The audience didn't know they were watching the beginning of a legend. I love this.

It is 1963 here and Stevie Wonder is still jamming in 2020. That is 57 years of music of rock and roll baby

God PLEASE KEEP THIS MAN FOR ANOTHER 200 years so that he can bless us with his presence…..❤❤❤❤❤❤

He'd mastered the harmonica already by 12.

I was fortunate enough to meet Stevie that year or a couple of years later, when he was attending the Michigan School for the Blind. I was sixteen. My mother was the secretary to the Superintendent, Dr. Robert Thompson. Berry Gordy had appealed to Dr. T. because other schools wouldn't let Stevie go on tour because he'd miss too much school. Dr. T. found a tutor--I can't remember his name--for him so he could go on tour. The tutor was blind himself, but had taught himself tot do almost anything. The tutor taught my mother how to sail! I was so proud of having met Stevie, and loved Motown so much. Truly, they made sure Stevie would be able to pursue his God-given talent.

WHO WOULD THINK THAT THIS KID WOULD BLESS US WITH “SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE?” AMAZING.

List of people who were born stars and performers Stevie wonder Ray Charles Michael Jackson There will never be another one of this 3 Straight musical genius

Not many 12 years would have the nerve to get on a stage in that illustrious company let alone have the chutzpah to start free styling on the harmonica with a group of top flight pro musicians and the confidence to know you can get back in the beat and time...absolute genius.

Everybody needs a little bit of Stevie Wonder in their day!

Stevie Wonder came out of the womb an icon and legend.

So much charisma even as a kid!

My girlfriend and future wife and I seen little Stevie do this at the Motown Review at the Fox Theater in Detroit around Christmas time when I was a teen. Junior Walker and the All Stars, Marvin Gaye, Miracles, and more. People dancing in the aisles erupted throughout the show. The Supremes (when nobody heard of them) at a high school dance on the east side. Ahhhh, Those were the days.

He never knew that was just the beginning of his greatness.Still amazing in 2020

Oh I just love youtube. Where ELSE can one watch history in action!? Certainly not in the textbooks.

OMG! Look at baby Stevie! There's just no artist better than him! Thank God I was blessed to grow up with his amazing music in the late 60's and 70's.

From his first performance as a CHILD until today...unencumbered, raw talent, smiling, exuberant and charismatic. All words sang from his heart. Why has the talent like this gone? This kind of artistry takes hard work and strict dedication. Few are willing to go that route today.

Happy 73rd Birthday Stevie! You are an Icon. Your music and your Beautiful Spirit has made this world a better place. Thank you

I saw Stevie Wonder do that show at the Uptown in 1963. Lord have mercy!

The music just flowed right through him. Genius is an understatement

Saw him live in like 1964. His manager had to literally pull him off the stage! It was jaw dropping.

What a pleasure it is to be alive at the same time as Stevie Wonder. It makes me feel like it's the golden age of music but then it's always the golden age of music when you're in America.

This is the best Stevie Wonder song of all time.

Wow!! Twelve years old,what Talent.The first time I heard Fingertips I was about 12-13 years old.I was watching a Movie called Cooley High.The opening of the Movie started with Fingertips.I had to buy the Movie DVD decades later of course.Lol!!! Back in the 70s there was no such thing as a VHS or DVD.Thanks for That flashback.☺️☺️☺️🙏🙏🙏

This is beyond remarkable! In all of my fifteen years.........this has to be the best performance I've EVER seen!!! This is why he's one of my biggest inspirations

Great singer hugely talented despite his blindness plays mouth organ, piano, electric organ, sings and writes songs How many non blind people can do this? And he plays the harmonica too

12 y/o and he could play bongos, harmonica, SANG like that?! angelic

To the critics who say this was a bad performance ... whatevs. The size of the stage and the arena make a difference in recording. Doesn't negate the fact that Stevie Wonder is the G.O.A.T! The dude with the trumpet though has the most energy of the band members; he's trying to pull the train along. Anyway, do you know any 12-14 year olds that can throw it down like that? Didn't think so.

