Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing

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"Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing"
Single by Stevie Wonder
from the album Innervisions
B-side "Blame It on the Sun"
Released March 5, 1974
Genre Latin soul
Length 4:44 (album version)
3:40 (single edit)
Label Tamla
Writer(s) Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder singles chronology
"Living for the City"
(1973)
"Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing"
(1974)
"He's Misstra Know-It-All"
(1974)
Innervisions track listing
Side One
  1. "Too High"
  2. "Visions"
  3. "Living for the City"
  4. "Golden Lady"
Side Two
  1. "Higher Ground"
  2. "Jesus Children of America"
  3. "All in Love Is Fair"
  4. "Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing"
  5. "He's Misstra Know-It-All"

"Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing" is a single by Stevie Wonder, taken from his 1973 album Innervisions. It reached number 16 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart, number 10 on the Cash Box chart,[1] and number 2 on the R&B chart. The song's lyrics convey a positive message, focusing on taking things in one's stride and accentuating the positive.

The tune is in E minor, starting with a Latin piano intro. The opening melody is reminiscent of Horace Silver's Song For My Father. The song's second chorus begins with Stevie taking the vocals up an octave with two vocal overdubs singing the same line. He also sings two other background overdub vocals, mimicking a horn line with the Spanish phrase "Todo 'stá bien chévere", which, loosely translated, means "Everything's really great."

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (1974) Peak
position
Canada RPM 13
Netherlands 19
US Billboard Hot 100 16
US Billboard R&B 2
US Cash Box Top 100[2] 10

Year-end charts

Chart (1974) Rank
Canada 134
US Billboard Hot 100[3] 88

Covers

Soundtrack appearances

References

  1. "Top 100 Hits of 1974/Top 100 Songs of 1974". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 2016-10-09.
  2. "Hank Crawford: Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing". Allaboutjazz.com. Retrieved November 21, 2015.
  3. "My American Songbook, Vol. 1 overview". Allmusic.com.
  4. "Nelson Rangell - My American Songbook (Vol. 1)". SmoothViews.com.
  5. "How Youtube Jazz Sensation Jacob Collier Creates Music". Freejazzlessons.com. Retrieved November 21, 2015.
  6. Sankin, Aaron. "British YouTube phenom Jacob Collier's Stevie Wonder cover is perfect". Dailydot.com. Retrieved November 21, 2015.
  7. "Jacob Collier Band - Late Late Show Special! - Ronnie Scott's". Ronniescotts.co.uk. Retrieved November 21, 2015.

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