The first live #1 of the Hot 100 era and Motown’s second #1 hit on the pop charts was from “Little” Stevie Wonder in August of 1963. It was the second part of the song, recorded on a package tour a year earlier in Chicago when Stevie was just 12. There was confusion as Wonder did an encore after being, ummmm, “encouraged” to leave the stage. The band for the Motortown Revue was caught in a changeover for the next act (either Mary Wells or the Marvelettes - it gets hazy) and one of the new guys can be heard asking, “What key?” Marvin Gaye was the drummer.
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