Stevie Wonder At 70: 12 Songs You Didn’t Know He Wrote

It would be an exaggeration to say we were legit shook when we found out Wonder co-wrote this classic but we were definitely shook-adjacent because who knew? First of all, this Smokey Robinson & the Miracles track came out in 1967 when Wonder was just 17. But by that time, Wonder had already been on Motown’s Tamla label for six years because he’s the child prodigy formerly known as Little Stevie Wonder who was discovered by Ronnie White of the Miracles. We’re throwing a lot of facts at you but it’s Little Stevie’s birthday so try to keep up. Wonder wrote the music in ’66, it had that calliope motif (hey, let’s call it a “circus sound”, gang) and it inspired Robinson to bring the clown idea into the lyrics and from there, it was just a hop, skip, and a jump to invoke a 19th-century Leoncavallo opera. Here’s a picture we found of Wonder, who's been blind since infancy, in 1965 with a little white dog with tear marks.