May 21, 1963: Little Stevie Wonder at The Motortown Revue...

May 21, 1963:  

At The Motortown Revue in Detroit, 12 year old Little Stevie Wonder recorded a song that would be his first number 1 hit... 

"Fingertips Pt. 2”…



 (NOTE: This was the Apollo Theater version of the Motortown Revue. The original recording was done at the Detroit show)

Exactly 14 years later on May 21, 1977:

Stevie Wonder scored his sixth #1 record on the Billboard Pop chart (#2 in UK) with a song written as a tribute to Jazz legend, Duke Ellington:

 "Sir Duke”…



And, twenty years or so later, with the help of a ‘magic’ mic, Stevie brings that first #1 hit back to life on David Letterman:



Stevie Wonder, You Rock!

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WILLIE NELSON: NO PLEA BARGAIN

July 5, 2011
A judge in Texas has rejected a plea agreement from Willie Nelson because she feels that the country star was let off easy for a pot possession charge because he is famous. Earlier this month, Nelson agreed to pay a $500 fine, along with a court cost charge of $280.



Judge Becky Dean-Walter of Hudspeth County, Texas claims that Kit Bramblett, the prosecutor in the case, was overly deferential to the country star. "He’s supposed to file the charge he feels is appropriate," Judge Dean-Walker said of Bramblett in an interview with the New York Times. "Not what he feels he should do for his favorite singer. It is up to the judge to agree or not." Judge Dean-Walker says that she previously shot down Bramblett's request to have Nelson's charge reduced to a Class C misdemeanor.


Nelson was busted for marijuana possession in Hudspeth County in November when a Border Patrol officer smelled pot smoke inside his tour bus at a checkpoint on Interstate 10.