Sir Duke

me.

Well, I guess of this group, it's got to be Sir Duke.

Well, well, well.

You can feel it all over You can feel it all over

He's very tapped into jazz.

Herbie Hancock's on later, right? Um, and, you know, Sir Duke is obviously entirely about jazz, uh, and big band.

But on this song, right, when, when, when you're listening to it, it's concise.

I don't, like it's very tight, and it never really wanders too far into that like noodley fusion kind of stu- no. Nails.

That's the biggest reason we did this.

Like, Stevie had never taken that club out of the bag, is having that sound.

And Sir Duke, look, everybody's playing that same line on the hook of Sir Duke-

Mm-hmm

Oh, I have that album.

And Sir Duke played, and I remember just sitting down, being transfixed by this thing.

Because I was like, how can anyone make music this cool and why is not? Why are we all not talking about this? Like, you know, it's my first time hearing it.

And since then, I've just been obsessed with music.

There were a few hits there.

I Wish, Isn't She Lovely, Sir Duke.

And makes me begin to see.

As Songs in the Key of Life went to number one and stayed there for the rest of the year, from the middle of October all the way through to 1977.

And I still remember, because to me, the 70s is the best music era ever, and it will never be topped.

Because I think back from 1976, 1977, you had Hotel California, you had Stevie Wonder's Sir Duke, you had Fleetwood Mac literally owning music.

the charts, Elton John.

But then we come out, here's the song that really just kind of stood on its own, Margaritaville.

My dad was playing it in the living room when I was, like, two years old.

I was, like, a kid, and I remember the song Sir Duke.

I can remember the horns, sitting on that brown couch, and my dad smoking weed listening to Sir Duke.

She tells me that that's unlikely a real memory, that memories tend to form around five or six, and those are even still murky, but let's go with it.

Like, this is Zoe.

Yes, it was a masterpiece.

It was released 50 years ago with hits like As, like Isn't She Lovely, I Wish, Sir Duke, and on and on and on.

Yesterday, Stevie Wonder released four previously unreleased studio recordings on a surprise release, Songs in the Key of Life 50, the E.P., So here's a question for you, Steve.

Do you think that Songs in the Key of Life is one of the greatest albums of all time and why? Of all time.

OK, so we're finishing with the song.

Songs in the Key of Life was released on September the 28th, 1976, and Sir Duke was one of the great tracks of this extraordinary album.

He had so much choice to take from this album.

I particularly like this one.

It's joyful, it's full of energy, and it gives us exactly the sort of finish we liked for D15 today.

Here's Stevie Wonder and Sir Duke.

Take care, everybody.

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