Motown Legends: I Was Made to Love Her [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]

Stevie Wonder

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 14, 1995)
• Original Release Date: 1994
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Mca Special Products
• ASIN: B0000047IB
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #264,643 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

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 [*]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars His Best '60's Album, August 9, 2005

By	swinginglondon (London) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Was Made to Love Her (Audio CD)

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.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Sampler, February 14, 2001

By	Thomas Magnum (NJ, USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

This Motown Legend Stevie Wonder cd is a good, inexpensive sampler of his mid 60's work. You get the superb "A Place In The Sun" and "Uptight" as well a very interesting cover of "Respect". This is great for those who are not familiar with his work from the era and it is easy on the wallet. Plus it is worth it for ardent fans as it contains some songs that are not available elsewhere on cd.

4.0 out of 5 stars Wonder At A Transition Point, November 2, 2009

By	Andre S. Grindle "Andre' Grindle" (Brewer Maine) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This review is from: I Was Made to Love Her (Audio CD)

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.