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The 12 Year Old Genius [LIVE] [IMPORT]

Stevie Wonder
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  • Audio CD (January 13, 2008)
  • Original Release Date: May 21, 1963
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Live, Import
  • Label: Universal Japan
  • ASIN: B0007ZJ3K6
  • Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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1. Fingertips [On Bongos and Harmonica]
2. Soul Bongo [On Bongos]
3. La 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

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Japanese only reissue of this album, originally released in 1963 and long out of print on CD. Motown. 2005.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Genius indeed!, September 11, 2006
By Scorch3k "Music snob" (Baltimore, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars EVERYBODY COME ON,CLAP YOUR HANDS!!!!!!, July 31, 2004
This review is from: The 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!
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5.0 out of 5 stars one of the best albums I ever owned, February 7, 2008
By William Maudlin (Magna, UT United States) - See all my reviews
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It was many years ago, as a teenager, that I first owned this album. I played it over and over again.

The first tracks feature the 12 year old's instrumentation - harmonica and bongos. Probably only bongo aficionados will appreciate the latter, but it is interesting very early Stevie and shows his versatility and precociousness.

I loved the harmonica and singing on the first track, and the truly electric atmosphere on both sides of my sixties LP version of the album. Stevie and his audience really relate! I love the singing on "side 2", and am still haunted by the emotiveness and vocal style of the boy genius on all singing tracks, especially Drown in My Own Tears.
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1.0 out of 5 stars I hate To Sound Insensitive
If it weren't that he was blind this wouldn't have been successful. I heard Fingertips Part 1&2, and it's just stupid. Read more
Published on August 15, 2006 by Daniel Hayes

3.0 out of 5 stars little stevie live:"everybody say yeah!"
stevie wonder's first live album,"recorded live-little stevie wonder the 12 year old genius" recorded in 1963 was the first album 2 put him on the map on the music charts. Read more
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