9. Blue And Stevie Wonder...Not Singing A Classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evBbLxRWTe4 Signed, Sealed Delivered I'm Yours is a bonafide classics, one of the best songs to come out of the legendary Motown - which is saying something - and the single that propelled a young Stevie Wonder to superstardom. You know what would make it better though? If a milquetoast 90s boy band sung it! And relegate Stevie to backing vocals! Yeah! In case you're not familiar with Blue, they recently represented the United Kingdom in Eurovision. And they came 11th. And one of their biggest songs is called All Rise, which uses legal terminology as a double-entendre (we think) and achieved its comedy zenith when Lee Ryan ended up at a court's mercy himself. So, basically, they are no Stevie Wonder. Or group of Stevie Wonders. And yet, the original deemed Blue's MOR cover to be worthy of his vocals - something that even Janet Jackson, who had been asked to perform on the single, didn't want to bother with.
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