''The Woman in Red: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack'' is the second

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album released by American musician

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on the

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label. Also featuring

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, the album was released in 1984 for the film of the same name (starring

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). It features Wonder's biggest hit, "

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", which hit number one internationally and won the

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, and also features the follow-up hit, " Love Light in Flight" (a US top-20 hit) and "Don't Drive Drunk", the song and the accompanying music video for which were used in the

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and the

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's Drunk Driving Prevention

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the following year.

Track listing

All songs written by

, except "It's More Than You" by Ben Bridges. Side one #"The Woman in Red" – 4:38 #"It's You" (featuring

) – 4:56 #"It's More Than You" (instrumental) – 3:15 #"

" – 6:17 Side two #" Love Light in Flight" – 6:54 #"Moments Aren't Moments" (Solo by Dionne Warwick) – 4:33 #"Weakness" (with Dionne Warwick) – 4:13 #"Don't Drive Drunk" – 6:33 *Note: Later pressings of the compact disc have the radio edit of "I Just Called to Say I Love You", due to its popularity.

Personnel

*Stevie Wonder – piano, synthesizers, drums, harmonica, vocoder, lead vocals, backing vocals (1–5, 7–8) *Dionne Warwick – lead vocals (2, 6-7) *Nathan Watts – bass guitar (2-3,7) *James Allen – drums (2,7) *Isaiah Sanders – piano, synthesizer, drums (3,7) *Ben Bridges – electric guitar (3) *Lenny Castro – congas (5) *Larry Gittens – trumpet (6) *Bob Malach – saxophone (7)

Commercial performance

The album reached number four on the US ''Billboard'' 200 chart, number one on the R&B Albums chart (for four weeks) and number two on the

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, where it was kept off the top spot by the albums '' Now That's What I Call Music 3'' and

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's ''

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''. Wonder's albums ''

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'' and '' Hotter than July'' also reached number two in the UK and to date he has failed to achieve a number-one album there. However, the single "I Just Called to Say I Love You", taken from ''The Woman in Red'', was a massive hit in the UK, reaching number one and becoming the second best-selling single of 1984 (only behind Band Aid's " Do They Know It's Christmas?") and the third most successful single of the entire 1980s there.

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References

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