In Square Circle:Stevie Wonder

In Square Circle is a 1985 studio album released by American singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder (his twentieth overall). The album features the hits "Part-Time Lover", "Go Home" and "Overjoyed" (which was left off Wonder's 1979 album Journey through the Secret Life of Plants and re-recorded for this album). The album won Wonder the Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance at the 28th Grammy Awards (his fourth award in the category, and his 13th Grammy overall).

In Square Circle broke into the Top 5 on the Pop Albums chart and spent 12 weeks at #1 on the Top R&B Albums chart.

"Go Home" was performed during the Grammy awards ceremony in 1985, in the famous synthesizer jam with Thomas Dolby, Herbie Hancock and Howard Jones.

Contents

 [hide] *1 Track listing

• 2 Musicians
• 3 Charting singles
• 4 Charts
  • 4.1 Peak positions
  • 4.2 Year-end charts
• 5 Certifications
• 6 See also
• 7 References

Track listing

All songs written by Stevie Wonder.

Side one

1. "Part-Time Lover" – 4:09
2. "I Love You Too Much" – 5:30
3. "Whereabouts" – 4:17
4. "Stranger on the Shore of Love" – 5:01
5. "Never in Your Sun" – 4:07

Side two

1. "Spiritual Walkers" – 5:12
2. "Land of La La" – 5:14
3. "Go Home" – 5:18
4. "Overjoyed" – 3:42
5. "It's Wrong (Apartheid)" – 3:29 (6:52 on CD)

Musicians

• Stevie Wonder - Drums, synthesizers, piano, electric piano, harpsichord, accordion, percussion, harmonica, Yamaha CS80, vocoder, cora, environmental percussion (crickets, bird sounds, ocean, pebbles in pond, stone dropped, crushing leaves), lead & background vocals
• Edwin Birdsong - Yamaha CS80
• Larry Gittens - Trumpet
• Bob Malach - Saxophone
• Earl Klugh - Guitar
• Ben Bridges - Guitar
• Rick Zunigar - Guitar
• Luther Vandross - Lead & background vocals
• Syreeta Wright - Background vocals
• Philip Bailey - Background vocals
• Vincent Unto - Background vocals
• Keith John - Background vocals
• Melody McCully, Billy Durham, Peter Byrne, Renee Hardaway, Darryl Phinnessee, Deniece Williams, Howard Smith, Janice Moore, Chela Akins, Carolyn Garrett, Valencia Cox, Ruthell Holmes, Ray Gibbs, Musa Dludla, Thandeka Ngono-Raasch, Linda Bottoman-Tshabalala, Muntu Myuyana, Lorraine Mahlangu-Richards, Fana Kekana, Tsepo Mokone - Background vocals
• Paul Riser - String arrangement
• Bob Bralove, Brad Buxer - programming
• Gary Olazabal - Programming, Engineer

Charting singles

Code: US Pop / US R&B / US Dance / UK

• "Part-Time Lover" - 1 / 1 / 1 / 3
• "Go Home" 10 / 2 / 1 / 67
• "Overjoyed" 24 / 8 / - / 17
• "Land of La La" 86 / 19 / - / -
• "Stranger on the Shore of Love" - / - / - / 55

Charts

Peak positions

Chart (1985/86)	Position
Australian Kent Music Report	8
Austrian Albums Chart	12
Canadian RPM Albums Chart	7
Dutch Albums Chart	16
French SNEP Albums Chart	11
Italian Albums Chart	3
Japanese Oricon Albums Chart	3
New Zealand Albums Chart	7
Norwegian VG-lista Albums Chart	3
Swedish Albums Chart	2
Swiss Albums Chart	4
UK Albums Chart	6
U.S. Billboard 200	5
West German Media Control Albums Chart	8

Year-end charts

Chart (1985)	Position
Canadian Albums Chart	29
French Albums Chart	21
Italian Albums Chart	21

Chart (1986)	Position
Canadian Albums Chart	91
Japanese Albums Chart	19
U.S. Billboard 200	18

Certifications

Region	Certification	Sales/shipments
Canada (Music Canada)	2× Platinum	200,000^
France (SNEP)	Gold	213,300
Japan (Oricon Charts)		596,000
Spain (PROMUSICAE)	Platinum	100,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)	Gold	100,000^
United States (RIAA)	2× Platinum	2,000,000^
^shipments figures based on certification alone