My Cherie Amour (1969)

My Cherie Amour (1969)

My Cherie Amour is yet another in a long line of terrifically listenable but mainly disposable Stevie Wonder records that include a constellation of covers — ranging from standards to contemporary hits — that orbit around a great single. This time the singles are the infinitely hummable title track, which is a modern standard in its own right to this day, bookended by the moving “I’ve Got You.” In between, the cover of “Hello Young Lovers,” is an awesome upbeat Motown re-imagining of Rogers and Hammerstein’s original sentiments. Wonder’s version of “At Last” hews toward a more traditional reading, and more like this would be welcome. But the decision to cover the Doors’ “Light My Fire” is just a head scratcher that mostly seems like a cynical attempt to latch onto the zeitgeist, but who really cares when Stevie Wonder is singing, really?