Say Say Say waste[d] the rest of the album on bathos and whimsy". The "Los Angeles Times" Paul Grein also reviewed the McCartney album and opined that the singer had redeemed himself with the success of the "spunky" song "but plunged back into wimpdom with 'No More Lonely Nights'". Journalist Whitney Pastorek compared the song to McCartney's 1982 duet with Stevie Wonder, "Ebony and Ivory". She asserted that "Say Say Say" was a better song, and had a better "though slightly more nonsensical" music video, adding that the song had no "heavy-handed social content". Penn State's "The Daily Collegian" described the track as
I Wish (Stevie Wonder song) that recorded the original. I Wish (Stevie Wonder song) "I Wish" is a hit song by Stevie Wonder. It was released in 1976 as a single and included on the album "Songs in the Key of Life". Written and produced by Wonder, the song focuses on his childhood from the 1950s into the early 1960s. The single hit number one on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and soul singles chart. For the television series "Classic Albums", Wonder recreated a small section from the song to demonstrate how he composed and arranged it. He played the keyboards and drums himself, and used