Don't You Worry 'Bout The Thing

Following on from my recent John Carpenter post, here's a trivial, but no less interesting follow-up.

The Thing (Superstition scene)

John Carpenter, 1982 

Can't really recall when I first heard Stevie Wonder's classic song Superstition, but my mate Chris always swore it was featured in a scene from what's arguably's John Carpenter's best film, The Thing (1982). Always thought he was talking B.S as I never remembered it appearing in the film. Almost forty years later (that's when I finally bothered to check), the internet has proven him right. It's also listed in the Alternate Versions section of the film on IMDb, meaning it's been permablocked from my mind, thanks to whoever edited out of the film:

 

Stevie Wonder -  Superstition

Live on Sesame Street, 1973

Concluding this post by stating that the best live version of the song isn't from some candle-lit, intimate gig attended by chin-stroking music journos and bourgeois elites, but rather when Stevie's band performed it on the kids show Sesame Street (1968 -) in 1973. A ground zero event. From that day on, all subsequent live musical performances must have been rendered redundant for the lucky people who were on the set.