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The Everybody Say YEAH! Edition

Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia

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Yester Me, Yester You, Yesterday

My Sherry Amour was Stevie Wonder's biggest hit to date on Billboard's R&B chart, spending half the summer of 1970 at number one. It opened with a sitar, now a staple in rock thanks to the Beatles, but relatively new in the world of R&B. Within weeks of its chart peak, a second song that Wonder wrote for another act, virtually simultaneously, made its own run up the chart.

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