For Once in My Life

Stevie Wonder

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Original Release Date: December 6, 1968
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Motown
• ASIN: B000001AEL
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #5,187 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Product Description
Japanese only paper sleeve SHM pressing. SHM-CDs (Super High Material CD) can be played on any audio player and deliver unbelievably high-quality sound. You won't believe it's the same CD! Universal. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Early Wonder Masterpiece!, July 22, 2004

By	Andre' S Grindle "Funk Meister" (Bangor,ME.) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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".And guess what?NO FILLER!Stevie Wonder succeeds at producing an album with all quality material within the Motown style.He'd redifine it later but his own self-reliant artistic muse first shows up here!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great example of Stevie's early work, November 7, 1999

By	Dylan "Just a radio loser" (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews

I bought the LP of this a few days ago, It's really good. It's not "Songs on the key of life", but if you are a person that likes Stevie's eariler work, this is for you (if you ever bought the LP "Looking Back", the three record set and liked it, you should get this.) Everything that Stevie has done is great, this album is no exception. I only have the LP, so I don't know if the CD version is messed up, but Motown is pretty good about re-releasing things.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars No Match For Stevie, February 14, 2001

By	Thomas Magnum (NJ, USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

For Once In My Life is a very good Stevie Wonder from 1968. 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" 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"