In Square Circle
In Square Circle is a 1985 album released by Grammy Award-winning American R&B/soul singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder (his twentieth overall). The album features the hits "Part-Time Lover", "Go Home" and "Overjoyed" (which was left off Wonder's 1979 album Journey through the Secret Life of Plants and re-recorded for this album).
In Square Circle broke into the Top 5 on the Pop Albums chart and spent twelve weeks at #1 on the Top R&B Albums chart.
"Go Home" was performed during the Grammy awards ceremony in 1985, in the famous synthesizer jam with Thomas Dolby, Herbie Hancock and Howard Jones.[4]
Track listing
All songs written by Stevie Wonder
- "Part-Time Lover" – 4:12
- "I Love You Too Much" – 5:27
- "Whereabouts" – 4:17
- "Stranger on the Shore of Love" – 5:00
- "Never in Your Sun" – 4:06
- "Spiritual Walkers" – 5:13
- "Land of La La" – 5:12
- "Go Home" – 5:18
- "Overjoyed" – 3:42
- "It's Wrong (Apartheid)" – 3:28 (6:52 on CD)
Musicians
- Stevie Wonder - Drums, synthesizers, piano, electric piano, harpsichord, accordion, percussion, harmonica, Yamaha CS80, vocoder, cora, environmental percussion (crickets, bird sounds, ocean, pebbles in pond, stone dropped, crushing leaves), lead & background vocals
- Edwin Birdsong - Yamaha CS80
- Larry Gittens - Trumpet
- Bob Malach - Saxophone
- Earl Klugh - Guitar
- Ben Bridges - Guitar
- Rick Zunigar - Guitar
- Luther Vandross - Lead & background vocals
- Syreeta Wright - Background vocals
- Philip Bailey - Background vocals
- Vincent Unto - Background vocals
- Keith John - Background vocals
- Melody McCully, Billy Durham, Peter Byrne, Renee Hardaway, Darryl Phinnessee, Deniece Williams, Howard Smith, Janice Moore, Chela Akins, Carolyn Garrett, Valencia Cox, Ruthell Holmes, Ray Gibbs, Musa Dludla, Thandeka Ngono-Raasch, Linda Bottoman-Tshabalala, Muntu Myuyana, Lorraine Mahlangu-Richards, Fana Kekana, Tsepo Mokone - Background vocals
- Paul Riser - String arrangement
- Bob Bralove, Brad Buxer - programming
- Gary Olazabal - Programming, Engineer
Charting singles
Code: US Pop / US R&B / US Dance / UK
- "Part-Time Lover" - 1 / 1 / 1 / 3
- "Go Home" 10 / 2 / - / 67
- "Overjoyed" 24 / 8 / - / 17
- "Land of La La" 86 / 19 / - / -
- "Stranger on the Shore of Love" - / - / - / 55
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