Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing
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| “Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing” | |||||
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| Single by Stevie Wonder from the album Innervisions |
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| B-side | "Blame It on the Sun" | ||||
| Released | 1973 | ||||
| Genre | Funk | ||||
| Length | 4:44 | ||||
| Label | Tamla | ||||
| Writer(s) | Stevie Wonder | ||||
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"Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing" was a hit single from Stevie Wonder's album Innervisions. The song's lyrics convey a positive message about taking things in stride and accentuating the positive.
It begins with an unusual spoken bit of dialogue, a forerunner of the "skits" popular in later hip-hop albums, in which Wonder portrays a slick character trying to impress a woman with his worldliness. " 'Cause like I been to, y'know, Paris, Peru, y'know, I mean, uh, Iraq, Iran, Eurasia... y'know I speak very, very, um fluent Spanish -- 'Todo 'sta bien, chévere' -- you got that? "
The tune is in Eb minor, starting with a Latin piano intro. The song is really energized when the second chorus comes in, Stevie takes the vocals up an octave with two vocal overdubs singing the same line. He also sings two other background overdub vocals, mimicking a horn line.
In 1974, it was covered by The Main Ingredient on their LP Euphrates River. In 1992, it was covered by British acid jazz band Incognito. In 2005, it was covered by John Legend, produced by will.i.am of The Black Eyed Peas, and included on the soundtrack to Hitch.
The Spanish phrase roughly means "Everything's good, it's cool."
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