I had a double CD of Stevie Wonder’s greatest hits but I think I lost it someplace. Maybe I’ll replace it because it was mind-blowing. The title of this CD was Stevie Wonder’s Musiquarium and it had pictures of fish on the cover.
When Michael was a teenager we listened to music together, especially while I was driving him from place to place. His mind was like a sponge, it took in everything. Michael liked the merging of the words “music” and “aquarium.” He thought it was clever and appealing. This CD had “I Was Made To Love Her”, “For Once In My Life”, “Front Lines”, “Signed, Sealed, and Delivered”, and Michael’s and my favorite–“Higher Ground” from the album “Innervisions.”
This song gave us something to think about. Michael pointed out that the song wasn’t about love and relationships between men and women. It was Stevie Wonder’s instruction to all people, not just his own race–dreamers, don’t stop dreaming.
Speaking of music and cars and driving, when Michael was a baby, we would drive along the Pennsylvania Turnpike to Pittsburgh. We would leave at 6 PM when Michael would usually fall asleep in his car seat, making the trip a kind of nicely surreal travel experience. On these trips we listened to Gordon Lightfoot’s “Gord’s Gold.” Peter liked folk-type music so we eventually learned all the words to all the songs and sang as we crossed the state. Michael was always a great traveler. He never got restless, just sat there if he wasn’t asleep, and watched Pennsylvania flying by.
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