Now excuse my extreme ignorance here, but here’s a conversation my friends and I had while Stevie Wonder performed in the pregame concert of 2006 Super Bowl XL.
— “isn’t he dead?”
— “yeah, i thought so”
— “no that’s Ray Charles who’s dead”
— “oh, RAY CHARLES… and this is STEVIE WONDER. They are both blind. Oh. right.”
— “so, uh who did what songs?”
— “i dunno”
So feeling embarrassed that we had no idea, here’s some research I just did on them:
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Stevie Wonder
–Born: 5/13/1950
Top Songs on iTunes:
–Superstition
–Isn’t She Lovely
–I Just Called to Say I Love You
–Ribbon in the Sky
–You Are the Sunshine of My Life
Appeared in:
–We Are the World: The Video Event (1985)
–Cosby Show (1986)
Trivia from IMDB:
–His first #1 hit was the half-improvised “Fingertips – Part 2”, recorded live in concert (The first live pop single to ever reach #1). It topped the Pop Music and R&B charts in 1963 when Stevie Wonder was only 12.
–Has won 21 Grammy awards (a record for most Grammy awards)
–In addition to his being blind, he also has loss of smell due to a 1973 car crash in North Carolina from which he also has a sca
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Ray Charles
–Born: 9/23/1930
–Dead: 6/10/2004
Top Songs on iTunes:
–Georgia On My Mind
–I Got a Woman
–Crazy Love
–What I’d Say
–Mess Around
Appeared in:
–Blues Brothers (1980)
–Wrestlemania 2 (1986)
–Diet Pepsi Ads (“You Got the Right One, Baby, Uh-huh!”)
Trivia from IMDB:
–His best known hit in America was his 1962 pop hit “I Can’t Stop Loving You,” which spent five weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 charts.
–Had three #1 pop hits with “Georgia On My Mind” (1960), “Hit the Road Jack” (1961), and “I Can’t Stop Loving You” (1962).
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The grudge match between Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles:
I know you’re not really into music, so you’re forgiven. If you want to come over and listen to Ray Charles some day I’d be happy to introduce you to that legend.
Your friends are really ignorant 🙂 Ray Charles defeated Stevie Wonder in the grudge match that would make Ray the more legendary of the two.
yah what kind of dummies are you hanging out with?
Ray Charles is also better in my book. But I suppose Stevie has his fans too:)
Mr. Stevie Wonder: Birthday Reflections. Your birthday’s a time for careful reflection. About your life, and its future direction. You see where you’ve been when you look at the past; must of its great; you had a blast! You wonder what’s coming, what life has in store; will it be just the same? Will there be a new door? Remember this, as yo blow out the last candle: Life holds no challenge that you cannot handle. By Joanna Fuchs.
Honestly, I CAN”T SEE a difference. v