Stevie Wonder, Knocks Me Off My Feet | Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶

In the 63^rd edition of Throwback Vibez (2024), we recollect and reflect on “Knocks Me Off My Feet” by Stevie Wonder.

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Songs in the Key of Life is one of the best albums of all time. It is the crown jewel of the Stevie Wonder discography.  Two number-one hits graced the 1976 LP: “I Wish” and “Sir Duke”.  Even with those giant singles being tough to beat, the non-singles are epic too.  Among the best songs that’s not a single is “Knocks Me Off My Feet” which appears as the seventh track on the first disc of the Songs.  Matters of the heart – L-O-V-E, love – drive the smooth, soulful ballad.

“But there’s somethin’ ‘bout your love / That makes me weak and / knocks me off my feet,” Wonder sings at the end of the verses.  In the chorus, he asserts, “I don’t want to bore you with it / Oh, but I love you, I love you, I love you.” His dedication is lit to the nth degree.  The visions of love are gorgeous, whether it’s “I see us in the park / Strolling the summer days of imaginings in my head,” or, “We lay beneath the stars / Under a lovers’ tree seen through the eyes of my mind.” Ultimately, “Knocks Me Off My Feet” is a sweet, magnificently written, produced, and performed by one of music’s legends.  Approaching 50 years later, “Knocks Me Off My Feet” reminds us that love is a remarkable, beautiful thing. Many artists have covered “Knocks Me Off My Feet” including Donnell Jones, Luther Vandross, and Teddy Swims.

Stevie Wonder // Songs in the Key of Life // Motown // 1976

Stevie Wonder, Knocks Me Off My Feet: Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 No. 63 (2024) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; Motown; OpenClipart-Vectors, Speedy McVroom via  Pixabay]