"Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" | ||||
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Single by Stevie Wonder | ||||
from the album Signed, Sealed & Delivered | ||||
B-side | "I'm More Than Happy (I'm Satisfied)" | |||
Released | June 3, 1970 | |||
Format | Vinyl record (7" 45 RPM) | |||
Recorded | 1970 | |||
Genre | Soul | |||
Length | 2:45 | |||
Label | Tamla 54196 | |||
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Producer(s) | Stevie Wonder | |||
Stevie Wonder singles chronology | ||||
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Single by Peter Frampton | ||||
from the album I'm in You | ||||
B-side | "Rocky's Hot Club" | |||
Released | August 1977 | |||
Format | 7" | |||
Genre | Pop | |||
Label | A&M | |||
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Peter Frampton singles chronology | ||||
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Single by Blue featuring Stevie Wonder and Angie Stone | ||||
from the album Guilty | ||||
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Released | December 15, 2003 | |||
Format | CD single | |||
Recorded | 2002 | |||
Genre | ||||
Length | 3:33 | |||
Label | Innocent | |||
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Producer(s) | Stevie Wonder | |||
Blue singles chronology | ||||
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Single by Ronan Keating | |
from the album Postman Pat: The Movie | |
Released | 2014 |
Recorded | 2014 |
Label | Polydor |
Writer(s) | Ronan Keating |
Producer(s) | Ronan Keating |
"Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" is a soul single by Stevie Wonder, recorded for Motown's Tamla label. Released in June 1970, the song spent six weeks at number one on the U.S. R&B chart and peaked at number three on the U.S. Pop chart. In the same year, the song was also released on the album Signed, Sealed & Delivered.
The song was arranged by Paul Riser and featured a distinctive "sitar-guitar" in the introduction.
The song was a series of firsts for the 20-year-old Wonder: "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" was the first single Wonder produced on his own, and was also the first to feature his female backup singing group composed of Lynda Tucker Laurence (who went on to become a member of The Supremes), Syreeta Wright (who also co-wrote the song), and Venetta Fields.
During a 2008 appearance on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, Wonder credited the song title and chorus "signed, sealed, delivered, I'm yours" to his mother Lula, who exclaimed the words after listening to her son experiment with the melody. This song also marked Wonder's first Grammy nomination. The award went to Ronald Dunbar and General Johnson for writing the Clarence Carter song "Patches".
In 2009 Stevie Wonder was welcomed by President Barack Obama to receive the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song by the Library of Congress.
In 1977, Peter Frampton recorded the song on his album I'm in You. His version also contains instrumental elements from Wonder's hit "For Once in My Life". Mick Jagger is featured on backing vocals. Frampton's version was released as a single, reaching number 18 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 13 on the Cashbox Top 100. His cover also reached number 13 in Canada.