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  • The Spinners, “It is a Disgrace”
  • Smokey Robinson, “The Tears of a Clown,” Make It Occur
  • Aretha Franklin, “Till You Come Again to Me (That is What I am Gonna Do)”
  • Rufus (feat. Chaka Khan), “Inform Me One thing Good”
  • Michael Jackson, “I Cannot Assist It,” Off the Wall

Stevie Marvel is, after all, recognized for penning numerous basic hits that he carried out beneath his personal identify, however he’s additionally a prolific songwriter for different artists.

“Stevie in all probability wasn’t the world’s first musical auteur, however you may’t argue that he wasn’t the best,” says World Cafe correspondent John Morrison.

On this installment of The Tradition Nook, Morrison will get into how Marvel wrote for people like Smokey Robinson, Rufus, Chaka Khan and Aretha Franklin — he nonetheless sounded unmistakably like Stevie Marvel.

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This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Kim Junod. The online story was created by Miguel Perez. Our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and reserving coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.

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