[Stevie Wonder] specializes in sentimental novelty songs which are very good when they work, very bad when they don't. "Never Had a Dream Come True" [from his album Signed, Sealed, Delivered] works. The best is reminiscent of "A Place in the Sun," one of Stevie's best early songs, but there is less of a dominant regularity here, and the added looseness enables his vocal straining to fit in better here than on the more stiffly structured "Yester You, Yester Me, Yesterday." (p. 199)

Arnold Brodsky, "'Never Had a Dream Come True'" (originally published in Rolling Stone, April 16, 1970), in The Rolling Stone Record Review by the editors of Rolling Stone (copyright © 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, by Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc.; all rights reserved; reprinted by permission), Pocket Books, 1971, pp. 198-200.