Songs in the Key of Life: Museum Object and Cultural History
Songs in the Key of Life: Date: 1976. Recorded by: Stevie Wonder, American, born 1950. Distributed by: Motown Record Corporation, American, founded 1959.
The object in the museum catalogue
A 3 3/4 IPS reel-to-reel audiotape recording (a) with box (b) of Stevie Wonder's album "Songs in the Key of Life," distributed by Tamla Records, a division of Motown Record Corporation. The audiotape is on a light grey plastic reel with white label printed with black text. The label has the Tamla Records logo, album title, artist, song listings for Track A and Track B, and the copyright notice [1976 Motown Record Corp.]. The reel is packaged in a black, square box. On the front is a graphic label with a red concentric design, a black-and-white illustration of Wonder in the center, with [Songs In The Key of Life] and [Stevie Wonder] printed below. On the back of the box is an off-white label printed with black text with the artist name, title, and track listings for Side One and Side Two.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1976
- Recorded by: Stevie Wonder, American, born 1950
- Distributed by: Motown Record Corporation, American, founded 1959
- Distributed by: Tamla Records, American, 1959 - 1988
- Type: audiotapes
- Medium: tape, plastic, ink on cardboard
- Dimensions: box: 7 1/2 x 7 3/8 x 3/4 in. (19.1 x 18.7 x 1.9 cm)
- Dimensions: tape reel: 7 in. (17.8 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Composers (Musicians)
- Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Topic: Motown (Music)
- Topic: Rhythm and blues (Music)
- Topic: Singers (Musicians)
- Topic: Soul (Music)
- Object number: 2013.58.2ab
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Timothy Anne Burnside
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © Motown Records Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
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