Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius

Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius
Live album by Stevie Wonder
Released	May 1963 (1963-05)[1]
Recorded	June 1962 at Royal Theater, Chicago
Genre	Soul
Length	23:36
Label	Tamla
Producer	Berry Gordy[1]
Stevie Wonder chronology
Tribute to Uncle Ray (1962) Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius (1963) With a Song in My Heart (1963)
Singles from Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius
"Fingertips" Released: May 1963 (1963-05)[1]

Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius is the first live album by Stevie Wonder. The album was released on the Tamla record label (catalog #240) in May 1963, the same month as the single release of "Fingertips" (catalog #54080).^[1] "Fingertips" topped both the Billboard Hot 100 chart and the R&B Singles chart,^[2] and Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius topped the Billboard 200,^[3] all of which happened in 1963 (see 1963 in music).

Track listing

1. "Fingertips" (Henry Cosby, Clarence Paul) – 6:40
2. "Soul Bongo" (Marvin Gaye, Paul) – 3:01
3. "La La La La La" (Paul) – 2:34
4. "(I'm Afraid) The Masquerade Is Over" (Herbert Magidson, Allie Wrubel) – 5:13
5. "Hallelujah I Love Her So" (Ray Charles) – 2:48
6. "Drown in My Own Tears" (Henry Glover) – 3:23
7. "Don't You Know" (Charles, Berry Gordy) – 3:19

Chart positions

References

v · d · eStevie Wonder Studio albums The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie · Tribute to Uncle Ray · With a Song in My Heart · Stevie at the Beach · Up-Tight · Down to Earth · I Was Made to Love Her · Someday at Christmas · Eivets Rednow · For Once in My Life · My Cherie Amour · Signed, Sealed & Delivered · Where I'm Coming From · Music of My Mind · Talking Book · Innervisions · Fulfillingness' First Finale · Songs in the Key of Life · Hotter than July · In Square Circle · Characters · Conversation Peace · A Time to Love Live albums Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius · Stevie Wonder Live · Live at the Talk of the Town · Natural Wonder Soundtracks Stevie Wonder's Journey Through "The Secret Life of Plants" · The Woman in Red · Jungle Fever Compilations Looking Back · Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium I · Song Review: A Greatest Hits Collection · At the Close of a Century · Ballad Collection · The Definitive Collection · 20th Century Masters · The Complete Stevie Wonder Top ten singles "Fingertips - Part 2" · "Uptight (Everything's Alright)" · "Blowin' in the Wind" · "A Place in the Sun" · "I Was Made to Love Her" · "For Once in My Life" · "Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day" · "My Cherie Amour" · "Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday" · "Never Had a Dream Come True" · "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" · "Heaven Help Us All" · "If You Really Love Me" · "Superstition" · "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" · "Higher Ground" · "Living for the City" · "He's Misstra Know-It-All" · "You Haven't Done Nothin'" · "Boogie On Reggae Woman" · "I Wish" · "Sir Duke" · "Send One Your Love" · "Master Blaster (Jammin')" · "I Ain't Gonna Stand for It" · "Lately" · "Happy Birthday" · "That Girl" · "Do I Do" · "Ebony and Ivory" · "Ribbon in the Sky" · "I Just Called to Say I Love You" · "Part-Time Lover" · "That's What Friends Are For" · "Go Home" Collaborations "We Are the World" Related articles Discography · Lula Mae Hardaway · Syreeta Wright · KJLH · Motown · Soul music · Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Book · Category