"Gotta Have You" | ||||
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Single by Stevie Wonder | ||||
from the album Jungle Fever (soundtrack) | ||||
B-side | "Feeding Off the Love of the Land" | |||
Released | 1991 | |||
Format | EP | |||
Recorded | 1990 | |||
Genre | Contemporary R&B | |||
Length | 6:26 | |||
Label | Motown | |||
Writer(s) | Stevie Wonder | |||
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"Gotta Have You" is a 1991 song by American rhythm and blues singer Stevie Wonder. The song was the first release from the 1991 soundtrack to the film Jungle Fever. Wonder wrote the song, and co-produced it with Nathan Watts.The song peaked at No. 3 in the Hot R&B/ Hip Hop chart, making it one of Wonder's very few Top 10s of the 90s.
James E. Perone wrote in The Sound of Stevie Wonder: His Words and Music that "it anticipates the regularly 6-minutes-plus songs of his next album, Conversation Peace" and that it "is not one of Wonder's best-remembered compositions and recordings, but it does feature a fine funky, blues-infused lead vocal melody in the verses".
In a review of the album, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic wrote that "While the keyboard funk of 'Chemical Love,' 'Gotta Have You,' and 'Queen in the Black' doesn't sound new, it does sound alive, which is better than Wonder has sounded in years." A review in Musician was less favorable, calling it "generic, repetitive 70s-style funk".
Per Discogs.