Ebony and Ivory "Billboard" Hot 100 charts. At the simplest level, the song is about the ebony (black) and ivory (white) keys on a piano, but also deals with integration and racial harmony on a deeper, human level. The title was inspired by McCartney hearing Spike Milligan say "black notes, white notes, and you need to play the two to make harmony, folks!". The figure of speech is much older. It was popularised by James Aggrey in the 1920s, inspiring the title of the pan-African journal "The Keys", but was in use from at least the 1840s. Written by McCartney alone, the song
Never Had a Dream Come True (Stevie Wonder song) ten and peaked at number-six. Never Had a Dream Come True (Stevie Wonder song) "Never Had a Dream Come True" is a song written by Stevie Wonder and Motown staff songwriters Henry Cosby and Sylvia Moy and released as a single on the Tamla subsidiary by Wonder in February 1970. Featured on his twelfth studio release, "Signed, Sealed & Delivered" as the lead single, the song was a modest hit in the US upon its release reaching number twenty-six on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and number-eleven on the R&B chart. The song received a boost in the UK, where it