In Square Circle

In Square Circle
Studio album by Stevie Wonder
Released	September 13, 1985
Recorded	Wonderland Studios, Los Angeles, California
Genre	Soul
Length	49:24
Label	Tamla/Motown Records
Producer	Stevie Wonder
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Stevie Wonder chronology
The Woman in Red (1984) In Square Circle (1985) Characters (1987)

"In Square Circle" is a 1985 album released by Grammy Award-winning American R&B/soul singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder (his twentieth overall). The album features the hits "Part-Time Lover", "Go Home" and "Overjoyed" (which was left off Wonder's 1979 album Journey through the Secret Life of Plants and re-recorded for this album).

"Go Home" was performed during the Grammy awards ceremony in 1985, in the famous synthesizer jam with Thomas Dolby, Herbie Hancock and Howard Jones.^[1]

Track listing

All songs written by Stevie Wonder

1. "Part-Time Lover" – 4:12
2. "I Love You Too Much" – 5:27
3. "Whereabouts" – 4:17
4. "Stranger on the Shore of Love" – 5:00
5. "Never in Your Sun" – 4:06
6. "Spiritual Walkers" – 5:13
7. "Land of La La" – 5:12
8. "Go Home" – 5:18
9. "Overjoyed" – 3:42
10. "It's Wrong (Apartheid)" – 6:52

Musicians

• Stevie Wonder - Drums, synthesizers, piano, electric piano, harpsichord, accordion, percussion, harmonica, Yamaha CS80, vocoder, cora, environmental percussion (crickets, bird sounds, ocean, pebbles in pond, stone dropped, crushing leaves), lead & background vocals
• Edwin Birdsong - Yamaha CS80
• Larry Gittens - Trumpet
• Bob Malach - Saxophone
• Earl Klugh - Guitar
• Ben Bridges - Guitar
• Rick Zunigar - Guitar
• Luther Vandross - Lead & background vocals
• Syreeta Wright - Background vocals
• Philip Bailey - Background vocals
• Vincent Unto - Background vocals
• Keith John - Background vocals
• Melody McCully, Billy Durham, Peter Byrne, Renee Hardaway, Darryl Phinnessee, Deniece Williams, Howard Smith, Janice Moore, Chela Akins, Carolyn Garrett, Valencia Cox, Ruthell Holmes, Ray Gibbs, Musa Dludla, Thandeka Ngono-Raasch, Linda Bottoman-Tshabalala, Muntu Myuyana, Lorraine Mahlangu-Richards, Fana Kekana, Tsepo Mokone - Background vocals
• Paul Riser - String arrangement
• Bob Bralove, Brad Buxer - programming
• Gary Olazabal - Programming, Engineer

Charting singles

US Pop US R&B US Dance UK

• 1985 "Part-Time Lover" In Square Circle 1 1 1 3
• 1985 "Go Home" In Square Circle 10 2 67
• 1986 "Overjoyed" In Square Circle 24 8 17
• 1986 "Land of La La" In Square Circle 86 19 n/a
• 1986 "Stranger on the Shore of Love" In Square Circle 55

References