For Once in My Life is a 1968 soul

Soul music

Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...

 album released by singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder

Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...

 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

For Once in My Life

"For Once in My Life" is a pop song written by Ron Miller and Orlando Murden for Motown Records' Jobete publishing company in 1967 . The composition was originally recorded by Jean DuShon, while other artists, such as Tony Bennett and The Temptations, recorded slow ballad versions of the song...

, "Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day

Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day

"Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day" is a hit 1968 single released by American and Motown recording artist Stevie Wonder. The song, co-written by Wonder and produced by Henry Cosby and Sylvia Moy, was the first to showcase Wonder's talents at the clavinet and was one of his first successful co-written...

" and the modest hits "I Don't Know Why" and "You Met Your Match". It also marked the debut of the Hohner

Hohner

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 Clavinet

Clavinet

A Clavinet is an electrically amplified keyboard instrument manufactured by the Hohner company. It is essentially an electronically amplified clavichord, analogous to an electric guitar. Its distinctive bright staccato sound has appeared particularly in funk, disco, rock, and reggae songs.Various...

 on a Stevie Wonder album, which would become a mainstay on albums to come.

Track listing

1. "For Once in My Life
   For Once in My Life
   "For Once in My Life" is a pop song written by Ron Miller and Orlando Murden for Motown Records' Jobete publishing company in 1967 . The composition was originally recorded by Jean DuShon, while other artists, such as Tony Bennett and The Temptations, recorded slow ballad versions of the song...
   
   " (Ron Miller
   Ron Miller (songwriter)
   Ronald Norman Miller was an American popular songwriter and record producer, who attained many Top 10 hits with ballads written for Motown artists in the 1960s and 1970s....
   
   , Orlando Murden) 2:48
2. "Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day
   Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day
   "Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day" is a hit 1968 single released by American and Motown recording artist Stevie Wonder. The song, co-written by Wonder and produced by Henry Cosby and Sylvia Moy, was the first to showcase Wonder's talents at the clavinet and was one of his first successful co-written...
   
   " (Henry Cosby
   Henry Cosby
   Henry "Hank" R. Cosby was an African American songwriter and record producer for Motown Records...
   
   , Sylvia Moy
   Sylvia Moy
   Sylvia Moy is a songwriter and record producer, formerly associated with the Motown Records group. The first woman at the Detroit-based music label to write and produce for Motown acts, she is probably best known for her songs written for Stevie Wonder....
   
   , Wonder) 2:45
3. "You Met Your Match" (Lula Mae Hardaway
   Lula Mae Hardaway
   Lula Mae Hardaway was the mother of blind soul musician Stevie Wonder...
   
   , 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
   I Don't Know Why
   "I Don't Know Why" is a 1968 song by Stevie Wonder, from the album For Once in My Life...
   
   " (Hardaway, Hunter, Paul Riser, Wonder) 2:46
7. "Sunny
   Sunny (song)
   "Sunny" is the name of a song written by Bobby Hebb. It is one of the most covered popular songs, with hundreds of versions released. BMI rates "Sunny" number 25 in its "Top 100 songs of the century."...
   
   " (Bobby Hebb
   Bobby Hebb
   Bobby Hebb was an American singer and songwriter, best known for his writing and recording of "Sunny".-Biography:...
   
   ) 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
    God Bless the Child (Billie Holiday song)
    "God Bless the Child" is a song written by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog, Jr. in 1939, first recorded on May 9, 1941 under the Okeh label.Holiday's version of the song was honored with the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in...
    
    " (Arthur Herzog Jr.
    Arthur Herzog Jr.
    Arthur Herzog, Jr. was a songwriter most known for work with Billie Holiday. He co-wrote several jazz songs she popularized, including "Don't Explain" and "God Bless the Child".-External links:*[ All Music page]...
    
    , Billie Holiday
    Billie Holiday
    Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing...
    
    ) 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

Looking Back (Stevie Wonder album)

Looking Back, also known as Anthology, is a triple LP anthology by American soul musician Stevie Wonder, released in 1977 on Motown Records. Since its release in 12-inch Triple LP format, it has not been reissued and is considered a limited edition...

Anthology.