http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/pogus-caesars-muzika-kinda-sweet-2080071.html?action=Gallery&ino=2

I'm on your wife's side — without knowing if she's black or white, I do know that Stevie was popular with black AND white audiences starting in the '60s, whereas Springsteen never crossed over to the R&B crowd as far as I can tell. I'm 33, so when the singles from “Born in the U.S.A.” started dominating radio in '84, I thought Springsteen was something of a new act. I remembered “Hungry Heart” from preschool, but that was it.

Speaking of crossovers, I've always liked Stevie's experiment with country, 1980's “I Ain't Gonna Stand for It.”

Here are the others.
Superstition – watch the kids on the fire escape get really into it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7X5js1vE

Stevie with Grover
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5sks4wK4Lc

This past Christmas, I actually made a three-DVD set of Stevie videos like these for my wife, the native Detroiter who is a huge Stevie fan.

True story: When she arrived at the University of Michigan in 1984 to room with a girl from Maryland, my wife unfurled a Stevie poster to display on the wall. The roommate asked her “Who's that!?” and my wife responded with incredulity: “You don't know Stevie Wonder!?” The Maryland girl then proceeded to post her own picture on the wall of a blue-jeaned guy in front of an American flag. “Who's that?!” my wife asked. The roommate answered, equally incredulously: “You don't know Bruce Springsteen?”

Ah, cultural differences. Got to love them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b_KRfJlAZE

I love this performance.

I'm on your wife's side — without knowing if she's black or white, I do know that Stevie was popular with black AND white audiences starting in the '60s, whereas Springsteen never crossed over to the R&B crowd as far as I can tell. I'm 33, so when the singles from “Born in the U.S.A.” started dominating radio in '84, I thought Springsteen was something of a new act. I remembered “Hungry Heart” from preschool, but that was it.

Speaking of crossovers, I've always liked Stevie's experiment with country, 1980's “I Ain't Gonna Stand for It.”

I'm on your wife's side — without knowing if she's black or white, I do know that Stevie was popular with black AND white audiences starting in the '60s, whereas Springsteen never crossed over to the R&B crowd as far as I can tell. I'm 33, so when the singles from “Born in the U.S.A.” started dominating radio in '84, I thought Springsteen was something of a new act. I remembered “Hungry Heart” from preschool, but that was it.

Speaking of crossovers, I've always liked Stevie's experiment with country, 1980's “I Ain't Gonna Stand for It.”

Here are the others.
Superstition – watch the kids on the fire escape get really into it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7X5js1vE

Stevie with Grover
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5sks4wK4Lc

This past Christmas, I actually made a three-DVD set of Stevie videos like these for my wife, the native Detroiter who is a huge Stevie fan.

True story: When she arrived at the University of Michigan in 1984 to room with a girl from Maryland, my wife unfurled a Stevie poster to display on the wall. The roommate asked her “Who's that!?” and my wife responded with incredulity: “You don't know Stevie Wonder!?” The Maryland girl then proceeded to post her own picture on the wall of a blue-jeaned guy in front of an American flag. “Who's that?!” my wife asked. The roommate answered, equally incredulously: “You don't know Bruce Springsteen?”

Ah, cultural differences. Got to love them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b_KRfJlAZE

I love this performance.

By the way, for all you Wonder fans out there, there's a real cool site that has all kinds of videos of Stevie performing – including ones where he is playing with some of the all-time greats in modern music. Ray Charles? Yup. Prince? Yup. Alicia Keys? Yup. Luciano Pavarotti? Believe it or not, yup.

But for me the all-time great find (go look look them up on YouTube, you'll see) are three videos of Stevie on Sesame Street: Stevie doing “Superstition,” doing the then-Sesame Street theme song and singing with Yoda – er, Grover.