Stevie Wonder - The Woman In Red (1984)

Stevie Wonder's career in the 1980s was a source of frustration to the fans he had earned in the '60s and '70s. In 1982, there were a few new songs on a greatest-hits album and a duet with Paul McCartney. Then came this soundtrack to a Gene Wilder comedy that was simultaneously more of a pop vocal album than most soundtracks and yet less than a full-fledged Wonder record. The gold-selling number one hit that resulted was the sappy "I Just Called to Say I Love You," a formulaic TV commercial-in-the-making. "Love Light in Flight" also hit, and the album featured Dionne Warwick on two duets and one solo. This was a pleasant record, but slight, and after four years, Wonder fans wanted more than that.
The Woman In Red Soundtrack is the second soundtrack album released by American musician Stevie Wonder on the Motown label. Also featuring Dionne Warwick, the LP was released in 1984 for the film of the same name. It featured Wonder's biggest hit, "I Just Called to Say I Love You", which hit #1 internationally and won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, and also featured the follow-up hit, "Love Light in Flight" (a US top 20 hit) and "Don't Drive Drunk", which the song and the accompanying music video used in the Ad Council and the US Department of Transportation's Drunk Driving Prevention public service announcement the following year.
The album reached number four on the US Billboard 200 chart, #1 on the R&B Albums chart (for four weeks) and #2 on the UK Albums Chart, where it was kept off the top spot by the albums Now That's What I Call Music 3 and David Bowie's Tonight. After Songs in the Key of Life and Hotter Than July, Wonder reached #2 in the UK charts failing to achieve a #1 album, a milestone that he never was able to achieve. However, "I Just Called to Say I Love You" was a massive hit in the UK, reaching #1, becoming the second best-selling single of 1984 (only behind Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?") and the third most successful single of the entire 1980s there. (With 1.775 million copies sold only in the UK, the single is actually the thirteenth most successful ever in Britain).

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- Источник оцифровки: автор новости (plastinka/nickhome)
- Класс состояния винила: NM
- Устройство воспроизведения: Электроника ЭП-017С
- Картридж: Audio-Technica AT440MLa
- Предварительный усилитель: Самодельный ламповый v2.00
- АЦП: ESI Julia
- Обработка: ручное удаление щелчков
- Формат записи (Bit/kHz): 32 float/96

foobar2000 1.2.2 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2013-06-26 16:26:01

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Analyzed: Stevie Wonder / The Woman In Red
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR15 -2.28 dB -19.20 dB 4:39 ?-The Woman In Red
DR16 -0.10 dB -18.51 dB 4:56 ?-It's You
DR12 -5.19 dB -21.26 dB 3:15 ?-It's More Than You (Instrumental)
DR14 -3.83 dB -19.81 dB 6:20 ?-I Just Called To Say I Love You
DR14 -3.52 dB -20.55 dB 6:55 ?-Love Light In Flight
DR14 -7.47 dB -24.31 dB 4:33 ?-Moments Aren't Moments
DR14 -6.01 dB -22.53 dB 4:13 ?-Weakness
DR17 -1.87 dB -20.33 dB 6:36 ?-Don't Drive Drunk
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Number of tracks: 8
Official DR value: DR15

Samplerate: 96000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 32
Bitrate: 3834 kbps
Codec: WavPack