Walter Yetnikoff ex-Beatle's North American releases on CBS, which had a pressing plant, distribution network, and office, in McCartney's native England. Under Yetnikoff, in 1982, McCartney collaborated with Stevie Wonder on the number-one hit "Ebony and Ivory", included on McCartney's "Tug of War", and with Michael Jackson on "The Girl Is Mine" from "Thriller". The following year, McCartney and Jackson worked on "Say Say Say", McCartney's most recent US number one hit. Yetnikoff was also involved in Streisand's biggest selling album, "Guilty" with Barry Gibb from The Bee Gees. Yetnikoff features prominently in Frederic Dannen's landmark 1990 book "Hit Men: Power Brokers
For Once in My Life (Stevie Wonder album) For Once in My Life (Stevie Wonder album) For Once in My Life is the ninth (tenth overall) studio album by American singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder on Motown Records, released in November 1968. Then eighteen years old, Wonder had established himself as one of Motown's consistent hit-makers. This album continued Wonder's growth as a vocalist, songwriter and producer. It featured songs like the title track, "Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day" and the modest hits "I Don't Know Why" and "You Met Your Match". It also marked the debut of the Hohner Clavinet on a Stevie Wonder album, which would become a mainstay on albums to