You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover

According to Nelson George’s 1986 book Where Did Our Love Go? The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound, this was the song the Funk Brothers were recording when they learned of the passing of legendary Motown drummer Benny Benjamin. “Papa Zita”, renowned for his heavy and thunderous style on tracks such as the Temptations' Get Ready and Wonder’s own Uptight (Everything’s Alright), had been suffering from drug and alcohol addiction for several years, and ultimately died of a stroke on April 20, 1969, aged 43.

Writing

Henry Cosby, Sylvia Moy, Stevie Wonder

Production

Stevie Wonder

Covered by

You Can’t Judge a Book By Its Cover — Yvonne Fair

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