Re: [Harp-L] In Praise Of Stevie

["Bob Laughlin" <rlaughlin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here's a youtube clip of "Little" Stevie Wonder playing "Alfie" on
chromatic. It starts around 1:20 into the clip. He gets cut off toward the
end, but you get the idea.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Oh5t1gIF16k

BL
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger A Gonzales" <gonz1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 7:04 AM
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] In Praise Of Stevie


> I don't remember the show but I remember see Stevie play Alfie accompanied
by the man who
> wrote it.  Burt
> Bacharach and Stevie were both guests on this particular variety show,
perhaps it might have
> been a Bacharach
> special, I don't exactly remember.  I do remember the look on Bacharach's
face while
> watching Stevie play his
> remarkable rendition of Alfie.
>
> Bacharach looked at Stevie with amazement almost with tears in his eyes.
After the song was
> over, the camera
> slowly pulled away from the close-up and the screen went to black with
Bacharach hugging
> Stevie to
> thunderous applause.  From that day on I never forgot the song.  This was
LONG before I
> became a harmonica
> player but loved the sound it makes...still do.  I was used to hearing
Stevie play what he
> played, his own songs.
> But when he played this, who else could do THAT?  uh no one.
>
> regards
> Roger Gonzales
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: chris smith <harpshredder@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 10:05 pm
> Subject: [Harp-L] In Praise Of Stevie
> To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> >    I just happened to look over an old thread and
> > felt compelled to share what a very well-established
> > composer told me when I asked him if he'd ever heard
> > Stevie (Wonder)'s version of "Alfie". He said,  "I saw
> > him do it at the Hollywood Bowl and it was like
> > watching Jascha Heifetz." That pretty much took my
> > breath away. I totally got the immensity of that
> > compliment : a consummate virtuoso who plays
> > effortlessly with tremendous feeling sprinkling
> > surprises in with great power.
> >    We may never get there but it's a beautiful light
> > at the end of that tunnel.
> >
> >                      Chris "Hammer" Smith
> >
> >
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