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Stevie Wonder - For Once in My Life Audio CD

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Stevie Wonder Band: Stevie Wonder
Title: For Once in My Life
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Release Date: 1990-10-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: For Once in My Life 2: Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day 3: You Met Your Match 4: I Wanna Make Her Love Me 5: I'm More Than Happy (I'm Satisfied) 6: I Don't Know Why 7: Sunny 8: I'd Be a Fool Right Now 9: Ain't No Lovin' 10: God Bless the Child 11: Do I Love Her 12: House on the Hill

one of his best
I think "For once in my life" is one of the best Stevie Wonder album; it's full of great songs, and I love them all; together with "My cherie amour" is the best Wonder's album on the '60.


stevie steps up the groove in 1968
that was the way of the era 4 motown albums. stevie wonder's 1967 album "i was made to love her"was lackluster
because it only contained 4 originals and a large platter of remakes. however, in
1968,stevie steps up the groove considerably with this smash album entitled "for once in my life" an album that runs like an
hit factory by itself. wonder remade the tune 'for once in my life' and made it all his own into an upbeat nice number. and like the "i was made to love her" album before it-it has remakes-
but only a handfull of them such as 'sunny'and billie holiday's
'god bless the child'/but the main treasures of this album are
the wonder originals-featuring funky numbers such as 'shoo-be-doo-be-doo-da-day'(it's flipside of the original 45 single contains the very soulful gospel influenced number entitled 'why don't you lead me to love'which was co-written with the beautiful sylvia moy,lula hardaway?,and henry cosby. it is very strange for motown not to include this original number in the album with the other wonder originals of which they instead chose 'god bless the child'and 'sunny'in it's place)/'you met your match'-a biting tale about a cheating lover and also getting even in return in the game of love. other funky numbers include 'i wanna make her love me'/'i'm more than happy(i'm satisfied)'/ the dark mysterious 'i don't know why'and the very fast paced 'the house on the hill'/and of course there are the relaxed numbers(even though they are slightly upbeat)featuring the cool 'i'd be a fool right now'which has nice strings,musical bells and nice background vocalists. but what makes this song so different from all the other tracks on this album is how stevie transformed his voice to a sparkling echo effect in the studio. 'do i love her'is the last of the relaxed originals is a love tale about wanting 2 regain the beautiful love of mrs. jones daughter. "for once in my life"is the first album that wonder uses the clavinet to expand and enhance his musical sound from the late 1960s into the 1970s. i would call stevie's "for once in my life" album the original 'clavinet album' that started it all 4 him that laid the foundation 4 his classic 70s albums. yes indeed 1968 was a ground breaking year 4 stevie wonder. . . .


An Early Wonder Masterpiece!
And guess what?NO FILLER!Stevie Wonder succeeds at producing an album with all quality material within the Motown style. On 'For Once In My Life' Stevie utterly reinvents the
schlockly showtune-ish sound of the original and blows it out
the window on the title cut,following that with the classics
"Shoo-Be-Do-Be-Do-Da Day" and "You Met Your Match"-the greatest
1,2,3 punch on a Motown album at this point!And along with the
classic "I Don't Know Why I Love You" mark the first uses of clavinet in his music!And it only gets better with the wonderful "I'd Be A Fool Right Now" and the soulful raver "The House On The Hill". He'd redifine it later but his own self-reliant artistic muse first shows up here!.


No Match For Stevie
As was the theme for Motown albums from the era, it contains a couple of hit singles, covers of non-Motown songs and covers of Motown songs. For Once In My Life is a very good Stevie Wonder from 1968. "For Once In My Life" shows off Mr. Wonder's beautiful voice. "Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day" is fiery number that has a southern soul style and "You Met Your Match" is in the same vein. Some other good songs include "I Don't Know Why", "God Bless The Children" & "Do I Love Her".


Pretty Good but you feel something Greater awaits
The Material Here is Promising but You get the feeling that the best was yet to come. Stevie Wonder in the 60's was Pretty Good but you don't feel the full Voltage of his Genius. Still it is Worthy just seeing an Artist that Has Been Bad for So Long. Stevie WOnder Has Been a Genius&a Legend for so Long you forget how Long he has been Around.


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