The Twilite Tone on Stevie Wonder’s “Hotter Than July” (1980)

Episode notes

Producer and DJ The Twilite Tone sits down with Oliver and guest co-host Jocelyn Brown to discuss Stevie Wonder’s 1980 comeback album, Hotter Than July. We get into Stevie’s foray into country western and reggae, his return to All I Do, a song he cowrote over a decade prior as a teenager, and the impact Disco Demolition Night had on black music.

More on The Twilite Tone

• Do It Properly music video
• Twilite Tone @ Vinyl Factory
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More on Hotter Than July

• Master Blaster (Jammin’) Live in 1980
• KCRW’s piece on Stevie Wonder’s comeback in 1980
• The Making of ‘Hotter than July,’ The Album That Revived Stevie Wonder’s Career (Okayplayer)

Show Tracklisting (all songs from Hotter Than July unless otherwise indicated):

• Cash In Your Face
• Rocket Love
• The Twilite Tone: Do It Properly
• Stevie Wonder: Fingertips
• All I Do
• Do Like You
• As If You Read My Mind
• I Ain’t Gonna Stand For It
• Master Blaster (Jammin’)
• I Ain’t Gonna Stand For It
• Happy Birthday
• As If You Read My Mind
• Master Blaster (Jammin’)
• Tammi Terrell: All I Do Is Think About You
• All I Do
• Lately
• Rocket Love
• Do Like You
• Cash In Your Face
• Happy Birthday
• As If You Read My Mind
• Lately
• Syreeta: Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers
• Donny Hathaway & Roberta Flack: You Are My Heaven
•  Gary Byrd & The GB Experience: The Crown
• Logg: Lay It On The Line

Here is the Spotify playlist of as many songs as we can find on there

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