Posted on June 23, 2009 - by Mark Zonda

Beachcombers from the old Motown House beneath the sea

“When I talk with old friends the conversation turns to girls we knew when their hair was soft and long and the beach was the place to go…” ~Beach Boys

Just watch outside this window (mine, not yours) and having a look to this dark blu sky you wouldn’t dare to say it, but hey, just thinking for one moment that we are not on a terrific realistic fake copy of Lost Island getting nothing but random days from all the seasons of the year puzzled together and spinned round’n’round like in a roulet, her we go: it’s summer! Ess You Double Emm Eeeh Ar! I just have to close my eyes, let myself go to the close recall of sunburst of a week ago, just adding some eycandy effects and  a couple of vintage gadgets… and BINGO! It’s the magical moment of the year, quite like living a movie when anything is possible and we’re running under the sun of an everlasting time of hormons, colours, adventures. What’s the score of that movie? I’ve got a precise idea on my mind. I think I’d spin on “Stevie At The Beach” till the sun won’t come out again. And that I will play it twice once is there!

Fifth release for Motown by the once young soul genius Stevie Wonder (Little Stevie, for fun and friends) the Tamla album from 1964 it’s an unbeatable collection of sunny classic fashinating golden hits, each song an hot nugged! Little Stevie trying to surf. “The Bachcomber” could be the opening music for the best movie ever shot in California, while we could gather all our “NOFX” and “Depeche Mode” and send them on a desert island where they could feel ashamed for all their fucking sinths crying in front of the richness brought by the arrangements of “Sad Boy”.  And I didn’t even dared to mention anything on the miracle and versatile voice of our great little singer.

Shame on anyone who judged this work “embarrassing” at the time, trying to make Old Little Stevie a New Ray Charles. Maybe it’s only the lack of heart of nowadays artist that makes me regret those summer days, now long fare gone… “God Only Knows”.

Stevie Wonder – “Beyond the Sea”

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