r/soul

Favourite fresh Soul, Funk, Disco, RnB, Soulful House Groove

This is just over a minute long sadly but it's an amazing piece of Motown history. Up until this point he was seen as a novelty act and mainly as a harmonica player. Motown was unsure about to do with him but fortunately he did this demo and the rest is history. You can hear the change in his voice compared to his Little Stevie Wonder performances.

He had created the riff and Sylvia Moy wrote the lyrics. As she didn't have time to have them converted into Braille for him to learn she said the lyrics a beat ahead to him in his headphones and he sang them perfectly. Amazing.

https://gofile.io/d/sLbhp9