Up-Tight

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Up-Tight
Studio album by Stevie Wonder
Released	May 4, 1966
Genre	R&B
Label	Motown
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Stevie Wonder chronology
Stevie at the Beach (1964)	Up-Tight (1966)	Down to Earth (1966)

Up-Tight was the breakthrough album for Stevie Wonder, released in 1966 (see 1966 in music) on Motown Records' Tamla label. The album features the U.S. Top 5 single "Uptight (Everything's Alright)", which Wonder co-wrote with Sylvia Moy and Clarence Paul, the album's producer. The tracks on Up-Tight were the beginning of Wonder's development into a mature recording artist, independent of his earlier "Little Stevie Wonder" moniker and his image as a young Ray Charles imitator.

Also included on the album are "Nothing's Too Good For My Baby", another Wonder-cowrite, and a cover of folk star Bob Dylan's "Blowin' In The Wind", which made Wonder popular with crossover audiences.

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1. Love a Go Go
2. Hold Me
3. Blowin' In The Wind
4. Nothing's Too Good for My Baby
5. Teach Me Tonight
6. Uptight (Everything's Alright)
7. Ain't That Asking for Trouble
8. I Want My Baby Back
9. Pretty Little Angel
10. Music Talk
11. Contract on Love
12. With a Child's Heart