What are the top Stevie Wonder songs for weddings?
Stevie Wonder is an American (Michigan) musician in the soul/R&B music genre. When creating a list of the best love songs produced by Stevie, it was actually quite difficult.
The reason is that Stevie has had more than 30 top ten hits on the Billboard Hot 100.
Stevie Wonder Highest-Charting Billboard Hits
- #1 Fingertips – Part 1, 1963
- #1 Superstition, 1972
- #1 You Are the Sunshine of My Life, 1973
- #1 You Haven’t Done Nothin’, 1974
- #1 I Wish, 1976
- #1 Sir Duke, 1977
- #1 I Just Called to Say I Love You, 1984
- #1 Part-Time Lover, 1985
- #1 That’s What Friends Are For, 1985
- #2 I Was Made to Love Her, 1967
- #2 For Once in My Life, 1968
- #3 Uptight (Everything’s Alright), 1965
- #3 Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours, 1970
- #3 Boogie On Reggae Woman, 1974
- #4 My Cherie Amour, 1969
- #4 Higher Ground, 1973
- #4 Send One Your Love, 1979
- #4 That Girl, 1982
- #5 Master Blaster (Jammin’), 1980
Stevie Wonder Love Songs List
#1 Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours
Released in 1970 on the album Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours
This is one of the best wedding songs of all time as it is commonly played as a recessional song and as a song as the marriage license is signed.
“Here I am baby, Oh, you’ve got the future in your hand, signed, sealed delivered, I’m yours”
#2 For Once in My Life
Released in 1968 on the album For Once in My Life
“For once I can touch what my heart used to dream of, long before I knew, someone warm like you, would make my dreams come true”
#3 You Are the Sunshine of My Life
Release in 1973 on album Talking Book
“You are the sunshine of my life, That’s why I’ll always stay around, You are the apple of my eye, Forever you’ll stay in my heart”
#4 As
Released in 1977 on the album Songs in the Key of Life
“Just as kindness knows no shame, Know through all your joy and pain, That I’ll be loving you always”
#5 I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever)
Released in 1972 on the album Talking Book
“And the words of love I speak to you, will echo in your mind, I believe when I fall in love with you it will be forever”
#6 You and I (We Can Conquer the World)
Released in 1972 on the album Talking Book
“I only pray that I have shown you a brighter day, Because that’s all that I am living for, you see”
#7 Isn’t She Lovely
Released in 1976 on the album Songs In the Key of Life
This is a popular song to play as the bride walks down the aisle or as a father and daughter dance during the reception.
“I can’t believe what God has done, Through us he’s given life to one, But isn’t she lovely made from love”
#8 I Just Called to Say I Love You
Released in 1984 on the Soundtrack The Woman in Red
“I just called to say I love you, And I mean it from the bottom of my heart”
#9 Overjoyed
Released in 1985 on the album In Square Circle
“And though you don’t believe that they do, They do come true, For did my dreams, Come true when I looked at you”
#10 I Was Made To Love Her
Released in 1967 on the album I Was Made to Love Her
“All through thick and thin, Our love just won’t end, ‘Cause I love my baby”
About Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder’s accolades include being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall Of Fame. Stevie has won the Lifetime Achievement Award along with 25 Grammy Awards. Stevie is one of the most successful musicians in the last three decades of the 1900s.
Not only has Stevie had success selling albums, but he has also topped the charts. Stevie has had 10 number-one hits on the Billboard Hot 100 and 20 number-ones on the R&B Billboard Chart. With so many hits, let’s narrow them all down to 10 love songs best for weddings.
Even though Stevie Wonder has been blind since just after birth, he has been one of the greatest Motown artists of all time.
Stevie has amassed more than thirty top ten hits and twenty Grammy Awards – the most by a male solo artist, and also a Lifetime Achievement Award. Of the thirty hits, ten reached number on the Billboard Hot 100. Wonder has also been elected into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
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