Little Stevie Wonder in "Muscle beach party" [[1964)

[marv2]

EVERYBODY COME ON YEAH YEAH CLAP YOUR HANDS

[splanky]

Well that is certainly a great find. Bet nobody on the set had any idea
of how huge a figure in American popular music and culture that "little
blind black boy" would become...I've been revisiting a lot of Stevie
early work like Ain't That Asking For Trouble, Purple Raindrops and a
real fave of mine, I'm Wonderin'. Kid had talent and energy to burn.
Thanks, Marv...

[marv2]

Well that is certainly a great find. Bet nobody on the set had any idea
of how huge a figure in American popular music and culture that "little
blind black boy" would become...I've been revisiting a lot of Stevie
early work like Ain't That Asking For Trouble, Purple Raindrops and a
real fave of mine, I'm Wonderin'. Kid had talent and energy to burn.
Thanks, Marv...

You're welcome Splanky. I actually saw this at the movies as a kid. I especially liked "Contract on Love" from this period. Back then, I thought Stevie was my age or just a little older. He was a decade older actually. LOL

[splanky]

It's great that a lot of this older stuff gets uploaded to youtube and we
can see it again. It's not Motown but lately I've begun my 30th[[@)
search for footage of Junie Morrison leading the Ohio Players on I
think it was Soul Train, singing with one finger in his ear. It was there
on youtube years ago but seems to have disappeared. Did I already
say I still miss that mug a lot?....

[marv2]

It's great that a lot of this older stuff gets uploaded to youtube and we
can see it again. It's not Motown but lately I've begun my 30th[[@)
search for footage of Junie Morrison leading the Ohio Players on I
think it was Soul Train, singing with one finger in his ear. It was there
on youtube years ago but seems to have disappeared. Did I already
say I still miss that mug a lot?....

I try not to even think about it. At one point the early to mid Seventies, Junie Morrison and the Ohio Players were everything! [[to us). They had a Detroit connection as well as the obvious Ohio one. Many great videos I enjoyed in the past on Youtube have long disappeared. I am still hoping someone will one day upload the audio to Bonnie Pointer's "Deep Inside My Soul". Still no luck.

[copley]

Stevie had so much energy and enthusiasm it was impossible not to like him.

[motony]

when my Mom took my brothers & me to see this movie in Hollywood, Fl. in 1963, the WHOLE theater went crazy when Stevie came out & we all clapped & swayed to the music like it was LIVE.

[marv2]

when my Mom took my brothers & me to see this movie in Hollywood, Fl. in 1963, the WHOLE theater went crazy when Stevie came out & we all clapped & swayed to the music like it was LIVE.

We use to go beserk when they would play the live version of "Finger Tips" at our little kiddie birthdays back then. LOL!