Boogie On Reggae Woman

"Boogie On Reggae Woman"
Single by Stevie Wonder
from the album Fulfillingness' First Finale
B-side "Seems So Long"
Released November 1974
Genre Funk
Length 4:55 (Album version)
4:05 (1974 single[1])
5:14 (1999 version)
Label Tamla
Writer(s) Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder singles chronology
"You Haven't Done Nothin'"
(1974)		 "Boogie On Reggae Woman"
(1974)		 "I Wish"
(1976)
"Boogie On Reggae Woman"
"Boogie On Reggae Woman" (album version sample)
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"Boogie On Reggae Woman" is a 1974 funk single by American Motown artist Stevie Wonder, from his album Fulfillingness' First Finale. Despite the song's title, its style is firmly funk/R&B and neither boogie nor reggae. It continued Wonder's successful Top Ten streak on the pop charts, reaching number three and also spent two weeks at number one on the soul charts.[2] Billboard ranked it as the No. 25 song for 1975.[3] It features Wonder's distinctive harmonica, although not his usual chromatic type but instead a diatonic A-flat "blues harp".[4] The song is also notable for Wonder's pulsating Moog synthesizer bassline. The lyrics are designed as a dialogue between "nice" and "naughty" intent, including the introduction to his harmonica break, which incorporates Wonder's casual but repeated question "Can I play?"

Following conclusion of the vocal, the harmonica is reprised for the remaining seventy seconds, and concluding thirty bars of the tune, to the fade.

Writing for AllMusic, Ed Hogan said, "'Boogie on Reggae Woman' was light and bouncy, strutting along on a funky, percolating pulse. Johnny Nash's 1972 number one pop gold single 'I Can See Clearly Now' had primed the mainstream audience for the reggae sound that Wonder employed on the cut."[5]

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References

  1. ↑ Discogs - Boogie On Reggae Woman promo-single, 1974-December-13th, Tamla Motown (TMG 928) Europe
  2. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 636.
  3. ↑ Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1975
  4. ↑ http://www.harpsurgery.com/boogie-on-reggae-woman-harmonica/
  5. ↑ AllMusic - Boogie on Reggae Woman (Stevie Wonder)
  6. ↑ Discogs - Fulfillingness' First Finale vinyl-LP, 1974-July-22nd, Tamla (T6-332S1) US

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