Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You)
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| “Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You)” | |||||
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| Single by Stevie Wonder from the album Music of My Mind |
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| B-side | "I Love Every Little Thing About You" | ||||
| Released | 1972 | ||||
| Format | 7" single | ||||
| Recorded | 1972 | ||||
| Genre | R&B | ||||
| Length | 8:04 | ||||
| Label | Tamla | ||||
| Writer(s) | Stevie Wonder | ||||
| Producer | Stevie Wonder | ||||
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"Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You)" is a 1972 soul track by Stevie Wonder. Released as a single, it was the second track on Wonder's Music of My Mind album. In essence a two-part song, there is a coherence in that it tells a story of the singer's relationship with "Mary". The first part covers her desire to be a star, and to leave behind her old life to become a movie star. The second part covers the narrator's wondering why she hadn't come back as soon as he had hoped.
The song, both in its sound and length, was a change of pace for Wonder, who was trying to establish his own identity outside of the Motown sound. Besides its floaty ambience, it featured the singer as a virtual one-man band, outside of a single guitar part played by Howard "Buzz" Feiten. [1]
The song reached a peak of #33 on the Billboard Pop charts.
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