![]() ![]() Once that’s done, they can simply search “birthday” for a list of celebratory songs. Once their photos or videos are captured, users can add birthday songs to their Facebook Stories by selecting the “Music” sticker. Learn more at Patreon.Facebook Embraces Music: How the Social Network Is Friending the Industry by Licensing Content There are a bunch of exclusive perks only for patrons: playlists, newsletters, downloads, discussions, polls - hell, tell us what song you would like to hear covered and we will make it happen. ![]() Cover Me is now on Patreon! If you love cover songs, we hope you will consider supporting us there with a small monthly subscription. With their version of “Part-Time Lover,” The Lost Fingers use rhythm guitar and a capella like vocal techniques to recreate the bounce featured in Wonder’s most curious #1 hit.Ĭheck out more Stevie Wonder on his website. Their debut covers album Lost in the 80s went platinum and the hits on the “Gyspy Jazz” Wikipedia page doubled. In 2008, The Lost Fingers somehow managed to bring both gyspy jazz and Quebec back into the world of music relevance. The Lost Fingers – Part-Time Lover (Stevie Wonder cover) Garfunkel wisely decided against trying to emulate Stevie and instead shrouded the song in his famed tenor voice and layers of folk instrumentation, both of which help make this epic testimony to everlasting love a little more precious and tender. The album didn’t make many waves but this is a cover worth noting. Rock and Roll’s favorite softie Art Garfunkel took on Stevie Wonder’s “I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever)” on 1975’s Breakaway. Art Garfunkel – I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever) (Stevie Wonder cover) By picking one of Wonder’s sweeping ballads, Micheal stays within his bailiwick and delivers a quality cover that features traditional piano, elevator-synth not included. Michaels, who has the unfortunate habit of peppering every cover song he does with synthesizers and wind chimes, does better with this cover precisely because he avoids the overproduction pitfalls. Love him or loathe him, George Micheal has the vocal goods to pull off this type of homage. ![]() George Michael – You and I (Stevie Wonder cover) The whistling is precise and delicate, the guitar picking sounds studied, and even Livingston’s little breaths seem perfectly timed. In a vein that reflects his career, Livingston takes an academic approach to “Isn’t She Lovely” and crafts a very skilled version of the track. For instance, he currently teaches stage performance at Berklee College of Music and previously took on the role of Harvard’s artist-in-residence two accomplishments that not every little brother could achieve. His music has evaded the spotlight for years but his triumphs can be measured in other ways. Livingston Taylor is often eclipsed by his better-known brother James. Livingston Taylor – Isn’t She Lovely (Stevie Wonder cover) If Wonder’s, Motown-molded, full band version is winsome and enthusiastic, then O’Connor’s breathy and bare version is its cautiously optimistic counterpart. While both versions promise the listener that good times are bound to follow hard times, O’Connor’s version sounds a little less convinced. Acoustic takes often build reflective moods and O’Connor’s version of “A Place in the Sun” is no exception. If you haven’t heard of Jennifer O’Connor, then run right now and get your hands on her album Here With Me. Jennifer O’Connor – A Place in the Sun (Stevie Wonder cover) Wonder, in an attempt to say thank you for giving all of us the gift of music time and time again, here are five covers, both well-known and lesser-known, that do justice to your genius. Various artists have taken on love songs like “Ribbon in the Sky,” sanguine uppers like “Sir Duke,” and sharp toothed, jaunty numbers like “Superstitious.” Some have hit (think Red Hot Chili Peppers version of “Higher Ground”) while others have missed, but all are a testament to the irresistible charm at the core of every Stevie Wonder song. Wonder’s likability it comes as no surprise that almost everyone under the sun has covered his songs. This puts him on the same level as Dylan, the Stones, and the Beatles, and above iconic but more disputable artists like Aerosmith, Prince, and Madonna. He is one of those few artists where anyone claiming he’s overrated is only embarrassing himself. As the ultimate luminary of soul music, Wonder’s influence has pervaded nearly every other genre. That means it’s been exactly fifty years since Stevie Wonder first signed with Motown Records at age 11 and began to amass his more than 30 top ten US hits and 22 Grammy awards. It’s hard to invent new praise for Stevie Wonder, but because today is his birthday I must rise to the occasion.
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