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For Once in My Life (Stevie Wonder album)

For Once in My Life is the tenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder on Motown Records, released in November 1968. Then 18 years old, Wonder had established himself as one of Motown's consistent hit-makers. This album continued Wonder's growth as a vocalist and songwriter, and is the first album where he shares credit as producer. It featured four songs that hit the Hot 100 charts: "For Once in My Life" (No. 2), "Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day" (No. 9) and the modest hits "I Don't Know Why" (No. 39) and "You Met Your Match" (No. 35). It also marked the debut of the Hohner Clavinet on a Stevie Wonder album, which would become a mainstay on albums to come.

Track listing

Side one
  1. "For Once In My Life" (Ron Miller, Orlando Murden) 2:48
  2. "Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day" (Henry Cosby, Sylvia Moy, Stevie Wonder) 2:45
  3. "You Met Your Match" (Lula Mae Hardaway, Don Hunter, Wonder) 2:37
  4. "I Wanna Make Her Love Me" (Henry Cosby, Hardaway, Moy, Wonder) 2:52
  5. "I'm More Than Happy (I'm Satisfied)" (Henry Cosby, Cameron Grant, Moy, Wonder) 2:56
  6. "I Don't Know Why" (Hardaway, Hunter, Paul Riser, Stevie Wonder) 2:46
Side two
  1. "Sunny" (Bobby Hebb) 4:00
  2. "I'd Be a Fool Right Now" (Cosby, Moy, Wonder) 2:54
  3. "Ain't No Lovin'" (Hardaway, Hunter, Riser, Wonder) 2:36
  4. "God Bless the Child" (Arthur Herzog Jr., Billie Holiday) 3:27
  5. "Do I Love Her" (Wonder, Moy) 2:58
  6. "The House on the Hill" (Lawrence Brown, Berry Gordy, Allen Story) 2:36

Personnel

In other media

"I'd Be a Fool Right Now" would be remixed in 1977 for Wonder's Looking Back Anthology.

References