.."To find a job, is like a haystack needle, cause where they live, they don't use colored people.."livin' just enough-favorite Stevie Wonder line inna song...

Heres a small list:

Beach Boys
Beatles
Dave Matthews
Earth,Wind and Fire
Elvis Costello
Genesis (w/Gabriel)
Incubus
Peter Gabriel
Pink Floyd
Radiohead
Simon and Garfunkel
Steely Dan
Stevie Wonder
Yes(original band)

Ok, I think I could be Raven's dad . . . here goes:

Desert Island Stuff (not in order):

Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick & A Passion Play and the rest
Peter Gabriel - everything
Beethoven's Symphonies
Phil Keaggy - Beyond Nature
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
King Crimson - everything
Mel Torme - anything
Cat Stevens - most all of it
The Who - Quadrophenia
Pink Floyd - Early years before DSOM
Van Morrison - Avalon Sunset
Beatles

saw em live, in 89'....Houston
The Bulgarian Women's Choir was locked behind the iron curtain until 1989. They were the official women's choir for state sponsored radio and television in Bulgaria before a French music scholar discovered them and before Stevie Wonder and Frank Zappa and Linda Rondstadt popularized them in America. The music is exotic and strange, haunting and ethereal.

This is Tony Bennett's American Classic featuring Stevie Wonder. Both have made this song famous in two separate genres. Here they bring it together magically.

I initially was going to post Wonder's version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PC4A6u0eE0 but somehow this had much more of an emotional connection that does the song justice.

Bennett's knock em dead performance in his prime can be seen as the second song in this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZMsqdD7FpM a variety show starring Dean Martin..

Damn, another *dead Stevie Wonder Sesame Street song...

That was smoking-hot.

As for greats being alive or dead, Stevie Wonder, of course, is quite alive.

A roughly recorded gem (the video flickers a bit at the start, but soon smoothes out). The Smiths, including Morrissey and his wobbly quiff, take a bus to Kew Gardens with a bunch of moppets in April 1984, where they meet up with Sandie Shaw.

On the way, the kids quiz the band members: "How did you get the name 'The Smiths'?" "What does 'celibate' mean?" "Would you please stop hitting me with that flower?"

(OK, only one of those questions is real.)

Found via the Metafilter thread on Stevie Wonder -- thanks, terrapin!

You forget, This is the same President who WAVED to Stevie Wonder!

lol