FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE

Created on 13/01/2006
Latest update on 13/10/2023

Artist: Connie Haines
Author: Ron Miller/Orlando Murden
Label: Motown
Year: 1965

Shelved for comp Motown Unreleased 1965 ('15).

Covers:

1966:

Barbara McNair [first version released; Vegas act on her Motown lp Here I Am, along with two other Ron Miller songs]

1966:

Jean DuShon [second recording (not counting demos), first released (on Cadet)]

1967:

Four Tops

1967:

Temptations

1967:

Martha & The Vandellas

1967:

Arthur Prysock

1967:

Tony Bennett

1968:

Stevie Wonder [his highest chart position US so far]

1968:

Jackie Wilson

1968:

Nancy Wilson

1968:

Vikki Carr

1969:

Brenda Lee

1969:

Frank Sinatra [in '94 in duet with Gladys Knight and with Stevie Wonder on harmonica]

1969:

O.C. Smith

1969:

Glen Campbell

1969:

Desmond Dekker

1969:

Paul Anka

1969:

Erma Franklin

1969:

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

1969:

Nancy Sinatra

1969:

Bobby Vinton

1969:

Andy Williams

1969:

Roger Williams

1969:

Percy Faith

1970:

Liesbeth List [as Ein Wort, nur ein Wort]

1970:

Sammy Davis Jr.

1970:

James Brown

1971:

Dionne Warwick

1971:

Dean Martin

1972:

Little Jimmy Scott

1973:

Gladys Knight [in '94 in duet with Frank Sinatra]

1984:

Seth Gaaikema [as Eens In Je Leven]

1999:

Trijntje Oosterhuis

2003:

Michael Bublé [in film Down With Love]

2004:

Harry Connick Jr.

2019:

Renée Zellweger [in film Judy]

Ron Miller also wrote Heaven Help Us All and Yester-Me Yester-You Yesterday, both recorded by Stevie Wonder. See also: I've Never Been To Me.

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