I Was Made to Love Her- Stevie Wonder...

[bicentennial_baby]

This was the only decent YouTube recording I could find:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pYux5-d1Es


I was born in Lil' Rock,
Had a childhood sweetheart,
We were always hand in hand.

I was hightop shoes and shirt tails,
Suzy was in pig tails,
I know I loved her even then.

You know my papa disapproved it,
My mama boohooed it,
But I told them time and time again,
"Don't you know I was made to love her,
Built a world all around her"
Yah! Hey, hey, hey.

She's been my inspiration,
Showed appreciation
For the love I gave her through the years.

Like a sweet magnolia tree
My love blossmed tenderly,
My life grew sweeter through the years.

I know that my baby loves me,
My baby needs me,
That's why we made it through the years.

I was made to love her,
Worship and adore her,
Hey, hey, hey.

All through thick and thin
Our love just won't end,
'Cause I love my baby, love my baby. Ah!

My baby loves me,
My baby needs me,
And I know I ain't going nowhere.

I was knee high to a chicken
When that love bug bit me,
I had the fever with each passing year.

Oh, even if the mountain tumbles,
If this whole world crumbles,
By her side I'll still be standing there.

'Cause I was made to love her,
I was made to live for her, yeah!

Ah, I was made to love her,
Built my world all around her,
Hey, hey, hey.

Oo baby, I was made to please her,
You know Stevie ain't gonna leave her, no,
Hey, hey, hey.

[BlooInBloo]

1. High on my all-time list of best love songs. It's too bad it was done by...

... the same guy who did Living For the City - it can only be Stevie's *second* best effort.

[bicentennial_baby]

2. It is beautiful...

:)

But it is hard to rank his songs...So many, so good. :D

:hi:

[StrongBad]

3. The Beach Boys did a nifty white-boy cover of this tune

It's actually pretty good and is on their underrated "Wild Honey" album. Check it out!

[bicentennial_baby]

4. I will! Never heard of it!

Thanks! :hi:

[abq e streeter]

5. Wild honey

One of the best of the Beachboys "experimental" period albums, and closest they ever came to a soul album. It was a surprisingly good version of Stevie's song, too. Aren't you glad? Are you familiar with 20/20 ? Cool version of Cottonfields with extra verse added: "...brother only one thing more that's gonna warm ya---a summer's day out in California..." And a seriously creepy song called Never Learn Not to Love"---lyrics by, ahem...Charles Manson. But overall a beautiful, spiritual album with a wonderful version of I Can Hear Music (getting a senior moment/brain fart---was that the Crystals or the Ronettes?).

[StrongBad]

7. I'm a huge Beach Boys/Brian Wilson fan

So I'm pretty familiar with all their work including the ones you described above.

Though Pet Sounds is my favorite album of theirs by far, I do dig most all of the post-PS albums when the band became more of a collective creative outfit rather than the Brian Wilson Show.

[abq e streeter]

9. Me too

Love all those Pet Sounds and beyond stuff, but equally ( at least) love the original surf and car music. Little Deuce Coupe, Surfer Girl, Surfin USA , Rhonda... Wilson's unquestionably a melodic and harmonic genius, but yeah, when the other guys got to show their stuff, that was great too.

[carly denise pt deux]

10. Me too

I was just in Abq 2 weeks ago, went to Old Town, some of my family members lived there at one time or another.
Carly

[carly denise pt deux]

8. Good cover of I was made to love her by the BB's

I think some of their better songs came from this period of their music....Wild Honey/20-20/Love Ya...If it had not been for Dennis Wilson's voice on Never Learn Not To Love, I would have been too creeped out to listen to the song. charles manson haunted Dennis' soul until the end I think.
Carly

[misanthrope]

6. I saw Stevie once, best concert I ever attended...

...Essence Fest '96 in the Superdome. In one night we saw bluesman Johnny Taylor, Kool and the Gang, Barry White, Al Green and Stevie Wonder. Stevie went on stage at midnight and played until almost three in the morning!

We walked into the venue at 6 pm and saw nine hours of incredible music for only $50 apiece.

The next day we went to a showing of Miles Davis' art.

Good weekend.