12 Year Old Genius

Stevie Wonder | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 10, 1992)
• Label: Motown
• ASIN: B000008MFI
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #763,286 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Fingertips [On Bongos and Harmonica]

2. Soul Bongo [On Bongos]

3. La La La [On Drums]

4. (I'm Afraid) The Masquerade Is Over

5. Hallelujah I Love Her So [Piano and Vocals]

6. Drown in My Own Tears

7. Don't You Know

Editorial Reviews

Japanese only reissue of this album, originally released in 1963 and long out of print on CD. Motown. 2005. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Genius indeed!, September 11, 2006

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Scorch3k "Music snob" (Baltimore, MD USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 12 Year Old Genius (Audio CD)

Fingertips pt. 2 is one of the greatest recording of live music anywhere. The emotion and chaos of that one track sums up pretty everything that is wonderful about live music--in particular live soul. It's the beat, the audience participation, the unpredictability. When Stevie brings the band back into the song's finale and confusion breaks out (listen for "what key? what key?" in the background)...you'll get it. Or you got no soul.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars EVERYBODY COME ON,CLAP YOUR HANDS!!!!!!, July 31, 2004

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Andre' S Grindle "Funk Meister" (Bangor,ME.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 12 Year Old Genius (Audio CD)

Put your hands together for this little set recorded live in Motown's studios.Neither Motown nor Stevie Wonder had
really begun to break into their signiture sounds quiet yet but
Wonder really lets 'em have it on spirited Ray Charles covers like "Drown In My Own Tears".But the REAL highlite hear is the
FULL version of his first smash hit "Fingertips",featuring that
utterly identifiable harmonica solo-he's SO underrated on that instrument-and his young Michael Jackson-like voice.It's the only big hit he had before his voice changed.
I was lucky enough to find a cutout CD of this album in a record store when I was 16 after having digested his classic 70's albums and it sent me out looking for his other
early albums-all of whitch were luckily in print back then in
1996 on CD and many of whitch are now worth quite alot.But if you bump into this under similar circumstances GET IT!No more to say!

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorite albums by Stevie Wonder, July 10, 2011

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Gino Lavoie (Montréal, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius (Mlps) (Audio CD)

I should have been at this concert, but I was not born yet! Stevie Wonder is really amazing throughout that live performance. The atmosphere is really palpable, and the interaction between Stevie and his fans is unbelievable. The CD is presented in a nice sleeve which is identical to the original vinyl album. The icing on the cake is that this version is a super high quality CD made in Japan using SHMCD technology; as a result, the sound quality is really good! Fingertips has never sounded so good!