Stevie Wonder Unvaults Four Songs in the Key of Life Tracks — SkimNews
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- Stevie Wonder released "Songs in the Key of Life: The EP" featuring four previously unvaulted tracks—"It's Easier," "My Life Story of Love," "I Can See the Sun in Late December," and "I'm Into Livin'"—personally chosen from the original 90-minute album's session outtakes to mark its 50th anniversary.
- Susaye Greene, a former member of the Supremes, co-wrote "My Life Story of Love"; Wonder wrote and produced all four tracks.
- Original album engineers John Fischbach and Gary O Adante returned to mix the newly released material 50 years after the original sessions.
- Wonder called the unreleased songs part of what he was "feeling and discovering" during the original sessions, adding that they now "get to become part of yours."
- Wonder will launch an anniversary tour of the original album next month.
Why it matters: Four Wonder-written tracks held back from the original 90-minute album finally surface, with the album's original engineers brought back to mix them. The EP anchors a 50th-anniversary push that doubles as a launchpad for a commemorative tour beginning next month.
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