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  Science Fair Projects - Superstition (song)
"Superstition" is a song written, produced, arranged, and recorded by Stevie Wonder and which first appeared on his celebrated album Talking Book issued in 1972, when he was 22 years old.
The song was released as a single in many countries and reached No. 4 in the UK in February 1972 and No.1 in the USA.
The song has also been recorded in a notable cover version by Stevie Ray Vaughan (Vaughan and Wonder had mutual admiration for one another; Wonder would later write the song "Stevie Ray Blues" in honor of Vaughan).
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 BBC - Radio 2 - Sold On Song - Song Library - Superstition
Part of Stevie’s peerless run of classic tunes from the early 70s, Superstition was written with crossover success firmly in mind.
A musical polymath, Wonder started the song by playing the funky drum pattern and humming a melody over the top.  The signature clavinet lick consists of two parts, panned into the left and right, creating a gloriously funky polyrhythmic stew over which Wonder’s melody bounces.
Stevie first performed Superstitious during an American tour supporting the Rolling Stones, which was partly responsible for introducing him to a largely white audience, although the lyric was aimed primarily at his core fl listeners.
www.bbc.co.uk /radio2/soldonsong/songlibrary/superstition.shtml   (406 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Talking Book: Music: Stevie Wonder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
"Superstition" is a strong rocker, a paranoid bit of wah-wah guitar funk that's as persistent as the best punk music; the opening track, "You Are the Sunshine of My Life," is a pure love song that would sound corny coming from any other voice.
He was right as the song is one of his best with its combination of funk, rock and soul and that evil sounding guitar riff.
Superstition is one bad piece of music and the political awareness in Big Brother is unfortunately timeless, especially for urban residents.
www.amazon.com /Talking-Book-Stevie-Wonder/dp/B00004S36A   (1359 words)

  
 REVIEW: Brown Derbies - Down Time
Thus, for each song (and in the "overall" section), all comments numbered "1" are from the same reviewer, as are those numbered "2", etc.
Their tenors are good on this song, and you can hear them, which makes it more balanced than many of them.
His voice is fine - well suited for the song, although slightly perfunctory - but the mixing confuses the ears, because there's not enough space between him and the background.
www.rarb.org /reviews/18.html   (3887 words)

  
 Superstition by Stevie Wonder Songfacts
Wonder played all instruments on the album except horns and guitars, and Beck was brought in to play some guitar parts in exchange for a song.
It took Beck a while to record the song, and by the time he released it, Wonder's version had been out for a month and was a huge hit.
They recorded as Beck, Bogert and Appice, and while their album did well, their version of this song was hardly noticed.
www.songfacts.com /detail.php?id=63   (693 words)

  
 Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
Stevie turns his song of betrayed love ("Maybe your baby done made some other plans") into a powerful, somewhat upbeat dance number, the repetition taunting with a vengeance and hypnotizing.
"Superstition" is another hard dance cut, picking up some organ feeling from Billy Preston and just the right surge of bright horn work.
It generated two US number ones, "Superstition" and "You Are the Sunshine of My Life," and almost overnight established Wonder as the favorite artist of credible rock musicians around the world.
www.superseventies.com /spwonderstevie2.html   (1301 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Talking Book [Remaster] - Stevie Wonder at Epinions.com
Wonder’s namesake Stevie Ray Vaughan and the song is Superstition.
One of the finest lines in a popular song, “if you believe in things you don’t understand, then you suffer, superstition ain’t the way.” Tells you what you need to know about the message our Stevie is trying to get across.
I was going to pan this song but the beginning is so well done, I can recommend it with slight reservation.
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 Telugu Portal - Reshammiya song faces superstition barrier - Entertainment - Latest News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Ahmedabad, June 1 (IANS) Composer-singer Himesh Reshammiya, whose songs are racing up the music charts, would not have imagined that his popular score "Jhalak dikhla ja..." could face the flak for an apparently 'ghostly' link.
The evil follows you because the lyrics of the song have the words 'Aaja aaja' that invite the ghost," said the aged Master.
The local belief is that Sushma possesses women who sing the song at a particular time of day," said Jayanti Patel (45).
www.teluguportal.net /modules/news/article.php?storyid=5133   (476 words)

  
 Guitar Combat #20 = Superstition - DiscussAnything.com -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Superstition is an easy one by Stevie Wonder which has been covered by guitar greats Jeff Beck and Stevie Ray Vaughan.
The Power Tab version available and the Ultimate-Guitar.com version is written as a fingerpicking song that does the rhythm and melody which may or may not be useful, but the chords are useful for the chorus and post chorus.
Local Time: 11:40 PM What I did was record a track biased to one side using a Strat model with a Fender amp model (clean) and another track using the Gibson Firebird model with a Marshall amp model (dirty) biased to the other side and then added another track for some lead improv.
www.discussanything.com /forums/showthread.php?t=71636   (1180 words)

