For Once in My Life (album)

For Once in My Life
Studio album by Stevie Wonder
Released	December 8, 1968
Recorded	1967
Genre	R&B
Label	Tamla
Producer	Henry Cosby, Don Hunter, Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder chronology
Eivets Rednow (1968) For Once in My Life (1968) My Cherie Amour (1969)

For Once in My Life is a 1968 soul album released by singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder on Motown, as his tenth studio album. Then eighteen years old, Wonder had established himself as one of Motown's consistent hit-makers. This album continued Wonder's growth as a vocalist, songwriter and producer. It featured songs like the title track, "Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day" and the modest hits "I Don't Know Why" and "You Met Your Match". It also marked the debut of the Hohner Clavinet on a Stevie Wonder album, which would become a mainstay on albums to come.

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Track listing

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

In other media

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