Donahue - "Stevie Wonder" - WBBM Channel 2 (Complete Broadcast, 1/8/1982) 📺 ♫ 🎹

Here's the complete broadcast of an edition of Donahue as aired over WBBM Channel 2, devoted entirely to one guest - Stevie Wonder.

Includes:

PSA for Urban Gateways (voiceover by Bob Carrington)

Station ID / Barnaby Jones promo (voiceover by Jerry Harper)

Segment 1, with Phil Q&A with audience members before introducing the man of the hour, and very pixelly opening titles

Commercials for:
Oil of Olay
Gravy Train dog food
Home Pride butter-top white and wheat bread
Collector's Art Sale - This Sunday only

Segment 2, opening with "Master Blaster (Jammin')" (audio futzed to avoid copyright blockage), and questions begin to Stevie, covering such topics as his music and its nature, KJLH radio in Compton, CA (which he owned at the time), a request for "Happy Birthday" (not his own song), his playing a bit of "You Are the Sunshine of My Life," how he got to master music before "branching out," and playing snippets of "Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing" and "Ngiculela - Es Una Historia - I Am Singing"

Commercials for:
Northwest Federal Savings
Stouffer's French Bread Pizza
ON TV - "Best Value Yet"
Viva Paper Towels

In Segment 3 (audio effects added to "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" to avoid copyright blockage), topics include who handles his management and advice to aspiring artists, whether he's "high" when he's performing on stage and the issue of his blindness, his starting out, and early years, with Motown, his musical plans for the future, which aspect of his music roles is his favorite, and home taping and its impact on record sales

Commercials for:
Betty Crocker's Snackin' Cake, Stir 'n Frost, and Supreme Fudge Brownie Mix
Jones Minute Breakfast Links
Hendricks Pianos - January Clearance Sale
Smuckers Natural Peanut Butter (ending voiceover by Mason Adams)
Unity Savings (with Ed McMahon)

Segment 4 (with "Fingertips - Pt. 2" altered aurally to avoid copyright detection), with subjects touched on including his reaction to listening to his own recordings, the bumps in his road to the top, a Chicago musician thanking him for inspiring him, whether he brought his harmonica (he didn't), his efforts to bring forth recognition to Martin Luther King's birthday, organizers of a January 15th march (including Theresa Cropper) at the Washington Monument in connection therewith, and what it all signifies, then he performs "Front Line"

Commercials for:
Marshall Field's Light, Bright & White Sale
The Drapery Factor (with the old-fashioned NA2-5800 exchange)
Spectrum - Weekend Movie Marathons
Offer for Time Magazine

Address for Stevie's publishing company, Black Bull, shown on screen at start of Segment 5 ("Travelin' Man" altered aurally to avoid copyright issues); topics include Stevie with a device called Versabraille and how it works, how many travel with him when he's on the road, more about the drive to make Dr. King's birthday a national holiday, and a snippet of a performance of his "Happy Birthday" (some of it cut out)

Commercials for:
Ex-Lax pills
Promo for novel "Aztec" by Gary Jennings
Spectrum - Weekend Movie Marathons (repeat)
Imperial margarine
Mysels Furs - $5 Million Clearance Sale

Address to send for transcripts shown at beginning of Segment 6, after which one audience member asks how he could get a tape to Stevie, another saying how more people will keep buying his records in spite of home taping flap, Phil gives phone number in relation to coming march, and as more Q&A's are fielded, ending credits:

Hotel Accommodations Furnished by The Mayfair Regent, Chicago, IL 60611
Phil Donahue's Accessories by Botany 500
Executive Producer - Dick Mincer
Senior Producer - Patricia McMillen
Director - Ron Weiner
Producer - Darlene Hayes
Producer - Sheri Singer
Donahue Promotion - Dorothy O. Foster, Joycelyn Marnul, Cynthia Patrasso, Penny I. Rotheiser
Production Assistants - Joe DiCanio, Lorraine Landelius, Marilyn O'Reilly, Lillian Smith
Produced at WBBM-TV, Chicago

Promotional consideration plug for True Value Hardware and Volvo

PSA for Epilepsy Foundation of America

Produced by Multimedia Program Productions

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, January 8th 1982 during the 9:00am to 10:00am timeframe.

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