By 1984, a largely taxed and tasked Wonder suggested to Berry Gordy that he fulfill his contractual obligation of giving Motown a record annually with the soundtrack to The Woman In Red. Initially, Gordy blanched at the suggestion that Stevie “Songs In the Key Of Life” Wonder do another soundtrack after the commercial failure of The Secret Life Of Plants. Then Stevie played “I Just Called To Say I Love You” and Gordy realized he had a huge hit on his hands and consented. Prescient insight, indeed — “I Just Called” skyrocketed to the top of the charts and was a massive commercial success. The rest of the record is mostly disposable and largely forgettable songs, with Dionne Warwick doing a lot of the heavy lifting, vocally. Album closer “Don’t Drive Drunk” is pretty fun though, and Wonder sounds energized delivering the sundry vignettes of bad judgment followed with the exhortation as a chorus: “Don’t drive drunk/ Mothers Against Drunk Driving are mad.” God, the ’80s were strange.