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词条 In Square Circle
释义

  1. Track listing

  2. Personnel

  3. Charting singles

  4. Notable performances

  5. Charts

     Weekly charts  Year-end charts 

  6. Certifications

  7. See also

  8. References

{{Infobox album
| name = In Square Circle
| type = Studio album
| artist = Stevie Wonder
| cover = Stevie Wonder In Square Circle CD cover.JPG
| alt =
| released = September 13, 1985
| recorded = 1984–1985
| venue =
| studio = Wonderland Studios
(Los Angeles, California)
| genre = {{hlist|R&B|soul|electronic|adult contemporary}}
| length = 43:33
45:56 (CD version)
| label = Tamla
| producer = Stevie Wonder
| prev_title = The Woman in Red
| prev_year = 1984
| next_title = Characters
| next_year = 1987
| misc = {{Singles
| name = In Square Circle
| type = studio
| single1 = Part-Time Lover
| single1date = 1985
| single2 = Go Home
| single2date = 1985
| single3 = Overjoyed
| single3date = 1986
| single4 = Land of La La
| single4date = 1986
| single5 = Stranger on the Shore of Love
| single5date = 1986
| single6 = Whereabouts (promo)
| single6date =
}}
}}{{Album ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}[1]
|rev2 = Robert Christgau
|rev2score = B+[2]
|rev3 = Rolling Stone
|rev3score = (favorable)[3]
|rev4 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide
|rev4score = {{Rating|3|5}}[4]

}}

In Square Circle is the twentieth studio album by American singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder, released in 1985. The album features the hits "Part-Time Lover", "Go Home" and "Overjoyed" (which was left off Wonder's 1979 album Journey through the Secret Life of Plants and re-recorded for this album). The album won Wonder the Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance at the 28th Grammy Awards (his fourth award in the category, and his 13th Grammy overall).

In Square Circle broke into the Top 5 on the Pop Albums chart and spent 12 weeks at #1 on the Top R&B Albums chart.

Track listing

All songs written, produced and arranged by Stevie Wonder.

Side one
  1. "Part-Time Lover" – 4:12
    • Stevie Wonder – lead vocal, synthesizers, drums
    • Luther Vandross – lead vocal, background vocal
    • Syreeta Wright – background vocal
    • Philip Bailey – background vocal
    • Keith John – background vocal
    • Melody McCully, Billy Durham, Peter Byrne, Renee Hardaway, Darryl Phinnessee – background vocal
  2. "I Love You Too Much" – 5:27
    • Stevie Wonder – lead vocal, background vocal, synthesizers, drums, percussion
  3. "Whereabouts" – 4:17
    • Stevie Wonder – lead vocal, synthesizers, drums, percussion
    • Keith John – background vocal
    • Darryl Phinnessee – background vocal
    • Deniece Williams – background vocal
    • Howard Smith – background vocal
  4. "Stranger on the Shore of Love" – 5:00
    • Stevie Wonder – lead vocal, background vocal, synthesizers, drums, harpsichord, accordion
  5. "Never in Your Sun" – 4:06
    • Stevie Wonder – lead vocal, background vocal, synthesizers, drums, percussion, harmonica
Side two
  1. "Spiritual Walkers" – 5:13
    • Stevie Wonder – lead vocal, Yamaha CS-80 synthesizer, drums, percussion
    • Edwin Birdsong – Yamaha CS-80 synthesizer
    • Larry Gittens – trumpet
    • Bob Malach – saxophone
    • Janice Moore, Cheta Akins, Carolyn Garrett, Ruthell Holmes, Kay Gibbs, Valencia Cox – background vocal
  2. "Land of La La" – 5:12
    • Stevie Wonder – lead vocal, background vocal, synthesizers, electric piano, percussion, drums
    • Ben Bridges – guitar
    • Rick Zunigar – guitar
    • Renee Hardaway – background vocal
  3. "Go Home" – 5:18
    • Stevie Wonder – lead vocal, background vocal, synthesizers, drums, vocoder
    • Bob Malach – saxophone
    • Larry Gittens – trumpet
  4. "Overjoyed" – 3:42
    • Stevie Wonder – lead vocal, background vocal, acoustic piano, environmental percussion (incl.: crickets, bird sounds, ocean, pebbles in pond, stone dropped, crushing leaves), Yamaha CS-80 synthesizer
    • Earl Klugh – guitar
    • Paul Riser – string arrangement
  5. "It's Wrong (Apartheid)" – 6:52 {{small|(CD version)}}
    • Stevie Wonder – lead vocal, synthesizers, drums, percussion, kora
    • Musa Dludla, Thandeka Ngono-Raasch, Linda Bottoman-Tshabalala, Muntu Myuyana, Lorraine Mahlangu-Richards, Fana Kekana, Tsepo Mokone – background vocal

