Hey Love (Stevie Wonder song)
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| "Hey Love" | ||||
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| Single by Stevie Wonder | ||||
| from the album Down to Earth | ||||
| A-side | "Travelin' Man" | |||
| Released | December 1966 | |||
| Recorded | 1966 | |||
| Genre | Soul | |||
| Length | 2:41 | |||
| Label | Tamla | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Clarence Paul, Morris Broadnax, Stevie Wonder | |||
| Producer(s) | Clarence Paul | |||
| Stevie Wonder singles chronology | ||||
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"Hey Love" is a 1966 song by Stevie Wonder, from his album Down to Earth. It was released as a B-side to "Travelin' Man," but it also reached the charts in its own right, peaking at number 90 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number nine on the R&B Singles chart in the spring of 1967.[1][2] It has been covered by other artists, including Bettye LaVette and R. Kelly.
"Hey Love" is the closing track on Stevie Wonder's 1966 album Down to Earth. Co-written with Morris Broadnax and Clarence Paul, it is the best-known of the four songs on the album for which Wonder received a writing credit.[2]
Ed Hogan of AllMusic said the song's "dominant, looping rhythm echoes the tick-tock of a clock, which gives the down-tempo track a melancholy late-night vibe, emphasizing the feeling that the singer is giving his all in a one last chance to get the direct attention of the object of his affectations."[1]
In The Sound of Stevie Wonder: His Words and Music, James E. Perone writes, "What is notable is Wonder's developing melodic sense over what is a fairly simple harmonic scheme that involves just the tonic, subdominant, and dominant chords... 'Hey Love' presents a hint of what was to come in his compositions and performances in the 1970s."[2]
"Hey Love" has been included on several Stevie Wonder greatest hits compilations, including Greatest Hits (1968), Looking Back (1977), Love Songs: 20 Classic Hits (1985), At the Close of a Century (1999), and The Definitive Collection (2002).
