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My Cherie Amour is an album by American singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder released on the Tamla (Motown) label on August 29, 1969, his eleventh studio album. The album yielded a couple of top 10 hits in the Billboard Hot 100, including the title track (#4) and "Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday" (#7), as well as Wonder's takes on the 1967 hit "Light My Fire" by The Doors, "Hello, Young Lovers" from The King and I and "The Shadow of Your Smile" from the 1965 film The Sandpiper. It reached #12 in the UK albums chart and #34 in the US pop albums chart.

Track listing

Side one

1. "My Cherie Amour" (Henry Cosby, Sylvia Moy, Stevie Wonder) – 2:49
2. "Hello, Young Lovers" (Oscar Hammerstein, Richard Rodgers) – 3:09
3. "At Last" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) – 2:44
4. "Light My Fire" (John Densmore, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, Jim Morrison) – 3:34
5. "The Shadow of Your Smile" (Johnny Mandel, Paul Francis Webster) – 2:38
6. "You and Me" (Beatrice Verdi, Deke Richards) – 2:41

Side two

1. "Pearl" (Richard Morris) – 2:42
2. "Somebody Knows, Somebody Cares" (Cosby, Moy, Lula Mae Hardaway, Wonder) – 2:30
3. "Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday" (Ron Miller, Bryan Wells) – 3:01
4. "Angie Girl" (Cosby, Moy, Wonder) – 2:57
5. "Give Your Love" (Cosby, Don Hunter, Wonder) – 3:42
6. "I've Got You" (Moy, Wonder) – 2:33

Personnel

• Stevie Wonder – harmonica, keyboards, vocals
• James Jamerson – bass
• Benny Benjamin – drums
• Henry Cosby – producer

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