Gotta Have You (Stevie Wonder song)

"Gotta Have You" is a 1991 song by American rhythm and blues singer Stevie Wonder. The song was the first release from the 1991 soundtrack to the film Jungle Fever. Wonder wrote the song, and co-produced it with Nathan Watts.The song peaked at No. 3 in the Hot R&B/ Hip Hop chart, making it one of Wonder's very few Top 10s of the 90s.

"Gotta Have You"
Single by Stevie Wonder
from the album Jungle Fever (soundtrack)
B-side"Feeding Off the Love of the Land"[1]
Released1991
Recorded1990
GenreFunk
Length6:26
LabelMotown
Songwriter(s)Stevie Wonder
Producer(s)
  • Stevie Wonder
  • Nathan Watts
Stevie Wonder singles chronology
"Keep Our Love Alive"
(1990)		 "Gotta Have You"
(1991)		 "Fun Day"
(1991)

Content and reception

James E. Perone wrote in The Sound of Stevie Wonder: His Words and Music that "it anticipates the regularly 6-minutes-plus songs of his next album, Conversation Peace" and that it "is not one of Wonder's best-remembered compositions and recordings, but it does feature a fine funky, blues-infused lead vocal melody in the verses".[2]

In a review of the album, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic wrote that "While the keyboard funk of 'Chemical Love,' 'Gotta Have You,' and 'Queen in the Black' doesn't sound new, it does sound alive, which is better than Wonder has sounded in years."[3] A review in Musician was less favorable, calling it "generic, repetitive 70s-style funk".[4]

Track listing

Per Discogs.[1]

  1. "Gotta Have You (Radio Edit)" - 4:30
  2. "Gotta Have You (Album Version)" - 6:26
  3. "Gotta Have You (Instrumental)" - 4:48
  4. "Feeding Off the Love of the Land" - 5:55

Chart performance
Chart (1991) Peak
position
US Billboard Hot 100[5] 92
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[6] 3

References
  1. "Gotta Have You track listing". Discogs. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
  2. Perone, James E. (2006). The Sound of Stevie Wonder: His Words and Music. Praeger/Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 102. ISBN 978-0-275-98723-7.
  3. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Jungle Fever – Stevie Wonder". AllMusic.
  4. "Jungle Fever". Musician (153–158): 94. 1991.
  5. "Stevie Wonder Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
  6. "Stevie Wonder Chart History (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs)". Billboard.
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