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 eighteen 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" (#2), "Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day" (#9) and the modest hits "I Don't Know Why" (#39) and "You Met Your Match" (#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

 * Stevie Wonder – vocals, harmonica, piano, organ, clavinet, drums, percussion
 * The Originals – backing vocals
 * The Andantes – backing vocals
 * Earl Van Dyke – piano on "For Once in My Life"
 * James Jamerson – bass
 * Uriel Jones – drums
 * Robert White – guitar
 * The Funk Brothers – all other instruments

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