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Studio album by Stevie Wonder
Released March 3, 1972
Studio
Mediasound, New York City
Electric Lady, New York City
Crystal Industries, Los Angeles
Genre Progressive soul[1]
Length 47:35
Label Tamla
Producer
Stevie WonderRobert Margouleff (assoc.)Malcolm Cecil (assoc.)
Stevie Wonder chronology
Where I`m Coming From
(1971) Music of My Mind
(1972) Talking Book
(1972)

Music of My Mind is the fourteenth studio album by American singer, songwriter, and musician Stevie Wonder. It was released on March 3, 1972, by Tamla Records, and was Wonder`s first to be recorded under a new contract with Motown that allowed him full artistic control over his music. For the album, Wonder recruited electronic music pioneers Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff as associate producers, employing their custom TONTO synthesizer on several tracks.[2] The album hit No. 21 in the Billboard LP charts, and critics found it representative of Wonder`s artistic growth, and it is generally considered by modern critics to be the first album of Wonder`s `classic period`.

Recording
Wonder became interested in using synthesizers after hearing the music of electronic group Tonto`s Expanding Head Band.[3] Inspired after a meeting with the group`s members, Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff, in May 1971, he began utilizing Arp and Moog synthesizers, stating that `the synthesizer has allowed me to do a lot of things I`ve wanted to do for a long time but were not possible till it came along.`[3] Margouleff and Cecil associate produced, engineered, and handled Moog programming for the album, and would go on to collaborate with Wonder on his next three albums. Wonder produced the album and played all of the instruments himself, except for the trombone on `Love Having You Around`, which was played by Art Baron, and the guitar on `Superwoman`, which was played by Howard `Buzz` Feiten.

All tracks are written by Stevie Wonder, unless stated otherwise

Side one
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. `Love Having You Around` Wonder, Syreeta Wright 7:21
2. `Superwoman` 8:04
3. `I Love Every Little Thing About You` 3:46
4. `Sweet Little Girl` 4:54
Total length: 24:05
Side two
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. `Happier Than the Morning Sun` 5:18
2. `Girl Blue` Wonder, Yvonne Wright 3:35
3. `Seems So Long` 4:27
4. `Keep on Running` 6:35
5. `Evil` Wonder, Y. Wright 3:35
Total length: 23:30
Personnel
Stevie Wonder – lead vocals (all), background vocals (1–5, 8), drums (all but 5), handclaps (8), T.O.N.T.O. synthesizer (2, 6, 7, 9), piano (8, 9), Rhodes piano (1–4), talk box (1, 6), harmonica (4, 6), bongos (3), clavinet (5, 8), Moog bass (all)
Art Baron – trombone (1)
Buzz Feiten – electric guitar (2)
Malcolm Cecil – Moog programming, associate producer, engineering
Robert Margouleff – Moog programming, associate producer, engineering
Syreeta – background vocals (4)
Uncredited – background vocals (1, 8, 9)
Joan DeCola – recording
Rick Rowe – recording