I Wish/Isn't She Lovely - Stevie Wonder

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9gXgiHSskk]

The horn riff at the end of "I Wish" (which is at about the 1:41 mark of the video above) is one of my favorites. It's the song I really went looking to put in this post...not that I don't like "Isn't She Lovely", too, but it's really just an added bonus. I dig the stops they add into the horn riff for the live performance. This band is tight. My absolute favorite part of this performance is the bass player. He's really digging this, and he makes it look so easy. He's barely putting forth any effort at all it would seem.

"I Wish" was written by Wonder about his childhood in the fifties and sixies. It went all the way to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Stevie played the keyboard parts (obviously) in the original recording of the song and the drum parts. Check out the video directly below.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm8IFLdnBUg]

You may also recognize this groove from another musical place: Will Smith's "Wild, Wild West". It was not well received by critics and fans, but those same fans managed to make it #1 on the charts before realizing people would make fun of them for admitting they liked the tune. Smith's song is also layered with Kool Mo Dee's song of the same name.  Here's the video for Smith's tune. You can definitely hear Stevie's influence in thee, and maybe that's why Smith's song was so popular. 

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t_UuTCbCZU]