: Conversation Peace. 1991: Jungle Fever Soundtrack. 1987: Characters.

1985: In Square Circle. 1984: The Woman in Red Soundtrack. 1980: Hotter than July. 1978: Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants Soundtrack.

1976: Songs in the Key of Life. 1974: Fulfillingness' First Finale. 1973: Innervisions. 1972: Talking Book.

1972: Music of My Mind. 1971: Where I'm Coming From. 1970: Signed, Sealed, and Delivered. 1969: My Cherie Amour.

1968: For Once in My Life. 1967: I Was Made to Love Her. 1965: Down to Earth. 1963: The 12 Year Old Genius.

1985: "Part-Time Lover" (US #1). 1985: "Go Home" (US #10). 1984: "I Just Called to Say I Love You" (US #1, UK #1). 1982: "That Girl" (US #4).

1982: "Ebony and Ivory" (duet with Paul McCartney) (US #1). 1980: "Master Blaster (Jammin)" (US #5). 1979: "Send One Your Love" (US #4). 1977: "Sir Duke" (US #1).

1977: "I Wish" (US #1). 1974: "You Haven't Done Nothin'" (US #1). 1974: "Living for the City" (US #9). 1973: "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" (US #1).

1973: "Higher Ground" (US #4). 1972: "Superstition" (US #1). 1971: "If You Really Love Me" (US #8). 1970: "Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours)" (US #3).

1970: "Heaven Help Us All" (US #9). 1969: "Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday" (US #7). 1969: "My Cherie Amour" (US #4). 1968: "Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day" (US #9).

1967: "I Was Made to Love Her" (US #2). 1966: "A Place in the Sun" (US #9). 1966: "Blowin' in the Wind" (US #9). 1965: "Uptight (Everything's Alright)" (US #3).

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