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- Musical Crossroads Gallery
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- Exhibition
- Musical Crossroads
- Recorded by
- Wonder, Stevie, American, born 1950
- Distributed by
- Motown Record Corporation, American, founded 1959
- Tamla Records, American, 1959 - 1988
- Date
- 1976
- Medium
- tape, plastic, ink on cardboard
- Dimensions
- box: 7 1/2 x 7 3/8 x 3/4 in. (19.1 x 18.7 x 1.9 cm)
- tape reel: 7 in. (17.8 cm)
- Description
- A 3 3/4 IPS reel-to-reel audiotape recording (a) with box (b) of Stevie Wonder's album "Songs in the Key of Life," distributed by Tamla Records, a division of Motown Record Corporation. The audiotape is on a light grey plastic reel with white label printed with black text. The label has the Tamla Records logo, album title, artist, song listings for Track A and Track B, and the copyright notice [1976 Motown Record Corp.]. The reel is packaged in a black, square box. On the front is a graphic label with a red concentric design, a black-and-white illustration of Wonder in the center, with [Songs In The Key of Life] and [Stevie Wonder] printed below. On the back of the box is an off-white label printed with black text with the artist name, title, and track listings for Side One and Side Two.
- Classification
- Time-based Media - Audio
- Type
- audiotapes
- Topic
- Composers (Musicians)
- Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Motown (Music)
- Rhythm and blues (Music)
- Singers (Musicians)
- Soul (Music)
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Timothy Anne Burnside
- Object number
- 2013.58.2ab
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Motown Records
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




