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Released: March 14, 1995 |
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Motown Legends: I Was Made to Love Her Track Listing:
1. I Was Made to Love Her
2. Music Talk
3. Every Time I See You, I Go Wild!
4. Place in the Sun
5. Respect [*]
6. Uptight (Everything's Alright)
7. Hold Me
8. Ain't That Asking for Trouble
9. Hey Love
10. Baby Don't You Do It [*]
11. Angie Girl [*]
Motown Legends: I Was Made to Love Her Reviews:
Wonder At A Transition Point 
2009-11-03 - Stevie Wonder was during this time about to make a serious transition in his career. Somewhat frusterated by his need to be more self expressive within Motown's still prominant production line style of music Stevie's next releases would find him excersising more and more self expressiveness in his style until it all burst out during the early 70's. In the meantime he was putting up with what he was involved in:having partial writing control and churning out hits within the sound he had fasioned with Henry Cosby and Sylvia Moy for Motown. The title song keeps that general progression forward and he goes for the same effect on "I'd Cry". While it was all enjoyable you could certainly see his sound was in some need of change. For the most part this album again had him dealing with a lot of soul covers such as,yes another Ray Charles number in "A Fool For You" along with Otis Redding's 'Respect" and such Motown standards as "My Girl" and "Can I Get A Witness". He's also pushing a little something more of himself out there on a cover of James Brown's "Please Please Please"-all the while developing his slurring deep soul influences up in a more individual fasion. One of the more impressive numbers is the rhythmic but very mid 60's Motown number "Every Time I See You I Go Wild" which,even though it was written by his standard writing team had a strong Holland/Dozier/Holand-Supremes flavor in the production. Although Stevie's expressive voice rises above it all with this passionate howl not commonly associated with Diana Ross's more restrained stylings. This is not one of his more individual 60's albums from a purely musical perspective but,in it's context and considering what was about to come out of Stevie Wonder in the years to come this serves as the end to this particular era of his long and beyond fruitfull career.
One smash plus covers and fillers 
2008-02-17 - The title tune was legendary after the first dee-jay layed down the stylus for its' initial audition for civilization: something which fits any genre you want; gets even better as tome goes on and artists lay on their own interpretations - completely contemporary, and while it uses Motown formula, musically, it stands and dances on its' own.
Track two is a very enjoyable "cover" of Little Richard's famous B-side, that triplet-laden beat ballad, another perennial which crosses format lines. A very good programming choice.
Then we get into many non-reemarkable cuts, sounding to me as if they were arranged in the wrong key, and unaccountably eschewing a natural attention-getter: that unmistakeable harmonica. What were they not thinking?
The Ray Charles ("A Fool For You") and James Brown ("Please, Please, PLease") covers are okay, but, again, without that afore-mentioned instrument, or his own drumwork [presuming he doesn't play on these and others - session notes? Forget it].s Yes, and we see
On four numbers we note that Stevie is co-writer, and the second best is "Everytime I See You I Go Wild", something groovy from the 17 year old for other 17 year olds, maybe the artist looks back and smiles when the title skims across the memory banks (but doesn't provoke a carousel ride to the turntable or chamber). It's got alot going musically and perhaps could have used a touch of Phil Spector.
Reissue engineers appear to have deferred to original compressed commercial sound (if my aging sound system is a witness). By this time, maybe a little more punch and pop would help.
His Best '60's Album 
2005-08-09 - It's true. Not all the tracks are original songs, but enough of them are and I'd say about six are really, really good. I've known them all my life and I love them. Just great mid-'sixties Stevie that you haven't heard anywhere else before, not even on compilation albums.
I also love his renditions of 'Respect' and 'Can I Get A Witness', they both have a grooviness and originality of their own.
If you really like Stevie's mid-'60s sound, don't hesitate tracking this album down.
It's a real finger clicker.
'Everytime I See You I Go Wild' is wild and fabulous!
'I'd Cry' is divine. There's a wonderful irony to the way he sang sad songs in a fast uptempo way.
'Everybody Needs Somebody' has a wonderful, melodic, understated soulfulness.
Actually, the only song I've grown tired of is the title track and yes, there are a few fillers/duds that you'll want to skip, but the good far outweighs the bad.
He was very proud of this compilation when it came out and he was right to be.
Stevie Wonder Redux
2005-04-05 - The merchants who are selling this disc for over $60.00 might want to rethink their decision. Motown/Japan has reissued this title and several others from the Stevie Wonder catalog and they can be had for around $25.00 or a little more. Used copies are sure to make their way into the States and they will be snapped up for a lot less. I've got a feeling merchants trying to sell Motown discs for premium prices had better unload them while they still can. Motown/UK and Motown/Japan is in the midst of an extensive reissue campaign.
needs more original material 
2004-11-26 - after 1966's "down to earth" album failed to capture the public's attention it did have more original tunes on it
featuring 'a place in the sun'/'down to earth'/'thank you love'/
'be cool,be calm(and keep yourself together)'/'sylvia'/'angel
baby'/'hey love'...but stevie's 1967 album "i was made to love
her"was a disapointment because it lacked original material.this
is strange considering the massive amount of original songs that was left in the can by motown chairman berry gordy.there is no doubt that stevie's smash hit single 'i was made to love her' was 2 minutes and 35 seconds of pure attack and it left no doubt that it would cement stevie 4 good within the motown hit factory.but the album itself is a hodgepodge of motown remakes
and remakes of other artists songs.the other three remaining
originals on this album are:'i'd cry' the funky 'everybody needs somebody (i need you)'and the dramatic 'every time i see you
i go wild'.../here's a list of original songs by stevie that was recorded in 1967 that should have been on this album instead of those remakes:'travelin' man'/'until you come back to me(that's what i'm gonna do)'and 'i'm wondering'...now had these songs been included in this album,the album would be more original and stronger than those filler remakes which is the reason why i would grant this album only 2 stars."i was made to love her" would be a by far better album had these original songs been included on it....
