Single:
Uptight entered the Australian singles chart* on 19 March 1966 and peaked at #91.
Album:
The song is on Stevie’s 1966 album Up-Tight.
Songwriters:
Stevie Wonder, Sylvia Moy, Henry Cosby
Producers:
Mickey Stevenson, Henry Cosby
Record label of Australian release:
Tamla Motown
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
On Top of the Pops, BBC, 1966. This video is from a later replay on a Top of the Pops special:
Songfacts:
Stevie Wonder was clearly a genius, and proved it in 1963 with his #1 hit Fingertips (Part 2), which was taken from an impromptu live recording.
Stevie started working with Motown producers Sylvia Moy and Henry Cosby. Moy had Stevie play her different song ideas, one of them being a ditty where he sang “everything is alright, uptight”. Moy liked what she heard and helped him develop the song, along with Cosby.
At just 15 years old, Uptight was Stevie’s first US Top 10 since his days as ‘Little Stevie Wonder’. It was his second hit in Australia (after Fingertips) and his first UK hit.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/stevie-wonder/uptight-everythings-alright
Lyrics:
Baby, everything is alright
Uptight, out of sight
Baby, everything is alright
Uptight, out of sight
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