With a Song in My Heart (Stevie Wonder album) explained

With a Song In My Heart
Type:	studio
Artist:	Stevie Wonder
Cover:	withasonginmyheart.jpg
Released:	December 28, 1963
Recorded:	1963
Studio:	Hitsville U.S.A., Detroit, Michigan (vocals) Los Angeles (instrumentation)
Genre:	Soul, jazz
Length:	32:41
Label:	Tamla
Producer:	Clarence Paul, William "Mickey" Stevenson
Prev Year:	1963
Next Title:	Stevie at the Beach
Next Year:	1964

With a Song In My Heart is the third studio album by Stevie Wonder, released in 1963 on the Tamla (Motown) label. The album was the first to drop Wonder's "Little" nickname, as the 13-year-old singer went the same route of his label mate Marvin Gaye and covered a set of standards. Like Gaye and other Motown acts, label president Berry Gordy wanted all of his artists to be established on a crossover basis. The album did not immediately spell success for Wonder on the adult contemporary set. Veteran jazz arranger Ernie Wilkins arranged and conducted the album.

Track listing

Side one

1. "With a Song in My Heart" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 3:11
2. "When You Wish Upon a Star" (Ned Washington, Leigh Harline) – 2:59
3. "Smile" (Charlie Chaplin, Geoffrey Parsons, John Turner) – 3:20
4. "Make Someone Happy" (Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Jule Styne) – 5:04
5. "Dream" (Johnny Mercer) – 2:50

Side two

1. "Put on a Happy Face" (Charles Strouse, Lee Adams) – 2:37
2. "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 3:58
3. "Get Happy" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 2:12
4. "Give Your Heart a Chance" (Ron Miller, Orlando Murden, Kenneth O'Neil) – 2:16
5. "Without a Song" (Edward Eliscu, Billy Rose, Vincent Youmans) – 4:14

Personnel

• Stevie Wonder - vocals, harmonica on "On the Sunny Side of the Street"
• Ernie Wilkins - arranger, conductor
• Various Los Angeles session musicians - instrumentation