| 词条 | Uptight (Everything's Alright) | ||||||||||||||||
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| name = Uptight (Everything's Alright) | cover = Uptight.jpg | alt = | type = single | artist = Stevie Wonder | album = Up-Tight | B-side = "Purple Rain Drops"[1] | released = November 22, 1965 | format = 7" single | recorded = 1965 | studio = | venue = | genre = Soul | length = 2:52 | label = Tamla | writer = Stevie Wonder, Sylvia Moy, Henry Cosby | producer = Mickey Stevenson, Henry Cosby | prev_title = Hi Heel Sneakers | prev_year = 1965 | next_title = Nothing's Too Good For My Baby | next_year = 1966 | misc = {{Audio sample | type = single | file = Stevie Wonder-Everything.ogg }} }} "Uptight (Everything's Alright)" is a 1965 hit single recorded by American singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder for the Tamla (Motown) label.[2] One of his most popular early singles, "Uptight (Everything's Alright)" was the first Stevie Wonder hit single to be co-written by the artist. A notable success, "Uptight (Everything's Alright)" peaked at number 3 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in early 1966, at the same time reaching the top of the Billboard R&B Singles chart for five weeks.[3] Billboard ranked it as the 59th biggest American hit of 1966.[4] An accompanying album, Up-Tight, was rushed into production to capitalize on the single's success. It also garnered Wonder his first two career Grammy Award nominations for Best R&B Song and Best Male R&B Vocal Performance. BackgroundThe single was a watershed in Wonder's career for several reasons. Aside from the US number-one "Fingertips" (1963), only two of Wonder's singles ("Workout, Stevie, Workout" and "Hey Harmonica Man") had both peaked inside of the top forty of the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at #33 and #29 on that chart respectively. And despite receiving a modicum of chart success, the then 15-year--old Wonder was in danger of being let go. In addition, Wonder's voice had begun to change, and Motown CEO Berry Gordy was worried that he would no longer be a commercially viable artist. As it turned out, however, producer Clarence Paul found it easier to work with Wonder's now-mature tenor voice, and Sylvia Moy and Henry Cosby set about writing a new song for the artist, based upon an instrumental riff Wonder had devised.[5] Nelson George, in Where Did Our Love Go? The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound, recorded that Wonder had also sought something based on the driving beat of the Rolling Stones's "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," after playing several dates with the Stones on tour and being impressed with the British band. As Wonder presented his ideas, finished or not, "he went through everything," remembered Moy. "I asked, 'Are you sure you don't have anything else?' He started singing and playing 'Everything is alright, uptight.' That was as much as he had. I said, 'That's it. Let's work with that.'"[6] The resulting song, "Uptight (Everything's Alright)", features lyrics which depict a poor young man's appreciation for a rich girl's seeing beyond his poverty to his true worth. On the day of the recording, Moy had completed the lyrics, but didn't have them in Braille for Wonder to read, and so sang the song to him as he was recording it. She sang a line ahead of him, and he simply repeated the lines as he heard them. In 2008, Moy commented that "he never missed a beat" during the recording.[7] Personnel
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Little Ole ManA note-for-note re-recording of Wonder's version was used as the backing track for Bill Cosby's 1967 musical comedy single, "Little Ole Man (Uptight, Everything's Alright)". Bill Cosby is not related to the song's co-writer Henry Cosby. In popular culture
References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/stevie_wonder/uptight__everythings_alright____purple_rain_drops/ |title=Uptight (Everything's Alright) / Purple Rain Drops by Stevie Wonder (Single, Soul): Reviews, Ratings, Credits, Song list |publisher=Rate Your Music |date= |accessdate=2016-09-29}} 2. ^{{Pop Chronicles|50|2|Stevie Wonder}} 3. ^{{cite book |title= Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |authorlink=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=635}} 4. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1966.htm |title=Top 100 Hits of 1966/Top 100 Songs of 1966 |website=Musicoutfitters.com |date= |accessdate=2016-09-29}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.soulwalking.co.uk/Stevie%20Wonder.html |title=Stevie Wonder Page |website=Soulwalking.co.uk |date= |accessdate=2016-09-29}} 6. ^Mojo Magazine, January 1996, pg. 32 7. ^Martin Freeman Goes to Motown, BBC television6 January 2009 8. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20131229201051/http://50.6.195.142/archives/60s_files/19660219.html] 9. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20131229202444/http://50.6.195.142/archives/60s_files/1966YESP.html] 10. ^{{cite web|url=https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/uptight-everythings-alright/id250155695|title=Uptight (Everythings Alright) - single|publisher=iTunes Australia|date=12 March 2015}} 11. ^{{cite web|url=http://perezhilton.com/category/glee/#.UX7lPHAryFI |title=Kate Hudson Makes Her Wonder-Ful Return To Glee! Listen To ALL The Songs In This Week's Episode HERE! |work=perezhilton.com |date=April 29, 2013 |accessdate=April 29, 2013}} External links
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