
Another song from the InPlainSight: A Stevie Wonder Tribute
"For Once in My Life" is a pop song written by Ron Miller and Orlando Murden for Motown Records' Jobete publishing company in 1967 (see1967 in music). 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.
The most familiar and successful version of "For Once in My Life" is an uptempo hit version by Stevie Wonder, recorded immediately after DuShon's original. Wonder's version, issued on Motown's Tamla label in 1968 (see 1968 in music), was a number-two hit in the United States in late 1968 and early 1969.
Stevie Wonder's version was recorded at about the same time as The Temptations' in the summer of 1967. However, Berry Gordy did not like Wonder's version, an upbeat rendition produced by Henry Cosby. Gordy vetoed the single's release, and the recording was shelved. Billie Jean Brown, the head of the Motown Quality Control department, finally coerced Gordy into allowing Wonder's version to be released in October 1968.[3]
Contrary to Gordy's instincts, "For Once in My Life" was a highly successful record, peaking at number-two on both the Billboard Pop Singles and Billboard R&B Singles (it was held off from the number-one spot on each chart by another Motown single Gordy had originally vetoed, Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"). "For Once in My Life", issued by Tamla with "Angie Girl" as its b-side, was later included as the title track on Wonder's For Once in My Life album.
Crazy to think Gordy of all people didn't like this song. Just goes to show even the most refine ears can miss something.
Here's my version
4 1nce N My Life (Prod By Smoove Ab)
Lyrics
You ain’t got to sign me
Cuz you’ll never define me
The odds, I’m defying
The mountains, I’m climbing
Must be from God see
They way that I’m rhyming
Crazy how I’m grinding
I will not even surrender
Not even to these pretenders
Breezing through the matter
Like hurricane weather
I’m feeling much better
You’ll stop me, never ever
I’m fully focus
If God is the locus
Then what you write
Is like A pencil
Without the top
It’s pointless
So your hate is hopeless
What I spit is glorious
I’m a be cocky
Motivation like Rocky
Shake up the world
Like Muhammad Ali
Pray you Saved By the Bell
When I’m in the Beilding (building)
Make it rain with flows
So wicked witches get melting
For once in my life
I can see clear the rain
I’ll enjoy the pain
I’ll learn to sustain
Honor those slain
Your deaths won’t be in vain
I put that on my name
I’m a make my father proud
As my momma’s precious child
I’ll erase any cloud
Eliminate any doubts
That could ever shroud
Only to God
I will bow
Yes this I vow
Reloaded like the matrix
For my revolution
I’ll take it to the basics
Like fresh shoe strings
Tracks I’m a lace it
Touch all bases
All trails embrace it
I’ll throw caution to the wind
Motion for the win
Hop step over sin
Breath life until mines
Reaches its conclusion
Cause even then
My soul won’t end
It’s just the beginning
For once in my life
I’m a give it all I got
Spit fire into hearts
Like my flow was a Gluck
Fully loaded passion
Of hustlers from block
Feel every tear that drops
I won’t doubt who I am
I stand as a man
Whose taking destiny
Into his own hands
Completely in tune
With God’s plans
Guess you can say
I over stand
So I’m a spit for
(Someone who needs me)
To give them motivation
To keep on fighting
And I’m a spit it for
(Someone who needs me)
To never stop
And give the hope
To keep flying
Boo @ Youtube taking away the dopeness of the quality so i put it on my myspace
The project is moving very very well right now :)
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