Personnel

  • Stevie Wonder – producer, performer, writer, composer
  • Bob Bralove, Brad Buxer, Abdoulaye Soumare – synthesizer programming
  • Gary Olazabal – synthesizer programming, recording engineer, associate producer, audio mixing
  • Bobby Holland – photography (album cover/booklet), concept designer (album cover)
  • Renee Hardaway – concept designer (album cover)
  • Johnny Lee – art direction (album cover)

Charting singles

Code: US Pop / US R&B / US Dance / UK

  • "Part-Time Lover" - 1 / 1 / 1 / 3
  • "Go Home" 10 / 2 / 1 / 67
  • "Overjoyed" 24 / 8 / - / 17
  • "Land of La La" 86 / 19 / - / -
  • "Stranger on the Shore of Love" - / - / - / 55

"Part-Time Lover" "Go Home" and "Overjoyed" charted well in the UK; however, the two other singles failed to show in the main UK Top 40. All five singles had good runs in the UK's Blues and Soul chart. "Stranger on the Shore of Love" was backed by "Did I Hear You Say You Love Me" from the album Hotter than July.

By the time In Square Circle was released, Motown decided to bed in catalogue numbers for the singles starting as WOND. In the case of the 12" singles, a prefix of "T" was added. "Stranger on the Shore of Love" was WONDT7 and was released in 1986 as the final single from the album.

"Whereabouts" received an animated music video but was not released as a single.

Notable performances

"Go Home" was performed during the 1986 Grammy Awards ceremony as part of a synthesizer jam with Thomas Dolby, Herbie Hancock, and Howard Jones.[5] It was also performed, along with "Overjoyed," on the May 7, 1983, episode of Saturday Night Live, which Wonder hosted.[6]

Charts

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Weekly charts

Chart (1985/86)Position
Australian Kent Music Report[7]8
Austrian Albums Chart[8]12
Canadian RPM Albums Chart[9]7
Dutch Albums Chart[10]16
French SNEP Albums Chart[11]11
Italian Albums Chart[12]3
Japanese Oricon Albums Chart[13]3
New Zealand Albums Chart[14]7
Norwegian VG-lista Albums Chart[15]3
Swedish Albums Chart[16]2
Swiss Albums Chart[17]4
UK Albums Chart[18]6
U.S. Billboard 200 [19]5
West German Media Control Albums Chart[20]8
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Year-end charts

Chart (1985)Position
Canadian Albums Chart[21]29
French Albums Chart[22]21
Italian Albums Chart[12]21
Chart (1986)Position
Canadian Albums Chart[23]91
Japanese Albums Chart[24]19
U.S. Billboard 200[25]18
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Certifications

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See also

  • List of number-one R&B albums of 1985 (U.S.)
  • List of number-one R&B albums of 1986 (U.S.)

References

1. ^[{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r172609|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]
2. ^Christgau, Robert. Consumer Guide Reviews: In Square Circle. The Village Voice. Retrieved 2010-05-08.
3. ^[https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/in-square-circle-19851024]
4. ^[https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/stevie-wonder/albumguide]
5. ^[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4p7VIE9jQk YouTube: "Synthesizer Showdown at the 1985 Grammys"]
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://snl.jt.org/ep.php-i=198305070.html|title=May 7, 1983|website=The SNL Archives|accessdate=3 May 2015}}
7. ^{{Cite book|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|last=Kent|first=David|authorlink=David Kent (historian)|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, NSW|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6}}
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9. ^Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 2014-04-27
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