Billboard Top 40 Singles 1971: #46: ‘ We Can Work It Out”- Stevie Wonder. March 13, 1971.
- Single:”We Can Work It Out”- Stevie Wonder
- Record Company- Tamla
- Genre: R&B
- Written by John Lennon- Paul McCartney
- Time: 3:19
- B-side:’Never Dreamed You’d Leave In Summer’
- Album-Signed, Sealed & Delivered
- Grade: A+
- Peaked at #13 11 weeks in Billboard Hot 100.
Stevie Wonder’s cover of “We Can Work It Out’ has to rank high on the list of best covers of Beatles written songs. In 1971 Wonder would have 2 Top 40 hits but it was the calm before the storm- late in 1972 he would release ‘Superstition’ and the album Talking Book and would explode into one of the greatest if not the greatest artist of the 1970’s.
slicethelife 
quite right… a great song he makes his own and one of the few where the cover is probably as good as the Beatles original.
i can’t argue with that–
I love this cover of the song. He does it just right!
he gives it the Stevie Wonder treatment.
Agree this is a great Beatles cover. I’m glad I included it in a December 2019 post about renditions of Beatles songs I also agree with you this appeared just before Stevie Wonder’s most fascinating period.