1962 I was 15, Stevie was born a few miles away from me, Fingertips was on the radio a lot , I would stop everything and dance every time I heard it..still makes me dance when I hear it

He was an instant hit. We'd change radio stations so we could hear it more often.

1. 211 people have zero musical taste 2. 12 years old, following Marvin Gaye, AND it’s at the Apollo?! Amazing

THE BEST performance of all time 🙏🏼 He is blessed with it all!!!

Why would anyone give this stellar performance a thumbs down??!!!

I love the last minute, the encore. Shows so much of his soul and personality. GOAT.

Didn't realize Wonder had been around so long. The Beatles hadn't even come to America yet when Stevie performed this

Bless that dear man. What a musical star, what an inspiration, bringing happiness and fun to a hard world. Love you Stevie 😊🙏

He's still great in 2023. God bless you, Sir, for all you have shared with the world.❤

Stevie born to be a great musican...

OMFG this is sooooooooo EPIC. Speechless. This went on to be Motown's second Billboard #1 Hit. Truly prodigous

Fingertips was the first 45 I ever bought. A dollar was a lot of money back then.It was worth it:)

I was 11 years old when i first heard this, and it totally grabbed me. "Little" Stevie Wonder's performance of this has to go down as one the most defining moments in american pop music history.

It seems like he really got his chance by appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show later in 1963. I believe he had turned 13 by then. I remember watching Ed Sullivan that night, and how I was really impressed with his talent. I was 8 years old that year.

I love you Stevie ..you got me through the hard times.Master blaster is my favorite..reggae and you..I can't hardly take it..love and respect.. For Bob Marley and Stevie Wonder..

WOW! This was the number 1 song, on the day I was born. 60 years later he's still going strong..

Amazing! Couldn't read music. Just had it in his heart and soul.

A Genius who loves Music. Stevie didn't wanna stop jammin. He kept playing....💯👍👍🎶

this is one of the best things I've ever seen

I worked at the record counter of G.C. Murphy co. in the Eastover Shopping center and played this record till the store made me stop and then I played it at home until I drove my parents crazy.

Oh how I remember back in 1963 Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye came down to the Graystone Ballroom in Detroit Michigan and they both gave one hell of a performance I remember for the rest of my life two musical genius

When I was 16 I did not have much spending money and I was all over Fingertips part I and II. I loved the motown sound although I wore madras and wejuns (sp) but I wore my shotguns (shoes) too. I worked the record counter at G.C.Murphy in the Eastover shopping center in Oxon Hill Maryland and I don't know how many copies of this record went to friends. It was for real! I also remember when shotgun came on the radio when we were driving we would stop and jump out of the car and dance until it was over. Man, I love those days. When I was 18 I had an apartment on South Capitol Street now Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue and guys would sing these great harmonies that would lull me to sleep on hot summer nights. ( old apartments with no ac so windows were open.) forgive this old woman's , memories.

Stevie Wonder was Born to Do Music Because he's a once in a Lifetime Talent

I saw young men dressed up in the summer of 1963 in a beach resort we was staying at in Minnesota, waiting for construction to be finished on our house. They were 'interacting with' classic looking' greasers in jeans and white T-shirts and Frats in their Gant Shirts and penny loafers. These guys had iridescent coloured Nehru suits with pant creases one could have cut a finger on. Very slick. So strange to see them get thrown into the lake. That was the summer of my introduction to turf wars and Little Stevie Wonder. Never seen this before. Great catch. Little Stevie Wonder - 1963 Fingertips Part II

Stevie killing it at 12 years old...

An honest to goodness musical genius - a musical marvel ! Limitless imagination, combined with an expansive talent for connecting the dots in song.

OH MAN !!! WHAT HISTORY !!! TOP 5 POSTING !!! THANK YOU EYES !!!!!!!

I never knew Stevie Wonder could play the bongos too:)

Bless him, his voice is not yet changed, what 12 year old, has ever had so much talent.

My dad brought his first pair shoes to perform at the review.😘 true story Detroit Michigan.

