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

8th April 2021

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.

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

More on Hotter Than July

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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Jocelyn Michelle Brown

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  • The Twilite Tone

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