Plenty of hit ballads sound a bit like lullabies. "Lovin' You," the only big hit for the art-soul singer Minnie Riperton, actually is a lullaby -- or, at least, that's how it started out. When she and ...

Stevie Wonder is on the phone recounting the experience — trying to recount the experience — of recording “Lovin’ You” half a century ago with his friend, the late Minnie Riperton. “We were down at ...