For Once in My Life (album)

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.

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.