  
 Books, DVDs, and More: Music: Talking Book
"Superstition" is a strong rocker, a paranoid bit of wah-wah guitar funk that's as persistent as the best punk music; the opening track, "You Are the Sunshine of My Life," is a pure love song that would sound corny coming from any other voice.
When you think about the fact that Stevie was so young when he wrote this music, that he was taking huge artistic risks, that he was talking about serious things in serious ways while fluff abounded around him makes this album that much more significant.
He didn't just write love songs; he infused deep, soul-wrenching emotion into them.
booksdvdsandmore.com /index.php?mode=Music&item=B00004S36A   (810 words)

  
 Kerckhove: June 2004
That is the reason that i picked the chinese symbol for superstition.
This is one of my favorite Bob Marley songs, even though I like a lot of his work.
This is one of my favorite songs of his newest cd, “The Black Album.” Which by the way I also feel is his best.
kerckhove.blogspot.com /2004_06_01_kerckhove_archive.html   (2527 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Stevie Wonder
Wonder experimented with synthesizers and was one of the first musicians to make extensive use of electronic music in fl American song.
Talking Book (1972), an album on which he played all the instruments and sang all the vocal parts, contained the hit singles “You Are the Sunshine of My Life” and “Superstition,” and he won several Grammy Awards for Talking Book and his next album, Innervisions (1973).
More Grammy Awards followed for the albums Songs in the Key of Life (1976), which contains the hit song “Sir Duke,” a celebratory tribute to American jazz composer Duke Ellington ; and In Square Circle (1985).
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 Superstition (song) Definition / Superstition (song) Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
" Superstition " is a song written, produced, arranged, and recorded by Stevie Wonder Stevie Wonder (real name: Steveland Hardaway Judkins, born on May 13, 1950 in Saginaw, Michigan) is an African American singer, songwriter, producer, musician, humanitarian and social activist.
He has recorded several critically acclaimed albums and hit singles, and writing and producing songs for many of his labelmates and outside artists as well.
The song was released as a single in many countries and reached No. 4 in the UK The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a country in western Europe, and a member of the European Union.
www.elresearch.com /Superstition_(song)   (338 words)

  
 STEVIE WONDER / TALKING BOOK
Those six remarkable albums--the latter a double disc of tremendous proportions, filled with funk anthems and sweet ballads that is in many ways a culmination--really are of a single piece, a grandly radical, artistic, political statement of pain and anger and joy uttered during a difficult time for the world and for American fls especially.
It is such a goofy song, with its neo-bossa-nova beat, its bar mitzvah organ, its pah-pah-pah-pah background vocals, but it is also irresistible.
Then we immediately get a kick-ass funk bass line on "Maybe Your Baby," an ominous, paranoid, driving song whose massive groove sets the stage for "Superstition." That song, by now a classic-rock cliche is, in the context of the album, one of the best songs in the set, ust in sheer terms of production alone.
www.musthear.com /reviews/talkingbook.html   (1020 words)

  
 Blues Lyrics and Hoodoo
In order to eliminate non-"authentic" references, i have eliminated any song by a performer whom i know to be "white" (Johnny Otis excepted) or whom i think has too much of a "modern urban rock band" style to supply basic folkloric information about hoodoo practices in the South.
So far, however, i have found only one song with "voodoo" in the title that was relevant to my research -- and it was merely a modern remake of an older song with a different title.
Songs for which i have titles and performers, but no lyrics or incomplete lyrics.
luckymojo.com /blues.html   (1657 words)

  
 Superstition & Monopoly Capitalism
Superstition is defined as a irrational belief in the ominous significance of a particular thing or circumstance.
One of my favorite songs is a song by the Temptations called "Papa was a rollin stone".
I know this belief is nonsense but I don't sing that part of one of my favorite songs because of this superstition.
www.aalbc.com /reviews/supersti.htm   (1001 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Stevie Wonder - Song Review: Greatest Hits: Music: Stevie Wonder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
And "Song Review," a 31-track retrospective of his career, is about as close to perfect as you can get.
Of course, his funk is the most fun: modern groups like the Brand New Heavies or Jamiroquai still have yet to achieve the likes of "Superstition," "I Know," or "Boogie On Reggae Woman"...the rhythms and keyboard parts of these songs seep under your skin until your body is awash with the groove.
I was a baby and a little girl when most of these songs were released but I grew up with admiration and respect for his music.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000001ABD/weddingtipsonlin   (1364 words)

  
 Second Hand Songs - Song: Superstition - Stevie Wonder
Superstition by Jeff Beck, Tim Bogert and Carmine Appice (1973)
Superstition by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble (March 1986)
Ain't That a Kick in the Head by Robbie Williams was originally written by Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen and performed by Dean Martin in 1960.
www.secondhandsongs.com /song/14501   (66 words)

  
 Beopjusa temple main page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Just outside the temple's gate is this pavilion, which enshrines a stele composed by Song Siyeol and inscribed by Song Jungil in the 7th year of King Hyonjong's reign in Choson.
What is written is a sort of parable that relates that a Chinese man discovered a turtle-shaped rock facing west at the peak of a nearby mountain.
Perhaps Song Siyeol's meaning was that worshippers at Beopjusa should take care not to delve into superstition (to Song Siyeol, Buddhism was a superstition hostile to Confucianism)
www.orientalarchitecture.com /chungbuk/BEOPJUSA49.htm   (126 words)

