The Woman in Red (soundtrack)


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. 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" 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.

Commercial performance

The album reached number four on the US Billboard 200 chart, number one on the R&B Albums chart 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 and the third most successful single of the entire 1980s there.

Track listing

All songs written by Stevie Wonder, except "It's More Than You" by Ben Bridges.
  1. "The Woman in Red" – 4:39
  2. "It's You" – 4:55
  3. "It's More Than You" – 3:15
  4. "I Just Called to Say I Love You" – 6:16
  5. "Love Light in Flight" – 6:54
  6. "Moments Aren't Moments" – 4:32
  7. "Weakness" – 4:13
  8. "Don't Drive Drunk" – 6:33

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

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