WOW WOW WOW .... WOW !! Stevie Wonder was and is a musical genius

At just twelve years old he was recording, performing, and appearing in a Disney Beach movie. What he did with that harmonica was amazing!.

You came a long way Stevie. And I’m happy God have blessed you.

I remember hearing this way back then. He had such natural excitement and energy in his music! Very raw yet refined at the same time.

i love stevie always. his talents brings happiness in my life

Oh Jordan Peele you excellent great.

MUSIC is WHAT Mr. WONDER Knows HE Sounds GOOD To ME Whatever He PLAYS!!! Much ❤️

Amazing, just all around amazing. Amazing voice, amazing artistry, and amazing talent. Happy 73rd Birthday to my favorite male singer of all time, Stevie Wonder! ❤❤🥳🎉🎊5/13/2023

I don’t want to live in a world without Stevie Wonder.

I was blessed to see Mr. Wonder live in the 80s. One of the most life-changing experiences for me. I couldn't believe that I was actually at a Stevie Wonder concert.

The legend, the G.O.A.T music artist.

Thanks for this. I was 9 when this was on the top ten AM radio. A different recording, but live still. 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Yeah!!!

The greatest musician of all time and my all-time favorite. Live long and prosper, Stevie!

I love this, i love him😩

Oh man, that harmonica sound signature of Stevie Wonder never left him from day 1. What a virtuoso, I can never get tired of it... He just make me hear the sunshine. It's essentially synaesthesia for the uninitiated (like me), I can smell mango, flowers, fruits.

I didn't know what to make of this when it first hit the charts. All I remember was that it was infectious. I've loved Stevie Wonder ever since.

Stevie was smoothe wit it. That harmonica is everything

Ladies and Gentleman... the multiple music styles of Little Stevie Wonder...!!!

This is one of the greatest things I’ve ever heard or seen. God bless the great Stevie wonder.👍🍔🤣🤟😎❤️👍

Stevie could see more than many that are blessed with vision can. 😎

I was too young to remember seeing this. I love this song. Stevie Wonder is so talented.

Crazy footage, the glasses makes him look like his from the future, amazing talent for a 12 year old... and in the Motown Stage, incredible.

I saw That show and was screaming so loud 😁 when they told the audience to clap because they were recording that song 🥲omg wow I was 13yrs old

He did more with LESS...more than these celebrities who have so much more resources and technology.

A true Icon of Pop, Stevie has been often imitated, but never surpassed.

Gotta love the musicians in the background. They always got down.

The band members are doing the damn thang!!!😅 Stevuw then and now still blazing trails!!! ❤💯💯💕

as someone who also started makeing music at a young age this was very impressive. it takes guts to get on stage infront of people like that. (even if your blind) and playing multiple intruments at that. its always a pleasure to see how musicians started out and how they evolve over time. and yes, it is harder to physicaly play an intrument if you cant see. the dude is a badass.

It’s amazing how our good Lord gives each of us special abilities and talents which some of us show at early a early age and some of us take a little longer but we all have them so all we have to do is use them.

I'm pretty happy that I just found this, I can hardly believe it even exists!

13 yrs old with a number one hit. NUMBER ONE.

his speaking voice sounded a lot like Michael Jackson's voice as a teenager.

This lad definately has potential !!!😎😎😎. He was born on "Higher Ground"....

Motown legend of all time, and still going strong today. An amazing talent Creator blessed him with. :)

Woooow I’m watching this in 2021 and Stevie wonder was a genius from a little boy! Love u Stevie🖤🖤

Back when music was music and Talent was natural.

This song is so beautiful

Little Stevie Wonder: masters harmonica, changes music forever Other child prodigies: "number one victory royal"

I remember vividly the first timeI heard this on radio - blown away and still am -- a GREAT talent

Thanks to my Dad I have the 45 rpm record, Fingertips Parts 1 and 2 along with countless other treasures.

And to think, he was soon to give us Innervisions, & all those other masterpieces.

Goosebumps every time.

I'm in utter awe of the legendary incomparable Stevie Wonder as a little boy