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2. Everybody Say Yeah

Stevie was signed with Motown for almost two years before his career launching recording Fingertips Part 2 recorded live, took the public by storm.

Stevie had recorded three singles and one album prior to Fingertips. His first single, I Call It Pretty Music But The Old People Call It The Blues, sold well locally and in the South.

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His second single, Little Water Boy written by Clarence Paul and Stevie himself didn't do too well. This was followed by a third single, Contract On Love, written by Lamont Dozier and it did well locally and regionally in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Originally, Fingertips was done on an album called The Jazz Soul Of Little Stevie.

It featured Thomas 'Bean' Bowles on flute, Marvin Gaye on drums and piano, Stevie played drums on one cut, Joe Messina, Robert White, James Jamerson on bass, Benny Benjamin on drums, Joe Hunter on piano and Earl Van Dyke