  
 Coldplay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
It has the best of coldplay, and the first 5 songs on this album are the songs that will always keep them making good music and will make their popularity huge forever...
EXCELENT DVD, BUT SOME OF THEIR BEST SONGS WERE FORGOTTEN : First I want to say that when I say "some of their best songs" I'm refering to some of my favorite coldplay songs like "Green Eyes", "Warning Sign", "Brothers and sisters", "Easy to please", "Spies" and "We never change".
Coldplay at Peak Live Performance : This 5 songs CD, recorded in December 2000 in Olso, brings us Coldplay in peak live performance."Trouble" is a faithful version of the "Parachutes" track, wiht Chris at piano...
music.mysic.com /Artist/Coldplay   (1193 words)

  
 The Young Writer's Club - Member's Poems No:7449
Those are song lyrics, they make no sense, and the song itself is lovely.
I wrote this to be a song." I may not have written this, but hey, I like it.
If you actually recorded this song, it would only be around 1:15 at the most, depending upon the intruments and how long you held certain notes, of course.
www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr /~david/derya/poems7/poem7449.htm   (3134 words)

  
 WICCA Women in Conscious Creative Action
But I don't think that what was done in Ritual even 300 years ago has bearing on what we do today.
We are coming out of 5,000 years of superstition disguised as religion.
It is going to be difficult because there are so many people that are still steeped in superstition.
www.wiccawomen.com /newsletter.html   (1928 words)

  
 Superstition & Monopoly Capitalism
Superstition is defined as a irrational belief in the ominous significance of a particular thing or circumstance.
One of my favorite songs is a song by the Temptations called "Papa was a rollin stone".
I know this belief is nonsense but I don't sing that part of one of my favorite songs because of this superstition.
aalbc.com /reviews/supersti.htm   (1227 words)

  
 Grey's Anatomy: Superstition - TV.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
We relay on Superstitions because we're smart enough to know we don't have all the answers, and that life works in mysterious ways.
This is a reference to the widely believed superstition that saying the name of William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth inside a theater brings bad luck to the production and cast.
The title of this episode could be a reference to the hit song Superstition by Stevie Wonder.
www.tv.com /greys-anatomy/superstition/episode/620121/summary.html   (598 words)

  
 The Song Remains The Same - Superstition
After releasing 'Music Of My Mind', he decided to spread some of the good stuff about and wrote 'Superstition' for his good mate Jeff Beck, assuring the Beckster that this could be the big hit he needed to help out his flagging career.
For Stevie: a song which becomes a fine funk benchmark with an iconic drum break and all the social commentary you could ask for from a hit Motown single, for Jeff: an apology to Stevie and a destiny which involves being remembered almost solely for party-tastic 'Hi-Ho Silver Lining'.
The opening clavinet line is soon overtaken by parping brass of all denominations underpinned by solid bass and drums, and is on occasion lead playfully astray by some shrill flutes and finally by a great big organ solo by Brian Dee and some of the highest notes ever summoned from the humble trumpet.
www.vinylvulture.co.uk /pages/song_remains_super.htm   (825 words)

  
 Stevie Wonder
There are a few renditions of Christmas standards ("The Little Drummer Boy," "Silver Bells"), but most of the songs are Motown originals, and you end up with the worst of both worlds: the subject matter is hackneyed and the orchestral arrangements are saccharine and stale, yet the tunes lack cozy-up-by-the-fire familiarity.
There are powerful songs (the stately almost classical "Look Around," the hit ballad "Never Dreamed You'd Leave In Summer") next to some of the weakest compositions he's ever released ("Think Of Me As Your Soldier").
I tend to agree: the best songs here are tremendous - from clavinet-driven hard funk on "Superstition" to as sweet a ballad as you'll ever hear ("You Are The Sunshine Of My Life"), and that's just the #1 singles.
www.warr.org /stevie.html   (4982 words)

  
 Musical (Song and Dance) Movie Moments and Scenes
The following listing (in multiple parts) was an attempt to compile a collection of many of the greatest song and dance moments in film history.
Director Robert Altman's anti-war fl comedy about military doctors and nurses at a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War, inspiring the long-running TV series, was most famous for Private Seldman's (Ken Prymus) performance of Suicide Is Painless for erectile-dysfunctioning "Painless Pole" (John Schuck) in the "Last Supper" scene.
Fritz Lang's dystopic view of the future included evil (and false) robot Maria's (Brigitte Helm) seductively semi-nude erotic dance (censored upon the film's initial release) at the Yoshiwara to drive the workers into a sexual frenzy (exhibited by a mosaic of disembodied eyes), before she called for them to violently revolt.
www.filmsite.org /greatmusicalsongs16.html   (417 words)

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