Donahue - "Stevie Wonder" - WBBM Channel 2 (Complete Broadcast, 1/8/1982) 📺 ♫ 🎹

[@MauriceBrown-sd8ol]

My hero and idol Stevie Wonder aka THE God of ALL Music. !!!

[@ajaugenti1976]

Stevie Wonder is awesome!

[@75YBA]

He helped get Dr. King his holiday?!?😁🌍🌎🌏☀️🌞🌻🌼🌸🌺💐🌷🌹🍀❤

[@wmbrown6]

He was certainly one of the main movers, at any rate . . .

[@viddeojunke]

He was somewhat instrumental in helping Dr. King’s holiday become a reality and thankfully it became true.

[@ken_danerdiest1]

The best talented artist of our day, bar none.

[@reoscorpio]

Thanks for uploading this.. i saw this when it first aired when i was a kid.. and i've forever had the piano parts Stevie improvised when he had the crowd singing "Happy Birthday".. (even though i never saw it again in decades). Soon as i heard it being played now.. i already knew that improvised bluesy melody.. i've been looking for this on KZbin for a long time to see it again

[@desmondparson]

I remembered this when it aired originally!!!!! So glad to see this again! I was 4 and just recently a discovered Stevie!!!!

[@Bigeazy87]

Phil's conversation with Stevie about the music business being in the dumps was true. What wasn't known was Michael Jackson and the Thriller album was going to change the narrative in about a year.

[@williegriggs9238]

Exactly!!

[@reoscorpio]

Totally correct.. i worked in a Sam Goody's when i was in school.. and i saw when people came in to buy "Thriller", of course they bought other stuff too. That's something that never gets mentioned.. how much Thriller brought back the music business.. crazy money was made for everybody because of that joint.

[@christopherjudge1138]

WCVB-TV had lots of shows in the early '80s! Donahue, Good Day!, Richard Simmons, Family Feud w/ Richard Dawson as original host, Miller's Court, Sunday Open House, etc.! How I miss those days!

[@michaelewing4515]

I got to say Stevie Wonder is one of the greatest R&B music legends of all time

[@buddypearson]

This is amazing!!! Legit amazing!!!

[@gaetanocampagna7177]

My love stevie

[@Vord1134]

You can really hear Gil in that Frontlines song

[@brutusalwaysminded]

Wow, love the footage. Thanks for the post!

[@jnadle1]

Hey, that's the familiar Multimedia logo. I didn't know it came out as early as 1982!

[@andyrose5616]

2:43 The Gravy Train commercial is voiced by Peter Thomas. I think the Oil of Olay voice may be Norman Rose.

[@SybilKibble]

52:00 Wow, Spectrum in Chicago? We have that in NY now. When I lived in IL we had Comcast.

[@traderoex1]

I wish I could go back and restart my life from this point in time.

[@sherryhannah9262]

I hope y’all will reply to this I love ❤️ Stevie Wonder I have the Talking Book album from 1972 and the 45 of I Just Called to Say I Love ❤️ You

[@FUNKINETIK]

I bought the 45single of Sir Duke when I was a kid. My Dad loved Jazz and so when I played him the record I pointed out ‘Basie, Miller, Satchimo and King of all Sir Duke, and with a voice like Ella’s etc.. I knew all of the Jazz greats Stevie was singing about apart from Satchimo?? Then my Dad told me that was Louis Armstrong’s nick name, which was short for ‘satchel mouth’ because of the size of his cheeks from playing the trumpet.

[@stephenstewart4295]

I have just about every album that Stevie released and have seen him in concert probably 6-7 times.

[@FUNKINETIK]

I wonder if Stevie ever met John Lennon? Stevie talked about the 3” compact minidisc - this is 10 years before it is available. Was hoping for Ribbon in the Sky, such a beautiful song. P E A C E : )

[@sydneydyens325]

Not only have they met, they also performed together, I think there is a 1971 footage of it

[@FUNKINETIK]

@@sydneydyens325 thanks- yep I found what I think you mention. There were some other top artists of the day, they were singing ’Give Peace a Chance’

[@sherryhannah9262]

I also hope y’all will reply to this one time Stevie Wonder joked that he hoped he’d get his sight back before he left this world so he could see if his kids were ugly

[@rowkaz3510]

29:51 Actor Mike Starr enjoying a brownie there

[@RolloSmokes]

This must have been one of the earliest Donahue shows taped at WBBM, no? And Stevie still owns KJLH to this day.

[@75YBA]

So amazing.

[@darrylh1971]

It was on January 4, 1982 Donahue started airing on WBBM CBS 2 Chicago after airing on WGN Channel 9 for some years. On that same January 4, 1982 day WBBM CBS 2 started to air at 10 AM an hour block of CBS daytime reruns of One Day at a Time and Alice and the CBS popular daytime game show The Price is Right (then hosted by Bob Barker) was airing at 3 PM on CBS 2 Chicago.

[@RolloSmokes]

@@darrylh1971 Too much irrelevant info in that response. My question wasn't answered.

[@wmbrown6]

@@RolloSmokes - Could well have been, if this was his first week aired on WBBM. I certainly noticed the Thomson-CSF TTV-1518 cameras in some of the shots (that was what WBBM used in those days, replaced the Marconi Mark VII's during 1977). This probably means the rest of the country - including, in New York, WNBC Channel 4 - would have aired this on Monday the 11th.

[@phantom6226]

This is the Friday show from the first week at Channel 2.

[@darrylh1971]

Fuzzy: WBBM CBS 2 was airing the syndicated reruns of Barnaby Jones at 4 PM in 1982, I wish you had an episode of Barnaby Jones w/o/c to upload.

[@mixon270]

after the price is right which at the time came on at 3pm

[@michaelewing4515]

​@mixon270 I didn't realize Price Is Right aired at 3:00pm. That was before my time. I mostly remember it in the morning.

[@mixon270]

@@michaelewing4515 yes sir it did til maybe late 85 or early 86 it returned the morning time slot

[@jimmymelendez1836]

Once again, just put this on the Internet Archive. Thank you.🙄🤦

[@UKMikey]

... and hackers just shut the site down. Hope they get it back online soon.

[@DgurlSunshine]

RACISM?

[@ivyrivera8081]

First

[@jimmymelendez1836]

Either you comment or keep it to yourself.

[@ivyrivera8081]

@@jimmymelendez1836 steve is a musical genius!