Hotter Than July

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This is a pivotal album, historically speaking, for a number of reasons

• Hotter Than July available on August 17 2022 from Indigo for 13.02
  
• Stevie Wonder - Hotter Than July (Music CD) available on August 19 2017 from Base for 5.99
  
• UPC bar code 601215736328 ξ2 registered August 17 2022
  
• UPC bar code 601215736328 ξ1 registered April 28 2015
  
• UPC bar code 601215736328 ξ3 registered August 19 2017
  
• Product category is MUSIC CD - CD - Pop Audio Music

• Sku # 60121573632
  

It was Stevie Wonder's first album of a new decade - Hotter Than July came out in 1980 - and it was an album that encapsulated the movement in America to mark slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King's birthday as a national holiday. Happy Birthday became the anthem for the immense creative and political effort the singer put into the cause. The song also closes out an album of excellent material from a guy who had one hell of a decade creatively in the '70s. The album, which bridges the two decades version of funk-soul perfectly, gave up a lot of strong tracks, including the horn-driven reggae and conscious vibe of Master Blaster (Jammin'). Though many may hold up albums like Talking Book or Songs in the Key of Life as classics, this was a focused, even historic recording.

^ Hotter Than July [Remaster] by Stevie Wonder (CD, May-2000, Motown) UPC 601215736328 (revised Apr 2018)
^ Hotter Than July Indigo. UPC 601215736328 (revised Aug 2022)
^ Stevie Wonder - Hotter Than July (Music CD) Base. UPC 601215736328 (revised Aug 2017)