STEVIE WONDER – FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE LP – EXC+ A2/B2 UK SOUL MOTOWN

Stevie Wonder – For Once In My Life
(Tamla Motown Records  1982  STMS5074)
Matrix No’s: A2/B2 – UK Pressing

Sleeve in Very Good+ condition
– some wear to edges/corners and small split in spine

Vinyl in Excellent+ condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality apart from some light pops/crackles)

Stevland Hardaway Morris (born May 13, 1950 as Stevland Hardaway Judkins), known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American musician, singer and songwriter. A child prodigy, he developed into one of the most creative and loved musical figures of the late 20th century. Blind since shortly after birth, Wonder signed with Motown’s Tamla label at the age of eleven and continues to perform and record for Motown as of the early 2010s.

Among Wonder’s best known works are singles such as “Superstition”, “Sir Duke”, “You Are the Sunshine of My Life” and “I Just Called to Say I Love You”. Well known albums also include Talking Book, Innervisions and Songs in the Key of Life. He has recorded more than thirty U.S. top ten hits and received twenty-two Grammy Awards, the most ever awarded to a male solo artist. Wonder is also noted for his work as an activist for political causes, including his 1980 campaign to make Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday a holiday in the United States. In 2009, Wonder was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace. In 2008, Billboard magazine released a list of the Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists to celebrate the US singles chart’s fiftieth anniversary, with Wonder at number five.

By popular vote, Stevie was inducted into The SoulMusic Hall of Fame at SoulMusic.com in December 2012.

For Once in My Life is the ninth (tenth overall) 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, 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

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) 2:58
6. “The House on the Hill” (Lawrence Brown, Berry Gordy, Allen Story) 2:36