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Signed, Sealed & Delivered is Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...

's twelfth album on the Tamla (Motown) label, released on August 7, 1970. Along with the hit title track, the album also featured the hits "Heaven Help Us All
Heaven Help Us All
"Heaven Help Us All" is a 1970 soul single composed by Ron Miller and first performed by Motown singer Stevie Wonder. The song, which showcased a departure from Wonder's earlier works displaying an earthier, gospel-infused sound, continued Wonder's string of Top 10 singles on the pop charts...

", "Never Had a Dream Come True" and Wonder's soul
Soul music
Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...

-styled cover of The Beatles
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...

' "We Can Work It Out
We Can Work It Out
"We Can Work It Out" is a song by The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon. It was released as a "double A-sided" single with "Day Tripper", the first time both sides of a single were so designated in an initial release...

". The album hit #25 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...

 as well as #7 on the R&B Albums chart.

This was Wonder's first album on which he was given producer credit, though he actually only produced two of the tracks and co-produced three more. He wrote or co-wrote seven of the tracks.

Track listing

  1. "Never Had a Dream Come True
    Never Had a Dream Come True (Stevie Wonder song)
    "Never Had a Dream Come True" is a 1969 song written by Stevie Wonder and Motown staff songwriters Henry Cosby and Sylvia Moy and released as a single on the Tamla subsidiary by Wonder in February of 1970...

    " (Wonder, Henry Cosby
    Henry Cosby
    Henry "Hank" R. Cosby was an African American songwriter and record producer for Motown Records...

    , Sylvia Moy
    Sylvia Moy
    Sylvia Moy is a songwriter and record producer, formerly associated with the Motown Records group. The first woman at the Detroit-based music label to write and produce for Motown acts, she is probably best known for her songs written for Stevie Wonder....

    )
    - 3:13
  2. "We Can Work It Out
    We Can Work It Out
    "We Can Work It Out" is a song by The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon. It was released as a "double A-sided" single with "Day Tripper", the first time both sides of a single were so designated in an initial release...

    " (John Lennon, Paul McCartney
    Lennon/McCartney
    The Lennon–McCartney songwriting partnership is one of the best-known and most successful musical collaborations in history...

    )
    - 3:19
  3. "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours
    Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours
    "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" is a soul single by American musician Stevie Wonder, recorded for Motown's Tamla label. Released in June 1970, the song spent six weeks at number one on the U.S. R&B chart and peaked at number three on the U.S. Pop chart...

    " (Lee Garrett
    Lee Garrett
    Lee Garrett is an American rhythm and blues singer-songwriter, most famous for co-writing the song "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours".-Career:...

    , Lula Mae Hardaway
    Lula Mae Hardaway
    Lula Mae Hardaway was the mother of blind soul musician Stevie Wonder...

    , Wonder, Syreeta Wright
    Syreeta Wright
    Syreeta Wright , who recorded professionally under the single name Syreeta, was a Grammy-nominated American singer-songwriter most notably known for her work with Stevie Wonder and Billy Preston.-Early life and career:...

    )
    - 2:39
  4. "Heaven Help Us All
    Heaven Help Us All
    "Heaven Help Us All" is a 1970 soul single composed by Ron Miller and first performed by Motown singer Stevie Wonder. The song, which showcased a departure from Wonder's earlier works displaying an earthier, gospel-infused sound, continued Wonder's string of Top 10 singles on the pop charts...

    " (Ron Miller
    Ron Miller (songwriter)
    Ronald Norman Miller was an American popular songwriter and record producer, who attained many Top 10 hits with ballads written for Motown artists in the 1960s and 1970s....

    )
    - 3:13
  5. "You Can't Judge a Book By Its Cover" (Cosby, Pam Sawyer
    Pam Sawyer
    Pamela Sawyer, an American-based songwriter from Romford, East London.Sawyer worked with artists at Motown Records from 1967 to 1977. Before Motown she had been involved in hit records for the Young Rascals and Lulu, and wrote with Lori Burton with whom she also recorded as the Whyte Boots.Sawyer...

    , Wonder)
    - 2:32
  6. "Sugar" (Don Hunter, Wonder) - 2:52
  7. "Don't Wonder Why" (Leonard Caston) - 4:54
  8. "Anything You Want Me To Do" (Hunter, Hardaway, Paul Riser, Wonder) - 2:19
  9. "I Can't Let My Heaven Walk Away" (Joe Hinton, Sawyer) - 2:19
  10. "Joy (Takes Over Me)" (Duke Browner) - 2:12
  11. "I Gotta Have a Song" (Hunter, Hardaway, Riser, Wonder) - 2:32
  12. "Something to Say" (Hunter, Wonder) - 3:26
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