♫ Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours ♫

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I had every intention of playing this one last night after it had been mentioned in comments the previous day, but as they say, the best laid plans of mice and men … oh wait, I am neither mouse nor man!  At any rate, tonight I find myself in need of another ‘Stevie fix’, so here’s one I haven’t yet played here on ye olde blog!

Wonder wrote this with Motown songwriters Lee Garrett and Syreeta Wright, along with his mother Lula Mae Hardaway. Garrett and Wright also worked with Wonder on the Spinners song It’s A Shame, and Wonder was briefly married to Wright. Like Stevie Wonder, Lee Garrett is also blind, and they first met at the Michigan School for the Blind.

The song was arranged by Paul Riser and featured a distinctive “sitar-guitar” in the introduction.

Peter Frampton took this song to #18 with his 1977 version. Other artists to cover this song include Elton John, Chaka Khan, Michael McDonald, Jermaine Jackson, The String Cheese Incident, and the California Raisins. Syreeta Wright, who co-wrote the song, recorded it using her stage name Syreeta.  The “String Cheese Incident”?????  Are you serious?

Stevie’s version hit #3 in the U.S., #15 in the UK, and #19 in Canada.  Released in 1970 when Wonder was but 20 years old, this gave him his sixth Grammy nomination!

Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours
Stevie Wonder

Oh yeah, baby

Like a fool, I went and stayed too long
Now, I’m wondering if your love’s still strong
Ooh baby, here I am
Signed, sealed, delivered, I’m yours

Then that time I went and said goodbye
Now, I’m back and not ashamed to cry
Ooh baby, here I am
Signed, sealed, delivered, I’m yours

Here I am, baby
You got my future in your hands
Here I am, baby
You got my future in your hands
I’ve done a lot of foolish things
That I really didn’t mean, yeah, yeah, didn’t I?

Oh baby, seen a lot of things in this old world
When I touch them, they mean nothing, girl
Ooh baby, here I am
Signed, sealed, delivered, I’m yours, I’m yours

Oowee baby, you set my soul on fire
That’s why I know you’re my heart’s only desire
Ooo baby, here I am
Signed, sealed, delivered, I’m yours

Here I am, baby
You got my future in your hands, baby
Here I am, baby
You got my future in your hands, baby

Yeah, I’ve done a lot of foolish things
That I really didn’t mean
I could be a broken man
But here I am
Watch out with my future babe

Here I am, baby
Here I am, baby, get it
Signed, sealed, delivered, I’m yours
Ooh baby
Here I am, baby

Signed, sealed, delivered, I’m yours
Here I am, baby
Signed, sealed, delivered, I’m yours

Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Garrett Lee / Wonder Stevie / Wright Syreeta / Hardaway Lula Mae
Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours lyrics © Black Bull Music, Stone Agate Music, Sawandi Music, Black-bull-music, Inc., Jobete Music Co., Inc.

22 thoughts on “♫ Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours ♫”

    • Yep, he’s changed it twice this week. There’s a story behind it. Several years ago after he had been following my blog for quite some time, he commented on one of my music posts that a song I played had stuck in his head and he’d been singing it. Well, me being somewhat of a snarky person, I said that I hoped he had bought his wife (the one who was shown in his profile pic) a good set of earplugs. His response made me wish the earth would open up and swallow me, when he said, “Do you think it was my singing that killed her, then?” I had no idea, but his wife had died a few years before that. You can imagine how horrible I felt. We were talking about that conversation just the other night, and he mentioned that he’d been meaning to change his profile pic for a while now.

      Glad you liked this song and aren’t sick of me playing Stevie just yet!

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