The Woman in Red: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the second soundtrack album released by American musician Stevie Wonder on the Motown label. Also featuring Dionne Warwick, the album was released in 1984 for the film of the same name (starring Gene Wilder). It features Wonder's biggest hit, "I Just Called to Say I Love You", which hit number one internationally and won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, and also features the follow-up hit, "Love Light in Flight" (a US top-20 hit) and "Don't Drive Drunk", the song and the accompanying music video for which were used in the Ad Council and the US Department of Transportation's Drunk Driving Prevention public service announcement the following year.

Track listing All songs written by Stevie Wonder, except where indicated.

Note: Later pressings of the compact disc have the single version of "I Just Called to Say I Love You", due to its popularity.

Personnel Stevie Wonder – piano, synthesizers, drums, harmonica, vocoder, lead vocals, backing vocals (1–5, 7–8) Dionne Warwick – lead vocals (2, 6–7) Nathan Watts – bass guitar (2–3,7) James Allen – drums (2,7) Isaiah Sanders – piano, synthesizer, drums (3,7) Ben Bridges – electric guitar (3) Lenny Castro – congas (5) Larry Gittens – trumpet (6) Bob Malach – saxophone (7)

Commercial performance The album reached number four on the US Billboard 200 chart, number one on the R&B Albums chart (for four weeks) and number two on the UK Albums Chart, where it was kept off the top spot by the albums Now That's What I Call Music 3 and David Bowie's Tonight. Wonder's albums Songs in the Key of Life and Hotter than July also reached number two in the UK and to date he has failed to achieve a number-one album there. However, the single "I Just Called to Say I Love You", taken from The Woman in Red, was a massive hit in the UK, reaching number one and becoming the second best-selling single of 1984 (only behind Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?") and the third most successful single of the entire 1980s there.

Charts

Weekly charts + Weekly chart performance for The Woman in Red soundtrack Chart (1984–1985)PeakpositionAustralian Albums (Kent Music Report) 4Canadian Albums (RPM)Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved February 20, 20134Japanese Albums (Oricon)5Spanish Albums (AFYVE) 1West German Albums (Media Control)3

Year-end charts + Year-end chart performance for The Woman in Red soundtrackChart (1984)PositionAustralian Albums Chart51Austrian Albums Chart24Canadian Albums Chart19Dutch Albums Chart27New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) 48Spanish Albums Chart 6UK Albums Chart30Chart (1985)PositionCanadian Albums Chart83Japanese Albums Chart49Spanish Albums Chart 5US Billboard 20053

Certifications and sales

Accolades Award Category Song Recipient Result Ref. Academy Awards Best Original Song "I Just Called to Say I Love You" Stevie Wonder British Academy Film Awards Best Original Song Written for a Film Golden Globe Awards Best Original Song Grammy Awards Song of the Year Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male Best Pop Instrumental Performance Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male The Woman in Red

See also List of Billboard number-one R&B albums of 1984

References