{"id":17986,"date":"2025-12-15T01:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/?p=17986"},"modified":"2025-12-14T20:18:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T19:18:13","slug":"morning-song-stevie-wonder-hes-misstra-know-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/2025\/12\/15\/morning-song-stevie-wonder-hes-misstra-know-it-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning song #Stevie Wonder #He’s Misstra Know-It-All"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“He’s Misstra Know-It-All<\/strong>” is a single by Stevie Wonder<\/a> for the Tamla<\/a> (Motown<\/a>) label, from his Innervisions<\/a><\/em> album, which reached number 10 on the UK Singles Chart<\/a> in April 1974.[2]<\/a><\/sup> The song takes the form of a mellow ballad with a steady beat, principally a solo performance with Wonder providing lead vocal, background vocal, piano, drums, handclaps and congas.[3]<\/a><\/sup> Horn sounds are played on the Moog synthesizer<\/a> that is programmed by Malcolm Cecil<\/a> and Robert Margouleff<\/a>.[4]<\/a><\/sup> Ethereal flute-like sounds are provided by the TONTO modular synthesizer<\/a> that is also programmed by Cecil and Margouleff. Willie Weeks<\/a>, on electric bass, is the only other musician.[3]<\/a><\/sup> Towards the end of the song the mood changes to a stronger feel, more strident singing and with hand-claps emphasising the beat, half-beat and quarter-beat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“He’s Misstra Know-It-All” was re-released in 1977 in both the UK and US as the B-side<\/a> to “Sir Duke<\/a>“.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The song is essentially a long description of a know-it-all<\/a> confidence trickster<\/a> character who is a “man with a plan”, who has a slick answer to all his critics and who has “a counterfeit dollar<\/a> in his hand”. It has been alleged that this is a reference to United States’ President Richard Nixon<\/a>, who resigned the same year the single was released.[5]<\/a><\/sup>[<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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