Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours

Infobox Single
Name = Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours


Artist = Stevie Wonder
from Album = Signed, Sealed & Delivered
B-side = "I'm More Than Happy (I'm Satisfied)"
Released = June 3, 1970
Format = Vinyl record (7" 45 RPM)
Recorded = 1970
Genre = R&B
Length = 2:45
Label = Tamla
54196
Writer = Stevie Wonder, Lee Garrett, Syreeta Wright, Lula Mae Hardaway
Producer = Stevie Wonder
Last single = "Never Had a Dream Come True"
(1970)
This single = "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours"
(1970)
Next single = "Heaven Help Us All"
(1970)

"Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" (1970) is a soul single by American musician Stevie Wonder, recorded for Motown's Tamla label. Released in June of 1970, the song spent six weeks at number one on the U.S. R&B chart and peaked at number three on the U.S. Pop chart. In the same year, the song was also released on the album "Signed, Sealed, and Delivered".

The song was a series of firsts for the 20-year-old Wonder: "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" was the first single Wonder produced on his own, and was also the first to feature his female backup singing group comprised of Lynda Tucker Laurence, (who went on to become a member of The Supremes) Syreeta Wright, (who also co-wrote the song) and Vanetta Fields. During a 2008 appearance on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, he credited the song title and chorus "signed, sealed, delivered, I'm yours" to his mother Lula, who exclaimed the words after listening to her son experiment with the melody. This song also marked Wonder's first Grammy nomination. The award went to Ronald Dunbar and General Johnson for writing the Clarence Carter song "Patches".

Covers

In the early 1970s, Bobby Byrd performed an up-tempo cover of this song on a single with other songs performed by James Brown and Lyn Collins. [cite web
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In 1977, Peter Frampton recorded the song on his album "I'm in You".

In 1995, Kim Wilde performed the track during the last episode of "Don't forget your toothbrush" on UK television. [cite web
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In 2003, for his first in a two-volume collection of Motown cover songs, Michael McDonald recorded his own version of this Wonder classic. Later that same year, Wonder recorded a similar remake with British boy band Blue. The song hit #11 in the UK charts.

Human Nature also successfully remade the classic to feature in their Motown album released in 2006.

Lead singer for the band Train, Pat Monahan covered the hit in 2003.

An basically instrumental version of the song has been released by the James Taylor Quartet.

Lisa Tucker sang this song on March 14, 2006 when she was a top 12 finalist on American Idol's season 5.
Sanjaya Malakar auditioned for American Idol (season 6) with this song.

Former adult film star Colton Ford and dance diva Pepper Mashay recorded a club version of this song. This version went to #9 on the Hot Dance Club Play and #25 on the Hot Dance Singles Sales charts. [cite web
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Trivia

Presidential candidate Barack Obama has frequently used this song on his campaign tours, and can often be heard in the background after he finishes speaking. Wonder performed the song live on the final night of the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado.

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