I read an article once about how musical leanings are often formed by what you are exposed to as a child. The theory makes perfect sense to me and explains why both my sister and I have a predilection for 70's folk music, my mom being a huge fan of Neil Young and the like. So it has kind of always puzzled me as to how I became such a huge fan of Stevie Wonder. I can remember liking Stevie Wonder for many years, but couldn't really place why or how I was exposed to little Stevie.
Enter the Cosby Show. I've been watching season 2 of The Cosby Show lately and came across the episode featuring Mr. Wonder, you know the episode when Stevie's limo hits Denise's car and he invites the family to a recording session to make it up to them. And then each member of the family sings a phrase or note which is compiled into a song. It's probably the most memorable episode for me (actually it might be a toss up between this episode, the Theo shirt episode and the one where Theo explains how he is gonna live off of baloney and cereal).
This realization is actually kind of startling to me, to think the Cosby Show had as much influence on me as my mom! Television is powerful medium, isn't it? In this case it was a real benefit, Stevie Wonder being the Shiznit and all.
As an aside, that crazy Huxtable Family totally cracks me up. Except for Vanessa.
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