Stevie Wonder - SOUL! - WNET Studios, New York City, 11-19-1972

Thanks to everyone who expressed their support for this blog while I was on vacation. I'm still settling back home, so in the meantime I'm going to post some full concerts that don't require much tinkering or commentary from me.

This is a Stevie Wonder concert from 1972, at the start of his peak years. I recently posted an Al Green concert from "SOUL!," a public TV show recorded in New York City. Here is Wonder on that same show, only from a couple of months earlier. It's about an hour long, since each episode of the show lasted an hour.

Wonder and his band are in prime form. He plays a lot of unusual songs. I've put two of his unreleased originals from this show on one of the stray tracks compilations of his music that I've done. But it's good to have the full concert. He does some interesting cover versions, too. Crucially, this comes from late 1972, after his classic album "Talking Book" was released, so it includes "Superstition" and other great songs from that album.

The first two songs are not from the "Soul!" concert, but they're from only a few months prior to that, and I didn't have anywhere better to put them in my collection.

01. Keep On Running (Stevie Wonder)
02. Superstition (Stevie Wonder)
03. For Once in My Life (Stevie Wonder)
04. Let Me Know Just How You Feel - If You Really Love Me (Stevie Wonder)
05. Superwoman (Stevie Wonder)
06. You and I [We Can Conquer the World] (Stevie Wonder)
07. What's Going On - My Cherie Amour (Stevie Wonder)
08. Blowin' in the Wind (Stevie Wonder)
09. With a Child's Heart (Stevie Wonder)
10. Love Having You Around (Stevie Wonder)
11. Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours - Papa Was a Rolling Stone (Stevie Wonder)
12. Superstition - Maybe Your Baby (Stevie Wonder)
13. Uptight [Everything's Alright] - Keep On Running (Stevie Wonder)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15274883/StevieW_1972_SoulWNETStudiosNYC__11-19-1972_atse.zip.html

I wanted to make a cover using a photo from the actual show. But the only ones I could find were low quality. Instead, I found this nice image from an interview Wonder did for the Old Grey Whistle Test earlier in 1972.