Gotta Have You (Stevie Wonder song)

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"Gotta Have You"
Motown
Songwriter(s)Stevie Wonder
Producer(s)
  • Stevie Wonder
  • Nathan Watts
Stevie Wonder singles chronology
"Keep Our Love Alive"
(1990) 		"Gotta Have You"
(1991) 		"Fun Day"
(1991)

"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. It 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.

Content and reception

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".[2]

In a review of the album,

NME commented, "An excerpt [...] which finds him moving into a well rehearsed, but ultimately funkier groove than of late. I gave up paying attention to Stevie Wonder soon after he chose to share his piano stool with Paul McCartney, but "Gotta Have You" is a return to Talking Book form...Well, almost."[5]

B-side

The B-side, Feeding off the Love of the Land which featured in the films end credits was written during the

Fulfillingness First Finale
sessions but was shelved. It was updated with strings before its release.

Track listing

Per Discogs.[1]

  1. "Gotta Have You" (Radio Edit) - 4:30
  2. "Gotta Have You" (Album Version) - 6:26
  3. "Gotta Have You" (Instrumental) - 4:48
  4. "Feeding Off the Love of the Land" - 5:55

Chart performance

Chart (1991) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[6] 164
US Billboard Hot 100[7] 92
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[8] 3

References

  1. ^ a b "Gotta Have You track listing". Discogs. 1991. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
  2. ISBN 978-0-275-98723-7
    .
  3. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Jungle Fever – Stevie Wonder". AllMusic.
  4. ^ "Jungle Fever". Musician (153–158): 94. 1991.
  5. NME
    . p. 22. Retrieved April 29, 2023.
  6. ^ "Bubbling Down Under Week Commencing July 8, 1991". Retrieved July 9, 2022.
  7. ^ "Stevie Wonder Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
  8. ^ "Stevie Wonder Chart History (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs)". Billboard.
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